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Looks at the world of Australian Art Brut artists, a term coined by french expressionist Jean Dubuffet in 1945 that encapsulate naive art, folk art and the creative output of the supposedly mentally insan
Investigations and discourses about biological causes of sexual orientation has received widespread publicity in scientific and popular press. Mocking these 'great discoveries' and the seemingly objective vehicle of genetics, 'we discover' that bigger is not necessarily better.
Raffaella's first period comes at the same time as her first crush, on Shaun, a cook's assistant and the brother of her friend Sharon. Raffaella's Italian aunt insists that they make "love biscuits" for Shaun, a recipe from the old country using three drops of menstrual blood. Raffaella sends the cookies to Shaun via Sharon, who announces her own crush on Raffaella. Is it the cookies? What's a girl to do? With the help of her aunt and some ideas of her own, Raffaella finds a solution and learns something about friendship and romance.
“Bilderbuch für Ernst Will” is an electronic rendering of a form of proto-televisual iconomania: the creation of haphazardly sourced private pictorial scrap books or 'bilderbuch'. Often intended for the surprise, delight and edification of grandchildren by grandparents, these books had the analogical potential to become flamboyant transmogrifigations of the detritus and sequestered oddments of the great age of print in the later half of the 19th century.
16mm. 5 minutes. Colour.
A hyperreal, lush, and lively look at S&M play.
This documentary focuses on the vanishing lifestyle of a family of rural residents of the island of Sardinia. For many generations, they have been goatherds in the mountains, and it was a respected and acceptable occupation. Now tourism and the lure of other occupations deeply affects the younger generation, and soon there may be no goatherds left.
Last of 6 animated shorts made for Nickelodeon.
A landmark video work from the cyber art scene of the 1990s. The Cyber Dada Manifesto is read out loud over a sequence of hallucinatory and distorted images.
A young vibrant transvestite, who has studied her good housekeeping manuals, has an unusual way of solving problems. Revenge never tasted so good.
In the low budget real life story of IRC addicts some girls get caught in the net. Watch out, it’s hot in there!
A personal biography/documentary of Sydney artist. David MCDiarmid shot in 1994. David reflects on his life as an artist and as a sick queen "who refuses to be bitter". Recounted in his own words and illustrated with his art and personal photographs, David allows us a glimpse of a vibrant, humorous and political artist
An experimental documentary about the perils of wearing high heel shoes.
Once upon a time there was a Princess who was gifted with the power to make one wish come true. It had been arranged that she was to marry a Prince whom she did not love nor care for. They are married and at night they sleep apart, the princess with her wish beside her in the guise of a beautiful flower, a pink. The rest of the tale is for you to see, but to the best of my knowledge the Princess still lives happily ever after.
A sensual meditation on sexual identity and transformation, death and rebirth of the spirit.
Soft core porn for shoe fanciers.
John and Jenny Wu are a Chinese couple who run a takeaway pizza shop in Sydney's inner west. Their four-year-old daughter, Emily, was born with profound disabilities. EMILY'S EYES is a poignant and compelling story of love and survival. At a time when tolerance in Australia is being eroded by a proportion of society frightened by inevitable change it is also a passionate plea for acceptance of a difference and a celebration of social change and cultural diversity.
It is said that Robert Harvey is the hardest running man in AFL football. A ruck-rover with a work ethic that defies belief.
Learn to create a death mask the Putrid Pictures way! Step by step, our professional technicians will teach you how to prepare your model and use state of the art technology to create a death mask that will leave you gasping!
Stamford is approached by an old underworld figure now going straight, Y.C. Kung, to find the murderers of his daughter and only grandson. But when his close friend, Internet operative Konrad Woolff, is killed during one of their investigations, Y.C.'s case must take second place. However, finding himself also on someone's hit list, it is not long before Stamford suspects a link between all three murders and finds himself caught up in the scramble for economic power in the New Chinese Hong Kong of post-1997.
The story of how principal Peter James transformed Sydney's violent non-performing Tempe High School by teaching migrant students their own languages and the surprising effect it had on English results.
A look into the past of the filmmakers' Czechoslovakia-born mother, who committed suicide.
In Papua New Guinea, where over three quarters of the population cannot be reached by the regular advertising mediums of television, radio or print, 'the market' must be developed by other means. Small theater groups travel the remote highlands performing soap operas devised around advertising messages for a variety of products.
Bitter Herbs and Honey tells a richly textured story of the making of multi-cultural Australia. Through the saga of the the story of the Jewish migrants, mainly from Eastern Europe, who made their first home in Melbourne's inner-city suburb of Carlton, the film explores issues at the heart of Australia's development towards cultural diversity. The film builds a picture of poor immigrants who left Europe in the period of turmoil preceding, and in the wake of, the Second World War, having lost everything spiritually and materially. In a country most had never heard of on the other side of the earth, they began to rebuild their lives.
Last King Standing is a short film project that was assessed as part of the Rosny College Media Production Film And Television course in 1998.
Charts the causes and course of the Persian Wars from the Ionian Revolt in 499 BCE through to the Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE.
