ART, EMPATHY & ACTION
The choice of our featured theme, art, empathy & action, was triggered by what appears to be a failure of empathy among Australian citizens, media and politicians for refugees, the unemployed and for future generations likely to be the victims of climate change.

Suffering and the limits of sympathy: Mike Parr & Kym Vercoe, Keith Gallasch
For bodies at risk: Mike Parr, Edward Scheer
A reason to care for strangers: Bryony Kimmings, John Bailey
The television of intimate connections, Kirsten Krauth
The water crisis: action or wet dreams?: Waterwheel 3WDS14 Symposium, Ben Hale, Felicity Clark
Told from the inside: Sophie Hyde’s 52 TUESDAYS, Kath Dooley
Whose side are you on?: Wolf Creek 2, Katerina Sakkas

See also RealTime Talk for blog pieces by Keith Gallasch

FESTIVALS
2014 Adelaide Festival
Theatre, Benjamin Brooker
Tectonics, Chris Reid
Zorn in Oz, Keith Gallasch
EX MACHINA, & is this yours? (Fringe), Virginia Baxter

Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras
Day for Night, Performance Space, Fiona McGregor
Mark Wilson, MKA, Unsex Me, Caroline Wake
ACP, We Are Family, Keith Gallasch

World Theatre Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse
Katherine Kelly
Stephen Carleton

2014 Perth International Arts Festival
Keith Gallasch (3 page report)

PuSh Festival 2014, Vancouver
Alex Lazaridis Ferguson

Festival of Live Art, Arts House
Gail Priest
(see also realtime tv)

Next Wave 2014
Preview, Blak Wave, Virginia Baxter

OBITUARIES
James Waites
6 March, 1955-12 February, 2014, RealTime

Robert Ashley
28 March, 1930-3 March, 2014, David Chesworth

FILM & MEDIA ART
Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson, In Search of UIQ
Art, empathy & action:
The television of intimate connections
Wolf Creek 2
Sophie Hyde’s 52 TUESDAYS

ON THE DOX
Documentary democratisation
Dan Edwards: Well Beyond Water; I am Eleven

AUDIOVISION
Emotional pornography & social silence
Philip Brophy: Spike Jonze, Her

REALTIME TV
Don't miss our latest video interviews:
Isaac Julien, PLAYTIME
Chiara Guidi & Jeff Stein, Jack and the Beanstalk

FOLA Feature:
What is Live Art?
Tristan Meecham, Game Show
Sam Halmarack & The Miserablites
Nicola Gunn, Person of Interest
Beth Buchanan, I Know That I Am Not Dead

Plus more at realtime tv

GIVEAWAYS
Aurora Festival of Living Music: Opening Night
The opening night of the Aurora Festival of Living Music at Parramatta’s Riverside Theatre, 30 April, will be thrilling. It will feature the premiere of Voyage Through Radiant Stars by Brian Howard; Ensemble Offspring playing Marcus Lindberg’s Ablauf (1983) for two massive bass drums and clarinet; Song Company’s Roland Peelman at the piano for Sonolith, a musical transcription of the Declaration of Human Rights by Turkish Australian composer Ekrem Mulayim and more.
3 double passes for 30 April courtesy of Aurora Festival of Living Music.
(Email by COB Thurs April 24)

DVD: 20 Feet from Stardom
This 2014 Academy Award winning documentary by Morgan Neville focuses on the lives and careers over some 50 years of black American back-up singers whose talents were such that they could have enjoyed solo stardom. However, either the recording industry did little to commit, even scuttling their efforts, or they recognised that fame was not worth the effort. The sense of injustice is eased when one of the most experienced backup singers, Darlene Love, finally makes it on her own. KG
5 copies courtesy of Transmission Films

DVD: Olivier Assayas, After May
Leading French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’ After May won Best Screenplay at the 2012 Venice Film Festival. His film follows the lives of ‘the children of the revolution’ of May 1968 as they flee Paris after an act of vandalism against a school goes badly wrong. Although criticised for not going deeply enough into his characters, Assayas has been otherwise praised for his sensitive portrayal of a complex generation in a beautifully crafted film.
5 copies courtesy of Madman Entertainment

DVD: Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Times of Tim Hetherington.
British-American photojournalist Tim Hetherington was embedded with a US platoon in Afghanistan. His documentary film of the experience, RESTREPO (2010), won the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Documentary and was nominated for an Oscar in 2011. Hetherington was killed by mortar fire in Libya’s civil war where he was spending time with the rebel army. His co-director and cinematographer on RESTREPO, Sebastien Junger made Which way is the front… as a tribute to Hetherington’s talents.
5 copies courtesy of Madman Entertainment