There are approximately 6.5 billion moments that occur on Earth everyday... Some remembered. Some forgotten.
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There are approximately 6.5 billion moments that occur on Earth everyday... Some remembered. Some forgotten.
The biography of Bela Julesz, Hungary's most famous visual neuroscientist, creates a disturbance in the tedious lives of two isolated people.
While dragging a bundle of firewood through a wintery forest a peasant man spots a group of deer and a majestic stag, who, in measured stages, leads the man onward. The Winter is part of a series of four shorts called "The Seasons".
Don Quixote is a middle-aged gentleman from the region of La Mancha in central Spain. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read, he decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked.
A rapid montage of stills giving impressions of New Guinea before and during the Second World War.
A clerk at a lost property office is faced with unexpected change, and plans an unconventional response.
An American family receives an inheritance a century English castle with its gardens and furniture includes a real ghost, that of Simon de Canterville. The ghost, which aims to continue to enjoy peace of mind several hundred years, using their best techniques to get rid of the spooky family upset.
Observed by an elderly figure, a child faces a moment of quiet significance when they encounter a tortoise on its back. A hand-drawn animated watercolour, the film transforms a fleeting encounter into a reflection on vulnerability and how we carry it.
Experience this groundbreaking family favourite like never before! Led by conductor Nicholas Buc, Queensland Symphony Orchestra performs the soundtrack of Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story (1995) live-to-screen in QPAC’s Concert Hall, bringing Woody, Buzz and all of your favourite characters to life. Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story in Concert features a complete screening of the film, accompanied live by full orchestra performing Oscar® and Grammy®-winning composer Randy Newman’s iconic score, including the hit song “You’ve Got a Friend in Me”. Beloved by audiences of all ages, Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story has captivated generations with its unforgettable characters, extraordinary storytelling, stunning visuals and timeless music. Make the most of the April holidays with a big-screen family event that brings together cinema, live music and one of Disney and Pixar’s most-loved stories on the Concert Hall stage.
For Agatha, Christmas triggers sadness. She yearns for freedom laced with imagination, when magical creatures were part of a game played with friends in the forest. The death of her parents after a 1978 Christmas Party still haunts Agatha. She sees similarities between her parents' unhappy marriage and her own. The Black Madonna statue from her childhood visits Agatha, escalating her anxiety and goading her towards change. The discovery of a mysterious portal offers Agatha the possibility of resolving her grief and saving her crumbling marriage.
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
An exploration of ocean plastic, avatars and adaptive bottom feeders. The musical!
A hand drawn animation about the struggle to move forward.
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley.
Dot and her Dolphin friends are playing along the shore one day. Soon they come across a very sad Whale named Tonga, who has washed up onto the beach. Tonga is in danger of being harmed by evil Whale-hunters and a cruel fish shop owner! Seeing that her new friend is in trouble, Dot just might have a few clever ideas to go about helping.
An irreverent adult comedy that looks at our reliance on technology, but what happens when technology is as ill-informed as we are.
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his unrequited love for the maiden Yum-Yum. Nanki-Poo agrees to sacrifice his life if he is allowed to spend his remaining days with Yum-Yum, who is betrothed to Ko-Ko.
In rich Australian bush-land, we find a cormorant bird. She stands statuesque drying her wings and begins to guide us through her story. Following the beats of an ever-changing landscape, we are guided on a poetic journey.
A frame-by-frame Opentoonz animated short production, featuring scenes from the Rainforests of the Australian Wet Tropics. Species included: Metallic starling (Alphonis metallica), southern velvet worm species (Peripatopsidae), green ringtail possum (Pseudochirops archeri), northern leaf-tailed gecko (Saltuarius cornutus), southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius)
This hand-painted film charts a collection of journeys both real and imagined.
Hans and Gretel have lived the last 10 years mired in absolute poverty, due in part to the serious illness of his father. But one day, the brittle ice rescue the dog from a lady, the lady gives them a brand new pair of skates and is committed to seeking a medical specialist for his father.
