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A high school student, heartbroken, considers suicide.

If you every needed to show somebody the effect Easyfever had on mid 1960’s Australia, then you would only need to show them their Australian “farewell” television special. Although completely mimed, the bands energy is absolutely electrifying as the storm through their set list in front of a studio audience of screaming teenagers complete with go-go dancers and pop idol Billy Thorpe to compère. Special guests of the program included Janice Slater performing her then current release ‘We’re Doin’ Fine’ with it’s flip side ‘If You Don’t Think’ and Tony Worsley with ‘Raining in My Heart’ and ‘Knocking On Wood’ (released that month on Sunshine).

"SENSATIONAL" - part of the Oxford Dictionary's explanation for the word suggests 'a stirring of the emotions of many people'. If the '70s didn't arouse and preserve the interest of people throughout our great country, then no decade has, for this chapter in the history of football was indeed sensational.

“I lived in Darlinghurst [central Sydney] at the time. The hustle and the bustle of that section of the city intrigued me. I used a hectic camera, grainy newsreel film, a 75mm lens and a long matte box to create four intersecting segments…a degraded symphony of the city. Building facades, people and traffic variously interlocking and going their separate ways, across the grid of the Square.” (Paul Winkler)

Filmed on the broad, tree-less expanse of the Hay Plain, Horizontals makes a game of the endless horizon.

Gabe is a retired spy who loves his wife, his kung fu and his country in that order. One night he receives a call from his old friend Tanner to help him out for one last mission. At first Gabe declines but when he finds out that his Grandmaster is the mastermind villain in this mission Gabe comes out of retirement to find out why his Grandmaster has done this.

15-year-old Marnie, Handycam at her side, captures a day in the life of her housing project.

The Remarkable Mr Kaye is a blatantly biased portrait by filmmaker Paul Cox about the life of Norman Kaye - actor, musician and compassionate lover of life. Norman Kaye and Paul Cox first met in Melbourne in 1967. Norman, a music teacher and 'after hours' actor and Paul, a stills photographer, discovered in each other a mutual desire to explore their ideas and dreams through film. So began a 36-year working relationship that ceased only as the curtains of Alzheimer's Disease gradually closed around Kaye. There are few films by Paul Cox that are without some significant contribution, on-screen or off, by Kaye. Whether as lead actor or in a supporting role; as composer or performer, Kaye influenced everyone around him with guileless enthusiasm and humour. The Remarkable Mr Kaye includes film extracts and personal memories in a moving film that is homage to friendship and a creative partnership that shaped and changed Paul Cox's life.

Redfern Electrical is a documentary about the trials and tribulations of retired stand up comedian / electrical contractor John Cruckshank trying to complete a job in order to get the money to pay for a documentary about his electrical business.

Simon is on a date with a pathological liar. As the romance progresses and the lies grow darker and more elaborate, Simon is left to wonder if he will get the girl or if he will get out alive.

A journey through the dark, chilling and frequently unbelievable tales of power-broking and deceit from inside the nation's capital. Australian political journalist and commentator Annabel Crabb goes in search of Canberra's secrets over the past century, exploring the passionate interplay of sex, secrets and subterfuge that has long been carried out in the shadows of the national stage. How have our secrets changed over the past century and what does this reveal about us as a society? This is the history that Canberra has tried to hide.

Michael and Bruce are the joint owners of a computer software company which is the subject of a fierce takeover bid by a rival corporation. Then attractive 22 year old Eloise, who is inexperienced and under qualified, applies for a job as Michael's personal assistant. She's intelligent, she has a sense of humour. Michael hires her on the spot. But is Eloise what she seems?

Dr. Helen Caldicott, firebrand anti-nuclear campaigner, celebrated author, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is too alarmed to retire. Certain that the White House's War on Terror is escalating the global nuclear arms race, she embarks on an explosive crusade across post 9/11 USA, armed with her fifth book, 'The New Nuclear Danger', and a furious determination to rally the American people against Star Wars and the new nuclear weapons labs before it is too late.

