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Irregular musings on film, art, media & learning.
Honours for one please!
Please? Eventually?
Rear View Retrospective
words are tears waiting to be written*
Final Screening
It’s a terrible thing to be forgotten.
Aunties
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.
Vanilla Hotel
We shake with joy, we shake with grief.
The Strand
“This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat”.
For Agnès
“This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat”.
Small but Deep
Ahhh you’re the Black River Town McCuskey’s
Back to Dublin
As old as the wind and the valleys.
Genteel Anarchy
As old as the wind and the valleys.
Solo travel
I ask another sister, the well travelled one, why didn’t you tell me?
Titanic Disney
Safe harbour you’ll find if you look.
Corcaigh
A place of artful history and rain.
Laois County
Tenakill House – once home.
The Ambassador & The Sister
I hear his voice plain as day.
Dim Rains
It’s on the left but stay to your right.
Speak Her
Speak her and she will live.
Wherever you go
Those who struggle write the music
Dancing
In search of dance
Baile Átha Cliath
Dublin like a local
On Arriving
Its always Tuesday
On Leaving
Leaving home to reckon with home.
Cinema Residency
I must dance, I must.
Provocation #6
Different belonging.
Provocation #5
Can belonging be placed or is it trying to hold water in your hands?
Associative Lyrical Formalist
Turns out I’m an Associative Formalist filmmaker in the lyrical tradition. Who knew?
Provocation #4
We hold each other, belonging depends on us all.
Failure teaches
“Jumping feels like falling until you learn to fly.” Ellen Sorenson
Provocation #3
Longing through generations of not knowing.
Provocation #2
What is the cost of belonging?
Dubliners
Joyce called to me and I answered. Yes.
Mechanical Analogue Digital
Analogue cameras capture blacks that are blacker and the whites lift like ghosts from some great beyond.
Provocation #1
What does it mean to belong?
16mm Dive
David Lynch says if you are watching films on your phone, you haven’t really seen them.
Time is Precious
How do you create time within time?
Works In Progress
Works that dig into the heart to reveal feelings will always need curious audiences.
Keats Requited
“Does it have to do with Negative Capability?”
The artist needs a wife
Hot Toddy recipe included!
Buninyong Film Festival
Joyful cinema experiences are my favourite kind.
If you knew Alice
Alice didn’t even appear!
Language is powerful
Language is power
A Cinema Darkly #6
The work was slower than intended but also deeper than expected.
A Cinema Darkly #5
Cinema’s unique use of darkness and light creates an atmosphere of promise.
The Destroyer
Maude Davey as The Destroyer is a lesson in commitment.
A Cinema Darkly #4
Somehow we have been divided into clear categories of belonging.
On intimacy in isolation
Joy and pleasure are not frivolous – we seek them – they give us hope.
A Cinema Darkly #3
‘Cinema’is derived from the Ancient greek word for movement κίνημα (kínēma)
Dancing Queen
For the beautiful Ange, now dancing across the sky in your twirly skirt, big smile and magnificent...
A Cinema Darkly #2
ar fhaitíos na bhfaitíos – on fear of the fear
A Cinema Darkly #1
My story world is born of this exploration.
I freaked out!
Totally! freaked out!
What’s The Story
When I was a kid it felt like my dad had a movie camera in his hand every day.
Spark Report
The Spark Report I had the honour of speaking with the women of The Refinery. A group of women...
A girl has many rejections.
A girl has many rejections. But how do we answer death?
Wildfire.
A Chandelier, a fan and a dimmer switch.
Time to talk about Sophia
I’m wounded by dust.
Forgive me.
She had written me a card.
Dance Carousel
Let the light shine.
Random Number Generator
We hope you will come and see our new work commissioned for White Night Ballarat. ONE NIGHT ONLY....
Merry with Love
Wishing you all the very best from Yum Studio. Thank you for your support, and challenges, over...
White Night Reviews
We are so grateful to those who experienced our work Do Not Go Gentle at White Night Ballarat, and...
Do Not Go Gentle
DO NOT GO GENTLE CHRISTINE TAMMER & ERIN MCCUSKEY We hope you will come and view our...
Last night I shook with rage.
