“Slide Night: Adrian Martin”
Adrian Martin
28 Oct → 28 Oct 2009

‘I would describe my approach to cinema, television and indeed all art forms as a ‘cultural aesthetics’ – I am interested in cultural fads and trends, in social histories and political contexts. My tastes in cinema are very wide and diverse, since I believe in the importance of global cinema, and in cinema’s past. I have looked into Australian, American, European and Asian cinemas; I have studied genres including musical, melodrama, thriller and art film; I have analysed great auteurs from Sergio Leone and Fritz Lang to Hou Hsiao-hsien and Terrence Malick; I have an abiding interest in all marginal, underground and avant-garde cinemas.’

Dr. Adrian Martin has combined work as a professional writer and film critic with a university career. He was film reviewer for The Age between 1995 and 2006, and is the author of five books and hundreds of essays on film, art, television, literature, music, popular and avant-garde culture.

The Slide Night is a weekly series of talks in which different artists and arts practitioners discuss the influences – formidable and otherwise – in their own practice. What are the important influences in their practice? What got them started in the first place?

$5 entry