An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, remembered for having ordered, according to the Gospel of Matthew, the murder of all male infants born in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus, an unproven event that is not mentioned by Titus Flavius Josephus, the main historian of that period.
One of humankind’s greatest achievements has been to walk on the moon. It was marked in history as a phenomenal success. What if that first step had turned out a little differently? As Neil Armstrong is about to take his first step on the moon, something catches his eye in the distance. Naturally curious, he leaps out into the unknown territory to investigate. What he finds will forever change the course of human history.
Joe, a hard-boiled, hard-stitched, private detective moonlighting as a hit-man, has to make the ultimate choice to protect those dear to him. But in the dark world of CROCHET NOIR who's really pulling the strings?
Alice gets lost in the woods and has a conversation with the Cheshire Cat.
A bumbling knitted dinosaur must completely unravel itself to save the love of its life.
Everyone of us has got at least one irrational fear ... in the case of Figaro Pho, he has them all.
Features the beautiful young lady, Rose Salterne, who together with Lucy Oxman is captured by Spanish pirates, launching the nationwide cry for a high-seas chase to win the girls' return. When the British hero Leigh hears the cry, he takes an unlikely crew to search for Rose and Lucy, braving the wide seas and Spanish pirates. He chases down clues through remote jungle islands with fearsome natives and hidden gold.
Feeling lost, a holidayer takes a vacation, only to discover a world that is as banal as it is hyper-real. A found-footage essay film. A home-movie. A music video. An experimental documentary about the fantasy of air travel. Taking a tour of the global centres of accumulation - New York, Dubai, Burning Man - Twilight documents the unreal, the mundane and the spectre of ecological collapse.
In a snowy winter, a son had a quarrel with his mother before going abroad. The mother tried to say goodbye to him the last minute but the taxi took off...
In a dark subterranean landscape, the Amphibian has lost its way.
A first date: he shows up at her flat, several stories up in her building. She's finishing getting ready, so she introduces him to her dog, which loves to fetch a small red rubber ball with blue stars. He tosses the ball to the dog a few times, somewhat distractedly, looks through a book ("Do I have to be me?") on her coffee table, opens the French doors to her balcony, sits down and continues to toss the ball. It takes a deadly carom, but when she emerges from her bedroom ready to go, he stays mum. Outside the building, a crowd has gathered. Will he tell her what happened, or leave it for her to put together? Is there any way out for him?
A man discovers he is physically shrinking. With the help of his wife, they navigate life's ups and downs with increasing creativity and adaptability.
A satirical enquiry into the origins of media, their distribution and their effects on the way we behave. Those familiar with cartoonist Bruce Petty’s award winning film Leisure will enjoy the same sharp wit brought to bear on another institution, the media. This three-part film is a satirical enquiry into the origins of media, their distribution and their effects on the way we behave. The first part provides a brief history of print, radio, television and film. The second part proposes that a market-placed media produces the problem of monopolisation leading to mediocrity. Finally, Petty produces a caricature of the way ideas form in the mind from reading print, as distinct from passive looking and listening.
Dot’s latest romp takes her literally out of this world when she decides to rescue Whyka, the Russian space dog, who is circling the earth trapped in a broken down satellite. Trading places with Buster, the space monkey, Dot boards an American rocket and is launched into orbit. She manages to save Whyka, but then crash lands on the fantastic planet Pie-Arr-Squared, where everything is round. Among many adventures there, Dot is thrown into a prison for ‘squaries’. Of course she manages to escape and with the help of some new friends, she returns to earth to a hero’s welcome.
Two high school students are confronted with the reality that they're most likely going to lose contact with each other in the abyss of post-high school life.
A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
An animated documentary that follows the lives of the over-qualified young staff of a local bowling alley.
A casual visit to the barbershop...
