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Art Smitten

With a focus on the contemporary art scene in Naarm / Melbourne, we’re here to showcase art and culture. Contributors and presenters interview, review, and cover current and upcoming exhibitions, practices and everything in between. Art Smitten is the place for expanding your knowledge of art! Art Smitten is a SYN Media Podcast.

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6:03

Review: The Light Between Oceans

Art Smitten ·

2016/11/13

Derek Cianfrance's The Light Between Oceans is something of an epic, operating on quite a small scale but still putting its characters through some formidable challenges. It's based on TL Stedman's novel of the same name, one that suggests both intimacy and profundity. This story does eventually deliver on both, but in the film at least, the intimacy is there pretty much from the get-go. It sets itself up to be a charming love story about a mild-mannered lighthouse keeper (Michael Fassbender) and

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5:51

Interview: Jonathan Holloway, Melbourne Festival

Art Smitten ·

2016/11/13

Ben and Thierryare joined in the studio by Jonathan Holloway, the artistic director of the Melbourne Festival, recapping highlights and challenges of the 2016 season.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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8:36

Interview: Sean Patten, War and Peace (Gob Squad x...

Art Smitten ·

2016/11/13

Thierry and Ben are joined by Sean Patten, one of the performers and creators behind Gob Squad's production of War and Peace at the Malthouse Theatre.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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9:39

Interview: Linda Shevlin, RMIT Gallery

Art Smitten ·

2016/11/13

Christian and Adalya are joined in the studio with Linda Shevlin, curator of Radical Action exhibition, by artist Seamus Nolan. This year is the 100 year anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, and Radical Action focuses on "how events in recent and distant history, attitudes to rebellion, revolution and agitation have formed societies and national identities, question[s] the role of the artist in imagining future states and explore[s] the impact this revolutionary period has had on Irish

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1:39

Review: Julieta

Art Smitten ·

2016/11/13

Julieta is the latest film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, based on three short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro. The eponymous lead character is depicted in the present and in flashbacks through a diary she is writing in a sort of cathartic fit. From the flashbacks we learn of Julieta's life, her joys and more specifically her tragedies, of which there are several, spanning everything from her parents to her daughter to her love. Some have criticised the film for being

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10:44

Interview: Clare Watson, Gonzo

Art Smitten ·

2016/10/22

Thierry, Andrew and Ayden interview Clare Watson about Malthouse Theatre's 2016 production, Gonzo.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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11:01

Interview: Ted Gott, NGV's Vincent Van Gogh exhibition

Art Smitten ·

2016/10/22

Christian interviews curator of the NGV's Vincent Van Gogh exhibition, Ted Gott. It will be opening in 2017, on April 28th, and running until July 9th.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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3:25

Review: Café Society

Art Smitten ·

2016/10/22

If you’re fan of that strange nostalgia that comes from witnessing old Hollywood glamour, Café Society might just be for you. Complete with a backdrop of wonderfully detailed fashions, an upbeat jazzy soundtrack and in the company of presumably rich, carefree socialites, Woody Allen’s latest venture is a rabbit hole into that bygone era of Hollywood romanticism. Set in the late 1930s, Café Society details the life of the young and naïve Bobby Dorfman, as he sets foot

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8:25

Review: The Neon Demon

Art Smitten ·

2016/10/22

Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon would have been, I imagine, quite an easy film to pitch, but a very hard one to describe. Since seeing it I've been explaining it to people as "the Black Swan of modelling,” which might sound very reductive, but given how much it invites comparison with Darren Aronofsky's film, I wouldn't be surprised if that's how Refn had originally conceived it. Both of them begin by introducing a gifted but naive young woman wanting to enter into a soul-crushing

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5:05

Review: The Masque of Beauty, La Mama Theatre

Art Smitten ·

2016/10/22

La Mama Theatre’s The Masque of Beauty seems to have taken its name from Ben Johnson’s courtly masque composed in 1608. However, in Peter Green’s ‘Renaissance Cabaret’ we certainly feel far away from the England court, even if he uses a few Shakespeare passages on one of his literary medleys. Green’s writing, and indeed Faye Bendrups’ directing, both take Australian audiences to very different theatrical territory than they might be used to. True to the form

