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Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia

The 2025 Sydney Film Festival reminded me: there is nothing like a bunch of strangers assembling in the dark

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In an era of the atomisation of viewing practices through streaming, increasingly short, self-produced videos for TikTok and YouTube, and the reduction of all audiovisual material to “content” for various “platforms”, there is something refreshing about a bunch of strangers assembling in a dark room to collectively watch a giant screen with massive sound.

In other words, going to the movies.

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