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The film outlines the history of the redevelopment of the Sydney suburb of Waterloo. Residents are interviewed and archival footage is used to outline the history of change in the area. The documentary emphasises the need for consultation and shows the results of more recent residents’ action groups.
In Central Texas, Barbecue is more than a way to cook meat - it's a way of life, a path to salvation, and a sure-fire way to start an argument at the dinner table. This documentary covers five barbecue establishments.
In this personal documentary, a daughter uncovers the controversial choices that her father made in order to survive the Holocaust.
A young woman in her thirties feels very happy and excited – she has a partner, everything in her life is under control, so now is perfect time to have a baby. Unfortunately, that's not as easy as it sounds...
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.
What if you temporarily took leave from the safety of everyday life to battle through a challenge that scares you? What if your only worries were riding, finding food and water and a place to sneak a few hours of sleep? What if you forgot your self-imposed limits just to see what you were truly capable of for once? What if you were a racer at heart? Why wouldn't you want to take on the toughest races on the planet?
The 'Little Black Book' is now forgotten. before the mid 60s it meant having some human rights, being able to raise children in safely and interact with towns... Derby, W.A. - The Benning Family has a unique and amazing history as well as outlook. All the brothers had a natural musical talent and they are the first instrumental Aboriginal band, bringing the community together since the early 1950s... This Short Documentary is a narrative driven, oral history and pop interview based 'expos'e' which also explores 'Lateral Violence' - a theory that explains many trends in Aboriginal communities today.
First of 6 animated shorts made for Nickelodeon.
A man on the brink of death enters a church.
Things Will Be Different documents two neighbours’ experiences of displacement as they are forced to relocate from the Walker Street public housing estate in Northcote, Melbourne when it is sold for private redevelopment. The film explores the impact of losing one’s home and the important role public housing plays in our communities.
Two down-on-their-luck employees of an unsuccessful pest control service, arrive late to a job at their only paying customer's house, to find themselves replaced by a rival pest controller. Unemployed and angry, the two plot the ultimate revenge.
Documentary film about Mandaean priests and their congregation in Sydney, Australia. It includes footage of baptism and interviews with both Rishammas (Heads of community), other clergy and members of the community, who describe their faith and practice.
Based upon the legend of Sisyphus and using the voice of the late-philosopher Alan Watts, Yurodivy explores contemporary humankind's relentless pursuit for wealth and happiness.
Taking place in one night, Ken becomes obsessive about a girl he meets...?
Meth Kelly explores how Australia’s colonial frontier narrative has been shaped by the imaginary heroic actions of the cult figure Ned Kelly. Through a video work projected in one of the shadowy tunnels of the ex-convict structures at Cockatoo Island, this work questions the legitimacy of Kelly’s hero status through a modern reinterpretation of his moral persona. Thornton skews the national narrative rooted in the romance of a Western, by transforming Kelly into a “meth head robbing a 7 Eleven”, placing him in a banal (sub)urban delinquent realm, far removed from cult status. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney.
From the remote, islands of Vanuatu, comes an extremely unique and rarely seen tradition, water music.
We bet you've never been in a toyshop like this one before with so many magical surprises! Our adventures are always more fun when we're with our friends so why don't you come along?
The pilot of a massive starship a young girl holds more power than she will ever know.
Dwarfed by the dusty wheat fields of a remote farm, two mischievous boys barrel down the dirt driveway with a sticky accelerator, leaving a trail of destruction as they head towards the farmhouse where an unsuspecting Dad bakes a birthday cake. Furiously giving chase in a giant tractor is Mum.
A fairytale about three women of colour forced into absurd stereotypes by a magical curse infecting men — “the male gaze” — until one man’s transformation offers a different way of seeing.
The story of Bev Francis' attempt to become the world women's power lifting champion 1983.
Chrysalis is an animated meditation on metamorphosis – on how things are constantly becoming other things. The moon is waxing and waning, cells are dividing, babies growing and grubs becoming butterflies. Nick Wilson (Sound Fossil) brings to life Lachlan Plain’s rudimentary handcrafted animation with a mesmerizing composition for guitar and prayer bowl.
