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Monsieur Noir’s classroom at Jacaranda High is a far cry from his beloved homeland, with students whose accents are as Australian as they come. He longs for just one, fluent conversation in his mother tongue.

As her world is shrouded in darkness, a young girl must overcome her fears and travel to a mysterious city of light, save her father from a dangerous scientist and prevent the destruction of her planet.

Peter is searching for his long-lost sister when he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square. His only question is: is his sister still alive? The answer, that he must find a mysterious elephant and the magician who will conjure it, sets Peter off on a journey to complete three seemingly impossible tasks that will change the face of his town forever.

MK and his friends must embrace their ancestral powers if they have any hope to stop the new Jade Emperor before he tears the whole universe apart!

Spinosaurus aegyptacus goes fishing in a late-Cretaceous river.

For almost half a century, Don Ritchie would approach people contemplating suicide at the edge of a cliff near his home. Teacups explores Don’s surreal interactions with hundreds of suicidal individuals and his journey to reconcile the suicide of his best friend.

A film about a series of thoughts from a sad man.

In a sweeping tale that spans 1000 years and multiple generations – from the distant past to the 19th century, the present day and a strange, dystopian future – this landmark collection traces the collective histories of Indigenous peoples across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. Diverse in perspective, content and form, traversing the terrain of grief, love and dispossession, they each bear witness to these cultures’ ongoing struggles against patriarchy, colonialism and racism.

An exploration of ocean plastic, avatars and adaptive bottom feeders. The musical!

10 years from now, a virus decimates all the world's living creatures. Facing a total extinction event a brilliant geneticist discovers a miracle vaccine that is fast tracked into production, saving the final remnants of humanity. Unfortunately there's one side effect - the vaccine completely erases all memory of surfing from the human mind. Now, it's up to the Surf God Hughie to pull together a team of former greats - guys who dominated the riding of ocean waves - in a last ditch effort to save surfing. Can this bunch of forgotten outcasts work together to create the Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe?

A music video for the song ‘Illiterati’ by The Man Himself from the album ‘All Day Breakfast.’

Two pterodactyloid pterosaurs (maybe Mimodactylus) play along a forested clifftop during the late Cretaceous.

Just a short animation of a large azdarchid (perhaps Quetzalcoatlus) and a juvenile Triceratops. All sound design homemade, by me! Just for a bit of fun.

A lonely seagull looking for love struggles to accept that his newfound object of affection is a human-operated drone.

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

Algodreams are created by prompting AI systems to dream about the future of life on planet Earth. Their stories, animations and sounds are shaped by numbers, predictions and mathematical models.

I guess you are waking up now...

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.

The master Hitman "Red" is informed of a lucrative bounty that he cannot miss. But after suffering a fatal injury, he will need to adapt to complete the mission.

Papunya animated story of the Echidna and the Kangaroo

I don't think we were made for this.

Josh Turner is in a rut. He hasn’t left his house in days, takeaway boxes are piling up around him and he’s pretty sure that his cat hates him. He’s fine though! Totally fine! Thriving, really! One day, Josh’s life get thrown into chaos when his TV gets overtaken by a quiz show where every question is about him.

Unaware of the strings of suffering that manipulate her world, a young girl seeks to understand why her mother is the way she is.

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!)

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.

Papunya animated story of the Snake and the Tape Recorder

Papunya animated story

It was always going to happen—one day the chickens were just going to get to the point where they’ve had enough. It’s payback time.

In everyday life, sometimes things happen that we can't explain. Maybe they are made by small invisible creatures? A funny story about monsters sneaking around next to us.

In the summer 1948, a well-dressed man was discovered dead on the beach at Somerton Park. No injuries, no identification, and every label removed from his clothing. There was no one missing who fit his description. A dead man with no name.

A group of flour-based sweets and loaves come together to make a new friend for their clique - a mischievous, weird and cute film in the kitchen.

Director Ben Joseph Andrews suffers from a chronic vestibular condition characterised by destabilising episodes of dizziness or imbalance, whose symptoms can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few days (or longer).

A fusion of abstract optical soundtracks from analogue 16mm and 35mm film expanding on the 1930’s Russian experiments of Nikolai Voinov which impacted electronic music.

A playful clash of colour fields and expressive painterly marks set to original music by musician David J Allardice.

An animation of a man and eyes.

A bittersweet line-drawn animation that celebrates a brave queer hero who saves a small Victorian Town on the brink of disaster while indulging the love of saucy rhyming couplets.

"Fragments of Red" is a documentary and animation hybrid, navigating the pieces of an incomplete independent feature film built in Valve Software's Source Filmmaker. It reconstructs the story through its inspirations, animations, scripts, storyboards, interviews, music and sound.

A colourful stop motion animated documentary exploring how a passion for their craft helps four makers overcome adversity.

Life is like an opera and she must always be ready for the stage. She’s anxious about her appearance—her face, her lips, her eyes. Everything must be perfect. However, with her saying, “here we go again,” is that really what she wants to show to the world?

In the heart of Newtown, Sydney, the summer brings all sorts of people out. As night falls, everyone comes together to relish in the revival of social drinking after the lasting impacts of Covid-19.

Eloise Grills’s poem ‘Every Morning I Am Reborn’ comes to life in this nimble, playful work of line-drawn animation. Every Morning is the product of the collective Coffee Break: four animation students whose practice focuses on 2D animation and who are invested in the medium’s storytelling capabilities.

In To Be Silent, Noongar and Spinifex Aboriginal woman Tace Stevens explores the impact of code-switching on her identity, before revealing what led her to embrace the power of standing firm in who she is, no matter where she is.