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Australian artist Leon Pericles faces his greatest challenge: holding an exhibition of his life's works while facing the mental decline of his wife and collaborator Moira, as Alzheimer's disease turns their world upside down.
A young hitman is put through the motions in being part of "the business" and a simple trip to reclaim a lost grimoire introduces him to a world of pain, where nothing is what it seems and where he too, has a price to pay.
In a sunlit studio, a young woman is getting ready to have her portrait painted by a young man. The woman is curious to see how she is perceived. She spends her life carefully projecting an image of herself, but what testimony will a man's painting give?
The Republic of Kiribati is one of the most isolated places in the Pacific and because of this it has been possible for its people to retain much of their traditional way of life. In this film, made on Tabiteuea Island four years after independence, we witness a special three-day ritual dating from pre-colonial times, in which Manerrua – a schoolgirl of 14 – celebrates her first menstruation
A romance about two people who are both disabled. Racing car driver Dave and street-girl Eileen fall in love after he has a car accident.
In 1955, filmmaker Chauvel debuted Jedda. His star was a young Arrernte woman from Alice Springs named Ngarla Kunoth, or Rosalie. Her story, the story of what happened before and after Chauvel's film, is told in Rosalie's Journey.
Documentary about "The Coolbaroo Club", which was the only Aboriginal-run dance club in a city which practiced unofficial apartheid. During its lifetime, the Club attracted Black musicians and celebrities from all over Australia and occasionally from overseas. Although best-remembered for the hugely popular Coolbaroo dances attended by hundreds of Aborigines and their white supporters, the "Coolbaroo League", founded by Club members, ran a newspaper and became an effective political organization, speaking out on issues of the day affecting Aboriginal people.
“Somewhere I read a headline ‘One million trees will be chopped down’ and I was absolutely horrified. My association with the Bush goes back a long time, and thinking that one day it might not be there tied my stomach in knots. I felt physically sick...like seasick...really off. Images were fermenting in my head, but I couldn’t see how to film what I was feeling. How do you film a blinding headache? A churning premonition? I tried shooting toothpaste glasses, filters, but nothing worked...until I found a way of doing it where I had these household glasses spinning at very fast speed in front of the lens. I didn’t want the film to be didactic, like Scars...more a veiled and brooding warning about impending loss.” (Paul Winkler)
A man is visited by an unusual old friend after a difficult break up.
Iris has a secret that she is trying to conceal but her plans go awry when she encounters Maya.
The fiery daughter of a colonial farmer discovers the truth behind her family's new land after she reluctantly saves a wounded Aboriginal boy from drowning.
Josh Frydenberg, former treasurer of Australia, presents a powerful and emotional documentary on the devastating impact of antisemitism on Australia following the horrendous terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 7 last year. The documentary examines the rise in hostility towards Jewish people taking place around the world at levels not seen since the Holocaust.
Told he only had a short time to live, Joshua Belinfante sought out dedicated talents around the world striving their best at what they always wanted to do as kids; trying to find what he would do if given a second chance.
What happens when six strangers from different walks of life respond to an online ad to meet someone new for the first time in front of a camera? A social experiment unpacking first impressions and the lost art of conversation.
Romance is like a chainsaw: a very dangerous beast indeed.
Two students need to come up with a topic to research for their upcoming psychology assignment. But when a fellow student tells them about a story they can research for, they soon realise that this story isn’t what it seems…
The life of a white rental van is told in three parts via the different people who hire it.
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.
A narrated storybook animation of a girl learning to cope with her mother's aging, dementia and death. It is an allegorical film about life, death and rebirth.
After eight seasons of poor off-screen behaviour, sitcom character Martin Dreggs has been killed off. Will the actor who plays him get a second chance at fame when the show broadcasts live? Drawing from sitcom inspirations absorbed throughout an entire childhood, writer/director Samuel Bortolazzo stages a complex family dilemma within the vessel of a television sitcom.
