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ABC TV Special Broadcast of the inaugural First & Forever festival, which celebrates the unshakeable force that is First Nations culture and music. The line-up, co-curated by Briggs (with a special thank you to Paul Kelly), took to the 'Uncle Archie Stage' in homage to the pioneering songwriter, performing in front of one of Victoria's most majestic backdrops. We're talking amazing performance and backstage interviews from artists like Baker Boy, King Stingray, Thelma Plum, Sycco, Budjerah, Tasman Keith, Kobie Dee, Alice Skye, Jessica Mauboy and more.

A compelling short documentary on the life of Farmer Dave Graham, whose experiences with bullying and violence and coming out on reality television, aided him in discovering his life's purpose back on the farm.

George is obsessed with Ronald Reagan and models his entire life after him.

A person discovers an enchanted ring forged a million billion years ago, and learns a hamfisted lesson after abusing it's power.

A visual accompaniment.

Seeking to overcome the loss of her mother some twenty years previous, Chloe and her three friends return to the location of her mothers death. Seeking to stay the night and deal with her trauma face to face, Chloe and her friends receive more than they anticipated as the past returns to haunt them.

As an isolated dancer practises alone, they come to the realisation that they can see and interact with their past performance.

When 16-year-old Hrithik Ghosh goes on a walk to try relieving some of the tumult in his mind but only ends up adding to it in an uncontrollable way... where does he end up? Will the spiral ever end for him? Discover for yourself in 'The End', an experimental, avant-garde exploration of anxiety from a teenager's subjective perspective.

A young woman tries inviting her secret lover to her home while a seemingly innocent prank by her girlfriend becomes sinister.

Shy Logan and charismatic Roxie are extremely different girls, but they both harbour a secret. However, as Logan becomes paranoid that their secret may be more harmful than she believed, she must cover the truth. Do opposites truly attract, or will love ultimately give in, for fear?

Wrapping paper is unforgiving. It becomes a showcase for every mistake, hesitant crease and misjudged cut, as we stumble our way through packaging up a gift. Keith examines the anxieties brought on by wrapping oddly-shaped presents.

‘Approach‘ is a monolithic silhouette, a great shape at the edge of sight, broiling with the same kind of intensity and the same blanched tones as other great works written as if in memoriam — The Caretaker’s works, for one example. Emma Northey renders this, and much else, into her arresting video for ‘Approach VIII: Becoming Halfling‘, a visual accoutrement that makes it hard to determine which came first: is it the shapes and landscape-like forms swirling in the darkness making the noise, or are the sounds, reflecting on a surface and rendering themselves into form? Or perhaps neither, both just glimpses of one sinuous, near-living being.

The cast and crew of a movie set review their time working with each other

A staged fictional documentary about people with physical disabilities who work in an alternative job. The documentary focuses on Oscar, an editor with cerebral palsy. When Oscar is shown a rough edit of the documentary by the director, Rachel, he becomes upset with the film’s exploitative nature, but when she shows him a scene at his laughter clubtherapy, he is able to finally share his conflicting feelings of his estranged mother’s battle with cancer.

Cole, an anxiety riddled designer by day, aspiring comic book artist by night comes face to face with the manifestation of his Anxiety in the form of an overbearing character wearing a fur coat that can only be seen and heard by Cole, making the simplest tasks in life incredibly difficult. Cole must learn to reason and negotiate with his anxiety, if he’s to live any version of a ‘normal’ life.

Behind the scenes and performance documentary of Slowly Slowly’s show at The Forum in Melbourne 2022.

Exploring grief, memory and growth in the wake of a tragedy. A teenager honours the memory of their mother, following the same trail they hiked together and revisiting their relationship.

Your ABC Exposed examines one of the country’s most important cultural institutions and whether the taxpayer-funded service unites or divides Australians.

At night when you sleep, it comes to eat.

Mike Mazowski is a vigilante on a mission to kill the last of the offenders. The challenges ramp up as he goes on his journey to find the anonymous criminal known as The Big Offender, the most dangerous man in the city. After acquiring the information he needed from Jake Hall, The Big Offender’s right hand man, it’s time for Mike to enact justice once and for all.

A young boy attempts to untangle his obsession with a mysterious bucket he discovered in a forest.

A queer, romantic-comedy short that takes place at a New Year's Eve party. It follows Sav who is trying to fulfil her New Year's resolution before midnight, when the year will be over. The resolution? Finally tell Jay how she feels.

In this special live event, hosts Zan Rowe, Tony Armstrong and Craig Reucassel are joined by performers and presenters across the nation to celebrate the value and role the ABC has held in connecting Australians for 90 years.

Short on the relation between man and nature

Short by Nicci Haynes.

Located in Far North Queensland, the Daintree is a staggering 180 million years old and has been named the second-most irreplaceable World Heritage area on the planet by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. For millennia, it has existed in fruitful cohabitation with the local Kuku Yalanji people. However, as with most of Earth’s natural wonders, this 1200-square-metre rainforest has become threatened by the lasting climatic changes brought about by colonisation and industrialisation.

It is the party you have been waiting for with performances from superstars Darren Hayes, Vanessa Amorosi, and more. Join us as we bring you all the excitement of the 2022 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

At 12 years old, every good Catholic boy has his Confirmation; the ceremony in which he receives the Holy Spirit and becomes a Catholic man. Evidently, Anthony Locascio was not a "good" Catholic boy, because he never had one.

