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Two children who play cupid to an unlikely older couple: a chorus girl and an unemployed butcher.

A production of 'The Merry Widow', recorded live in June 1993. The story follows Hanna Glawari who has been recently widowed and is seeking a new husband. She is one of the wealthiest women in Pontevedro and if she marries a foreigner Pontevedro will be left bankrupt...so the bureaucrats plot to ensure that Hanna marries a siutable national.

Shots inside and outside a flat. White, pure shots, with a golden conclusion.

On May 30, 1990, Midnight Oil interrupted its North American tour for a “special guerrilla action” on the crowded Avenue of the Americas in midtown Manhattan. The agit prop event was a live concert from the back of a flat-bed truck that eventually drew more than 10,000 people at the high noon hour. The Australian band took this chance to make public its feelings on the planet’s crumbling environment

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.

He's turned the unthinkable into the thinkable. The unbelievable into the believable. Fiction into fact.

Fly on the wall documentary following The Badloves recording and touring their second album The Holy Roadside.

Joe Dallasandro – Melbourne style. A gratuitous depiction of the everyday lives of a typical Carlton household.

Richmond = rich world, rich woods. 1990 to 1995. The sites which resonate with meaning and feeling for the film-maker, now leaving Richmond, heading north by northwest.

Second of 6 animated shorts made for Nickelodeon.

A mad scientist, a techno-nerd and a deadly computer virus form an ultra vivid hyper-reali­ty in this computer generated comic strip.

At the end of the Crusades, Robin Hood and his men have completed their forays and have separated leaving the shelter of Sherwood. But the Sheriff of Nottingham has run away with the valuable King's crown, encrusted with precious stones. The Sheriff, with the help of the Vikings, wants to overthrow the King and began a battle against him. Something that Robin and his men can not afford.

Three men present their very different experiences as men who sleep with other men.

Colin Jones is of Aboriginal, Polynesian and English decent. The Aboriginal side of his family are from the Kalkadoon and Nunuckle tribal groups. His grandfather taught him about Aboriginal traditions and the art of his people. Colin is now a noted Artist. At present Colin is studying for his Masters Degree in Humanities. Much of the history that he talks about in this video comes from his own studies and research, conducted over many years. Colin's reason for making this video is to explain from an Aboriginal point of view based on his historical data, what has happened to his people over the past two hundred years since the white man arrive in Australia.

In Worsfold on Worsfold, he tells the story of the great Eagles dynasty that became one of modern footballs most compelling stories.

The wanderings and wonderings of an existentialist philosopher.

An experimental sequence of colourful kaleidoscope-type images combined with a vibrant musical accompaniment.

An archival record film of life at the small Madarrpa clan settlement of Bäniyala on Blue Mud Bay, some 200 kilometres south of Yirrkala.

Goes behind the scenes of the original stage production of Bran Nue Dae, which was eventually adapted into the box-office hit musical.

The main character, Laura, has a sexual dysfunction, and this is not helping her in the romance stakes. Neither a counsellor nor the lesbian recruitment centre can provide answers. Only when Laura meets the right woman do things start looking up.

First of 6 animated shorts made for Nickelodeon.

Maria, a young woman driven by unrequited love, hits the road to Sydney. She finds herself reluctantly in the company of Doug, an eccentric academic. In an emergency on the dark stretches of the Hume Highway they face death together and find a human connection.

Nadezhda Ivanova, a very famous Bulgarian folksinger writes to a woman, a stranger, in Sydney Australia. She wants sponsorship to bring her raw and ancient singing to the West. Maria (the stranger) does not want a 'singing slav' in her inner-city life. She has perfected the art of self interest. East meets West with some anxiety.

Noel Mason's vaudevillian skills are appreciated by his younger audience, but he is not making enough money at the children's shows to pay his costs, his old car does not go very well, and he is dyslexic and unable to understand the contracts employers give him. The situation starts to look more hopeful when Noel answers a newspaper advertisement to join an entertainment agency.

Rap and hip-hop were musical genres that developed within the African-American subcultures of America’s largest cities. Fusing funk, disco and a do-it-yourself punk aesthetic, rap music quickly became the defining voice of a generation of young, angry and disenfranchised black youth. In this incisive documentary, the history of rap and hip-hop is explored as well as the larger social context of American race and class relations. Interviews with Ice-T, Queen latifah, KRS-One, Chuck D and Rakim explore the context of rap’s evolution and offer necessary defences of the music’s relevance and importance to African-American youth; especially in the context of a popular media that has often dismissed rap as misogynist or “inauthentic”. Made by two Australian brothers who fell in love with the music, this documentary gives a voice to the power, impact, originality and importance of rap and hip-hop.

Mary Pipes and Peter Templeton turn their subtitling skills to hilarious ends. Revenge of the Subtitles short aired on Eat Carpet.

....Oops. The horror of a simple mishap and last resort laughter.