An enigmatic man journeys back in time to find his younger self, seemingly to revisit the nostalgia of trading cards. An exploration of identity, mental health and the erosion of childhood innocence, Trading Cards is a dark fantasy animated film about the weight of living with Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
After a chance encounter with a glamorous female, two polar-opposite brothers are willing to do whatever it takes, to win her over.
Third Sherlock Holmes animated film starring Peter O'Toole.
A neurodivergent customer tries to order his first drink, but the bartender thinks he's had too many.
Vampires with first-date nerves, zombies with addiction problems and a human-fly with parental issues. Everybody needs a little help from time to time.
Magick is a brief pilgrimage through a strange fictional world.
Hundreds of millions of years pass by in less than half an hour in this fascinating journey through Australia's natural history, from the creation of the world to the extinction of humanity far in the future. Ancient fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals and marsupials are all brought back to life in brilliant 3-D animation.
Daniel is stuck in limbo. He's not good enough for heaven, nor is he bad enough for hell. When he meets with the Entity known as St. Peter, Daniel must become involved in a battle of wits in order to be reunited with his lover.
An indigenous mine site worker is transported to the spirit world, where he meets the spirits and custodians of the land and learns about how they are connected to humankind, even as their sacred sites are under threat by the modern human world.
A circus caravan of computer-driven creatures inspired by human gesture, move with an odd blend of mathematical precision and wild unpredictability. The highly structured yet simple overall design of the film is the landscape from which these characters evolve and express their human complexities. These pedestrians express the light and the dark, the contradictory emotions and responses to both the world they have created and the to each other.
Oakie, a young blue heeler pup, is supposed to be delivered to Texas, USA, but through a courier bungle he ends up in Texas, Queensland, in Outback Australia. Oakie is quickly befriended by Action Dann (an animated character identifiably based on Troy Dann) and they embark on a series of adventures, meeting many wonderful and quirky characters in the rugged and unique beauty of the Australian Outback.
In a dark and dingy laboratory, sometime in the not too distant future, a scientist toils away attempting to create life.
A goat with an appetite for life realises that time is dangerously delicious.
The story of Claude's odyssey to save the Gumnutz Juice factory and Gumtree Lane's future. Along the way he learns the importance of family values and of accepting responsibility for himself and all of the zany characters of Gumtree Lane.
A customer tells a cautionary tale of the dangers of public transport. Part of a series of short films animating real life conversations between a 2nd hand shop worker and their customers.
A family makes Santa an adorable rag doll named Candy Claus who comes to life because Santa loves her. But there's a wicked miser who's jealous of the little doll. He's going to cause lots of trouble during Candy's adventures in the magical, musical world of Santa Town.
Tahani and Mykal-Michelle are snowed in with no lights or internet! Tahani takes us into the world of L.O.L. Surprise!, where everyone is preparing for the coolest party ever: The Winter Disco! When Midnight is the only B.B. not invited to perform at The Chalet, she embarks on a journey that will change the Winter Disco FOREVER!
Based on the premise that "God" is actually an alien called G.D., who wiped out the dinosaurs and populated the Earth with apes from his own planet (who eventually evolve into us). "The Devil" is actually his son, "Little Red", who disagrees with what he is doing and pops up throughout history trying to upset G.D.'s plans.
No longer ordinary couriers, Ernst Mo and En Storm transport something far more abstract and fundamental – the “time”. Across deserts, cities and different dimensions, they join a multiverse resistance, battling the algorithm seeking to flatten time in favour of productivity. Traversing different calendar mechanics and astronomical technologies, they’re tangled in networks of space and time that contradict and collide with each other.
Set in Colonial America, Pocahontas has become a story of historical value known and loved internationally, among children of all ages. The film tells the story of the first English settlers in Virginia and the Native Americans who lived there. It highlights the very different values of the two civilisations and particularly their attitude and respect for the land. It's a culture shock story and, on a personal level, a love story
Marco, a descendant of Marco Polo, journeys to the mythical kingdom of Xanadu to assist Princess Shining Moon in defeating the evil magician, the Red Dragon.