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A picture of life in the Tasmanian town of Launceston in the mid 1960s.

A highly elliptical and tense story about an abduction, set in the Blue Mountains in NSW.

Upon feeling like a cigarette, Droob is sent on a strange journey, meeting various absurd characters. Soon he becomes more aware of the reality around him, and learns things he wishes he could forget.

Marie and Gus hang out, ride bikes, eat banh mi and get day-drunk as an ominous event encroaches. Are they oblivious to the horrors of the world? Or alive to them? Shot on 16mm in a host of familiar locales, Flide finds two people seeking to find moments of levity, spontaneity and connection in a time of end-of-days despair.

Witness country come alive as Mark Cora, proud Minjungbal man and cultural educator unveils the rich contexts that shape his evocative artwork, The Wind Dancer.

A fast cut-up of images, accompanied by Teenage Fanclub's "Radio".

The wanderings and wonderings of an existentialist philosopher.

Pictures of models from magazines, set to Koo de Tah's "Body Talk". A controversially feminist meta-narrative.

Various shots taken inside and outside a house.

A queer short film about psychics, secret rivalries, and following your heart. It follows the story of Delilah, whose mother runs the town’s only psychic and tarot reading business. Until the new girl at Delilah’s school, Emily, starts advertising her own online psychic services. As Emily’s business booms, Delilah and her mother realise there’s only room for one tarot reading business in town, and they’ll do anything to stay afloat. Except falling for the rival was never in the cards

Powerful and poignant, Her Name is Nanny Nellie offers us the rare privilege of bearing witness to a family reclaiming their history. In 1925, the Australian Museum commissioned three statues of ‘full blood ’Aboriginal people: a child, a man and a woman, exhibited as nameless objects to be studied as examples of a ‘dying race.’ The woman was Nellie Walker, Irene Walker’s great grandmother and director Daniel King’s great, great grandmother. Now Irene is on a journey to retrace Nellie’s life and to reconnect the other families to their ancestors’ statues and re-display them, this time with their names, identities and dignity. This is far more than a symbolic quest, but an opportunity to change how we remember and represent, and to give the nameless names.

Berivan is a self-determined young women who is stuck between her own desires and the expectations of her culture. Berivan's determination to move out of her family home to lead an independent life leads to unforeseen complications.

From city to outback, from torrential rain to tinder dry, a journey through the unique Australian landscape.

Follows a solitary protagonist as she wanders Western Sydney, commenting on the audio levels of everyday occurrences.

A tale of a middle-aged woman drawn into a blood vendetta largely set in Sydney’s industrial suburbs.

A successful screenwriting prodigy goes to film school and is forced to reflect on his status as an award-winner, by a character of a different clay from most.

A retrospective documentary including interviews with band members past and present, producers, fellow musicians and fans as well as behind the scenes footage taken around the world.

Four young gay men navigate the world of the hook-up app 'Grindr', sharing their experiences of longing, disappointment and discrimination.

One guy's day starts out pretty bad, but ends up pretty good. And one word sums it all up.

Featuring the latest news and theories in the 120-year-old worldwide quest to identify the person dubbed Jack the Ripper responsible for the murder of 5 common prostitutes around the seedy district of Whitechapel in London's notorious East End between 31 August 1888 and 9 November 1888. Will this serial killer's identity ever be revealed through DNA or other - as yet unrevealed - evidence?

A lonely boy walks to therapy.

Ex lovers meet for tea that spans their entire relationship

This account of the cattle industry in northern Australia includes such aspects as mustering, dipping and droving, together with some description of a typical outback station.

“Burlesqueing western conventions, this film has silent movie titles and music and a posse of shetland ponies. A gumnut satire of Westerns with a fine eye for the absurd.” (The Australian Filmmakers Co-operatives Catalogue of Independent Film)

The sexual label - gay, lesbian, bi, straight - has become a political tool which can either empower or dispossess its user. This film examines the complex tensions associated with these issues. It sets out to map the valid principles of empowerment underlying the use of sexual labels both past and present and charts the shifting relationship between the mainstream and non-straight communities.