An atmospheric work encompassing female fetishism, gender as performance, and female to male transvestism.

Take one innocent Japanese girl and an Australian lesbian, sprinkle liberally with sushi to taste.

A video tape is stolen that contains information dangerous to both the government and the casino and they will do anything to get it back. The man who stole it has other plans, as do a third party of heavies who turn up out of nowhere.

The Book Keeper will murder to protect his books, but his tiny world is turned around when he catches Granny chewing on TS Eliot.

A ‘good’ Italian girl’s confession!

Documentary on the revival of classical dancing in Cambodia, where nine out of ten classical dancers were killed during the Pol Pot regime in the 1970s. The program focuses on master teacher Em Theay and her star pupil Sok Chea, who recall their ordeals under Pol Pot and talk about their present efforts and their hopes for the future. In addition to views of Em Theay, Sok Chea, and others in classes, rehearsals and performances, the program includes historical background on Cambodian classical dancing and archival footage of dancers of the past.

A woman, Zsuzsi Weinstock, survived the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp as a child. The film documents her story while providing a collage of images, most not directly linked to the story.

D'Arcy loves Lloyd, but Lloyd has his sights set on Rand, the handsome straight policeman.

"A film with no colour, no movement, no sound, and no representation". 16mm.

Exercise routine teaching the basic of ninjutsu.

In the winter of 1998, the earth was overrun by many millennium prophets, whilst the suburbanites lived their suburban lives. Underground, artists and other vagabonds flourished, their activities illuminated by a dark and pure underground sky.

The second film of "The Place Trilogy". Doco images collide with a fictional text.

An intense and sometimes disturbing series of encounters between the filmmaker and his mother as they relive the traumatic years of his childhood and adolescence. Following the migration of the family to Australia from Holland in the difficult postwar years they had to grapple with problems of housing, social injustice and adjustment made more difficult by the father's mental illness. For the filmmaker 'the sentiment had to be uncompromisingly true' although he became aware that 'all film is fiction'. National Film and Video Lending Service Catalogue, ACMI.

The transformative power of a lot of makeup.

Third of 6 animated shorts made for Nickelodeon.

1960s vocal harmonies, coupled with a collage of timeless images, evoke an idealistic San Francisco in this heartfelt tribute to the world's queer capital.

A story of lust, jealousy and hair removal.

I want the one I can't have, and it's driving me mad. It's all over, it's all over, it's all over my face.

Monica's Seaside Adventure

3DME is an exploration of gender construction in the form of a journey through space and time (real + imagined). The artist confronts her parents about the way in which they have dealt with her sexuality. Their terrifyingly naive responses reflect the all too common, conventionally held conceptions around homosexuality and transgenderism.

A young firebrand Aboriginal man is forced to confront his spirituality when he is beaten by the police.

A profile of the Australian poet Les Murray. Shot on location in Northern New South Wales. Featuring dramatisations of his poems and evocative footage of the most unusual landscape. He talks illuminatingly about his life and work.

A drama that chronicles travelers passing through a remote service station located in the Australian Wheat Belt.

Stevan Arbutina, a Serb, is married to Georgia, a Croatian. They are forced to immigrate to Australia after the devastating civil war in Yugoslavia makes it impossible for them to find peace and security in their old country. This compelling documentary traces the Arbutina family’s journey from Belgrade to Melbourne. Initially excited about arriving in a country fabled for prosperity and peace, the family soon discover that lack of employment opportunities and the barrier of language isolate them from the new world they have entered. By spending a year with the family, and by covering every aspect of the refugee process - arrival, social security, community services, learning to shop and travel - the filmmakers deliver an intimate and revealing portrait of the contemporary refugee experience; from the joy of survival to the depression arising from isolation and unemployment.

Old timers at Collingwood marvel at his skills. Commentators rave about his footballing prowess. In his distinguished football career Nathan Buckley just seems to get better with every season. A Grand Final hero with Port Adelaide, a Magarey Medal as South Australia's finest and the Norwich Rising Star as an outstanding rookie in the AFL and all before the age of 22.

Goori Goori Dreaming is a glimpse into the culture, traditions and spirit of Australia. Woven through the film are the contemporary paintings of Gunaminy Vanessa Fisher, as she teaches her family about the earth and their heritage.

Home alone at last

Yet another look inside JFK's head.

About diabolical combinations of all sorts. A subtle and unusual tale of femme/butch love. It is a road movie of the body - 'the wrong way down a one way street'. The style is experimental though it is primarily a fiction - a journey within an interior space - a view of America by a travelling femme and her obsession with a genderbending butch. Is it only one woman's journey? The multiple voice over implies that it is a symbol for all strange journeys through place and time - across the border of desire and beyond.

It is an elite honour roll. Glorious football names. Men who have captained back-to-back premiership teams at the highest level in the land. In 1998 Mark Bickley added his name. "Bicks" is the story of a man who leads by example.