When something goes bump in the night, time begins to unravel in a strange way.
Esperance, a small town on the southern coast of Western Australia, is a community centre for wealthy pastoralists and graziers. A smaller number of First Nations people also live thereunder the control of the Western Australian Department of Native Welfare. The establishment of some First Nations farming businesses is an economic opportunity but also a challenge to the town’s culture.
The number of babies born with severe deformities and children developing leukaemia is rising dramatically in parts of Iraq. US forces used depleted uranium weapons to attack the city, which locals say has left them with this devastating legacy. One report even says the number of such illnesses in Falluja is higher than that recorded after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Walkley Award winning video journalist Fouad Hady returns to his home country to see some of the deformed and desperately ill children, and meets some of the people battling against the odds to rebuild their lives, and their city.
The Oldest Heart is a short documentary that follows the inspiring journey of Australia’s oldest female amateur boxer, Lyn Joy Mills, who at 71, embarks on an extraordinary journey toward her first official fight.
Luc Longley on Andrew Bogut: Lane Violation explores the unlikely mentorship between two basketball greats. As Bogut transitions from polarising NBA star to assistant coach of the Sydney Kings, this intimate documentary charts ego, resilience, growth and the shaping of a new legacy in Australian basketball.
'Wake' is a poignant tale of two brothers Syd and Elijah, who are on their annual camping trip in the Australian bushland together. However, Elijah finds it hard to stay present during the trip with his older brother Syd, as there is an aching weight within himself that he does not want to face – Syd’s unforgiving battle with terminal cancer.
A reunion between two old friends at an Inner West Sydney terrace reveals resentment and abandonment issues. What does it truly mean to be ‘mates’?
Jack drives around his hometown of Mount Gambier, South Australia, looking for an excuse, however trivial, to snap, to vent and to rage.
Family is more than just blood bonds. Christian, a gay man of Filipino-Australian origin, discovers the truth of queer life in the antipodes.
Images of gold in nature and art are repeated in a fugal structure from one screen to the next. The extra potential for image structuring provided by the multi-screen form interested us from the moment we saw a reconstruction of the final sequence of Abel Gance's Napoleon in London in 1968. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill).
During a routine graveyard shift, a security guard spots a mysterious black dog on the monitors. When he investigates, the dog chases him through dark corridors and transforms into a towering 7-foot demon. As he struggles to escape, reality distorts into chaos.
Orlando Gets a Call from the President, who says he's going to end the world due to humanity failing as a species. After the Call, he then talks to a stranger
In 1998, over 5,000 people travelled to Kakadu, in the Northern Territory, to stand alongside the traditional owners of the land, the Mirrar people, and lend their support to the Jabiluka Campaign.
Mei, an immigrant 8 y.o yearns for the type of life she sees on TV. A life that resembles the Western way of living that is so often played on her television. Her family's 'mom and pop' business struggles to make ends meet, and they can only afford to live in the small office room at the back of their store. Mei finds solace in the world on the other side of the TV - a world of picturesque homes, exquisite food and affectionate families.
The Brown Bear of Norway
In the eighteenth century, London was the biggest city in the world, a global centre for trade, manufacturing and industry. Bigger and richer than ever before, there was money to spend.
Inspired by burlesque
Two men Simon and Dennis meet online for a real time hook-up. What happens blurs the lines between desire and manipulation, as events fold into a dangerous baiting struggle.
Tony has struck gold at the club tonight. He's hit it off with a girl out of his league, and she's invited him over to hers. Things look too good to be true, but Tony's always up for a wonderful adventure.
Deena Lynch said of this film "The victim impact statement EP + film was written as a gift to myself. To return my voice and own my body - this is my protest. To give myself permission to feel and grieve, rage and cry. To remind myself why I came into art and music in the first place. To repair; move forward. To take back my potential and take up the space I deserve in this world. To rely on myself for justice."
Three teenagers run away from home when kids start literally vanishing into thin air, but find themselves stuck living in a motel with nowhere else to go.
A documentary about the odeon star cinema
Three characters submit to the night.