A young gay man is hiding an embarrassing secret about his body. When a long-term crush begins seducing him at a party, he is forced to confront his shame and expose the truth, or risk losing the boy of his dreams.

A young Aboriginal man heads north in search of a girl, but discovers much more than he ever expected.

A high-concept drama/scifi about a Jewish boy who must decide whether to 'cure' his homosexuality with an injection or be ostracised from his community forever.

The surviving seven-minute fragment (original length unknown) shows street scenes of Ballarat is believed to be part of the 1907 film, the second feature film made in Australia (after the 1906 production, The Story of the Kelly Gang). Other scenes in the lost reels of the film were believed to have included gold seekers leaving London; the issuing of licences; the rush at Canadian gully; the arrival of the first women at the goldfields; licence hunting; diggers chained to logs and rescued by mates; the murder of Scobie; diggers burning Bentley's Hotel; the Rebellion; Peter Lalor addressing the miners; burning the licenses; building the stockade; troops storming the stockade; the stockade in ruins; and a look at Ballarat 55 years later

The City of Light is the second DVD released by Australian hip-hop band Hilltop Hoods. It was released in December 2007 by Obese Records. The City Of Light, documents the making of the platinum certified The Hard Road and the 2007 ARIA award winning The Hard Road: Restrung albums and the touring undertaken by the group in promoting these albums, allowing an insight into the creative dynamic of the group. The City Of Light incorporates two hours of exclusive interviews and music videos, including extensive live and behind the scenes footage from the The Hard Road: Restrung album launch. This performance saw the Hilltop Hoods perform alongside the 31 piece Adelaide Symphony Orchestra to a full house at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

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'.

Motorbikin crew go from Broome to Perth

The Legend of Tibrogargan is a film about Australian identity and about my own identity: growing up in France, I felt far removed from the country I belonged to. Ten years after my last visit, I decided to pay homage to my ancestors with one of my grandfather's orchestral compositions, "The Legend of Tibrogargan," and a radio recording of his voice telling it.

Combining the locations of Netflix's Bridgerton with contributions from leading historians and drama reconstruction, we discover the sex, drugs and Georgian rock and roll were very much a part of Regency high society.

Shots inside and outside a flat. White, pure shots, with a golden conclusion.

Man fights his own sanity.

Men Like Me is a techno documentary exploring the physical and social transformation of Dale Michaels, a transgender man. With stills, text, animation, colorising, morphing images and sound, slow motion and out of sync dialogue, Men Like Me breaks new ground to illustrate the (re)construction of the body as we know it. Men Like Me is not only Dale's story, but also an account of the filmmaker's journey. What does it mean to have a friend who is changing their gender and how does one adapt to such a metamorphic experience?

Filmed during the 2012 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Will Work for Laughs hears from experienced comedians like Greg Behrendt, author of He's Just Not That Into You, emerging comedy stars, like Daniel Connell and Mick Neven and successful fringe performers like Dr Brown and Slow Clap on the demands of a comedy career as well as live performances showing the artists doing what they do best.

All the trouble that Nan has come to blows over, may be the same trouble that brings the family together.

Australien Skies2: Contact Of Interest is the second film in the critically acclaimed "Australien Skies" UFO series from documentary filmmaker Don Meers. In “Contact Of Interest” we accompany Don as he returns to Kiama in New South Wales to visit UFO contactee Liam Freaney, who appeared in the first Australien Skies film. With a collection of UFO footage, black helicopters and claims of government conspiracy, Liam’s appearance in the first film caused a great deal of excitement and controversy. However, as Don discovers, not all is well with Liam. In the time that has passed, his experiences have taken a decidedly darker turn. Contact Of Interest asks the question “Is capturing a video of a UFO the end of peoples experiences or could it be only the beginning into the far broader landscapes of this phenomenon"

Facing a short term in prison, wealthy Eisenstein heads off to a masquerade ball to enjoy his last evening of freedom. But Eisenstein's wife, Rosalinde, and her chambermaid Adele show up to the costume party in disguise, and each try to teach him a lesson or two. This revival of Johann Strauss's operetta performed by Opera Australia stars Anthony Warlow and Ghillian Sullivan.