A detective, who writes about the city's darkness and crime, begins to see that by shifting his perspective, he can uncover the hidden acts of kindness that offer a glimmer of light amidst the shadows. Winner of the "Best Film" award at the 2024 Battle of the Films hosted by Grace Acting Studios.
When director Sue Thomson’s 89-year-old mum, Margaret, begins to need additional help with day-to-day life, they face a decision that most families will encounter: whether to consider a residential aged-care facility; and, if so, how to find a suitable one amid a sector with a reputation for neglect and mistreatment. Margaret’s story becomes a springboard for an investigation of the political history of aged care in Australia, marred by a 40-year bipartisan privatisation agenda. As we hear from advocates, journalists and senior citizens who have experienced the system, a group of schoolkids discuss the situation we’ve reached with aged care and where we need to go from here – and of what they, and we, can expect in the future.
Atmospheric adaptation of an Alan Marshall story of a young girl's isolation on a remote dairy farm, set in the late 1930s. Filmed in 1974 but first released publicly in 2008 as a DVD extra.
A documentary about a small toy dealer who lives in his shop in NSW.
“The destruction of trees in Sydney...chainsaws, the trees really screaming out. Rapid zooming, often close up shooting. In Edgecliff and Paddington, near where I lived, I'd travel around with the council workers as they lopped established trees, made way for progress...power lines, new buildings. On the Cahill Expressway, across from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, huge old Moreton Bay Figs were being butchered. As they were ripping and cutting into the trees, I was ripping into them…very physically, rapid zooming. I wanted a very strong message. It was way over the top, really…screeching chainsaws and woodchip machines. There was no real Green Movement in those days. When I showed the film, people came up to me and said I’d made them feel guilty for lopping down trees in their own yard. The aggression of the film still causes people trouble.” (Paul Winkler)
Through chance and coincidence, infinitely small decisions can produce new life.
A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think and hear in a seamless but fragmentary flow of poetic images, words and music. The viewer undertakes a journey into their own interior world of dreams and projections in which time and space, and cause and effect logic, are turned on their heads. Text Messages from the Universe is inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a text which guides souls on their journey of 49 days through the 'Bardo', or intermediate state, between dying and rebirth.
The GT Legend.
When a house cat begins to fear the gentle owner who feeds him, he starts noticing the subtle cracks in the man’s behaviour and realises the thing he lives with is slowly deciding whether to keep him… or silence him.
On the way to a friendly barbecue, Skye discovers a gun and a folder of images of himself in the glove box of Tom's car. Unaware of the intention, all he has to do is stay calm and make sure he doesn't blow his cover.
Using hidden camera techniques and synchronous sound recording, the film presents an Australian Rules football game exclusively in terms of the reactions of the watching crowd.
The literal frame of a window overlooking a small garden becomes the scene through which Richard Tuohy’s film exploits the myriad plastic potentialities of the cinematic frame. Immersive and stroboscopic, In and Out a Window offers its own variations on cinema’s mechanical segmentations of space and time, opening up a portal to undiscovered dimensions and new phenomenologies.
A new video essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on the evolution of the Ringu series.
Women's unwritten history is passed down through memories. Shows women talking about their experiences of the Great Depression in Australia. Covers such areas as: aboriginal women; paid and unpaid work; mothering; marriage; women's participation in the political struggles of the 1920's and 30's.
Public Information Film aimed at teaching young children the basics of reporting unsafe situations.
A white authoress, looking for a story in the outback, is kidnapped by an Afghan slaver, betrothed to a white jungle-man, and menaced by a jealous half-caste rival, a hostile witch-doctor, his crazed-killer son, and opium smugglers!
"Fuckumentary" offers a scandalous insight into the warped minds behind Rupture, Australia's most extreme punk rock band.
Malcolm Le Grice's Berlin Horse (1970) is reimagined for a time of AI-enabled editing software and digital-analogue hybridity. Looping and phasing in Le Grice’s film are replaced with a concern for masking and speed.
