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Simone Buchanan plays a young camera fanatic who is marooned on a desert island. Here she is threatened by a refugee from South America (Henri Szeps) who isn't keen on having his whereabouts known. Hostility melts into friendship before the rescue boats arrive.
A make-shift Time Machine sends one man hurtling back through time - 3 seconds back in time
A bunch of people lying to each other.
A young musician struggles to reconnect with his father after the passing of his mother.
An independent feature-length documentary about women, food, fat, and dieting.
The golden fairy Harmony and her fairy friend, Rainbow Rhapsody, join their friends Barnaby the Bizzy Buzzy Bee, the Fairy Tots, Elf Tots and children to have lots of magical fun. It's full of original fairy songs that kids, fairies and elves of all ages can dance and sing along with!
A look at the life of a 16-year-old girl, focusing on the person she loves and what happens to him, and how it affects her.
"Twelve Canoes" is a series of short films that paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place of the Yolngu people whose homeland is the Arafura Swamp of north-central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
A city woman's life falls apart just before she turns 30, so she heads to the outback on a quest to spend her 30th with her best friend in tiny opal mining town Andamooka.
A young woman, Emma studying at university and living at home with her mother and brother in the Adelaide suburbs, falls in love with a cafe waiter Nick, who lives and works in the town of Stirling in the Adelaide Hills. Entranced by the man and the town, she begins to feel a sense of excitement and vitality in her life.
An intriguing exploration of the changing impact of speed on our ability to view an image and construct meaning and narrative.
The Porn Factor takes viewers on a journey of discovery, from regional and urban Australia to the centre of the international porn industry in Los Angeles and back. Through candid interviews with young people, experts and porn industry professionals, The Porn Factor explores how pornography is shaping young people's sexual expectations and experiences. It brings into compelling focus the 21st century challenges faced by parents, schools and others as they seek to equip young people for a sexuality that is safe, respectful and fully consenting.
Above the tip of Cape York, beyond the northernmost point of the Australian continent, are the Torres Strait Islands. The economy here is based on home gardens and pearlshell fishing. The culture, with its basis in music, dancing and ceremony, provides a striking contrast to that of mainland Australia. This film, shot in the late 1960s, shows how strongly old traditions still affect Torres Strait Islander people, even though they also have most of the trappings of modern life.
Michael Lee uses a 16mm Bolex camera to explore various zooming and framing techniques to photograph images from National Geographic Magazines. The silent film was made in 1972.
The story of what happens to the environment when a foreign plant upsets the equilibrium of the native landscape. This drama animation uses a unique relief collage art form to illustrate the impact that introduced plants have on native flora and fauna. The textures and colours of the collage magnificently recreate the Australian landscape.
After a homeless ex-filmmaker witnesses a kidnapping, he comes to believe that he is trapped in a horror movie filmed by the city's CCTV, where the only way to survive is to stay on camera - no matter what.
Lawrence and Jaime were best friends in high school, but attend university on opposite sides of the globe. After four years apart, they reunite for a hedonistic week in Manila, Jaime’s hometown, untouched by Duterte’s War on Drugs but unable to escape nostalgia and ennui. Shot in one of Asia’s fastest growing megacities, An Unscripted Earth is an award-winning film about memory, young adulthood, and the uncertain future of our globalised world.
Empire re-animates found historic stereographic photographs predominantly of Melbourne’s city centre between 1927 and 1940 when the colonial trace was slowly receding to produce a stereoscopic effect. Melbourne’s main Flinder’s Street Intersection is unsettlingly transformed into a Cubist perceptual maelstrom through repetition and flicker.
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!
This groundbreaking film reveals the truth surrounding Australia’s love-hate relationship with its beloved icon. The kangaroo image is proudly used by top companies, sports teams and as tourist souvenirs, yet when they hop across the vast continent some consider them to be pests to be shot and sold for profit. KANGAROO unpacks a national paradigm where the relationship with kangaroos is examined.
From the Australian underground comes a dynamic gothic original. Z and X are vampires bound by love and driven by their lust for blood. Together they stalk their unsuspecting prey in the dark streets and back alleys of Melbourne, but tonight they aren't the only killers lurking in the shadows. A moody and atmospheric thriller, A NOCTURNE: NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE is a sophisticated reworking of the vampire genre with film noir stylistics.
In Australia’s coal country, the inside story of one Aboriginal family fighting to stop a mine on their traditional land. Adani, which owns the mine, says it’s operating lawfully.
From city to outback, from torrential rain to tinder dry, a journey through the unique Australian landscape.
When Robert's best friend tricks him into an evening of speed dating, he doesn't expect to run into Brian, who ghosted him six months prior after an unforgettable 24 hours together. Questioning his worth in the gay dating scene and convinced there is something wrong with him, Robert sits through an evening of uncomfortable speed dates, anxiously waiting for his moment to understand why Brian never called.
Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic and delusional. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Hamilton-Byrne headed an apocalyptic sect called The Family, which was prominent in Melbourne from the 1960s through to the 1990s. With her husband Bill, she acquired numerous children – some through adoption scams, some born to cult members – and raised them as her own. Isolated from the outside world, the children were dressed in matching outfits, had identical dyed blonde hair, and were allegedly beaten, starved and injected with LSD. Taught that Hamilton-Byrne was both their mother and the messiah, the children were eventually rescued during a police raid in 1987, but their trauma had only just begun.
Explores behind the big screen to meet the filmmakers, distributors and exhibitors who bring Australian films to us, the audience. Closures of many independent art-house cinemas like Electric Shadows in Canberra in 2006 have made fair and equitable screening of Australian films increasingly difficult. Exhibitors debate the efficacy of the industry's Code of Conduct and unfair trade practices, while a growing number of Australian films go unreleased.
A budding friendship between two seemingly normal young men takes a dark turn after lies and sinister motives are uncovered.
Single frame glimpses of life in Ubud, Bali, to Kecak Music. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)
An effervescent facilitator and mother figure, Multicultural Liaison Officer Rosemary is undoubtedly a force of nature. Isolation in Auburn’s migrant community is a huge obstacle, and cultural norms mean that women are often tied to the house or a limited locale. Rosemary, with her larger-than-life spirit and generosity, works tirelessly to draw the women out of their homes and into society. She hosts a lively African Women’s Dinner Dance and takes them on a trip to the Blue Mountains and the NSW South Coast – introducing them to an Australia they’ve never seen before.
On Our Selection is a 1920 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford based on the Dad and Dave stories by Steele Rudd.
A Magician performs for her freaks in the circus when she looses control and finds something is living inside her. At an attempt to keep this creature away she comes face to face with her child only to end up in another womb.
This musical tells the story of the 1854 Eureka Stockade rebellion by the gold miners in Ballarat. It was adapted from a play by novelist Kenneth Cooke.
In 1990 Macartney-Snape returned once again to Mt Everest with the idea of climbing the mountain from the sea to the summit. The idea had originally been floated by adventure cameraman Michael Dillon. With sponsorship provided by Australian Geographic amongst others, it would take Macartney-Snape three months to achieve this goal. This was the first time anyone had walked from sea level and reached the top of Mt Everest, as even the first expeditions started from Kathmandu, at 1400m above sea level. Although Macartney-Snape planned climbing Everest via the more difficult West Ridge, bad weather and strong avalanche risk changed his plans and he finally ascended via the South Col route.
Teenagers Tim and Ounce are hoping to sell their old automobile for an exorbitant price to an Indian gentleman by the name of Mr Dkhar. However their plans are railroaded when Mr Dkhar invites them in for an Indian feast and his family's generous hospitality is enforced upon them. Their crash course in Indian culture changes their minds, and besides... Mr Dkhar is not as clueless as he seems...
A woman applies her make up while listening to ‘Just a thought’, her favourite morning radio program, but why is she putting on this make up?
Margaret O'Halloran is a dog trainer with a unique talent and a nose for a mystery. Now an old lady has been savaged to death, her faithful dog is the prime suspect. But Margaret smells a murderer of the two legged variety.
Rosario, an Italian transient, drifts throughout Australia seeking employment and connection. Struggling with addiction and a derelict spirit he becomes attached to two young folk musicians, with whom he embarks on an obscure journey across Europe. A search for a deceased mother soon dissolves into a dream of solace that may not exist.
A nostalgic piece involving a classic horror character, commencing with an intense build up and concluding with a sudden twist of humor.
Percieve the images how you will; Wander is designed at having a different influence over each audience member and provoking self-reflection and deep thought. There was no singular intended storyline, instead prompting a unique perception from each viewer.
This is a film about 12-year-old girls, made by 12-year-old girls, for 12-year-old girls, or anyone that has been a 12-year-old girl, or will be a 12-year-old girl, or wishes they were a 12-year-old girl. This inquisitive cross between a documentary and a theatre piece was created by Tilda Cobham-Hervey and twelve 12-year-old girls, where real girls articulate what they hope for, what they remember and what it feels like to be twelve. Performing themselves in a filmed field guide, together these specimens investigate their own species.
A young man faces the branching paths of his destiny in a surreal house of horrors.
Following a tragic event, the lives of 3 men converge in a quest for revenge and redemption.
Millie Jackson, a nerdish introverted virgin, shares an old crumbling mansion with fellow uni student Sara. Sara's friend Britt, desperate to move in, hatches a cruel and cunning plot to push Millie out. Party drugged, Millie is seduced by Sara's boyfriend Nathan, to awake, naked and confused, with no memory of the night before. Deep in denial, Millie is confronted by startling images of her night of passion, filmed and mailed through the internet. Distraught, confused and plagued by conflicting emotions, Millie seeks help from her family psychiatrist Dr Charles Webster. During hypnosis, Dr Webster unwittingly awakes Millie's repressed alter ego, unleashing the wild, sexy Carmilla Hyde.