Last night I saw the film The Neon Demon at #MIFF2016 (Melbourne International Film Festival)....
Stranger Art
Recently I was asked to give the opening speech for a fabulous artist Ms Anne Chibnall. Anne and I...
Rejects. I’ve had a few.
ON BEING REJECTED. I give you... dut ut dut dar... Recent Rejects for Savouring. Note: I always...
The Time might be Now?
Creative Media is not easy. It's important to engage with experienced creatives. I used a great...
Luxville Delusion – Artist Talk
Artist Talk Sunday 15th November 2015 Erin McCuskey Filmmaker - Yum Studio - Madame Yum Luxville...
Welcome to Luxville
Welcome to Luxville, and have a nice day. Through moving image, still and word we bring you the...
Dance on dear Marge…
Jim and Marge Welsh flew down the Melbourne Road to Ballarat in their borrowed Jaguar. It was...
From Red to Purple
What a fabulous turn out for Red, thank you all so much for joining us. Here are some...
Dreamer, nothing but a dreamer…
Can you put your hand in your head? Oh no! Me either... But we are putting our hand up for...
Burlesque Sideshow
I LOVE BURELSQUE and I don't care if I'm shouting. It fabulous, fun, feminism with humour....
Blood on Ballarat
Creative media is never more creative than when linked with a cultural event. In this case...
Project Grief
Today I feel a bit sad. I have project grief. The project that I lived and breathed for...
A City of Chaos & Hope
It takes people to make a city. Literally, to dream it, to think it, to plan it, to build...
Preview – The Inside Story
Madame Yum here, I have been loving working on a social history project called The Inside...
Hawk Man Cometh
One of the most difficult things to capture on screen is passion. I had no trouble with...
To heck with suspense
To be a good writer, apparently, you need to be a good reader. I reckon you also need to be a good...
We’re All Winners
What a fabulous party, thank you all for coming. And thanks to those who took time to vote, five...
Yum Studio 86th Oscars Party
The fabulous fabulous awards season is upon us, and while we hate to brag, Yum Studio has again a...
Radio Springs Eternal
You simply must do yourself a favour and visit the Radio Springs Hotel at Lyonville. We did, and...
Six Reasons
There are many reasons to visit beautiful Ballarat. Some reasons are so totally fresh,...
Mick’s Cinema
I love films, I love going to the cinema, I love the rituals, I love the slow...
threads that bind
threads the bind exhbition by the Warrnambool Textile Group (Ros Barwell, Kaori De Guchi,...
A Most Fabulous Film
The film of the year for me is one that was a complete experience. A cinema that dripped...
Fail daring greatly
Pres. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt seated on lawn, surrounded by their family; 1903 I'm not usually...
Spreading the Message
Just a quick one to let you know how well spread is the film 'Ta Phin: A hard life, easy to...
The Ballad of Miss Audrey Dash
When I was young love was an enticing elusive strange and fragile thing. Now I am a wise old crone...
Tim & Anne the usual crazy…
The Hudson Project crew (left to right) Joel Gills, Michael Gwyther, Jay Morningstar, Anne...
Ta Phin: A Hard Life, Easy to Live
Spin a globe, toss a coin, follow a friend’s recommendation, revisit a favourite place or...
Louise is an author…
Self-publishing is like anything else in the new tech field - it's free, relatively simple,...
Ly Ta May – a world apart
Women of Ta Phin 5: Ly Ta May - A series of images and tales from Viet Nam. Ly Ta May is the...
Meet Thurstin
Thurstin is a young photographer of 14 who is asking people with a passion for the arts to spend...
Mrs Ly Ta May King – it fit you can buy
Women of Ta Phin 4: Mrs Ly Ta May King - A series of images and tales from Viet Nam. This is Mrs...
Daisies were Chained
In the best possible way of course - those daisies can be tricky. "Daisy-Chaining Robots was a...
Tracy Bourne in Finale
We love to create creative media, and the theatre is perhaps a natural fit for creative film,...
Use your intuition!
What project will you do next Jill? "I want to do something that is really hard. I'd like to tell...
Daisy-chaining Robots
Over the last three months it has been such a joy to train people in the use of the fabulous...
