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Out of boredom, a high society girl visits her father's outback cattle station. After several adventures involving a gang of ruthless cattle duffers, she falls in love with the manager of the station. Only part of the film survives today.
Pier Farri's Futurist Europe focuses on Futurism as the first avant-garde film movement in history.
Abraham Nouk moved to Australia as a Sudanese refugee unable to read, write or speak a word of English. Now, he's an aspiring spoken word artist and poet. This is his story.
Narrated by a Bunuba Traditional Owner, Lifeblood showcases the Kimberley’s pristine Fitzroy River, its wildlife, and the cultural heritage of its critically endangered species.
Following the story of transmasculine Brother Boy Kai Clancy, as he navigates the traditional roles and his identity within his culture. Brotherboy is a term used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to describe gender diverse people that are born a male spirit. Kai share's his life now, 9-years after his top surgery and transition on YouTube when he was 17 years old.
2 hippies accidentally run over a dog that belongs to war veterans.
Explores the tension between a Japanese theatrical mask-maker and the mask itself.
Almost Perfect revisits one of Australia most baffling family murders: the case of Elmer Crawford. He appeared to be an average family man, but then in 1970, he murdered his pregnant wife and three children, with no apparent motive. He electrocuted them then sent them over a cliff in the family car.
On 25 April 1995 16 year old Matthew Easdale was shot in Brisbane. His mother was interviewed on the radio. Using rotoscoped animation the film presents the story in two very different ways.
A family attempt to connect with the murderer of their daughter after he's spent 20 years in prison for the crime.
Gold! Gold!! Gold!!! is the fifth and final TISM VHS, featuring interviews, live performances, music videos and TV appearances.
The story of a man who has covid and gets board in his house before things go horribly wrong.
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.
Could Australia's past help secure its future? 65,000 years in the making, Burnt Country is about fighting fire, with fire. Exploring the profound knowledge and wisdom of First Nations, this film is an invitation to connect to country and community.
Three “songs of revolution” from Crisis-hit Greece, illustrated in both documentary and narrative ways. These songs, from 1947, 1968 and 1997 show their relevance to 2015.
An observational undercover documentary following 73-year-old human rights activist Peter Tatchell’s daring mission to protest at the 2018 FIFA World Cup to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ injustice in Russia and Chechnya.
Amateur film makers venture to make an 80s horror film in the forest until they become part of the horror, themselves.
A documentary portrait of the Jie of northeastern Uganda, examining pastoral life during a dry season as government policies and economic pressures challenge traditional patterns of herding, movement, and subsistence.
1926 Australian lost silent film
After his boss appoints him to hide a body, Red entrusts his closest friend, Marley, to help him carry out the task.
An interactive documentary that explores historical and contemporary issues in queer female representation in screen media in Australia and overseas. The documentary draws from interviews with queer screen media scholars, TV writers and directors and film festival curators, and investigates storytelling tropes such as "bury your gays" and "cancel your gays" within an industrial context to highlight the importance of representation of queer people and stories in screen media.
A young man dreams of escaping his bush community and finding riches, but soon learns that wealth comes in many forms.
In 1973, eleven year old Miguelito was discovered singing in the San Juan airport by the legendary New York record producer Harvey Averne. Within the year, he went from the slums of Manuel A Perez, to recording an album with some of the finest salsa musicians of the time to finally performing with Eddie Palmieri at Madison Square Garden in front of 20,000 people. Throughout Latin America his songs ‘Payaso’ and ‘Canto a Borinquen’ had become cult hits. And then he simply disappeared...
Transport is a city’s living, beating soul, as lovingly depicted in A Way We Go, a documentary feature by Jacqui Hicks. With an unconventional format emphasising the wisdom and emotions of everyday people, it captures a bubbling flow of ideas and images with a vivid dash of humanistic humour.
Melbourne filmmaker Brian McKenzie spent 5 years working on this engrossing study of a not-so-typical Brunswick household. It's a laconic, observational documentary similar to the director's I'll Be Home For Christmas (MFF '85), in which McKenzie plays a central part, camera in tow, as he documents the lifestyle of Graham (a youth in his 20s), his family and friends. After having spent so long with the family, McKenzie becomes part of the furniture - a situation which enables him to dig deep into the subject's lives.
Two men are on an elevator when fantasy intervenes. Going up? Going down?
Geoff Lawton demonstrates how to grow a food forest from start to finish. Geoff helps get you on the right track toward growing a productive garden paradise.
Three bank robbers find themselves wrapped in an argument after running out of petrol on the middle of nowhere.
Since the climatic events of Patrick Escott's gripping and taut sequel, 'Wasting Time', Penner and Pavel have been thrown back in time to a primitive and dark age. They now have to make their way back to their own time, trying to undo the damage caused by Chekhov's technology, and evading amoral and mysterious agents. Is their mission just a waste of time, or will they be able to save it?
Mood Ring is a feature film by performance artist Sereima Adimate/Stelly G, Kiki Oner and Garden Reflexxx. The group examines female friendships, the idea of love letters, the challenge of unpacking heritage and the meaning of going home. In the ineffable shadow of taboo, Mood Ring is a radical sign of deliverance. In 2021 the group started a writer's room brainstorming ideas of 'First Times'. It led them to Mood Ring, a community funded project based in/on Fiji. The footage features moments from the location reconnaissance Sereima went on in early 2022. In a tangled visual poem that blends journal entries with travelogue, Kiki Oner and best friend Stelly G return to their island home Viti Lev. During this - their first trip together as adults - they make contact with a past that is unfamiliar to them yet shrouded in memories. What follows is a deeply felt trip that forces them to confront lives almost lived. There will be scenes of confronting pasts, and catastrophic futures.