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

Charles Lloyd is an Australian artist whom we met in Sydney. He began working with printmaking when he moved to London around 1960. The film showcases his drypoint etching technique, then moves on to printing with a multicolor plate. Lloyd discusses the endless possibilities of plate engraving and then shows how he develops a color philosophy for each plate during the grading and printing process. The film ends with an overview of his prints as he discusses the ideas behind his work, many of which come from the Australian landscape. The film takes us from these images to a final sequence of animated printed details interspersed with a composition of electronic, musical, and natural sounds. The film is essentially a documentary, but we felt the need to include a more experimental coda that would free us from the confines of documentary. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

A group of men discover intolerance can have fatal consequences when they target a person returning home from a night out.

A submersion into a gentle pastel abstract vision.

Two strangers exchange a conversation in a cinema lobby, connections are made but awkwardness follows

A documentary involving the work done by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill since 1975 in 3-colour separation. Also discussed are the classic theories and principles in 3-colour separation in film and photography.

The plot outlines the story of the early Christian martyrs with a compendium of horrors such as maulings at the Colosseum, crucifixions, beheadings, savage hackings and burnings at the stake, burnings in the limepit, the spectacle of human torches in Nero's garden.

A circus owner attempts to capture a mysterious Bunyip, but Dot and her bushland friends try to foil his plans. Dot soon discovers that the circus is merely a front for an international wildlife smuggling operation. Backed by her pals, Burra the Kookaburra and two boxing kangaroos, Dot goes on the warpath.

The lyrical and monstrous are interwoven in Gloomy Valentine, a stop motion, animated short film that tells the story of Gloomy, a woman struggling to overcome the sadness of a broken heart. Aesthetically influenced by gothic surrealism, Gloomy is haunted by memory and is ultimately consumed by nightmarish shadows.

On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie "Koiki" Mabo's tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction that Australia was empty when first occupied by white people had been laid to rest. Mabo-Life of an Island Man tells the private and public stories of a man so passionate about family and home that he fought an entire nation and its legal system. Though his greatest victory was won only after his death, it has forever ensured his place - on Murray Island and in Australian history.

An action sports documentary about empowering street kids and amputees, strengthening communities and creating a growing tribe of people to make the world a cooler place.

The most requested segments from the Rats Arse tour including - 'Celebrity Sperm Bank', 'Ladies and Gentlemen'. Also featuring the songs - 'I Hate Cats Vol. 02' and 'Why Won't Rolf Harris Just f*!#off and Die'.

Thirty years after a string of unexplained disappearances, three friends uncover a hidden crawlspace containing an old puppet buried beneath their home. The night quickly spirals into a twisted nightmare when the puppet springs to life and unleashes its curse. Trapped inside the house with the unhinged puppet, the three friends must find a way to break the curse before it’s too late.

A traumatised and grief stricken Gab is recruited by ASIO to assist in the termination of an increasingly volatile old foe, stretching his fragile composure to breaking point in an apocalyptic final showdown.

Jennifer, a young Jazz enthusiast, is struggling to embrace her love for music while trying to win her mothers approval when she meets the rebellious hippie Stephanie, and the Rock'n'Roll musician Dani, who flip her world inside out and take her on a disco groovin', rockin' rollin' and jazz swinging adventure across the 70s to save the family diner.

A feature Documentary about Indigenous Australian figure skater Harley Windsor and his young Russian pair skating partner Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya. This unlikely duo made history, but at what cost?

A watershed program in Australian television, The Dream aired every night for the 15 nights of the Sydney Olympic Games. Roy and HG engaged in loosely scripted banter, hilarious athlete interviews, and most famously a reinterpretation of Gymnastics, Greco-Roman Wrestling, Weight-lifting and Diving with their own distinctive commentary style.

Somewhere in England brave souls line up to take on this year's fiery chilli crop.

Filmed in one single take, two film students talk about how to make a short film in one single take.

Edward Booth, a former Marine, struggles with life back home after experiencing a traumatic event during the war.

The Talk is an Australian Documentary

A film about waiting for love.

Made collaboratively with children from public housing areas in the Illawarra on the south coast of New South Wales, Protection uses a unique blend of film and animation to tell stories about childhood - inspired by the lives and experiences of the film's adventurous and often hilarious young cast.

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

An animated government/science style public service film, circa 1981, for surviving life in Australia after Nuclear War.

