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5 years in the making, Abu Hanfia Institute presents a documentary about the rich history of Muslims in Australia. This captivating documentary reveals the profound connection between Makassan Muslims and Aboriginal Australians.
A young woman discovers an entrancing escape from her dank, dingy, apartment beneath the surface of her evening bath. She discovers, to her detriment, that the ‘person’ waiting below may not be all she seems…
The world of things and movements traces itself backwards and forwards in an ecstatic vertigo of metaphysical allusion, whilst we sublimely subordinate the will to desire. "Look out", Marguerite Duras says, "you see the end of the world".
A trembling matchbox, cigarette and deranged man form the key to the Arsonist's riddle.
When a man's mother fails to pick him up from the supermarket, he decides to walk home. What should have been a brief stroll, soon becomes a nightmarish battle with a faulty trolley. Our man becomes lost and embarks upon a journey of grand proportions.
Sitting at the intersection of two main arteries of traffic on Melbournes Northside is a giant yellow rat that is pointing, with a long gnarled claw, to its explicitly large bottom. This yellow rat is the mascot for the small business Glenlyon Motors. This unusual mascot and the absence of an explanation for its existence has many residents of Melbournes north side puzzled. 'A Rats Arse' finally answers the question on every Northside residents lips - “Why?!” - and along the way reveals something about identity, values, community, and the people who exist within them.
The Laugh on Dad is a 1918 comedy Australian silent film. It follows John Forrest, a.k.a. Dad, who is an ostrich farmer. His daughter Jean wants to marry Ralph Bond but Dad is opposed, so he devises a scene where a farmhand will dress as Jean and pretend to marry Ralph. Jean outwits him and the marriage goes ahead. It is considered a lost film.
An in-depth profile of Peter Maxwell Slattery, the Melbourne-based UFO contactee who has spun his extra-terrestrial experiences into bestselling books, skygazing expeditions and global speaking engagements.
1911 Australian film, now considered lost.
This self-funded verité comedy starring John Duigan is something of a swan song for the “Carlton ripple” and reflects the movement’s characteristic vacillation between intensely local and distantly international influences.
A sci-fi short by Narrm-based animator Jenn Tran, in which a narrator returns to Earth to discover the ruins of an Agnes Denes land artwork.
A television documentary charting the history of the Eurovision Song Contest and its impact on European political and social structure.
Welcome to the land of RUIN... Where men live in the violence and decay of a once civil land. Young women are isolated from society by their fathers till sold as brides to the highest bidder. Any affairs out of wedlock result in death. Tonight... the wealthiest man of Ruin, The Sultan, will auction his daughter's life. All Luna longs for is to escape with her one true love. Can he get to her before it's too late?
This promotional documentary made by the Shell Film Unit advertises the Shell Company of Australia’s extensive knowledge of motoring and Australian motorists’ needs. It focuses on the qualities of the Shell Touring Service throughout the country and their nationwide network of road-related services.
Two men. One elevator. No way out.
A trip through the Middle Cambrian, just over half a billion years ago. Featuring a variety of Trilobites, Radiodonts, Conodonts, Stylophoran Echinoderms, Pikaia, Lobopodians, Vetulicola, early Molluscs, and various other early animals.
Popular films navigate the dishonesties of the cinematic romance. Serial killers and their cohorts read segmented love letters from Orson Wells, James Joyce, and Johnny Cash. Pornography plays to a despondent song that breaks through the fantasy of these maladaptive rom coms. And the hoax that is compulsory heterosexuality is laid bare. The sale of traditional romance as a sleight of hand under male supremacy is unveiled to simply be the normalization of both a soft and hard form of violence.
