Adelaide Film Festival 2018: The Cleaners

The nature of social sharing platforms allows the most twisted and inhumane facets of society to be exposed online. When disturbing, explicit images and videos are reported on social media, how are they removed? It isn’t an automated system or algorithm that sifts through the posts*, but under-paid social media content moderators that view and judge whether the content should remain or be deleted. The … Continue reading Adelaide Film Festival 2018: The Cleaners

Adelaide Film Festival 2018: World Shorts

The World Shorts package was received by a full house at the Mercury Cinema at this year’s Adelaide Film Festival. The package contains a well-curated array of films that varied in style, depicting snippets of life delving into depersonalisation, sexuality, the macabre and the sombre. The selected films are a balance of light-hearted topics and darker, more introspective themes. In no particular order, here are … Continue reading Adelaide Film Festival 2018: World Shorts