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In this Eric Porter animation of ‘the grasshopper and the ant’ fable, Willie Wombat lazes and plays all summer. He laughs at his animal mates devoting time to collecting and depositing food in their local bank. Winter arrives and Willie, starving and cold, tries to withdraw food from the bank. The teller can find no record of any deposits for Willie. Dejected, Willie looks on as the other animals eat heartily and stay warm in their cosy homes. Willie collapses from hunger in the snow, but his friends come to the rescue just in time. The following summer Willie, having learned his lesson, deposits food in the bank with dedication and enthusiasm.

The consequences of conditioning challenges the notion of free will.

Two mice, a man with a TV remote control. A cartoon of pests and controlled revenge.

A boy struggles to understand his strange, silent father - a Lithuanian immigrant who has become an emotional refugee in his own home.

Down on the Farm follows 10-year-old Billie Bilby, an adventurous and rambunctious bilby living day-to-day life on a farm in rural Victoria, Australia. Billie finds a way to make everyday experiences magical in her quiet little town - every day is an adventure if you're Billie's friend.

The Sailor washes up on the shore and is hit with violent and libellous accusations of gang affiliations. The Sailors drink hearty ales and enter a pop music competition. The Kid pines for suburb exploration.

A city of brick, tin and board, rent by internal tectonics and sliding into the sea.

An animated short film by James Gaunt

Sinbad relates the story to his son of his adventures in trying to reclaim the Caliph's magic lamp from the Old Man of the Sea.

Maia's grandpa was her hero. Despite his weak heart, he loved the outdoors, especially hiking the mountains near their home town. There was just one climb he couldn't finish, and her greatest wish was to finish it for him.

A story of Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones, an extraordinarily vivacious 10-year-old-girl, and her adventures at the Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy. From royal cruises to Christmas balls, the new school year holds no shortage of excitement and surprises for Alice-Miranda, Millie and Jacinta.

"In making Ada I was attracted to the idea of creating an animation about stillness and silence: two qualities we normally don't think of when it comes to animation. My grandmother Ada could no longer move with ease and rarely spoke." -Lee Whitmore

A blank screen is filled with random lines and shapes.

Ant society awakens after the spring thaw to prepare a royal banquet. This video was directed by Zoë, who also did most of the animating as well as all the painting (but I did some stuff too!)

The planet is being rained on by countless trouble making schoolboy aliens, so a group of legendarily powerful epic people all run around kicking ass, only to converge on the aliens target; the prison bus. Alas, they are too late! The boys in the bus have transformed into the Violence Kings, and go on a bloody rampage, devastating the world.

Death sings to celebrate the God that moves him - and then encounters Something in the darkness.

Fifth of 6 animated shorts made for Nickelodeon.

A comical slice-of-life look into the daily lives of a variety of wild animals.

A caravan of experimental imagery created from reaching deep in the soundtrack area of analog film stock.

Upon feeling like a cigarette, Droob is sent on a strange journey, meeting various absurd characters. Soon he becomes more aware of the reality around him, and learns things he wishes he could forget.

Want to be a big game hunter but hate the big game price tag that comes with it? Don’t go to Africa to kill animals – have a fun day out with your family at The Drive Zoo! Witness fantastic creatures in their natural habitat, then shoot them all from the comfort of your car. Experience the thrill of hunting with less death, less guilt, less blood and more glory!

Papunya animated story of the Echidna and the Kangaroo

The willingness to pass on the power of life to the next generation is maybe the greatest purpose of all.

Romance is like a chainsaw: a very dangerous beast indeed.

What happens when Dorothy the Dinosaur meets Santa Claus? There's singing, dancing, reindeers and fun! Here's Dorothy's first animated adventure featuring Santa Claus, Washington, Dorothy, and a host of friends from the North Pole. Washington thinks Santa needs a rest and so uses a computer to sort toys for the children of the world, but things don't go as planned. It takes Captain Feathersword, Dorothy, and Santa's little helpers to sort things out. So follow these Christmas stars to a land of Yuletide magic as Dorothy meets Santa Claus.

Andy and Jen have mind-blowing sex, and in good ‘ol lesbian fashion, their connection is much deeper than they thought it would be. Pun intended.

The literal frame of a window overlooking a small garden becomes the scene through which Richard Tuohy’s film exploits the myriad plastic potentialities of the cinematic frame. Immersive and stroboscopic, In and Out a Window offers its own variations on cinema’s mechanical segmentations of space and time, opening up a portal to undiscovered dimensions and new phenomenologies.

Here's a little film about a witch. I mostly made it for my kid, but you're allowed to watch it too.

Confronted by his daughter's wish to own a dog, award-winning animator Dennis Tupicoff recalls the dogs of his childhood, in the industrial outer Brisbane suburb of Darra. Every household seemed to have a dog. Some were friends who shared his explorations and roamed free on adventures of their own before meeting an untimely death or simply disappearing. Some were huge, savage beasts who prowled around like the hounds of hell. This film is his memorial to those times, those feelings and to the dogs themselves.

Glenn is a woman on an unwholesome mission, but just how far will she go to conquer the clique – and social media at large?

