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Australian Arts

Anatomy of a forgettable scandal

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

An evening of shorts, courtesy of Flickerfest, even at a lustrous cinema like the Kino in the Sofitel complex off Collins Street, is bound to be a mixed experience because the short film is a form that allows a director to try things out. But James Menelaus Rush’s Tadpoles – a moving evocation of the strangeness and beauty of other creatures from the rapt perspective of childhood – is an expertly composed piece of work, full of feeling and truth.

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