When Andy wakes up in the middle of nowhere, he has to figure out how to get home, and he just may need some help from the one person that stranded him there.
A young woman who yearns to become a concert pianist is rescued from a sleazy cabaret by a mysterious cat burglar with whom she falls in love.
Single mother Evelyn makes a fairy garden for their tomboy daughter to encourage them to reconnect with their childhood however, through the garden Rose meets a non-binary fairy who helps them to find what kind of fairy they truly are
A sophisticated piece of filmmaking, this 1962 short is built around a simple device: a young woman, Andrea (Andrea Adams), falls asleep on a train, has a dream of finding and entering an old house in the country with a man (Ron Dix) who describes the experience in voiceover in a matter-of-fact tone, and then is shaken awake in her seat; once she disembarks, the events of the dream are replayed shot for shot, and she narrates her movements in voiceover. In the final sequence, Andrea repeats her dreamed gesture of staring unhappily into a bedroom looking glass, only this time smashes it, glancing back at her splintered reflection as she is embraced by her lover. Year of release: 1962 Director: Ludwik Dutkiewicz Producer: Ian Davidson Starring: Andrea Adams, Ron Dix
A librarian with the ability to explode people into confetti must decide whether to follow her own rules or what she thinks is right.
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.
Modern interviews coupled with archival footage, South Australians tell the story of their protests and persecutions surrounding the Vietnam War.
When a non-binary filmmaker joins a new local women's footy club in Regional Victoria a simple desire to play becomes a complex journey of inclusion and belonging. An unexpected turn means the team has to fight to play. Their campaign challenges age old sporting traditions and joins the wider movement for gender equity. Following a wildly diverse group of people across the spectrum of age, body shape, gender identity, sexuality and skill level, they come together to courageously challenge notions of what it is to play football, how it’s played and who has the right to play it.
When the son of a billionaire (Riley Hillman) is required by the government to complete his English Degree in order to gain access to his inheritance, worlds collide when he walks to class and brushes up against the schools resident bully (Dallas Rodgers).
MYRTEZA BLUE is the intimate portrait of Graeme Myrteza — a once multi-generational farmer, now recognized Australian landscape artist. Filmmaker Eren Besiroglu chronicles Myrteza through his meditations on artistic exploration, evoking Myrteza to ask the question: ‘Why did I start painting at 60?
In 1981, Yuki [Noriko] Sekiguchi went to Australia to study International Relations. She spoke little English, but quickly befriended Joyce and Jack Hegarty, who became her 'second parents'. While close, Noriko sensed in Jack a buried resentment towards her, perhaps due to his experience fighting Japanese in World War II. Jack died in 1988 with this issue unresolved. Now retired and widowed, Mrs Hegarty lives alone in a Sydney western suburb. She is a devout Catholic and bowls at Ashfield Lawn Bowling Club. Mrs Hegarty expressed a desire to visit Japan and Yuki saw this as an opportunity to right some wrongs. In appreciation of Mrs Hegarty's hospitality, the natural parents of her 'adopted Japanese daughter' agreed to host Mrs Hegarty in their Yokohama home for three weeks.
Burning Daylight is a dance/film project. The performance is set from late one night until dawn in a transit zone outside a notorious pub on a Broome-style Karaoke night. A series of contemporary dance scenes unfold expressing the...
Wrapping paper is unforgiving. It becomes a showcase for every mistake, hesitant crease and misjudged cut, as we stumble our way through packaging up a gift. Keith examines the anxieties brought on by wrapping oddly-shaped presents.
A staged fictional documentary about people with physical disabilities who work in an alternative job. The documentary focuses on Oscar, an editor with cerebral palsy. When Oscar is shown a rough edit of the documentary by the director, Rachel, he becomes upset with the film’s exploitative nature, but when she shows him a scene at his laughter clubtherapy, he is able to finally share his conflicting feelings of his estranged mother’s battle with cancer.
After suffering financial ruin, Robert decides to sail a handmade boat to New Zealand. Seemingly to regain the respect of his family. Seeing the lunacy of his ambitions, his son Charlie tries to stop him.