A biopic of the Melbourne street art scene from 30 years ago to now, from railways junctions at night to festivals, abandoned factories, rooftops drains and galleries. Interview with over 15 artists, as well as criminologists, anti-graffiti activists, politicians, architects & more, coupled with a soundtrack ft. Promoe, RJD2, Bias B, Portico Quartet, Vivaldi & many more. It's a story that's been here since the beginning of time. You've seen on the walls of your homes, the sides of your trains, as you drive through streets by rooftops, billboards and drains. It's the biggest art movement of our time. The streets have become a gallery since the cave painting is now collective.
Exactly one year after a tragedy, a young writer carries on through the night as though it were any other. What first appears ordinary gradually reveals itself as something far more fragile.
In Harro & Big Barra, lure fishing legend Rob Harrison takes viewers on travels into remote Arnhemland in pursuit of big barramundi. ‘Harro’ shares his fond knowledge of these finned icons, and puts you right into the picture to show you how to come to grips with those fish of a lifetime.
A tired and lonely cleaner finds an abandoned mobile phone in an office she is cleaning. When the phone rings and she answers it, the caller appears to be herself. When she interrogates the caller her surroundings slowly vanishes until she herself vanishes.
the legendary live action movie where people cry and dragons die....
Two young adults tasked with protecting the world take a moment to discuss how much their lives have changed.
In 1992, his first senior year, he played 8 games and kicked 22 goals. But those statistics failed to warn the folk of South australia of the impending tempest which was about to hit their town.
Mixed media animated short
A collection of images of Anna Kannava as a young woman, posing, playing, and reflecting on her changing life, all set to an eclectic soundtrack.
A look inside the deadly conflict between bikies, the Hamzy and Alameddine crime families, and the depths of Sydney's underworld
Kisschasy: The Movie is Kisschasy's first ever official DVD release. Kisschasy: The Movie follows Aussie band Kisschasy as they hit the road for their largest and longest tour to date. This tour covered 37 shows in only six weeks. The movie documents the entire tour, from the first morning they wake up til the last person standing at the home-coming party.
The transformative power of a lot of makeup.
Found in the (now possibly lost) film archive at Lab Laba Laba in Jakarta, footage from a trailer of the 1981 Indonesian propaganda film Kereta Api Terakhir (The Last Train) melts into a soup of chemigrammed perforations. A film about the silence that follows the unspeakable; about blurred visions, untold histories and inaccessible archives.
John Pilger documentary from 1974.
With the end of the world imminent, sixteen-year-old Kyra struggles with the complexities of growing up and the difficult journey of self-acceptance.
Nadia is running from her life, while Nathan is trying to escape his. Two strangers on opposite paths, but they share a dissatisfaction for adulthood and a longing for more.
A screenwriter struggles to form an idea of what to create. So, he begins to alter aspects in his life to write something.
Ponsford, Ryder and Woodfull seen batting in Victoria's record-breaking innings against New South Wales in Melbourne.
Our hands cannot resurrect. Set amongst the shadows of a grainy, dystopian landscape, We Are Without is a visual response to life, death and self-delusion...
There’s someone for everyone – sometimes it’s just a matter of having the courage to reach out.
Australian stand up comedian, Jordan Shanks aka Friendlyjordies from Youtube fame, explores media bias and it's impacts on politics in modern Australia in his 2021 live comedy tour "Cancels The Media".
A detective goes to investigate a murder when he accidentally triggers a series of events that cause the apocalypse and the collapse of the United States (the world).
Referencing the then-current debate over the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Western Australia, the commercial aimed to “sell” gay sexuality, but was banned by the TV station manager. One of ten TV commercials commissioned for the “Personal Ads” group art project in Perth.
The story of the Fall of the World's Most Liveable City, through the eyes of those who risked everything to save it.
A man with little care for his front lawn is hunted by an evil gardener.