A look behind the scenes of Razorback (1984).

After a year apart, two estranged brothers reunite and tension rises as they confront their shaky past.

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?

A short surrealist drama that follows the story of a young woman who is desperately trying to reconnect with her strange and distant father who talks only to trees.

A story dealing with civilization's effect and man's cruelty on the Australian outback.

Since reforming, Birtles Shorrock Goble have released a major live DVD and CD. Recorded over two nights at The Forum in Melbourne, Australia, before packed houses, Full Circle showcased all of the hits made famous by the singers and songwriters of Little River Band, together with album tracks performed during a mid-concert acoustic set. New songs written by each of the members were also introduced. Full Circle was produced by Birtles Shorrock Goble manager Paul Rodger and mixed by longtime supporter and friend Michael Costa at Stream AV Studios in Melbourne.

Coastal scenes filmed with an energetic pattern of two frames image/two frames black, intercut with Ivor Cantrill’s painting of the scene. Sounds of the sea are mixed with vigorous violin improvisation. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

First of 6 animated shorts made for Nickelodeon.

‘The Bridge’ follows a young woman who hears a mysterious phone ringing in the forest and follows it into a surreal world, where inspiration resides but cannot manifest. It is a meditation on the creative act as a passage between fantasy and reality; a concept I was very much in touch with throughout the process of manifesting this film.

The film crew for An Introduction to Motor Cycling had to improvise with their equipment to capture the full experience of riding a motorbike. Here we see a motorcycle fitted out with handmade dual-angle cameras to simultaneously film the rider’s point of view and the bike’s rear view.

Mitch McTaggart once again reviews Australian television broadcasting from January to December, with highlights of the good, the bad and the cringe.

On a day like any other during the early Cretaceous, a travelling Microraptor lands on the wrong branch and upsets a nesting enantiornithine.

Sophie, a young woman torn between independence and duty, attends a Chinese New Year family gathering. When a red packet is exchanged, it uncovers hidden conflicts between generations. As tensions rise, Sophie and her relatives must confront the balance between their personal freedom and cultural traditions. The Red Packet explores themes of love, duty, and unspoken emotions, blending warmth with conflict to reflect on the ties that bind families together.

a reoccurring dream

A high school technology class are assigned into two teams. They're to make a movie showcasing the positive atmosphere of their inner West high school in Sydney. As they attempt to document their efforts, they unintentionally showcase the school's more unfiltered, juvenile and comical culture that lies within it.

At Black Range (1984) was shot near the Grampians in Western Victoria, and features monumental monochrome rocks with rainbow shadows and “fringing” in the moving eucalypts, which create coloured vibrations like the filmic analogue of Impressionism. The skin of the film and the rock itself are both living surfaces of mobile textures: lichen becomes electric, pointilist, as the camera fades in and out of focus. The shadows of skinny tree trunks dart like electric blue lightning, veins or eels. Shivering leaves morph into undersea anemones, caressing the rocks in a teasing, sexual way. Somehow, the loosening of Taussig’s “straightjacket of the spectrum” allows for a loosening of the straightjacket of taxonomy as well; classes, phyla, and even kingdoms drop away, revealing an undifferentiated field of vibrant matter in which entities shapeshift. (Tessa Laird)

AJ has been unable to come up with a script idea for months. His boss has been breathing down his neck. But, everything may change when he is sent to meet a peculiar old man…

Inside The West Papua Liberation Army