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1:58

Review: Hell or High Water

Art Smitten ·

2016/10/22

Hell or High Water is a 2016 film written by Taylor Sheridan and directed by David McKenzie. Set in blistering rural Texas, it focusses on two brothers, played by Chris Pine and Ben Foster, who rob banks, and a cop on the verge of retirement who is chasing them, played by Jeff Bridges. There’s action, there’s tension, there’s laughs. Tonally, the film carries itself with a particular relaxed, laid-back nature that seems to befit the type of life present in small-town Texas. What

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9:41

Interview: Ryan Good, Cosmonaut

Art Smitten ·

2016/10/22

Thierry, Ayden and Andrew are joined in the studio by writer and performer, Ryan Good, about his production Cosmonautin the Melbourne Fringe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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3:31

Review: Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche, Melbourne...

Art Smitten ·

2016/10/20

“Sharp, smart and hysterically funny!”… “A cult hit….gleaming with comic polish.”… “A frothy, sill, saucy and spectacular affair.” These are just some of things critics have said about 5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche, a play written by Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood, currently being performed for Melbourne audiences as part of the Fringe Festival. And it was the reviews that initially attracted me to the show, although, as I realised afterwards, no

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1:55

Review: Francofonia

Art Smitten ·

2016/10/20

Francofonia is the latest film by Russian director Alexander Sokurov, who is perhaps best known for his 2002 documentary Russian Ark, an ambitious and awe-inspiring one-take trip through St Peterburg’s Hermitage museum during the Russian Revolution. In Francofonia, Sokurov once more returns to the themes of art and war and museums, this time focussing on the Louvre during the Nazi occupation of France. As someone who doesn’t get on terribly well with documentaries, I found Francofonia

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2:50

Review: Hot Milk, Deborah Levy

Art Smitten ·

2016/10/20

Hi, it's Adalya with my second review from this years Man Booker Prize shortlist. This week I'm looking at Deborah Levy's Hot Milk. Hot Milk follows Sofia and her mother Rose as they travel from England to clinic of questionable merit in Spain, seeking answers to Rose's litany of mysterious ailments. Set in the searing heat of Southern Spain, Sofia undergoes a twisted iteration of the classic beach sexual awakening narrative while Rose undergoes Dr Gomez's treatment. As the reliability of the mother

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9:02

Interview: Patrick Durnan Silva, Cull x Melbourne Fringe

Art Smitten ·

2016/09/22

Hosts Beth and Thierry interview Patrick Durnan Silva on his production, Cull in the 2016 Melbourne Fringe Festival.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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4:21

Review: 4th Place, Korean Film Festival In Australia...

Art Smitten ·

2016/09/22

Thursday, 1st September marked the seventh year for the Korean Film Festival In Australian (KOFFIA). ACMI hosted Melbourne’s festival and invited guests to share canapés of kimchi, cocktails and listen to traditional music on the Gayageum. This festival boasts twenty newly released and critically acclaimed Korean films, however it was the film titled 4th Place, written and directed by Jung Ji-woo, which opened the festival. Commissioned by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea,

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4:27

Review: Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien

Art Smitten ·

2016/09/22

On Tuesday, the Man Booker Prize Shortlist was announced. For those of you not in the know, the Man Booker is a prize given for what the judging panel deems to be the best novel written in English and published in the UK each year. For many including myself, the Booker is the Prize to watch, the AFL Grand Final for nerds. This year's shortlist consists of:Paul Beatty's The SelloutDeborah Levy's Hot MilkGraeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody ProjectOtessa Moshfegh's EileenDavid Szalay's All That Man

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2:34

Review: Kelvin Campervan's Midlife Crescendo -...

Art Smitten ·

2016/09/22

Rupert Burns is Kelvin Campervan. Or is Kelvin Campervan Rupert Burns? They seem to get along pretty well in the one body, but can never quite decide who is the artist and who the creation. The one man show explores the nature of a person's relationship with themselves and their history. It is set from the vantage point of mid life, but even at my age of 21 I was inspired to be existential about my own history of years and to ponder their value, as well as the missed opportunities I have already

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15:46

Interview + Review: Georgia Symons, You Must Come...

Art Smitten ·

2016/09/22

Ebony interviews Georgia Symons, creator of Fringe 2016 show You Must Come Alone to Read the Last Book on Earth.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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