Cinema Studies Program
Staff Directory
| Mr Harry Kirchner |
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Associate Lecturer
Room: Hu2, 221
Tel: (03)9479 3512
Fax: (03)9479 3638
Email: h.kirchner@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA Macq., DipArts (Film &TV) AFTRS, GradDipEd Hawthorn, MA AFTRS. |
Teaching Areas
CST1ITS: introduction to screenwriting (2nd semester 2009)
CST3/4VID: video project (2nd semester 2009)
CST2/3ADS: screenwriting project (1st semester 2009)
Major Research Areas
Australian cinema; screenwriting; production; post production; digital exhibition.
Current Projects
Patrick White's screenplays: edited book
The McMansion - utopia/dystopia: essay and essay film
Cheating Hearts. Feature film screenplay. $15,000 AFC development funding
Recent Publications
"Doing Short Dramas". [Book chapter] A Guide to Video Production. ed. Martha Mollison. Sydney: AFTRS and Allen and Unwin, (2nd edition), 2003.
"Love Letters from Teralba Road", Senses of Cinema, 15, July-August, 2001.
Sound Post Research Project, AFTRS. Internet: http://www.aftrs.edu.au
24 entries on screenwriters for The Oxford Companion to Australian Film. Eds. Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer and Ina Bertrand. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Production work
Amongst his 50 film and television credits can be found the satirical puppet series Rubbery Figures, some TV soap (Neighbours, Starting Out), various TV documentaries including Deadly Harvest (Network Ten), and Nagasaki Journey (ABC). He co-wrote Eight Ball (ABC telemovie) with Ray Argall and has directed numerous sponsored documentaries through Film Victoria and Film Australia. Harry has also worked as a Script Editor through the Australian Film Commission, and has been an Assessor for the AFC's Creative Development Fund.
Other
Conference paper "The Screenplays of Patrick White". Remembering Patrick White. Sydney Writers' Festival in conjunction with UWS, UNSW and ?Association for the Study of Australian Literature. May 2007.
Melbourne on Screen; Victorian Writers' Muster, Committee member, 2004.
Australian Writers Guild; Victorian Branch Committee member, 2002.
Australian Writers Guild; Victorian Branch Committee member, 1997-99.
Melbourne International Film Festival; Jury Panel, 1999.
Melbourne International Film Festival; Short Fiction selection committee, 1995-97
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