MIFF Auteur Picks

Everybody likes to think of Bradford Cox - frontman of last year's best buzz-band, Deerhunter - as a freak, anorexic Perry Farrell-lookalike. "True...

Ant!podium have been wowing us for the past few seasons with snappy prints and names such as ‘don't screw the crew' and ‘tux-o-dermy'.

The...

We feel pretty dubious about all this hipster anthropology shit, but this book has some serious credentials. Photographer Peter Beste apparently spent...

Separately Together brings together (well, separately, but together) emerging artists from University of Melbourne and VCA whose work hijacks language...

It seems like a new restaurant opens up on Carlisle Street each week, although only some of them look like they're going to stay. Ugly Sister certainly...

More often than not, dressing is a balancing act. Lean too far one way and you’re more masculine than Annie Hall, too far the other and Alannah...

David Shrigley has made a new book.

There is no way to explain
this book
other than to write down various things
that are in it.*

I have sampled the...

We're running away and you won't recongise us at this Collingwood warehouse. We could be hiding behind the hoods of Pigeons Combine's darkly intellectual...

Rivaling, maybe surpassing, the natural world in terms of dimension and mystic order, Snawklor's work unfurls in blooms and retractions akin to living...

Children around the world would probably cry if Mickey Mouse ever used a one finger salute, but at the hands of New York artist Kostas Seremetis the...

Attention: those of you who have lived in a burrow for far too long. After turning a blind eye to independent publishing, it's about time you peel open...

There are three words to describe drinking on Flinders Lane: “wrong,wrong, wrong.” Which is why Two Fingers, located just behind The Forum...

In 1986, before headbangers were (ironically) hip, when camera crews were still a novelty worth cavorting drunkenly before, a dude from D.C. borrowed...

The Spanish have it down tight when it comes to good eating; taking your time, digesting, having a listen to conversations around you, and savouring your...

After the roaring success of last Saturday's ‘Pants & Pies' sale, James Cameron presents ACT II this weekend. Vintage wash denim, Japanese...

One man had a vision, and that vision was that the good people of Melbourne would abandon their consumerist label-whoring and embrace good old fashioned...

Oh Captain my Captain! There are no victims in this classroom!Everyone complains about Hollywood’s love of remakes, but no one bats an eyelid...

If America's Top Model has taught us anything, photo shoots are all "walruses in chiffon" and "look bitch, I was chosen out of a million...

Like a scene out of Oliver Stone's sixties psyche-crapfest The Doors, last summer Melbourne's Sand Pebbles trekked out into the desert with a bag full...

How often do we hoist our skirts above the knee and kick around the Charlston? Not enough. Bim Kenesis make us dream of a 1930s speakeasy with their...