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#FF24 And now the Film Fight 2024: Finale. What was the best film of last year? https://solitude.vkps.co.uk/2025/03/film-fight-2024-finale/
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#FF24 Blog post: Film Fight 2024: December - All the films from December in one place. https://solitude.vkps.co.uk/2025/03/film-fight-2024-december/
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#FF24 Anora is torn between tense drama and black comedy.
Madison is excellent, managing the slight tonal shifts perfectly. The film is exciting, dark, (mostly) propulsive - and heading for an obvious conclusion. I have nits to pick, but this is well worth seeing.
Great.
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#FF24 Red One, despite its short cinematic release, is the worst kind of streaming slop.
Clearly built with franchising in mind, it failed at the first step of being interesting, well-made, or vaguely sensible. With an enormous budget, you won't see any of it on screen.
Awful.
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#FF24 Subservience is part of the growing genre around lifelike robots that eventually turn to murder.
You'll see every single beat of this film coming, but that doesn't stop it occasionally being fun.
Fine.
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#FF24 Dear Santa is a Christmas film you'll probably watch once.
Jack Black plays an over the top demon who grants a kid three wishes. Some of it plays out in a fun way, but it's mostly forgettable with some pretty terrible moments.
Meh.
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#FF24 Carry-On is slightly better than your typical streaming service, action movie slop - but not by much.
Egerton is fine in the lead, but Bateman is clearly having a lot of fun.
Almost nothing in the film holds up to scrutiny, but it's fine for a couple of hours.
Okay.
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#FF24 Juror #2 is a courtroom drama where we know early the outcome unless one man steps up.
Hoult gives a career best performance as the titular character, with Collette hardly slacking.
The rarest of films: one that arguably ends at exactly the right moment.
Very good.
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#FF24 Rumours is a slightly self-indulgent, dry, absurdist comedy about the political classes.
The humour is amusing in moments, but the whole thing doesn't hang together. It overstays it's very short run time, reiterating short bits on the same, thin material.
Meh.
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It's been another big year as I work towards completing my #dissertation on voice dataset documentation and how it influences how well #speech technologies work for all voices at the #ANU School of Cybernetics - with big thanks to my supervisors, Elizabeth Williams, Alexandra Zafiroglu, Jofish Kaye and Paul Wong 黃仲熙.
I've wrapped up a partnership with Mozilla's #CommonVoice team, which let me explore the hashtag#dataset in a lot more detail - big thanks EM Lewis-Jong, @jessie Dmitrij Feller in particular.
It was an incredible honor to keynote #FF24 at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia alongside Peter-Lucas Jones of Te Hiku Media, expertly facilitated by Keir Winesmith - thanks @ingridbmason and team for the opportunity - and stay tuned for a little project we are working on - we know you're all eager for the video of this keynote, but we're adding a little more magic.
I helped out with @everythingopen Media and Comms this year, and am looking forward to speaking in January in Adelaide.
A huge thanks to my fellow #PhD buddies - Lorenn Ruster, @nedcpr, Glen Berman, Tom Chan, Danny Bettay, Charlotte Bradley, @Amirasadi, Memunat Ajoke Ibrahim and the later cohorts for all your support, shut up and write sessions and intellectual growth.
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#FF24 Kneecap was surprisingly great.
About a hip-hop trio who rap in Irish, it's silly and fun, visually inventive, and well-paced throughout. I didn't expect much and it massively overdelivered - even if the Fassbender plot was a bit much.
Very good.
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#FF24 Gladiator 2 is a bit too much of a retread.
Mezcal is great as the lead, but his journey follows pretty much the same arc as the original. Washington is fantastic - but is the only fresh injection of energy. Everything else is stale.
Okay, as an imitation.
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#FF24 Conclave is about a Papal conclave frought with drama.
Fantastic performances throughout, and each of the main threads keeps things twisting nicely - if a little melodramatically. The final twist is silly and heavy-handed, but I can't say I minded much.
Good.
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#FF24 Time Cut is a somewhat generic time-travel/killer film, very similar to one from last year.
A girl tries to prevent her sister's murder but in doing so causes ripples. You'll see basically everything coming and won't really care about what happens.
It's fine, not terrible
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#FF24 Caddo Lake is one to see cold.
Ostensbily about a young girl missing in a swampy lake, it quickly becomes clear something else is happening. Slow, methodical, and does a great job of slowly revealing the back half.
Very good.
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#FF24 Heretic is a fine piece of psychological horror.
Grant is clearly having a great time as the antagonist, and is delightful in the role. Keeps the tension up.
It nearly fumbles in the end (and in a handful of shots of a maze), but I think it just about pulls it off.
Good.
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#FF24 My Old Ass is a bit shapeless, and takes a long time to go nowhere.
I didn't care about anything that happened and it all seemed a bit obvious - and dull. The central romance didn't work for me, which is probably why I didn't enjoy this much.
Skip.
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#FF24 Strange Darling is a strange but well structured movie.
