Author: Walter Marsh
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Adelaide Film Festival review: Made in SA showcase
Think globally, watch locally! If you’re going to see one thing at the Adelaide Film Fest, make it Made in SA. Arguably the most important screening of the Adelaide Film Festival is Made in SA, where local filmmakers showcase their shorts. These are the state’s up-and-comers, and their stories are our stories. Featuring eight films…
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Adelaide Film Festival review: Cactus Pears
Rohan Kanawade’s feature directorial debut, Cactus Pears (Sabar Bonda), first made waves at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it was awarded the prestigious World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic. The film has since continued capturing hearts around the world. Cactus Pears observes Anand (Bhushaan Manoj), a Mumbai call-centre worker who returns to the West…
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Brooklyn Rider chase moments of rare truths and living tradition
The good folk of Brooklyn Rider have got their work cut out for them. After a “deeply memorable” visit to UKARIA last year, the world-renowned string quartet returns to South Australia to perform in the newly minted Chamberfest, formerly UKARIA 24. They’ve also curated an impressive program. Running since 2016 under the UKARIA 24 banner,…
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Tarnanthi revisits ‘monumental’ works and rising stars in 10-year celebration
Over the past ten years Tarnanthi Festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art has established itself as one of the state’s most significant arts events, featuring several important exhibitions across the state with the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) at the centre. This year’s flagship exhibition at AGSA, titled Too Deadly, Ten Years…
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‘We’ve had these relationships for hundreds of years’: Two Blood weaves ancestral history into essential Australian storytelling
Leafing through fragmentary records from the 1800s, an image of Jasmin Sheppard’s great grandparents began to emerge: a Tagalaka woman and a Chinese migrant seeking gold in Northern Queensland. This discovery would inform the story of Two Blood, a work that sees Sheppard tie explosive physicality with unwavering truth-telling of First Nations stories, national identity,…
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Adelaide Film Festival review: She
The world runs on the labour of women, the hands that feed, provide and package our modern-day privileges. She (2025), directed by Italian filmmaker and anthropologist Parsifal Reparato, uses several documentary styles to tell this story including observation, interviews and stylised re-creations. She focuses on a Vietnamese electronic factory in the Bac Ninh province, and…
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Music review: Australian String Quartet’s Convergence
With 40 years behind them, the ASQ has recently been staging a series of celebrations, of which this Convergence concert tour with music by Paul Stanhope, Britten and Schubert was the culmination. It was not so much about looking back upon their history or gloating about past achievements. Rather, it was a steady-as-she-goes kind of…
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Green Room: ‘Generational decline’ in youth arts, new Khaled Sabsabi work
Venice Biennale artist returns to Adelaide Khaled Sabsabi will return to Adelaide’s Samstag Museum of Art next year as part of $1.6 million in newly announced major commissions from Creative Australia. It will be the first chance for audiences to experience new work from the Lebanese Australian artist after he represents Australia at next year’s…