As Winter melts into Spring and the meadow bursts forth with new life, Little Nutbrown Hare sees a rare sight… a pure white fawn, dancing in the moonlight. Nobody in the meadow has ever seen a white fawn and think he is making up stories. But Little White Owl tells of a place of mystical white creatures in the next valley, so the friends go on an adventure.

A drug artist designs a new piece that is triggered by exposure to audio visual static.

The story of Valmay Beepzup's first night on Earth. After winning the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant on her planet, Valmay is awarded the glory of being sent to Earth as an ambassador. With the assistance of her transmographer she is able to morph into a variety of human forms & so slip seamlessly amongst humans.

A meditation upon the redemptive power of Christ's crucifixion. The film employs a variety of styles including animation, newsreel footage, hand painted footage, live-action and optical effects. The soundtrack is composed of a wide variety of music including Gregorian chant, Kodaly, Liszt and electronic music.

Two besties abroad in a Russian city are hustling to catch the last train. When Cookie suddenly disappears, Bonbon is swept up in a chaotic odyssey to find her friend.

Just voices in the night or sage advice from the other side?

Originally completed in 2018, the film was largely self-funded, Mr Yen Ooi worked on the script, refining the vision of the film for over a decade, with multiple iterations of the story under names such as 'Beetle Ramen', in which the completed draft of this screenplay was finalised in 2005, this would become the basis of inspiration and 13 years later the final production "Spaghetti Ramen" would be completed. It was then distributed to different indie and international film festivals. Unfortunately due to the passing of the director in the same year, the final processes were incomplete and the film did not get screened anywhere due to not getting the rights clearance. In 2023 however, the film was cleared to screen at WORM, Camera Japan in Rotterdam. This allowed for the first and only screening of the film in the world.

A narrated storybook animation of a girl learning to cope with her mother's aging, dementia and death. It is an allegorical film about life, death and rebirth.

In the early 1800s, Adnyamathanha children of the Flinders Ranges were inspired, schooled and entertained by their interactions with Country. Here, three adventurous Adnyamathanha kids set out for a day of exploration near their camp. They play games and spook one another with tales of ancient creatures. They see unusual tracks that set their hearts and imaginations racing. Then, unexpectedly they make a discovery that changes their lives forever.

a reoccurring dream

In this highly acclaimed animated film, a lone sea turtle travels through space, her breath creating a whole new atmosphere. This becomes filled with forests, rivers, mountains and enterprising monkeys…so enterprising that they are forced to learn about sustainability the hard way.

As the 'slant of light' comes and goes in a Massachusetts studio c. 1850, Emily summons up an English poet from an earlier age. Her playful vision of love and life ends in the unique photograph of Dickinson that survives today.

A little alien boy interrupts an armed robbery at an intergalactic convenience store when he goes in for a slurpee.

Short directed by Bruce Petty.

“In a wry exploration of women’s sexuality, the character Pussy demonstrates the play between the masculine and the feminine, the strong and the passive, the observer and the observed, as she metamorphoses between female, feline and male figures. As the film demonstrates, animation is a form ideally suited to render the process of metamorphosis.” —Dr. Marian Quigley

An aging woman and her dog struggle as their dilapidated home slowly sinks into a swamp.

Driven out of business by carrier pigeons, the last two remaining stilt postmen set out to deliver the last post.

Fourth of 6 animated shorts made for Nickelodeon.

A lonely man has an unexpected encounter with a being that has the mind of a small child.

He's been in and out of juvenile detention for 5 years, but what landed him there started the day he was born. A fully animated dream-like documentary...

With honesty, humour and heart, Deafinition presents the first-hand narrative of Paul and his experiences being deaf. From the physical day-to-day, social interactions, the intricacies of communication and language, the frustrations and challenges we see it all unfold through the inner world of Paul.

Everybody loves autumn, right? But spare a thought for all those leaves who suffer for the cause of the changing season.

The Crusades had finished and Robin Hood and his band of merry men had disbanded. That is until the Sheriff of Nottingham escapes with the much valued Crown Jewels of the King.

Jump! Swim! Sing! Five little monsters have fun imitating some very odd traffic signs.

A sci-fi short by Narrm-based animator Jenn Tran, in which a narrator returns to Earth to discover the ruins of an Agnes Denes land artwork.

A trip through the Middle Cambrian, just over half a billion years ago. Featuring a variety of Trilobites, Radiodonts, Conodonts, Stylophoran Echinoderms, Pikaia, Lobopodians, Vetulicola, early Molluscs, and various other early animals.

Facing the lowest of low points during his battle against addiction, an anonymous, whimsical mouse character finds solace in wreaking havoc on a steamboat of low class workers.

Animated images of the Tasmanian tiger are depicted in different environments: a zoo, suburbia and bushland, as local people recall their sightings of this now extinct animal.

Fentanyl trafficking. A highly lucrative sex industry. Foreign wars, armed rebel militia, late stage capitalism, Russian electioneering and sweet, sweet oil - everything we deserved from a live action Barbie film.

Public information film aimed to educate the Australian public about exercise in a fun and non-threatening manner.