Last night I had a few friends round for dinner. Whipped up a pilaf with mostly vegetables from the garden, capsicum the only ingredient I’d had to purchase for the meal. The base of the meal comprised of quinoa cooked up in vegetable stock with roasted capsicum, zucchini, squash, silver-beet, garlic, mixed herbs and basil, [...]

Mid-May I’d produced a small event at the St Andrews Hall in rural Victoria. Can Video Art Save The World was a retrospective of experimental Super 8 and video going back to the very early 1980′s. The event also featured the legendary projection artist, Hugh McSpedden, who talked us through some of the more curious [...]

Our first public outing was scheduled for the 18 – 19 November 2011. It was to be held in collaboration with Afghan Voices, a project based in Afghanistan that trains young adults to produce news and documentaries. We were excited by the prospect of having a number of their team in Australia, screening their videos and developing [...]

We’re now two weeks into training, with the third workshop this Friday digging straight into script-writing. It’s hands-on all the way! The first two workshops opened with sessions on story-telling. The first led by the traditional North Queensland story-teller, Boori Monty Pryor, and writer / Director Meme McDonald. The idea was to provide the team [...]

It was a chilly Friday morning, scarf wrapped around my neck, as I walked to Redfern Station where I would take a train to Fairfield, rolling through the suburbs that were so familiar to my childhood growing up in Sydney’s outer west. I was on route to Carramar where I would meet with Jasmina from [...]

An impossible to imagine number people and plenty of utilities, it seems, are doing video. Children, teachers, sports professionals, activists, workers and the unemployed, radio and print journalists, the police, military and security firms are all swinging cameras some where on planet earth. In many countries now we are videoed in trains, elevators, in our [...]