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As a man dies, his mind drifts back to the evenings of his childhood.

Produced in association with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts at Kununurra in Western Australia, this moving documentary features three women who talk about their paintings as an expression of their relationship to their country. The women share a sense of belonging to their place and express this belonging through dance and song and all of their artistic expressions. On a trip into the bush around Cockatoo Lagoon near Kununurra, they explain the stories of their Dreaming and of their land, and talk of their own experiences growing up as workers on stations in the area. Each artist talks about why they paint - to teach and to share stories about their country with others in the community and wider afield. The film also observes them working on paintings, each giving her personal interpretation of a loved environment and a living culture. The paintings are all very different in style but all express a life-affirming sense of identity intimately linked to their own country.

GPS is a story about Thompson – a seven year old boy who has one dream in life, to be the voice of a GPS navigator. But unfortunately Thompson has a lisp.

A man is in a nightclub for a casting in a film. The crew like him immediately. However, they make a condition, to get the part he has to go with them to their studio. He accepts. When they arrive to destination the place turns out to be a creepy old basement in the middle of nowhere.

Features never before-seen footage of the making of their new album, New Detention plus their recent UK tour, 23 Hours Of Waiting Around has everything you ever wanted to know about Grinspoon and more. A LOT more.

The first Japanese Road Movie in Australia follows the psychedelic adventures of four punked up Manga inspired Japanese characters; Shark, Yuto, Kimiko and Gunja Man as they travel up the east coast of Australia in a 1961 EK Holden.

Movie that came with 1st pressing copies of 7th frenzal rhomb album "Forever Malcom Young

A young woman deals with her boyfriend leaving her.

Live gig 6th August 2005 in Brisbane

A stunning, Manhattan-esque metropolis made of paper is the setting for this stop-motion tale of all-too-familiar bureaucratic frustration.

A playful, dynamic and highly stylised examination of the parallels between the language used by a group of surfers in Sydney and that of the popular media. The director makes the cross-pollination plausible in the editing and uses dramatisations to give it all an ironic light.

In 1975, after 460 years of Portuguese rule, Fretilin, the revolutionary front for an independent East Timor, declared independence for the small nation. Ten days later Indonesia invaded. Fretilin, and the resistance army...

In 1949, Evelyn Orcher was abducted as a 14-year-old girl from her NSW country home. Her family lived with the pain of not knowing her whereabouts for 31 years, until 1979, when Evelyn appeared on television in an attempt to find her family. The day after the program went to air, Evelyn received a visit from a woman she had never met. It was her niece. Evelyn had finally found her family, after 31 long years. An emotional family reunion followed, but after the emotion faded, Evelyn returned to her former life. The torment of the past had opened fresh wounds, and a new struggle had just begun. Part of Message Stick series.

Boxhead and Roundhead are a pair of innocents in a land of monsters, hostile natives and appalling weather. This 8th stressful adventure is a tale of obsession and paranoia.

In the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, a grassroots family makes a precarious living by trading in betelnut, one of the world's most widely used narcotics. This is the story of resilient people who have few material possessions but who face each day with dignity and quiet determination. As they go about their daily work, the film presents us with a vivid portrait of present-day life in Papua New Guinea.

The curiosity of a schoolgirl leads her to skip a day at school to observe a classmate as she wanders through the city.

A visual odyssey of sixteen men with their own unique features and diversity who are transformed in the most extraordinary ways!

This fascinating documentary explores the collaboration between Marion Mahony, the first registered woman architect in the world and the longest serving designer in Frank Lloyd Wright’s practice, and husband Walter Burley Griffin. Their struggle with unyielding bureaucracy, the philosophies that underscored their life and work, and their passionate commitment to an architecture that expressed a balance between society and the environment and an affinity between the human spirit and the natural world. The film weaves together their personal and professional lives, drawing on archival and contemporary footage of their work, an extensive collection of photographs, the couple’s own correspondance and writing, and interviews with prominent architects, social historians and the people who knew them.

Jesaulenko, Nicholls, Kernahan, Silvagni, Bradley and Doull...just some of the champions who have worn the Good Old Navy Blue of Carlton with pride and distinction. Men who have helped take this foundation member of the VFL to premiership glory and cemented the club's place at the very pinnacle of sporting greatness.

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.

Chances are the food you eat is killing you. Discover the truth. Unmask the deception. This documentary takes you on an incredible journey of truth and discovery. This documentary brings together a staggering array of industry experts, world reowned academia and industry watchers, which combined together, makes a compelling case.