Writer, historian and art critic Robert Hughes presents a survey of Australian art from the time of the First Fleet to the present day, based on the social background of the times and the overseas prototypes from which much of Australia's art revealed.

A teenage girl fights to preserve her sanity in a late 19th century mental hospital.

Life inside a late 1960s Carlton student share house plays out across six alternately comedic and melancholy real-time vignettes. When his friend takes a trip, cinephile Al is left alone for the weekend with three female housemates, a situation that only serves to exacerbate his social awkwardness. One of the most distinctive works to emerge from the ‘Carlton ripple’, David Minter’s 1969 slice-of-life comedy carries echoes of Éric Rohmer’s moral tales.

‘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.

With seven days to pay back a drug - dealer, three young Polynesian men take up a job from a local crime lord in order to set things straight.

Lola, a shy 16-year-old Indonesian girl, receives a scholarship to study at a famous high school in Perth, Australia. There she meets Dhani, and love begins to blossom in the foreign city.

16mm film by Jordan James Kaye

Made from image fragments from Will Spoor's footage, it was our first direct foray into the relationship between cinema and visual perception. It has two parts: Retina Imprints, an experiment on the persistence of vision, stretching and reorganizing movement in time, and Memory Imprints, fragments of strange images that remain impressed on the memory. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

While flying to the first stop on their latest tour, the four members of the Australian music group The Seekers recall in flashback the origins of the group and their rise to success.

Urine therapy is one of the oldest forms of health care. Both fascinating and taboo, this documentary explores the confronting subject of drinking urine for medicinal purposes.

In 2010, the iconic Tote Hotel – last bastion of Melbourne’s vibrant music counterculture – was forced to close by unfair laws. Filmed over 7 years, “Persecution Blues” depicts the struggle of more than 20,000 fans – and the bands who inspire them – to preserve their history and protect their future, and puts the audience on the front line of an epic-scale culture war.

Sam, has put his life on hold to be the carer for his mother, Emma, as she battles cancer. As Sam navigates the aftermath of his mother's death, he is forced to confront his (for)ever absent father, Peter.

Written and filmed in four days each, "The End Of History" tracks Australian techno producers Darcy & Pat as they struggle to acclimatise to a changing Berlin where the clubs have (briefly) been closed down. Forced to either talk to each other or to finally engage with a city they know only as a playground for high expats, they leave as fast as they can to East Germany proper to create "something no one's ever done before".

Hailed by former US president Jimmy Carter as “the man who saved the world”, Ball was an ‘insurgent intellectual’ who emerged as a key figure in the turbulent political landscape of the Cold War. The Australian scholar and security expert’s theories on the fallacy of nuclear action and his advice to the US Department of Defense played significant roles in the de-escalation of global conflict during the 1970s, while his investigation of controversial US military base Pine Gap during the 80s enraged ASIO – which kept a security file on him. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ball offered guidance on signals intelligence in Burma and Thailand, and his work in East Timor gave the public a taste of secrets the government would prefer to remain hidden.

Two people from two countries who once shared a common experience.

It’s a story that made headlines: “Festival Film Banned!” In the late 1960s, the majority of films screened in Australia were censored in some way or another. DELETE the lovemaking. CUT the ‘Open Mouth Kissing’. REMOVE the fondling of the breast sequence. Deemed too ‘inappropriate’ and ‘morally corrupting’ for Australian eyes, these scenes were hacked from feature films and locked away in government archives. When young Sydney Film Festival director David Stratton attempted to program a Swedish film that the censors believed contained ACTUAL sex, a scandal erupted. In a mash-up of never-before-seen banned clippings, SMUT HOUNDS tells the story of how seventy-seven seconds of celluloid scandalised a government and transformed Australian cinema.

Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia's cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and moral impact of current and previous policy.

A documentary celebrating the culture, spirit and style of Australian music featuring interviews and live performances from You Am I, Spiderbait, Regurgitator, Custard, Grinspoon, Jebediah, Something for Kate, Frenzal Rhomb, Ammonia, Crow, and Bodyjar.

A collage / meta-narrative / music film, set to Koo de Tah's "Too Young For Promises". An experimental narrative film.

All Andrew wants is a change of scenery, but his grimy new St Kilda apartment has other ideas.