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The Very Short Film festival 2022: watch this year's winning animation – video

Directors Justin Kurzel and Leah Purcell were among the judges for this year’s Very Short Film festival: a platform for young and emerging film-makers, which is open to any film from two-to-five minutes long.  Announced on Friday, the winner of this year’s open category is Mark Bernard, a Melbourne-based self-taught artist who responded to the

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Kurt Cobain’s Smells Like Teen Spirit electric guitar to be auctioned

The 1969 Fender Mustang, on display in Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture, is expected to have a starting price of over $600,000 The electric guitar played by Kurt Cobain in the Smells Like Teen Spirit music video will be put up for sale this weekend by Julien’s Auctions. Speaking about the 1969 Fender Mustang during

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Stephen Colbert on Bush’s gaffe: ‘A refreshingly lighthearted confession to war crimes’

Late-night hosts discuss Bush accidentally calling the invasion of Iraq ‘wholly unjustified and brutal’, and Roe v Wade Stephen Colbert mocked an old target on Thursday evening: George W Bush, who gave a speech in Dallas on Wednesday for an event called “Elections – A More Perfect Union”, focused on how elections work. “And we’ve

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