At Black Range (1984) was shot near the Grampians in Western Victoria, and features monumental monochrome rocks with rainbow shadows and “fringing” in the moving eucalypts, which create coloured vibrations like the filmic analogue of Impressionism. The skin of the film and the rock itself are both living surfaces of mobile textures: lichen becomes electric, pointilist, as the camera fades in and out of focus. The shadows of skinny tree trunks dart like electric blue lightning, veins or eels. Shivering leaves morph into undersea anemones, caressing the rocks in a teasing, sexual way. Somehow, the loosening of Taussig’s “straightjacket of the spectrum” allows for a loosening of the straightjacket of taxonomy as well; classes, phyla, and even kingdoms drop away, revealing an undifferentiated field of vibrant matter in which entities shapeshift. (Tessa Laird)
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular (formerly Live Experience) is an arena stage show based off the palaeo-documentary Walking with Dinosaurs, which toured from 2007 to 2020. The show sees audiences guided trough the mesozoic by a palaeontologist named Huxley. The show used giant mobile puppets (with a few suits for good measure) created by Australian company The Creature Technology Company.
A newly-wed couple have it all as they start their life together. Until a terrible tragedy may have ended it all, but Jacks family never give up the good fight.
A young woman lies dead in a house, strangled by her boyfriend in a fit of jealous rage. Full of steroids and remorse, he waits for the law to arrive. But the law is his father, a powerful and corrupt detective who races to the murder scene first so he can tamper with the evidence and thwart the police case. When the son literally gets away with murder, the dead woman's distraught brother Jeremy arranges his own justice.
A short fan film we did with no budget. Literally no budget. Nothing was raised, no kick-starters. nothing. We used everything we had at the time and worked with what we could. The two most iconic killers face off and battle to the death!
This promotional documentary made by the Shell Film Unit advertises the Shell Company of Australia’s extensive knowledge of motoring and Australian motorists’ needs. It focuses on the qualities of the Shell Touring Service throughout the country and their nationwide network of road-related services.
God's Girls describes life in a Sisters of Mercy convent in country New South Wales from the 1940's to present day. This courageous and clever film investigates the subtle complexities of change within a society that has been surrounded by mystery for hundreds of years. The stories from the women in the film reflect the often intricate paths of social, political and religious history, not only in Australia but also in the rest of the world.
From newborn pups to working dogs to furry movie stars, cute pooches of all breeds abound in this film that explores the delightful world of canines.
When disabled Finnish influencer Y-Man attracts a loyal female fanbase, his jealous online girlfriend demands a meeting in America. However, his condition limits his ability to travel, testing the boundaries of his faith.
‘We Travel Together’ follows a young woman moving through the diverse landscapes that make up "nature" in the contemporary world. Along the way she encounters and takes care of a strange little creature, and they travel together for a time, Where is the creature from? But does it matter? Or is it more important to build new relationships with the world and the organisms that currently surround us-even if these are unusual and perhaps artificial creatures? in depicting a post-natural world, the artist shows us the possibilities of love and beauty, even in difficult places.
A man yearns helplessly in his home attempting to deal with the small task of existing.
Three young commuter cyclists set out to bike from San Francisco to Orlando, interviewing crash victims, urban planners, activists and law enforcement to investigate what makes the U.S the most dangerous developed country for cyclists. Shot on location, the trio travel to each interview by bicycle, with cameras, tripods and microphones strapped to their front-racks. Carrying the stories of fellow cyclists killed on American roads, SPOKE is an adventure-tale that looks to empower users of the humble bicycle.
Two unruly youths attending a backwater public school in the Australian suburbs make life a living hell for an academically gifted yet socially challenged young boy named Ebaad. Search YouTube for: Where’s Ebaad?! and watch free today!
An early short film by Peter Weir, produced between 1967 and 1968 for a Channel Seven staff revue and later screened in underground film programs.
Desperate to make the film that will crown him the next Tarantino, debut filmmaker Kurt Michael travels 8000 miles to the outback of Tasmania.
Late in life, Cass is drawn to his long-forsaken childhood home of Bundaberg, where he finds himself on a spiritual search for redemption.
WAP stands for White Australia Policy, a racist policy which limited migration into Australia into the nineteen fifties. This policy can be read as a marker of the guilt surrounding the Aboriginal genocide that had blotted white settlement of Australia since its inception. This film re-frames historic material to allow the voices of the deferred and dispossessed to speak their trauma, speaking often through the bodies and voices of the oppressor to reveal the unspoken truth.