When Emmanuel's mother dies, his entire world falls apart. But when his estranged father reveals a secret, he discovers a family he never knew he had. But how can he become what they need him to be when he has no idea who he really is?

Ben Cropp returns to a mystery bomber found in 2005 and identifies it as a B17 Flying Fortress that carried an American general who was lost in the crash.

Robert and Grant tell the story of the go-betweens with an acoustic set on a sunday afternoon in Brisbane

For Australian documentary filmmaker John Darling, the tragic events of 12 October 2002 compelled him to re-establish his links with Bali that spanned some 30 years. John had lived, researched and made films in Bali for 17 years from the 1970s to the 1990s, and THE HEALING OF BALI is his observation of the Balinese response to the bombings and the aftermath. His film presents an intimate insight into traditional and modern Balinese methods of grieving and healing. Among those who tell their own stories in the film are Haji Bambang, one of the heroes of the night of the bombings. Many people died in Haji's arms on the night as he worked tirelessly with a group of friends to save the victims or respectfully cover the dead with white cloth.

"Black Magic" is the 1st ever DVD release from King Billy Cokebottle. As expected this compilation is packed full of King Billy's latest jokes that are sure to cause offence to countless people and also provide a laugh or two! Recorded in July 2003 @ The Dalrymple Hotel in Townsville and based around the comedy of the album of the same name, "Black Magic" offers almost an hour of laughs on this classic comedy DVD

Using the vast and untapped heritage of 8mm home movies, Homemade History is a private record of Australia. The series celebrates amateur filmmakers and their remarkable library of memories. Colourful, intimate and occasionally out of focus, each 5 minute episode tells a small story that fills a gap in our formal history.

Imperial Rome, between the first and second century AD. A young nobleman suddenly dies and before too long his mother follows him to the grave. Summer of 2000, a chance discovery of a tomb in the suburbs of Rome, presents the scientific establishment with an extraordinary opportunity and a unique set of clues. Inside the tomb are two marble coffins and in each coffin preserved bodies and some very special artifacts. This film is a scientific detective story to uncover just who these two people were, their status and lifestyle and, most importantly, why they were preserved at a time when most citizens were cremated.

A self funded, no budget, abstract animation.

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The Hooley Dooleys At The Farm

Boxhead and Roundhead are lost in the dark forest.

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In ‘Koriam's Law’ Australian anthropologist Andrew Lattas meets his match in philosopher-informant Peter Avarea of Matong village, Pomio, Papua New Guinea. Motivated by their lively dialogue the film sets out to traverse that most misconstrued cultural phenomenon: the Melasanian ‘cargo-cult’. A local leader called Koriam founded the Pomio Kivung Movement in 1964. In the face of official condemnation its political and religious philosophy sought to uncover that path to a perfect existence which whites so convincingly seemed to have found and, so selfishly, monopolised. ‘Koriam’s Law’ concerns itself with the contemporary works and understanding of the Pomio Kivung. Its leader is keen to show that the movement has nothing to do with ‘waiting for cargo’. Rather, its mission is to prepare the way for the coming ‘change’ and, at the same time, to organise for a better society in the here and now.

By Traum a Dream (2002) the unintelligent memories have become distinctly more sinister. Samples of found footage suggesting memory and repression vie chaotically for attention with Dirk’s voice reciting repeated words and phrases, punctuated by splutters and coughs, as though attempting to wrest some meaning. This meaning comes at last with the final sentence dragged out phrase by phrase in the third person: “he began to remember what he didn’t want to remember, what had been taken from when before he knew a secret of before he knew himself”. Steven Ball

The From Here On In: The DVD 1997-2004 was released in 2004 as a best of The Living End. The DVD featured the video clips to the band's singles as well as a super gig. The second disc contained a 2 hour documentary on the history of the band. Prisoner Of Society (USA & Aust Versions) Second Solution Save The Day All Torn Down West End Riot Pictures In The Mirror Roll On (USA & Aust Versions) Dirty Man One Said To The Other Who's Gonna Save Us? (USA & Aust Versions) Tabloid Magazine I Can't Give You What I Haven't Got Roll On (Summersonic) Save The Day (Splendour In The Grass) One Said To The Other (Summersonic) Prisoner Of Society (Summersonic) Blinded (Big Day Out) West End Riot (Splendour In The Grass) Pictures In The Mirror (Summersonic) All Torn Down (Big Day Out) Carry Me Home (Splendour In The Grass) What Would You Do? (Big Day Out) E-Boogie (Splendour In The Grass) Second Solution (Summersonic) In the End 2hr Feature Documentary.