The Absolutely Very Best Of Peter Combe In Concert
Walking On The Milky Way - Franciscus Henri The Diesel Rap - Johnson and Friends Radical Wheels - Swap Shop Bob The Kelpie - Don Spencer Dancing in the Kitchen - Franciscus Henri Ferry Boat Fred - Michael Young One Man Went To Mow - Mike Jackson Busy Baby, Bubby - George Spartels Thumbs Up - Don Spencer Dorothy the Dinosaur - The Wiggles
Pat the Cat - Don Spencer White Pyjamas - Franciscus Henri Monster Mash - Ross Higgins Newspaper Mama - Peter Combe On Top of Spaghetti - Joe Dolce Fairy Penguin Strut - Don Spencer Get Ready To Wiggle - The Wiggles Singin' in the Rain - Glenn Butcher Spaghetti Bolognaise - Peter Combe Eating on the Plane - Robyn Archer Down on the Corner - Malcolm McCullum, Chris Lloyd, Armando Hurley & Jamie Rigg
Chronicles the history of the Richmond Football Club.
When Elisa gets home to the suburbs after a hard day at work and calls a lesbian phone-sex line she expects to get into one of her fantasies and have some fun. Things start to go horribly wrong until the final climax which proves not to be the one Elisa was expecting.
The Hooley Dooleys: Pop
A short documentary on a Sydney gay icon, Troughman.
Across a crowded bus, a cowgirl spots her dream woman.
Herman wakes up to a surreal day!
Mercy Steele remembers her close-to idyllic childhood in rural Queensland in the twenties. Images of the landscape, abundant foods and fruits interspersed with reconstructed snatches of the way things were, show a simple life that belies the tragedy which her family later suffered. Constructed images of a lush and beautiful place suggest an uncomplicated life of harmony and abundance reminiscent of a late 19th century European way of seen Antipodean landscapes.
A macro look at the minute creatures that live among us. A world that is terrifyingly brutal yet amazingly beautiful. Struggles to the death, ingenuity beyond belief, the grotesque transformed into the wonderful. This award winning title features stunning cinematography from Emmy winning cinematographer Jim Frazier.
Llong rolls of paper filled with continuous abstract drawings across which the camera continually pans. In this film you are reading these images as you would words, yet the meaning of these sentences are abstracted. This film is about process, yet an artifact exists: the paper roll. You come away with a sense that the paper rolls exist outside the film as sculpture in their own right and in turn are a manifestation, a reference back to an actual strip of film, unprojected.
A woman is captured by the world of convention. Blindfolded, she is unaware of her fate. On realising her predicament, she takes control and escapes from the life that was thrust upon her. She instead embraces the life of her choosing - her destiny. This film works off the traditional theme of silent films - the heroine in distress. But this heroine was totally unaware of her predicament.
Having lost her boyfriend, Brick, in a mysterious attack at a midnight beach party, Candy is persuaded by Special Agent Striker to return to the scene of the crime to avert an alien invasion. Little does Striker realise that the aliens are drag queens and are after him and the rest of Mankind. Mothers of America....Lock up your sons!!!!
The human body has millions of specialised cells. The bloodstream itself is host to a variety of specialised cells, this is the story of one of them. Dr. Amoeba is a frustrated single-cell looking for sex. He decides that his only cause of action is to have sex with himself. But if he is going to have sex with himself he must treat himself right, before the act. Ultimately things go wrong and the good Doctor cannot control the rampant sexual activity of his clones.
A monologue performance piece about dressing up for a night out on the town.
An independent documentary exploring the politics and history of Sydney's drag scene.
Teenage boy exploring his sexuality; the story of a boy, his dog and a toilet block.
Mass culture girls at their X-iest in a female dick video tract. A veritable perv fest of female virility.
HIV/AIDS is often perceived by the white heterosexual and Aboriginal communities as a 'white gay disease'. It is the responsibility of HIV/AIDS education to dispel this sort of mythmaking which is, and has proved to be, destructive and untrue. The Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Service's play addresses this issue of risk behaviour and focuses on the promotion of safe sex. By using music, drama and dance, the play is a revival of traditional storytelling and assimilates it with adaptive responses such as condom use.
Chantalle sells sex. Kitty seeks love. It's bath time. They're not alone. Anti-wife pulls the plug and heartache gets the shove.
Meredith Campbell's haunting animated short Ouzo was created when she was still a student at the Victorian College of the Arts.
This film was made in 1992 during my 2nd year of my BFA, at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. Sydney, Australia.
A film about the end of the world: the myth that has been with us since the beginning of civilization, and the possibility made real at Hiroshima in 1945. The journey takes us from medieval paintings to 50s sci fi movies and leaves us better able to understand and deal with our destructive urges.
A dilapidated Australian truck stop diner is the setting for a whiskey-voiced rumination on life and love. An official selection of the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
Teresa Rizzo puts forth radical and subversive ideas that question gender construction and expectation in Western culture.
Extraordinary imagery conveys the unhappy history of a relationship between two men.
An Assyrian movie about people loving eachother
A documentary about lesbians who look for partners through classified advertisements.
Eva returns to Australia after a year in Spain with her lover, only to find her estranged fiance has arranged a gathering of family and friends to welcome her back - this is not how Eva anticipated coming out.
Corporate persons are terrorised by a malevolent photocopier. A collision of bizarre images, musical themes and motifs, demonstrating what happens when technology runs amok.
Does gender fuck or do we fuck gender?
A devoted and loving couple attempt to rekindle the fire between them. A simple and topical cautionary tale.
The surreal world of two lovers contemplating love in the bedroom and beyond.