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A screening of [CENSORED] followed by a panel discussion.

[CENSORED], by filmmaker Sari Braithwaite, is created entirely from scraps of international films cut by the Australian censors, 1958-1971. Although these clips were orphaned from their original context, a disturbing pattern revealed itself in these displaced frames. An experimental, personal examination of a complicated archive: this work challenges the audience to reckon with the tension of censorship, the filmmakers gaze, and role of the spectator.

Panellists include Sari Braithwaite, Corrie Chen and Isabella Eklöf; moderated by Kristy Matheson.

Sari Braithwaite is a Melbourne-based filmmaker. Her documentary films have played at MIFF, SFF, Adelaide Film Festival, Antenna Film Festival, New Zealand International Film Festival and BFI London. She was the recipient of the 2015 AFTRS Creative Fellowship to create her first feature length experimental work [CENSORED]. Her documentary Smut Hounds screened at MIFF in 2015.

Corrie Chen is an award-winning filmmaker who most recently directed and executive-produced the on-demand series Homecoming Queens (2018). Her television directing work includes episodes of Sisters (2017) and Mustangs FC (2017); She is developing her first feature film; and her short films include Happy Country (MIFF 2009), Reg Makes Contact (MIFF 2015) and Tinseltown (MIFF 2016).

Isabella Eklöf is one of MIFF’s international guests this year, where she is presenting her feature film debut Holiday, which she wrote and directed, and which premiered at Sundance. Originally from Sweden she has lived, studied and worked in Sweden and Denmark, having now directed eleven short films and also working in editing, screenwriting and translation.

Kristy Matheson has worked in independent distribution and film festivals. She is the Director of Film at The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne where she programs contemporary films and retrospectives, works on artist commissions and exhibition programs. Kristy is the recipient of the 2017 Natalie Miller Fellowship.

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Please note: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is no longer able to take part in this discussion.