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A closely observed portrait of a single man in his 40's who lives in St. Kilda. Although he has none of the trappings of conventional existence, Kelvin's obsessive interest in born again Christianity, physical culture and recent German/Jewish history has given him a way of making sense of the world and led him to a number of people, friends through whom we see something of his life and beliefs.
This cute little short was made for the Australian Broadcasting commission, with animation by the small Rowl Greenhalgh productions.
A mad scientist's life turns pear-shaped after accidentally installing a vampire brain in his monster creation.
In this colorful musical short, Penny, the owner of a blossoming sweet shop in 1940s Australia, must decide between her career and her forbidden love for honey supplier, Charlie.
Mother and son turned killers. Mama's Boy is a true crime Australian documentary investigating what drove Samantha Brownlow to convince her son Corey Lovell to murder her stepfather.
Each year, Melbourne’s ‘Same Sex Formal’ is attended by young people from across the state who have missed out on the one rite-of-passage most teenagers take for granted - either because their school explicitly refused to let them bring a same-sex partner, or because they just didn’t feel safe to do so. With breathtaking insight, honesty and humour, 12 LGBT teens reveal the highs and lows of their experiences with falling in love, coming out at high school and coming of age.
Music lessons can be like torture and there’s just nowhere to hide and no exits available
Narrated by former rugby champion, Ian Roberts, Walk Like A Man traces the journey of two of the world's best gay rugby teams - reigning champions, San Francisco Fog and feisty upstarts, Sydney Convicts as they prepare to battle in the World Cup of gay rugby - the Bingham Cup. This ultimate prize is named for 9/11 hero, Mark Bingham, a passionate gay rugger and a passenger on Flight 93 who courageously stormed the cockpit and prevented the hijackers from turning their flight into a terrorist weapon. Character driven, emotionally charged and socially compelling; Walk Like A Man is a real life drama about real life issues punctuated with blood, sweat and queers!
A film detailing an excerpt from the life of an adolescent on an Australian farm, following his solitude, his devotion to poetry and his broken relationship with his family.
Stories of Australian and New Zealand Rock and Roll.
Artist/poet/novelist/singer Pip Proud was being feted in the media as an underground superstar at the time this experimental documentary was made. The film shows Pip’s reactions to automated, ritualised city life, using altered speed photography and, in some instances, incision and puncturing of the film stock.
A Prince of Monaco and Constanza, his consort, have a common birthday. They hate each other. Paranoia grips them. They flee to an island. Meanwhile large and medium-sized birds run amok in the casino.
A teen, struggling to find her place, finds comfort and strength from a fictional TV show hero.
Exquisite Corpse was an image and language parlour game played by the Surrealists, which asked players to collectively write or draw a story or picture, with only limited knowledge of the other players’ contributions. Translating the original game into an immersive VR experience creating a composite human body, Exquisite Corpse maintains the rules of the game with artists and filmmakers contributing, each with no knowledge of the others’ work beyond which body part they were representing, with complete artistic freedom.
Teno looks at a widespread workplace illness, tenosynovitis - a crippling and often misunderstood disease. The nature of modern work practices can inadvertently lead to the illness, which mostly strikes women, since they predominately work in jobs requiring repetitious activity. This is especially evident among migrant workers. The program also considers the responsibility of both employers and employees.
A woman is so caught up reading stories of love, she is oblivious to a man who has fallen in love with her - but his dog figures out how to orchestrate “a touch of romance.”
Welcome to HORROR FACE-OFF — the ultimate showdown where legendary horror icons clash in brutal battles to the death, each with our own twisted spin on their characters! In today’s episode, the infamous GHOSTFACE from Scream takes on one of the internet’s most notorious creepypasta killers… JEFF THE KILLER! Who will come out on top? One thing’s for sure—there are no rules!
1960s vocal harmonies, coupled with a collage of timeless images, evoke an idealistic San Francisco in this heartfelt tribute to the world's queer capital.
Cinematic commercial which packs a punch
A story of lust, jealousy and hair removal.
One the most gifted and controversial athletes and how a social media post landed him in the heart of the culture wars.
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.
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.
When a camping trip takes a wrong turn, a mysterious figure in the woods unleashes a deadly virus — and the infection begins to take hold. As their friend begins to change, the group scrambles to survive the night, uncovering a nightmare far beyond anything they imagined.
Exercise routine teaching the basic of ninjutsu.
Maya, is an anxious young woman, who seeks out her future from a mysterious fortuneteller, only to be presented with a horrifying reading of a dire warning to 'stay away from water'. Maya chooses to ignore the gypsy and is thrust into a battle with her inner self and must fight to retain her sanity.
Influencers Emelia and Brook go in search of a grave that has mysteriously gone viral. Capturing everything on their phone, as the horrors unfold.
Alone on his birthday when no one shows up to his party, Timmy embarks on a journey that ultimately reunites him with his loved ones for a heart-warming celebration.
A fusion of abstract optical soundtracks from analogue 16mm and 35mm film expanding on the 1930’s Russian experiments of Nikolai Voinov which impacted electronic music.
Leo's got something important to discuss with his 8-year-old daughter - he's got a brain tumour. But when Luna hears 'brain tuna' her big imagination takes them both on an fantastical detour. Leo must embrace Luna's fantastical worlds and use them, if not to make her understand entirely, at least to find strength in the face of his diagnosis.
