Friends of the Armchair Traveller

Recently I received an email from Frank Shields  an old friend I met about 50 years ago. At that time Frank was trying to make a film about Australian soldiers who participated in the Boer War. As luck would have it I was selected to be the sound recordist for some of the interviews which Frank conducted with these fellows who were in their nineties.  Then Frank and I met again via Facebook about three years ago, when he told me he was trying to get up another film project which he has  recenlty completed: " Remember Belsen" . Frank is unstoppable! Not even Covid and the long periods of the lockdowns could prevent him from making this film. He sent me these notes which were prepared by Carmela Baranowska, a fine young woman whom I taught about 25 years ago when she was a doco student at VCA. Writer/Director/Producer  Frank Shields : A window into the Holocaust... What should we remember? Or, What does Remember Belsen mean? On viewing there will be no doubt abou...

  SMALL CHANGE PANIC CINE REVUE           AT THE EXOTIC HARBOUR IN CROATIA I was really glad to receive Peter's invitation to share my impressions from the three-day presentation of experimental cinematography in Bol on Brač Island for the "Friends of the Armchair Traveller" blog. As a main selector, I organized two two-hour long sessions of recent film works directed by several renowned authors with most of whom I have previously collaborated while I was active as a programmer at the KKS, Split Cinema Club . The film program was conceived in accordance with the alarmist "panic art" intentions of the central seven-day exhibition of archived (paper) prohibitions and warnings organized by the "Centar za kulturu Bol". First day screenings on the 9th of July formally represented my first author's retrospective, for which films from my recent works digital archive were selected by the organizers of the event. My personal choice would have been, of...