A film of repeated movements toward the camera, away from the camera, and across the camera's field, punctuated by a 360-degree rotational movement of the camera itself. Aside from being a reference to the repetition characteristic of home movies, the film is an exploration of a specific space. By repeatedly traversing it, the two figures reinforce their sense of depth, beginning as distant blobs in the long shot and ending with the face of one of them filling the frame. Repetition has become an important strategy in many of our recent films, which often involve reshoots or reprints. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)
When you were a kid, adult television was a mystery. What strange, scary, unfathomable shows could be airing past your bedtime? But now you’re an adult, and television isn’t what you thought it would be. But what if it was? The feeling of a pillow nest and a hot drink. The feeling that the night might continue forever if you never went to sleep.
Made in 1992 for the White Gloves Film Festival in Melbourne, Operation Camerahead parodies the lengths the incoming State Government of Jeff Kennett will go to to raise funds to pay off the inherited public debt from the previous Cain-Kerner Labour Government.
Australian independent political documentary about the US installations in Australia at Pine Gap near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
An actor discovers his identity and look has been stolen and replicated by AI.
A young teenager isolated from reality is disrupted after meeting a girl in his building. As their connection grows, he begins to confront his struggles, form new bonds and rediscover the small joys that make life worth living.
The beginnings of Johnny Galagher's story. A retired personal investigator in 1920's New York City is roped into a case that will lead him down a dark path.
In an isolated land, two creatures embark on a journey of adventure through uncontrollable forces of nature to find each other.
A transgender filmmaker investigates Australia’s lack of funded trans healthcare, and how this prevents others from accessing the care that saved his own life.
The newly inducted student leaders of Knox Grammar School set their sights on improving the school’s waning culture and spirit. They aim to establish a supporters’ group known as the ‘Tartan Army’, but 2020 brings its own set of adversities.
“By this time we had a Filmmakers' Cinema here in Sydney. I made the film on the spur of the moment...to go over a band. Red and green leader was very cheap—you got it for a cent a foot or something. Scratching and 'injuring' the flat colour of the leader . . . I interspliced it with old 16mm footage, breaking up and creating tension between the shots...you know, a native in Papua New Guinea was shooting an arrow, and just as the arrow leaves, the film cuts back into red and green 'travelling' lines (the scratching on the leader). For quite some time this line is running, then the next minute it stops and you see the arrow actually hitting a target. So it gives the impression the arrow is travelling for a long time, on red leader toward the target. The film was shown with different bands, and each time the film looked different.” (Paul Winkler)
Bound to a wheelchair following a traumatic roadside accident, Owen attempts to cope by escaping into the safety of his imagination; an alternate world where Owen resides in a forest as an owl.
Part 2 of the History of Australian Cinema series. Covering the 1920s and 30s. From an origin that promised so much, the Australian film production industry faced new challenges from abroad which ultimately proved to be more than they could cope with. Unfortunately very few films from then now survive.
From VL to VE, a must-see history of Australia's premier niche performance car manufacturer; the cars, the people ... the passion that is HSV.
Jarman was blue. Mousoulis is green.
When Jake attempts to reignite his dispassionate relationship, he’s forced to choose between clinging to the remnants of his relationship and taking control of his life again.
In 2008, feature documentary, The Oasis, shocked Australia with its gritty insight into the lives of homeless teens at a notorious youth refuge in inner city Sydney. An outpouring of social and political goodwill followed, with the then Prime Minister pledging to halve homelessness by 2020. A decade later, with social inequality and homelessness worse than ever, the original participants reflect on where their lives have taken them.
A film about Michelangelo's dream of the connection of the fingertips.
A French couple travelling by campervan around Australia discover their relationship is at a crossroads.
Trance is a short film about Oliver Brooks (Oliver Ludbrook). A hard working man who hits a small bump in life. After seeing an ad playing on his television for a suit, a certain 12 thousand dollar suit, Oliver begins to pursue it by any means necessary as he believes it will solve all his problems. He falls into a Trance.
A drug deal goes wrong
A fast cut-up of images, accompanied by Teenage Fanclub's "Radio".