For over 10 years beginning in the 1980s, Frances Wright shot mysterious orbs of light darting about the open skies near her isolated cottage, located in the scenic Blue Mountains region outside Sydney. Now, for the first time, this film discloses some of her extraordinary super-8 footage from that period. But newly discovered digital footage – unearthed after she inexplicably vanished – raises a bigger question: do we believe what we see, or do we see what we believe?
Liz just wants to host the perfect dinner party but an unexpected guest sends the evening into chaos, with potentially apocalyptic consequences.
Fire, wind and smoke have been the fundamental elements for Aboriginal people for thousands of years. Their knowledge of the original power of fire is passed on from one generation to the next. A creative development of oral storytelling in audio-visual form.
Jasper is wild little girl who doesn’t come home when she’s supposed to and prefers a big sky over her head rather than a screen in front of her face. She doesn’t care what people think she should do or be. She just wants to fly - and she isn’t going to give up until she does. Jasper explores the idea that the dream of flight completely transcends gender.
Part Brechtian in its distancing of language, and part-Warholian in its funtime-exploitation of a circle of friends, I You We typifies the strong textual focus of many → ↑ → films and videos of the time.
Documents passengers traveling on the New York underground.
A man wakes up tied to a chair, but when his captor shows signs of killing him, he must escape.
The TISM Television Primer is the first VHS release by TISM (This Is Serious Mum). It features music videos, clips from TISM live at the Old Greek Theatre in Melbourne on 21 October 1988, and TISM's appearances on Hey! Hey! It's Saturday and The Factory on ABC.
The sequel to AVIATORS
A man goes drinking with his friend and goes home to his wife.
A Chinese woman who migrated from South-east Asia doesn't feel apart of Australian culture or Chinese, causing her to feel alienated.
A man experiences an out of world encounter where his mind is fragmented and is unable to grapple the surreal nature of the situation, until an unknown entity attempts to guide him.
Set 200 years after the end of the Bionicle Generation 1 story and 20 years after the events of the Hero Factory and Bionicle Generation 2 stories, “Kaitiaki” follows the guardians of Rhylus Nui, a small town located on the island of Okoto where magic and technology work in tandem, as they recover from their victory in a war to revive the universe. But their victory has unintended consequences, as an ancient, undiscovered threat awakens as a result. As the battle between autonomy and subjugation begins, these guardians, a crew of knights, mages, aliens, robots, and legendary warriors from ages past, must unite to defend their home from this threat, which may have a closer connection to their history than they thought.
You've got to be tough to survive the AFL. These are the hart nuts that put their body on the line for the sake of their team. The players that put their heads over the ball no matter the consequence. The players who run back with the flight with no regard for the hit that always comes. These are the players we love to watch week after week. 'Only The Courageous' showcases the strength and skills of the modern AFL player in the 21st century.
Two people are interviewed by police after the murder of a gambler. The two suspects give alibis to hide their activities.
After a messy breakup, with nowhere to go, John shows up at his ex-girlfriend's house in hopes of warmth and sympathy, instead finding nothing but hatred and resentment.
Losing yourself in your phone has never been more terrifying.
One Month Later, The Chase Continues...
....Oops. The horror of a simple mishap and last resort laughter.
The Brooklyn Arts Hotel was in downtown Fitzroy, Melbourne, and while rather a well-kept secret, it hosted over 25,000 guests during its 15 years of operation.This heart-warming and inspiring documentary is an intimate portrait of Maggie Fooke, the creator of the hotel, as she navigates the final days of this dearly-loved institution, before its closure due to financial constraints. TO THANK THE ROOM is about living life to the fullest and facing major life-transition. Maggie leads a merry dance as she both embraces and resists the process of letting go, with a fierce determination to relish and share her beloved ‘Brooklyn’ to the very last drop.A film by Belinda Lloyd (her directorial debut) in collaboration with Maggie Fooke and Larry Lawson, and recently awarded Best Melbourne Documentary 2024 at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
The strange events surrounding the closure of a cinema in Melbourne and the sacking of one of its ushers.
Walk with David Holmgren (co-originator of the permaculture concept) across Djaara Country, as he shares his insights and discusses his unique approach to reading landscape, a wealth of knowledge and wisdom developed over forty years. David’s approach contributes to re-embedding reading landscape into our cultures as a known and fundamental human capacity, providing an opportunity for humans everywhere to deepen their connection to place.
Could Australia ever have been French? The English certainly thought so. Through revolution, empire and restoration, late 18th and early 19th century France maintained an unwavering commitment to research and discovery in the Pacific region and in Australia. More interested in science than in new colonies, these early French voyages, led by commanders like Bougainville, Lapérouse, D’Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet, Duperrey and Dumont d’Urville, were the first to name, describe and beautifully illustrate many Australian species. England may have colonised Australia, but for many years it was France that understood it best. This richly illustrated short documentary film brings to life our fascinating and colourful French history and reminds us of a time when scientific research involved intrepid voyages in tall ships on the high seas, battling scurvy and storms, insects and rats, and hostilities both on board and on shore.
Michael, a timid butcher’s apprentice, believes his quick-to-anger boss is killing and serving misbehaving customers as product. The thought drives Michael to insanity where he will question his childhood dream of becoming a butcher.
In this silent tableau, an eclectic bunch of dusty cowboys take care of domestic duties, putting a spin on traditional Western iconography.
Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall and Andy Matthews's 2022 Melbourne Comedy Festival Show