A reclusive farmhand is shaken by the sudden appearance of an unfamiliar dog on his land, forcing him to undergo a grotesque transformation as his irrational fears take control.

Sentience starkly contrasts the stunning beauty of Guanxi Provence's ancient mountains and the abrasive imposition of modernity playing out on Yangshou's famous 1400 year old West Street.

Mandy makes her way across her city in the final hours before an unnamed existential threat ends all life on Earth.

Autun, a small town in Burgundy with a quiet appearance, which has a well-established past. It was one of the largest and most spectacular capitals of Roman Gaul.

Two lesbians spend a day believing they are the last people on earth.

An uninformed Brisbanite athlete risks both his career and health after discovering the ever-growing rate of suicide in Australia, further deciding to run 60km around Uluru in an attempt to raise awareness. Luke Kingdon, a twenty-three year-old Greek Australian, one day decided that he was going to make a change after learning about the silent killer; mental health. As he saw the growing rates of suicide on the news, accompanied by people around him losing their loved ones, he felt it was time for a turning point. In an attempt to raise awareness about the social issue, he decided he would run 60km around Uluru in one stint, prompting his fellow Australians to help attain his donation goal of $30,000 for mental health support company, Reach Out.

In the Eighteenth Century, London was the biggest city in the world - a global centre for trade, manufacturing and industry. Bigger and richer than ever before there was money to spend - and much of that money was spent on sex. The capital was a hotbed of prostitution and promiscuity upon which tens of thousands of women and girls worked. This docudrama offers a scholarly yet sensational romp through the brothels, bordellos, bath-houses, and baronial bed chambers of the capital, with eye-opening accounts, from the time, anecdotes, rich and vivid illustrations and rousing dramatic reconstructions with a narrative featuring recurring characters. We unveil a world in which tens of thousands of women (and men) were used for sexual pleasure.

Object of Life is a playful critique of our life long love of things, giving a new take on an old Greek Myth wrapped in some serious Balkan Brass.

Alone in her bathroom, a crocheted woman ponders her life in comparison to the hairs that live on the floor.

Short film accompanying McInerney's 2022 installation of the same name.

A year after the engagement to and death of his fiance, a man lives out the anniversary as if she never died. Can he accept his loss before he loses himself?

Green Is The New Black is a story of passion and purpose behind an ambitious environmental feat of one of Australia’s leading heavy music acts, In Hearts Wake.

Seals’kin is a sonic and choreographic meditation on loss, longing, transformation and kinship, shot on location in coastal Aberdeenshire in January 2022. At the mouth of the river Ythan, where the freshwater meets the North Sea, hundreds of grey and common seals haul out on the estuary banks. Here, Tuulikki explores with her body what it might mean to become-with-seal, drawing on myths of human-seal hybridity and folkloric musical practices to offer alternative forms of mourning through sensuous identification with more-than-human kin.

After a commercial flop at the box office, cult classic, Sad Lover Boys, was left to rot in an unfinished state. Two years later the film has been brought back to relevance with a new cut of the film. The story follows Liam, a high school student, as he runs for SLB in a dystopian society, being brought to the ground by a corrupt government. Wise guy, Dylan, accompanies Liam throughout his journey with witty jokes, and a dilapidated financial situation. What could go wrong? Grab your popcorn and find out in this action-packed epic that is bound to be fun for the whole family.

A year after surviving the crash of their space station, the captain finally finds an opportunity to escape the prison they once called home, while avoiding the dangerous, non-corporeal beings that now stalk the desolate wreckage.

Romina is a young emerging actor who has landed a role in a play based on Gustav Klimt’s painting of Judith. She keeps this and her love life a secret from her dad who’s a very traditional and conservative immigrant Iranian man in today’s Australia. Meanwhile the father is struggling with ominous dreams and knows more than what Romina thinks. And this might cost both a heavy price.

A naive Australian finds work on an illegal marijuana farm in the middle of Murder Mountain, Humboldt County, California.

DESASTRES is an experimental noise project that synchronises sound with image and takes the form of a durational solo performance as installation. The artist performs during the opening hours of the Biennale – a total of 200 days. Fusinato is performing live in the pavilion using an electric guitar as a signal generator into mass amplification to improvise slabs of noise, saturated feedback and discordant intensities that trigger a deluge of images onto a freestanding floor-to-ceiling LED wall. The images are sourced via a stream of words that have been put into an open search across multiple online platforms. The mass indexing is a mess – a morass of disparate and disconnected randomly generated images. There is no theme as such; rather the immersive encounter with sound and image is open for the audience to interpret and make sense of. The intent is to create some kind of hallucination, elation in disorientation and exhaustion from confusion

A world post-collapse. A prisoner cleans a purely white room. Contorted men in suits come to inspect. A rebel traverses a decaying factory. A key. The sun gives way to an eclipse. Bound together in vision. Mud slathered across the walls. A struggle. They become lost together in the wastelands.

Every year, funny folk from across Australia try their hand at RAW Comedy, the country’s largest and most prestigious open mic comedy competition. So, who will get the last laugh? With hundreds of entrants smashing through heats and finals across the country, these cracking contestants are the last comics standing. It’s now time for the RAW Comedy National Grand Final!