Living memories is a community documentary project: the result of a unique collaboration between a group of older women from Melbourne's Jewish community and twelve Media students from RMIT University. Over a six-month period in 2008 nine women told stories from their lives to the students, who in turn fashioned these tales into video documentary portraits. These are stories of survival of the Holocaust, of loss and strengh; of great love, marriages, friends and children, travels and adventures; memories fond, sad and funny. Living memories also bring to life the history of the National Council of Jewish Women in Australia (Victoria), in the video oral history'Something wrth doig'. Anecdotes weave together to paint a picture of a community.

A short film that compiles the three SBS Station IDs, created by Anthony Lucas. They take place in his universe of The Shadowlands.

The Landau String Quartet come together to rehearse. Together they make wonderful music and yet each has traveled a very different path to become a musician. This dramatised documentary reveals each musician's intimate story centred around the long journey they have traveled with their instrument. Leon, the first-born son of Polish Jewish migrants to Australia is destined to become a great violinist, but his life moves in unexpected directions under the influence of his abusive teacher. Julia loses her innocence and discovers her own deep sensuality through her experience with music, and a handsome conductor. Richard plays the violin to escape his stifling suburban family. He encounters the dark and fearful world of his own psyche on his travels to the city to play.. Christie, a young cellist, throws off the shackles of her disciplined musician's life and escapes on an adventure with a handsome stranger, a journey that ultimately brings her face to face with herself.

The story of a gay couple who have together brought up a son. Now one of them is dying of cancer.

A young boy lies beneath a huge oak tree as life unravels around him.

After three decades in motor racing, no other Australian driver commands such broad public appeal as Peter Brock. Peter is an Australian motor sports phenomenon. Widely regarded as one of the most gifted drivers of his generation and an icon in Australian sports, he resisted going overseas to create a spectacularly successful careen in the one country he wished to call home. Peter's record-breaking achievements at Australia's premier race, the Bathurst 1000, are unlikely to be surpassed. Nine wins, seven poles and 12 podiums. Peter truly is "King Of The Mountain". Touring car racing has always been his passion, the ultimate challenge. Taking a car originally intended for road use and pushing to the absolute limit in competition. On bitumen or dirt, Brock has proved a master of the art and it's all detailed in this documentary.

Alter Ego is a documentary about virtual worlds on the internet, but ironically it’s really a story about people. Mind you, these are not just any people. You could call them eccentric. The more callous, when pressed, would say they were odd. But in each case we meet real people dealing with real challenges in an unconventional way – online in a virtual reality world called Second Life where their alter ego takes precedent.

Channel Seven and former AFL player and football film maker Rob Dickson present an amazing all access look into our unique Australian Game. Hosted and narrated by Nathan Buckley, the Essence of the Game were allowed into the dressing rooms during the entire 2008 season to take a behind the scenes look at what makes football clubs tick, including Hawthorn and Geelong on Grand Final day. The documentary also celebrates the breadth of the game to everything from kids to international teams and what footy means to them. Commissioned by the AFL and Seven to capture the essence of football, this documentary tracks a range of football stories from the elite to the grassroots.

Hi-5: Magical Treasures

Political satire on the importance of the electoral vote.

A fragmented portrait of an 84-year old man.

Alyawarr elders from central Australia, who worry about the survival of traditional skills and culture, pass on the skills and knowledge for making spears and woomera (spear-throwers).

A documentary on bouncers manning the doors of nightclubs in Melbourne, Australia.

Jack drives around his hometown of Mount Gambier, South Australia, looking for an excuse, however trivial, to snap, to vent and to rage.

Three characters submit to the night.

Surreal short in which a woman spends her time in a swimming pool, fully clothed.

The story of three talented young Aboriginal people, their aspirations and their dreams to reach the top of their chosen field. But how have they fared? From the Message Stick series.

Experience the harsh beauty of the dusty outback deserts through to the dark depths of tropical rainforests. Featuring a swag of 2 wheeled offroad machinery from 100 horse power V twins thru to 110 cc Hondas. Unscripted and unrehearsed Motorbikin' adventure DVD's are packed with fair dinkum, full on adventure, mateship and classic Aussie humour. -Lake Eyre in flood -Flinders Ranges -Vic High Country -Capricorn Coast Qld -Cambanoora Gorge -Hardcore Posties -Great Divide Ride Qld/Vic/Qld -Bridle Trail -24Hrs of Power - and lots lots more

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.

How 2 Exercise With The Hooley Dooleys

A film about the Mowla Bluff Massacre of 1916

In this macabre tale, the Prince Prospero isolates himself, along with many guests, in his castle in order to protect them from a deadly disease (The Red Death) that is ravaging the country.