Past Projects

A selection of completed projects and research from Keylight members.

Films

  • The Fox – Kate Murray (writer/director), 2020, Short Film
  • Ladies of the Cemetary – Donna McRae (director), 2019, Video Installation
  • The King of Frankston – Kristina Kraskov (director), 2019, Short Documentary
  • Cobby: the Other Side of Cute – Donna McRae (co-writer/co-director/producer), 2018, Feature Documentary
  • Atonia – Kate Murray (writer/director), 2018, Short Film
  • Lost Gully Road – Donna McRae (co-writer/director) & Liz Baulch (producer), 2017, Feature Film
  • Heavy Haulage Girls – Kristina Kraskov (director), 2016, Short Documentary
  • Flyville – Donna McRae (director), 2016, Video Installation
  • Make Believe It’s Nothing – Donna McRae (artist), 2014, Video Installation
  • Immersion – Liz Baulch (artist), 2012, Video Installation
  • Johnny Ghost – Donna McRae (writer/director), 2011, Feature Film
  • Elizabeth Taylor Sometimes – Liz Baulch (producer), 1998, Short Film
  • My Cunt – Liz Baulch (producer/DoP), 1996, Short Film

Exhibitions & Festivals

  • Melbourne Women in Film Festival: More Than – Sian Mitchell (festival director), 2021
  • Melbourne Women in Film Festival: Stories in Colour – Sian Mitchell (festival director), 2020
  • Venetian Blind: Optical Allusions at the European Cultural Centre Gallery – Lienors Torre (artist with Simon Grennan, Sarah Neville, and Anne Wilson), 2019
  • Melbourne Women in Film Festival: Dark Delights – Sian Mitchell (festival director), 2019
  • Guglielmo Giannini: a digital archive of theatre, film, entertainment and political activism [online] – Victoria Duckett (curator), 2018
  • Melbourne Women in Film Festival: Independence – Sian Mitchell (festival director), 2018
  • Pioneering Women at the Melbourne International Film Festival – Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (co-curator), 2017
  • The Lost Room, Lienors Torre, (artist), 2017
  • Melbourne Women in Film Festival  – Sian Mitchell (festival director), 2017
  • Glassimations, Lienors Torre (curator), 2012

Books

  • 1000 Women in Horror, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, 2020
  • Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, 2019
  • Australian Animation: An International History, Lienors Torre & Dan Torre, 2018
  • Seeing Sarah Bernhardt: performance and silent film, Victoria Duckett, 2015

Book Chapters

A book cover for 'Women Make Horror' with the title in red and white text
  • Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, 2021, ‘The Girls in the Mirror: Women’s Horror Filmmaking and Doris Wishman’s Each Time I Kill (2007)’ in ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman (eds. Alicia Kozma & Finley Freibert).
  • Donna McRae, 2020, ‘The Stranger With My Face International Film Festival and the Australian Female Gothic’ and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, 2020, ‘Inside Karen Arthur’s The Mafu Cage‘ in Women make horror: filmmaking, feminism, genre (ed. Alison Pierse).
  • Sian Mitchell, 2020, ‘L’Amour fou Revisited: The Surrealist Poetics of Michel Gondry’ in ReFocus: the Films of Michel Gondry (eds. Marcelline Block and Jennifer Kirby).
  • Lienors Torre & Dan Torre, 2019, ‘Materiality, experimental process and animated identity’ in Experimental animation: from analogue to digital (eds. Miriam Harris, Lilly Husbands & Paul Taberham).
  • Victoria, Duckett, 2018, ‘Ingrid Bergman in Stromboli’ in Close-up: Great cinematic performances Volume 2: International (eds. Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens).

Selected Articles

  • Victoria Duckett, 2020, ‘The lecturer’s legacy: In memory of Professor Peter Wollen’, Senses of Cinema, no. 93.
  • Sian Mitchell, Janice Loreck, Whitney Monaghan, and Kirsten Stevens, 2020, ‘Looking Back, Moving Forward: Retrospectives at the Melbourne Women in Film Festival’, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 159-169.
  • Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, 2020, ‘Howling III: The Marsuipials – The NFSA (National Film and Sound Archive) Restores Collection’, Metro Magazine, 202. 
  • Victoria Duckett, 2019, ‘Performing art nouveau: Sarah Bernhardt and the development of industrial modernism’, Modernism/modernity, vol. 4, no. 3.
  • Sian Mitchell, 2019, ‘Audiovisual Essays as Empowering Pedagogical Tools for Students of Film Practice’, JCMS Teaching Dossier, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1-5.
  • Lienors Torre, 2017, Persona, celebrity, and the animated object, Animation studies, vol. 12.
  • Victoria Duckett, 2016, ‘Archivists Speak’ (introduction and interviews), Feminist media histories, vol. 2, no. 1, Winter.