RealTime in real time: change is on the way. In coming weeks we'll launch a new website with special features including commissioned and critiqued video and audio works. As a prelude, we present the first of our commissioned video essays, Cameraperson to person, in which Conor Bateman deploys video to appreciate the workings of Kirsten Johnson's significantly inventive film. It's a joy for us at RealTime to be able to present and respond to art with a greater range of means while sustaining the power of the word at a time when criticism is seriously embattled, giving way to a deluge of likes, stars and tweeted one-liners. The image above is from a percussion work by Australian composer Kate Neal, Never Tilt Your Chair, an exemplar of art's capacity to endlessly invent and mutate, fusing the everyday, theatre and high precision playing from three skilled musicians. Keith & Virginia
SMALL FILMS IN A BIG SCREEN WORLD Luke Goodsell asks Richard Sowada what the American Essentials festival of indie US films he's curated tells us about film audiences, filmmaker aspirations and lessons for Australian directors.
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