Before winning the coveted Archibald Prize in 2022, artist Blak Douglas debuted one of his most emotionally charged works, Domestic Violets, at the National Gallery of Australia’s 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial: Defying Empire in 2017. The work features a portrait of his father’s mother, Clorine Morthem, Dhungatti people, at the centre. In this documentary, Blak Douglas shares his experiences of tracing his grandmother’s story. Beginning with old family photographs, he follows his grandmother’s life back to the Cootamundra Girls Home, where she became a Ward of the State, stripped of her name, language, family and culture and forced into servitude. At the NSW State Archives, he unearths the harrowing machinations of a system that deliberately fragmented his family.
As Lizzy's twenties come to a close, an aspiring author facing a streak of misfortune finds herself gripped by fear at the prospect of turning thirty. Suddenly thrust into three vivid fever dreams, she awakens in the lives of an accountant, a young mother, and an E-Girl Influencer, each reality offering a glimpse into alternate paths she could have taken. Through her journey within these dreams, she searches for traces of familiarity, longing for the comfort of her dog, Baby, and the life she had previously resented. Yet, as she navigates these surreal scenarios, Lizzie ultimately finds peace in realizing that her life is fulfilling. "Waking up Thirty" isn't as daunting as she feared.
A father tries to get his daughter to swallow some medicine.
Hirohisa Kokusho unearths the history behind his 1986 horror anthology, Nighty Night: Midnight Nightmares, a film that was considered lost until 2023. The film explores the origin and inspirations, behind the scenes production and development trivia, as well as the importance of preserving media so it can have a new life in the digital age.
A journey to one of the most controversial places on the planet the NSA, CIA secret base, Pine Gap.
Tomato Day is a short study of the tension between nostalgia and the filmic image. Many hands at work labour over a family tradition as it is translated between the generations.
Get ready to light up the stage Down Under! DreamHack Melbourne 2024 will feature the first-ever hololive 3D concert in the southern-hemisphere, with performances from Houshou Marine, Tokoyami Towa, Kureiji Ollie, Pavolia Reine, Mori Calliope, and Hakos Baelz Event Website: https://dreamhack.com/melbourne/hololive
Phil Breslin embarks on an adventure to unlock the hidden secrets of the Dutch Dakota and its fortune of lost diamonds.
A look back at the film-maker's career, via the use of out-takes, unused scenes, scenes from uncompleted films, home movie footage, etc.
When her Naivety takes over, Dove runs away from home and is challenged by the people she meets on her journey.
A boy watches his phone.
A 15,000 mile, 6 month journey for an incredible look at Australia. Just over the next wave and down a dirt track is a country you've never known. And people who have lived there forever.
Combining animation with live action this is one of the few truly surreal works to emerge in the Australian cinema, an intensely personal reflection, by Czech artist Dusan Marek, on the importance of maintaining an inner freedom. Marek is the film's solitary character – the artist and his alter-ego who wears a de Chirico-like mask. The spare commentary poetically alludes to the artist's conflict with his subconscious culminating in liberation. The images are assembled in a manner akin to music. Marek hoped that this would allow viewers to maintain contact with their imaginations.
Meet Sistergirls Bree and Rosalina as they talk about their lives and their work to create a support network for transgender and gender-diverse people in Australia and the Tiwi Islands.
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 mafia don and 4 members sit down for a game of Monopoly.
Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? From above the surface the salmon industry in Tasmania spruiks to the consumer a green and sustainable industry. PARADISE LOST looks under the water to reveal a dark underbelly of lies and environmental devastation which will shock anyone who decides to eat another mouthful of this toxic fish.
With ulterior motives in hand, a man travelling on a plane has a dastardly plan. Will he succeed?
UNDER THE RED MOUNTAIN: CHIFENG AND FURTHER NORTH documents a hitchhiked, trained and walked journey from Shanghai to the city of Chifeng and then from there, further north into Mongolia. Shot during the middle of winter, the film connects the decrease in the temperature with the increasing isolation and militarisation of the places, spaces and people of China and its “autonomous regions”.
After an extreme night out, Cassy(Fallon Linuson) discovers that they can't continue with their current lifestyle as they converse with one of their plants.
Following the death of his friend, a troubled detective struggles to resolve the case in light of an unspoken bond with the killer.
The Lost Crystal of Jessica's Room follows two children who play a game where they use a treasure map to find a crystal in their backyard – but the crystal is not what is seems.
Ebony Mason has just found the perfect little black dress. Not in a catalogue. Not in a shop window. Not even in her favourite designer store. It’s turned up in the most unexpected place, and it’s about to make the most unexpected things happen.
A time-lapse document of a farmhouse in the Netherlands mapping the changing seasons, the light and shadows. Made with an interval-meter fashioned out of a wind screen wiper motor.
How 2 Exercise With The Hooley Dooleys
A young girl living in poverty finds freedom within her imagination.
A man discovers what the meaning of life is as he experiences severe hallucinations day by day.
Lola, a bitter, burnt-out drag queen dishes the dirt in this claymation, gin-soaked, stumble down memory lane. It ain't easy being gay and clay.