Conservationist Isabella Tree on the power of inviting nature back into your world as shown in the documentary Wilding

Interview by Andrew F Peirce

Isabella Tree is a noted conservationist and the author of the acclaimed book Wilding, which tells the story of Isabella and her husband as they undertook the immense and impressive journey to rewild their failing four-hundred-year-old estate in England, bringing beavers and cranes back to the country for the first time in years.

Wilding, alongside the…

Director Matthew Rankin on the kindness that sits at the core of Universal Language

Interview by Andrew F Peirce

Matthew Rankin is a Canadian filmmaker who hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His work, which includes the acclaimed award-winning 2019 feature The Twentieth Century, has often been called ‘experimental’ or a slice of ‘absurdist comedy’. That’s partially true, but I’d go a step further and say that there’s a touch of humanist storytelling to his work, one that’s crafted from a globalist…

Parish Malfitano on Creating the Sensorially Invigorating Salt Along the Tongue

Interview by Andrew F Peirce

To call Parish Malfitano’s sophomore feature, Salt Along the Tongue, a straight up horror film feels like a disservice to the experience of watching this magnificent melodrama-adjacent film. Yes, there are most certainly horrific elements – blood features heavily throughout the film, upsetting tales about the symbiotic relationship between wasps and figs are told, bodies float in the air in unsettling ways, boils and…

In the Room Where He Waits is One of the Best Australian Debut Features Around

Review by Nadine Whitney

The James Hotel in Brisbane looks a lot like any other mid budget hotel. It has no personality. It’s clean and anonymous. There’s nothing essentially wrong with it except Tobin Wade (Daniel Monks) can’t leave his room and maybe something else can’t too.

Tobin was in New York about to play Tom Wingfield in a Broadway production of The Glass Menagerie.…