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Welcome to a Launceston Film Society BLOG. However this BLOG is yet to be sanctioned by 'The Committee" but it is nonetheless sanctioned by a network of members.
The site is dedicated to ART FIRST and then to encouraging open conversations and critical exchanges relevant to cinema, cinema culture, and the moving image in all formats.
If you have something to say, say it here! Your comments will be published without fear or favour just so long as they are not libellous and downright rude. Why not test us to see how far we’ll let you go.
Mostly we are looking for critiques of films the society shows or firms you see anywhere. We are even looking for critiques of the critiques.
We are a decade into the 21st Century and we think that it is time to lift our game and get a little closer to the cutting edge – at least some of the time.
We know that most people come to LFS showings to be entertained but maybe not always. Tell us what you are looking for. This is your spot in CYBERspace to say what you think when you think it!
The site is dedicated to ART FIRST and then to encouraging open conversations and critical exchanges relevant to cinema, cinema culture, and the moving image in all formats.
If you have something to say, say it here! Your comments will be published without fear or favour just so long as they are not libellous and downright rude. Why not test us to see how far we’ll let you go.
Mostly we are looking for critiques of films the society shows or firms you see anywhere. We are even looking for critiques of the critiques.
We are a decade into the 21st Century and we think that it is time to lift our game and get a little closer to the cutting edge – at least some of the time.
We know that most people come to LFS showings to be entertained but maybe not always. Tell us what you are looking for. This is your spot in CYBERspace to say what you think when you think it!
LINKS – Compare & Contrast Programs etc.
- Adelaide University Film Society
- Alternative Movies
- Australian Film Critics Association
- Australian Film Festival – 2010
- BIG HOUSE FILM SOCIETY – Canberra
- Croydon Film Society
- Darwin Film Society
- Film Critics Circle Australia
- Flickerfest – Bondi
- Hobart Film Society Inc.
- Launceston Film Society Program 2010
- Launceston Film Society WEBSITE
- Melbourne Film Festival
- Melbourne Queer Film Society
- POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY
- PRODOS Film Society
- Sydney Film Festival
- The Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2010
- The Australian International Film Festival – LINKS
- The Reel McCoy Film Society
- UNSW Film Society
1 comment:
LFS is beginning to remind me of a number of organizations I’ve come across recently. The common denominator being that they are operating without a credible plan for either the present or the future. That is a long-term plan with matching short and medium term plans and some are quite large organisations.
You have to wonder how all this comes about. You have to wonder how an organization gets to accumulate substantial assets in an unplanned way. If all you aims to do is show edgy movies to people (an audience, community, whatever) who otherwise they might not get to see, then that is a plan I suppose. It seems to have been working for quite a long time. Basically, it still is.
Nonetheless, as members pass through an organisation such as LFS with a FINITE membership they leave behind some obligations to them. It’s especially so IF they have contributed to what might now be imagined as a substantial community fund that has been accumulating over a long time.
These people have not abandoned their interest in the organization, or ‘the fund’ they have contributed to, they have simply been excluded from the organisation’s membership for a range of reasons – personal, family, professional etc. – and they can no longer play any part in the decision making.
There might be something to be learned here. I submit that while the LFS currently has a finite membership it also has a very large Community of Interest to whom the present membership has some obligations.
Against this background, it seems that LFS is at one of those moments where there are some important decisions to be made about its future – short, medium and long term. The alternative of unplanned squander does not bear thinking about.
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