SeedPod Productions

What do new romantic 1980s pop band Duran Duran , novelist William S Burroughs , new wave band The Buggles , post-punk folk band The Pogues , MTV, cinema, nostalgia, my novel Transition Events , possible worlds literary theory, retro-future histories, time loops, Alice in Wonderland , director Russell Mulcahy , Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memory (MEAM), and my niece have in common? A lot, as it...

End to end, our London flat was a modest 32 footsteps. When London shut down, I’d been in the UK four weeks. At first, when we paused to listen closer, all we heard were random, almost opaque, individual noises, but as we refocussed our attention — maybe as we plodded into lockdown, maybe as we fell into restlessness and insomnia, maybe as the world we knew ground to a stop — patterns of compositi...

An interview with Dayak activist and environmentalist Emmanuela Shinta. In this short documentary, recorded in 2019, Emmanuela Shinta introduces us to her people; paints us the beauty of Kalimantan; and explains the important environmental work of Ranu Welum. To read the associated article detailing international corruption and the murders of environmental defenders go to my website: www.craiggarr...

As part of 2018’s Seven Days of Resistance WAR: Warriors for the Aboriginal Resistance, held a Black GST Public Forum. Long-time Indigenous activists Tony Birch; Margi Thorpe; Robbie Thorpe; and non-Indigenous ally Clare Land talked Genocide, Sovereignty, Treaty. This audio is an excerpt from that discussion. A cultural warning: the audio here contains the voice of a deceased person: Alice Pearl D...

This document Declassified May 11, 1973 I sense the presence of others. In this Place This continent and its islands This country is one remove from the cultural source, twice removed, three times; a continent–country that is an ad hoc triage on a home caesarean gone wrong. Every culture longs for a place in history that never was. The Portuguese call it Saudade. Like visiting my mother’s hospital...

No Trickery, No Re-takes, No Stand-ins is the story of Vulcana Women's Circus told in three parts. It investigates Australian circuses; the importance of women-only circuses; the funding models available to performing arts organisations; and the impacts state and federal government funding cuts (2012–2016) had on Vulcana and similar organisations (including cuts to the Australia Council and the es...

No Trickery, No Re-takes, No Stand-ins is the story of Vulcana Women's Circus told in three parts. It investigates Australian circuses; the importance of women-only circuses; the funding models available to performing arts organisations; and the impacts state and federal government funding cuts (2012–2016) had on Vulcana and similar organisations (including cuts to the Australia Council and the es...

No Trickery, No Re-takes, No Stand-ins is the story of Vulcana Women's Circus told in three parts. It investigates Australian circuses; the importance of women-only circuses; the funding models available to performing arts organisations; and the impacts state and federal government funding cuts (2012–2016) had on Vulcana and similar organisations (including cuts to the Australia Council and the es...

Van Badham by Craig Garrett

'Behind the Line' is a behind the scenes/best of look at 4zzz's award-winning 'Brisbane Line' news hour - Saturday Edition. Saturday Brisbane Line won the 2017 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) awards. Nominated in the 'Excellence in News and Current Affiars' category, we are one of the four best news shows on community radio in Australia. Enjoy

In May 2017 I was a sound artist at the Noted Festival and was privileged to hear Ngunnawal Elder Nin Jannette Phillips deliver the Welcome to Country in the foyer of the National Library. At times our surroundings exerted a slightly surreal juxtaposition and contradiction when related to the histories and stories being shared with us. The sound piece accompanying this article is an extract from N...

This doco follows five different LGBTIQ+ families. It began as a series of five themed, stand-alone news interviews about marriage equality. I then re-edited them into a single one-hour show. To give the final piece added relevance (the ‘debate’ evolved) I added a history of the 1961 Marriage Act, bridging audio outlining events from the weeks of each original broadcast (e.g. Greens Senator Janet...