In the face of exciting developments, digital is encroaching on more of 35mm film’s territory, but as Lemac’s Bowring says "Are Mr and Mrs Smith at a cinema in Parramatta going to be watching for artifacts? No, they’re going to be there for the story."

Movies are magic because they take us somewhere. They transport us to every corner of the earth — even places that don’t exist. Everybody knows the art of cinema or TV is to maintain the illusion we’re actually there even though we know there’s an army of cameras, lights, technicians, the continuity girl, the catering […]

A historic experiment in film and media was all ready to take place before a battle erupted between producers and the union. Drew Turney finds out more. One of the observations Naomi Klein makes in her seminal anti-globalisation work No Logo is that the big corporations have got out of the ‘making’ business and into […]