We start in the middle, and jump backwards and forwards through multiple chapters - that couldn't really be told in any other order. It doesn't quite know when to end, but the journey is well worth it.
Good.
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#FF24 Woman Of The Hour is a bit of a mixed bag.
It's a weird framing (killer on a dating show) of what would have been a better film if told in a more straightforward way. There are moments of levity and moments of well-earned tension, but it's all a bit odd.
Okay.
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#FF24 Brothers is proof a great cast can make a bad film.
Ostensibily a comedy, I don't think I laughed once. The plot is forgettable and the characters are flat - nothing that happened was particularly interesting.
Avoid.
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What a delight it was to present at the #ff2024 #ff24 Fantastic Futures #conference last week, held at the #NFSA, celebrating all things #AI and #ML in the #GLAM sector.
See what the #ANU School of #Cybernetics got up to at the conference:
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But when we isolate the photograph, bird, person, or any object from the infrastructure of memory — transport into it a foreign context, or sever its relationship to the story — it loses its power, and memory can become distorted. This is a way to think about archives, and datasets, and the power of infrastructure to shape our access to memory.
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This and other reflections on the Fantastic Futures Conference this week at the NSFA in Canberra:
#ff24 #archives #ai4lam #dh https://cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/infrastructures-of-memory
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These are wildly distinct and incompatible architectures. To bring memory to AI, we have to translate it. That means adapting the forms of memory into the forms of artificial intelligence.
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Contrast all of this with the infrastructure of artificial intelligence. AI is an infrastructure of GPUs, data centers, data annotation and maintenance, model training, water and power. It is an infrastructure focused on the collection and generation of data.
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Memory is never filed away and reopened, like a file on a hard drive. It has to be re-inscribed through action and practice. The infrastructure of memory supports this: it consists of the stories we share, but also feelings, scents, and tastes, or returning to the places where things happened.
#ff24 #archives #ai4lam #dh https://cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/infrastructures-of-memory
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#FF2024 Jon Dunn reminds us all that you can join informal working groups on speech-to-text and more at https://ai4lam.org - anyone is welcome to join the Slack, attend online calls with demos etc #AI4LAM #FF24
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Grant Heinrich from the #NFSA talking the first 140 days of using #Whisper #ASR for #transcription of archival material - that understands Australian English, including slang.
Begins with key principles of maintaining trust and forefronting creators.
📸 CC-BY
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In a new interview on Blazing Minds, I got a chance to ask actor Dean Kilbey a few questions ahead of FrightFest where he will be appearing in an impressive 3 feature films including; Members Club, Derelict and Charlotte. #FrightFest #FF24 #DeanKilbey #ExclusiveInterview #BlazingMinds https://blazingminds.co.uk/exclusive-interview-with-actor-den-kilbey-ahead-of-frightfest/
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In a new interview on Blazing Minds, I got a chance to ask actor Dean Kilbey a few questions ahead of FrightFest where he will be appearing in an impressive 3 feature films including; Members Club, Derelict and Charlotte. #FrightFest #FF24 #DeanKilbey #ExclusiveInterview #BlazingMinds https://blazingminds.co.uk/exclusive-interview-with-actor-den-kilbey-ahead-of-frightfest/
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If you're in #Canberra in mid-October, perhaps just after #Floriade, and you're interested in the role #AI plays in the future of libraries, museums and archives #GLAM, then you may like the Fantastic Futures conference #FF24, hosted by National Film and Sound Archive of Australia #NFSA on behalf of the #AI4ALL community of practice.
You might even know one of the keynotes 😎
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/fantastic-futures-conference-canberra-2024
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I'm humbled and awed to be in the company of so many accomplished artists, researchers, practitioners, guardians, technologists and designers as part of the Fantastic Futures Conference #FF24 Key Speakers lineup - presented by #NFSA on behalf of the #AI4LAM community.
Peter-Lucas Jones, and the work of #TeHiku Media in preserving and protecting Indigenous speech data of #TeReo is an effort I have long admired. Associate Professor Kirsten Thorpe's work at the Jumbunna Institute at University of Technology Sydney also centres on data sovereignty for Indigenous data, from an archival perspective.
Eryk Salvaggio - @CyberneticForests - also an alum of the #ANU School of #Cybernetics, like myself does incredible work in interrogating social and cultural impacts of #AI, especially in #ComputerVision.
Kartini Ludwig's use of creativity at Kopi Su Studio to empower artists runs counter to the prevailing norm of scraping the internet to build #LLMs and #diffusion models.
And Associate Professor Sydney Shep's trans-disciplinary work in book history and print culture, as well as her practice as a letterpress printer and bookbinder, is a fascinating exploration of how our cultural histories shape our futures.
Together, we hope to convene conversations that help shape the future of #AI and #ML within the #GLAM sector.
Huge thank you to Keir Winesmith and @ingridbmason for the opportunity, and to Ashlinn H. who I know is doing incredible work behind the scenes.
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/fantastic-futures-canberra-2024-key-speakers
