Catherine Gough-Brady

Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle Australian campaigners demand Albanese government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%

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YouTube video by Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing Prime Minister - Official Trailer | Jacinda Ardern Documentary | In theaters June 13

Just saw Lindsay Utz (editor of American factory) and Michelle Walshe’s prime minister, great film worth seeing, and I had forgotten about Adern’s politics of kindness. youtu.be/brEFCizM9ws?...

Embodied spectators: relationships between creators and their audiences Researcher-filmmakers Catherine Gough-Brady, Kim Munro, Christine Rogers and Cassandra Tytler explore the embodied spaces and connections between the creator and the audience. Using their own pract...

A recent academic article I co-wrote with colleagues exploring Embodied spectators: relationships between creators and their audiences www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UZXNR...

Visit to Umoona/ Coober Pedy

Four older people stand in a line looking at each other.

Over the last couple of years, I worked with a community of town elders in Clunes, Victoria, to create a series of short films that interacted with the change work they were doing. Sightlines have published a piece exploring aspects of my experience of 'working with' participants. lnkd.in/g9-MH8D2

Sad to hear about John Martinkus’s death. I remember being kicked out of Jimmy Watsons with him and a few other doco makers. It’s a hard life for those covering our wars.

Heading into the rally in Perth in support of Palestinians

View from train shows scale of Sydney Harbour Bridge protest – video Police estimate the pro-Palestine march was attended by more than 90,000 people

Amazing Syndey, over 90,000 protest treatment of Palestinian people in what we call in Oz shithouse weather www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Three women/ non-binary people sit on the roots of a Moreton Bay fig tree

This Saturday, if you are in Perth, come along to see an AR work i have been co-creating with these fabulous people and the Moreton Bay fig tree: pica.org.au/whats-on/ope...

They have started to pull out and chip the 100s of trees at Hyde Park in Perth infected with pshb. The white bags contain the chips.

Denmark in Western Australia

YouTube video by New Movie Trailer From Ground Zero (2024) || Official Trailer

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saw fascinating compilation film tonight:from ground zero. Stories told by Palestinians in Gaza. Especially touching is the film made by children about their names being written on their limbs, to help identify them after a bombing.

I’d like to acknowledge that I spent today on Whadjuk Boodjar, and acknowledge the elders past and present, and that my last home was on boonwurrung lands.

Extraordinary stick cocoon of a case moth, been crawling around for a while, seems to have died now, though that may be part of the mating cycle.

German flautist Sabine Vogel. Her performance ended up immersed in the water with a wooden flute playing with the waves. #audibleEdge

In Perth there’s essentially no rain for many months over summer/autumn. When the rain finally returns it brings that wet fresh smell with it, a smell almost forgotten.

Cover of filmmakers thinking by Adrian Martin

Enjoying this book by Adrian Martin. @adrianpmartin.bsky.social

That time of the election cycle. Love that I live in a country with compulsory voting.

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

Music meets marine life in Ocean Song Townsville-based cellist, composer, and environmental advocate Rike Wolf has collaborated with marine life to produce Ocean Song, a composition blending cello, didgeridoo, and whale calls.

Townsville-based cellist, composer, and environmental advocate Rike Wolf has collaborated with marine life to produce Ocean Song, a composition blending cello, didgeridoo, and whale calls.

Arrived an hour early for a festival show because they used the wrong start time on the website- was directed to lovely wine bar nearby as I can’t walk far at the mo due to sprained foot. Forgot my glasses so the waiter and I agreed I would like a pre show Nero.

YouTube video by DocPlay No Other Land | Official Trailer | DocPlay

Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s no other land is a stunning and horrifying portrayal of land theft and dispossession

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YouTube video by Kino Lorber Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat – Official Trailer

Johan Grimonprez’s Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat is an amazing film worth seeing youtu.be/_RwLdIiZk_8?...

Not one for nationalism, and yet, change the date is a clear need for us

Sunset lighting up the rocks where I am spending the weekend. Vale Keith Gallasch.

A dark moreton bay fig tree truck and roots, greenery of a park behind it

@gailpriestess.bsky.social and I just locked off a new short film "In this place, at this time", which is a great feeling. It's set in a park in Perth/Boorloo, exploring the relationship of people, trees, and tree-destroying bugs, that are all not from Perth.

What I remember is they communicate through music- which I loved

Hello Perth. Not a great week for the homeless.

So the bad news is the herbs did not survive- the water system I set up failed. The good news is the endemic species I planted, in the hope they will outlive my time here, all survived.