CTEQ ANNOTATIONS ON FILM
The Melbourne Cinémathèque is committed to producing new writing on the films featured in its programme, thus promoting an historically aware and critically literate film culture.
The articles are published in Cteq Annotations 
as part of the quarterly online film journal Senses of Cinema and print-outs of the articles are made available at our screenings. Direct links to relevent Cteq Annotations and Senses of Cinema articles are provided on each film's page on this site.
The key purpose of these annotations is to provide a context for the further appreciation of a specific film by discussing aspects of its production and critical history, by providing a reading of its aesthetic qualities, by analysing its place within a series of related contexts (a particular national cinema, the work of a director, actor, etc.), and so on. They also provide a forum for the sustained discussion and close textual analysis of individual films, while contributing to a substantial database of such writing. Generally, the annotations should generate further discussion and demonstrate a genuine passion or enthusiasm for the chosen film (though they may also be explicitly critical). There are no set guidelines for the form these annotations should take, but essentially we do not want reviews that mostly recount the plot and provide relatively superficial value judgements. We want your annotations to contribute as much as possible to the critical understanding of your chosen film and not just reiterate received opinion. Feel free to discuss your particular approach with us.
Prior to each edition of Senses of Cinema a list of films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque is circulated via email. Writers are then matched up with specific films – as there may be several people interested in one film it is a good idea to suggest more than one you would be happy to write on. Articles should follow the guidelines set out generally by Senses of Cinema and should be 800–1000 words in length (though this is definitely negotiable). Submissions for CTEQ Annotations on Film, and requests to be added to the email list, should be sent to Dr Adrian Danks at adriand@sensesofcinema.com.
Calls for papers are sent out via the Senses of Cinema and Cinémathèque mailing lists.
To join the mailing list for Cteq Annotations please email cteq@sensesofcinema.com.
Further articles and audio-visual media covering the screening programme and activities of the Melbourne Cinémathèque can be found on our media/links page.