! Latest !
- Senses of Cinema
- I review John Ruane’s gritty social realist drama Queensland. Queensland
- Cinema Year Zero
- I wrote about how tits and arse kept bums on seats in Australia for a short period of time during the 1970s. The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
- Pure Shit Australian Cinema
- An essay focussing on Carmen-Sibha Keiso’s 2018 film Love and Fascism in the 21 st Century Separating the art from the artist
Reviews
- Un Extended
- A profile of the Fitzroy based ‘media archive’ Hit List ahead of their screening as part of Gertrude Projection Festival Hit List
- Senses of Cinema
- An annotation on Fritz Lang’s M for the Melbourne cinematheque M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
- I review Tsai Ming-liang’s short film The Skywalk is Gone The Skywalk is Gone (Tsai Ming-liang, 2002)
- The Guardian
- An article for Stream Team about Bruce Beresford's 1976 romp Don's Party Don’s Party: the Australian epitome of why you should never talk politics with friends
- The Big Issue
- A short review of Giuseppe Tornatore's documentary Ennio Ennio: The Maestro
- FILMINK
- A piece about unsung heroes Amanda King and Fabio Cavadini (originally written as a synopsis for local filmmaker John Hughes) Unsung Auteurs: Amanda King And Fabio Cavadini
- Op-ed piece about why Michael Jordan is missing from Air Link to article
- Animus
- A long form essay about cinephilia and Australian cinema A Cinephile ‘Down Under’
- A long form article exploring Jean-Pierre Melville and Brian Trenchard-Smith’s careers A Tale of Two Cities: Paris and Sydney
- An essay on the state of streaming in Australia and more broadly as well as the effects of introducing streaming quotas Streaming Quotas
- MIFF Blog
- Critics Campus 2022 participant Digby Houghton speaks to Senses of Cinema co-director John Hughes about subversion, collective filmmaking and historiography Remembering the Radical: An Interview with John Hughes
- In this short video essay I seek to question the role of contemporary cinephiles in today’s climate Video Essay: The Afterlight
- Film Matters Magazine
- A review of In My Blood It Runs (Maya Newell, 2019) Link to Journal
Link to Film Matters Magazine
- Cinema Year Zero
- A review of Tsai-ming Liang’s 2020 film Days Days | What We Did On Our Summer Holidays
- A parody piece focusing on Thomas Brody-Sangster in Love, Actually Thomas Brodie-Sangster | Love, Actually
- A long-form article about the shifts in the mid budget movie currently occurring Blonde
- Farrago (Melbourne University Student Journal)
- A review of Tsai-ming Liang’s film Goodbye, Dragon Inn and Fireflies book launch at ACMI Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003)
- Screening Idea Film Festival
- This was a short annotation for a screening myself and three other colleagues at uni organised on Joachim Trier’s Worst Person in the World (2021) Annotation PDF
- Radio Fodder (Melbourne University's Radio Station)
- A review of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 2021 film Memoria
- No!Cinema Magazine
My latest article, "Ozpolitation: A Narrative from a Cinephile 'Down Under'" is now in my hot hands via @no_cinema_zine. Much love to the editing team and design squad for making such a cool zine. So much fun contributing! pic.twitter.com/iq352is3l7
— Diggers Rest (@HoughtonDigby) June 24, 2022
Work
- Research Assistant
- Research Assistant for the feature length documentary “Franklin” Franklin River: A Journey To The Past A Quest For The Future