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Rebel Heart celebrates true stories of love that defied the status quo. Photo: Eugene Hyland / State Library Victoria.
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Rebel Heart review: SLV's new exhibition is a love letter to love letters (and librarians)

From queer bushrangers to fanmail and mixtapes, Rebel Heart asks what we lose when intimacy goes digital.

The Colleano family, subject of the film, The Colleano Heart. Image: The Colleano Heart.
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The Colleano Heart review: a remarkable Aboriginal success story 

Shapeshifting for decades to avoid detection as Aboriginal, The Colleano Heart follows a remarkable family of circus performers who won…

Stelarc, side on photo of the head and raised forearm of a balding man with long sideburns who has an ear growing out of his arm.
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Emily: I Am Kam and Stelarc Suspending Disbelief reviews: Australian artists on screen

A couple of new documentaries about two prominent Australian artists... who could not be more different.

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Film review: Welcome to Babel

A fascinating portrait of a man with a mission and the history that inspired it...

A Portrait of Love still.
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A Portrait of Love review: behind every great man there is … another one

Molly Reynolds’ intimate documentary uses the home movies of Roberto Meza Mont to shine a spotlight onto his life with…

Still from ‘Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus’. Image: Supplied. A black and white image of Sakamoto, a Japanese man in his 70s with white hair, tortoiseshell glasses and a black blazer at the piano. He is sifting through some sheet music.
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Screening review: Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus, Melbourne Recital Centre

With deep involvement from the late composer’s son and wife, ‘Opus’ captures Ryuichi Sakamoto in dazzling body and soul.

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Film review: Audrey Napanangka

This Australian documentary of Audrey Napanangka provides an expansive yet intimate portrait of a family living between two worlds.

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Film review: Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre

A moving image work highlighting the silent destruction of the Amazon rainforest that deserves everyone’s attention.

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TV review: Books That Made Us

This ABC and Blackfella Films production tries to get books back on the box but focuses too much on celebrity.