Mrs Ly Man May – celebrating her ghosts
Women of Ta Phin 3: Mrs Ly Man May - A series of images and tales from Viet Nam. This is our Ta...
Ly Lo May – this means girl
Women of Ta Phin 2: Ly Lo May - A series of images and tales from Viet Nam. This is Ly Lo May, a...
Mrs Ly May Chan – sharing her culture to protect it
Women of Ta Phin 1: Mrs Ly May Chan - A series of images and tales from Viet Nam. This is Mrs Ly...
What Lies Beneath?
Got the brief for this group show and immediately thought about Alice in Wonderland. I'd been...
Crazed amplified somnambulist
Creativity is like El Nino and La Nina – interplay of idea drought and flood. Framing visions to a...
Framing the past
While discussing music over the weekend, I recalled the work of Pete Frame who created "Family...
Love Claire
Here's a letter from someone I trained a million years ago... Lovely to hear from you Claire. Dear...
MIFFtales #2 Mr Campi
Now that the MIFF madness is done and dusted, time to reflect on some of the amazing people I...
MIFF Opening Night
We are screening yum's project MIFFtales throughout the Melbourne International Film Festival so...
MIFFtales #1: Mr Scheff…
The first thing I was told by Scheff's partner was: "Oh for god's sake don't call him Edwin, he...
A very yummy MIFF
and if I was just announcing it I'd start by saying "Wow have I got news for you", while its no...
Foolish and hungry
Love him or loath him you can't deny Steve Job's impact on our techy type world as the driving...
Normal
Normal is about seeing the world through the perspectives of difference. like Cubism twisted...
so long, farewell. auf weidersehen, goodbye…
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” - Semisonic’s song Closing Time today...
Arresting Audiences
I went to a really interesting summit from Film Vic about audiences which was pretty unique as it...
Underground Cinema
Last weekend a mate and i traveled back in time (1940s) to attend the latest underground cinema...
cloud data
The weather project is up and running at Space 22 in ballarat, at 22 main road. it's a fabulous...
shilling wall achievement award
at the recent annual dinner for the Victorian ICT for Women our erin, creative director...
gertrude street projection festival 2010
yum is very excited that erin, our creative director will be presenting work at this year's...
what’s normal anyway?
We got a group of artists and mentors together to produce a pilot for a TV show... it was a...
they came, they saw, they BLENDed
wednesday the 24th of march saw the yum crew host Commerce Ballarat's BLEND event. this is an...
yum font on DaFONT
Well after a few weeks of twiddling our thumbs wondering when DaFONT would approve our font...
Don’t mess with me…I’m Sarah Sconner *ggrrrrr*
They came, they saw, they pushed each other over quite a bit. And so it was for the Ballarat...
Sanctuary & the national apology
Alchemy Community Theatre (yum is supporter), just finished stage one of Sanctuary, a theatre...
semaphore is live
semaphore is a sumptuous eclectic mix of media based by photography. the works explore issues of...
biz of the year
well the champers were on hand, okay it was red, and the atmosphere was packed with noise, colour...
semaphore – we want you
where you going? what you doing? what's the message? tell me by @semaphore_art or comment below......
sitting down and sipping wine isn’t hard… or is it?
a lot harder than you think! i sit on a stool, glass of wine next to me and i'm looking out the...
screen sirens song
last night the billboard in main road busted into life screening shorts for the portable film...
portable film festival: screen sirens
yum will illuminate the main bar with a unique projection event on sunday august 2nd for the...
art squads are now
regional arts Australia had a forum in ballarat last week to discuss issues that relate to...
i heart heide!
In pusuit of creative breathing space, Erin and I took a wee trip down the highway and thru the...
ballarat podtours
The last few weeks has seen the end of yet another series of PodTours for the City of Ballarat....
first ever yum wrap for sae ra
"So this is my first ever yum wrap... and what a daunting task! I have no clue what I'm supposed...
the end of an era
It was the best of times…it was the worst of times…and so ends my traineeship with yum...
playtime with Design Victoria
as the yum creative director its playtime for me, so I love to get out and talk about what yum...
finding a great image
Passion is finding a great image and being able to do that, as work is a joy. Recently I've been...