Hardress Cregan is a young Irish aristocrat facing severe financial ruin. His mother, eager to restore their family's wealth and status, pushes him into an arranged marriage with a wealthy heiress, Anne Chute. However, Hardress is already secretly married to Eily O'Connor, a poor, beautiful peasant girl known as "The Colleen Bawn" (meaning "pure girl")
Set over three days, Goody Goody Gumdrops is an absurd, comic observational musical documentary cum live album launch for Tropical Fuck Storm’s new album Deep States. Situated deep in Central Victoria on the banks of the Goulburn River at TFS HQ, we follow the band as they prepare for a rock show in their barn. Referencing the feel of the Australian Western and Australian Gothic (see Wake in Fright, The Cars That Ate Paris and Picnic at Hanging Rock) we travel with the band through their abject, weird and beautiful space. The weekend starts as the band welcomes you into their studio/cocktail lounge and teach you how to make their signature drink, The Tropical Fuck Fizz, then entertain you, Rat Pack style.
A documentary crew detail the struggle of Unbelievable Productions' visionary leader, Madeleine LaRoy, to stage a revolutionary reboot of Shakespeare's MACBETH (in space), with the help of her faithful best friend/choreographer/costume & set designer/tea lady/everything else, Deirdre Snowflake Fleckman. Madeleine enlists young drama school graduate Scott Johnson and alcoholic veteran of the stage Desmond Darke to help her mount her astounding vision.
A heartwarming comedy about resilience, self-belief, and the magic that happens when you stop chasing the rat race and start trusting your own rhythm. Donna is a hopeful Macedonian-Australian actress who refuses to give up on her dream. No matter how many rejections she gets or how quiet the phone stays. From auditions in her home studio to her Croatian roommate's "helpful" advice, Donna is determined to "make it".
Working solo in an emergency support vehicle, a reclusive paramedic expresses himself in a strange way, as he tries to reckon with the past.
Gore Street, Fitzroy traces the history of Gore Street, in Fitzroy, Melbourne’s oldest suburb. Through a series of interviews with longstanding residents, filmmaker Zoe Coldham, who grew up on Gore Street, paints a picture of the street and reflects on a community that has transformed through waves of gentrification.
Fan-made music video for the song 'All I Need' by Radiohead.
Welcome to a society where you can't survive if you're single. Hoping to not get banned from dating for life, "Simp" Sonny relies on nothing but the expert dating tips of Angelica (aka The Wing Girl), an online influencer who is now humanity's last hope as he navigates through various matches in a dating facility for loners. Sonny's flirting skills are put to the test when his next match is the Wing Girl herself.
A determined man agrees to partake in a gameshow - without being told how to win.
When a contraceptive implant sends twenty-one year old Andrea violently insane, she must find a way to remove it before she does something that she’ll regret for the rest of her life.
Horror Short: A fashion photographer sees a nightmarish aberration in the glare of his camera flash.
Hong Kong marked twenty years since its hand over; halfway through the planned forty year "one country, two systems" transition. Taiwan, once imperial China, once Formosa, now ROC on the edge of the PRC. Multiple exposures of street scenes distort space and place creating a fluid sense of impermanence and transition, of two states somewhere between China and not China.
In 1990 Macartney-Snape returned once again to Mt Everest with the idea of climbing the mountain from the sea to the summit. The idea had originally been floated by adventure cameraman Michael Dillon. With sponsorship provided by Australian Geographic amongst others, it would take Macartney-Snape three months to achieve this goal. This was the first time anyone had walked from sea level and reached the top of Mt Everest, as even the first expeditions started from Kathmandu, at 1400m above sea level. Although Macartney-Snape planned climbing Everest via the more difficult West Ridge, bad weather and strong avalanche risk changed his plans and he finally ascended via the South Col route.
A wanderer seeks revenge.
Enjoy christmas this year with the lovable Aussie character Humphrey B Bear
In the Faroe Islands, a nation with no trees, artist and craftsman Ole Jakob Nielsen sculpts exquisite lamps using rare wood from trees of yesteryear.
Two besties abroad in a Russian city are hustling to catch the last train. When Cookie suddenly disappears, Bonbon is swept up in a chaotic odyssey to find her friend.