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In July 2022, The Paper Kites played a month-long residency in the small town of Campbells Creek. This film was captured during the month-long residency we performed last year in the small Australian town of Campbells Creek. It features performances from multiple nights at the roadhouse and all 16 songs from the record.
Unaware of the strings of suffering that manipulate her world, a young girl seeks to understand why her mother is the way she is.
Tony’s Dream blends reality and the dream world in this poignant film about a young Latin-American boy who struggles to fit into his new home in western Sydney. An escapist suburban fantasy that explores how our identities become a mosaic of overlapping cultures during migration.
After being attacked in his home, Detective Kibbles and the Team must find the killers of Officer peterson with the help of some new friends.
A wanderer seeks revenge.
Ant society awakens after the spring thaw to prepare a royal banquet. This video was directed by Zoë, who also did most of the animating as well as all the painting (but I did some stuff too!)
When a group of people with disabilities in Bolivia unite in protest for a pension, they never imagined what was to come. Trekking the Andes in their wheelchairs, they’re forced to confront a government that tries to silence them and a society indifferent to their struggle. La Lucha is a tribute to all those who fight for change.
A man struggles with indecision.
The sun-drenched landscapes of the Northern Territory form the backdrop for a politically neutral, storytelling approach aimed at fostering learning and connection between Indigenous Australian communities and urban Australians. Our documentary chronicles the transformative journey of two First Nations men, Jaxon De Santis and Justin Grant, as they grapple with their uncertainty about the impending Voice to Parliament referendum.
A mafia don and 4 members sit down for a game of Monopoly.
The story of how Pat O'Shane AM defied the odds to become one of Australia's most brilliant legal game changers, and a look at her ambitious federal election campaign. What does it take to make a difference? Four First Nations trailblazers – a senator, a magistrate, a media icon and a poet – put everything on the line for a brighter future. Senator Neville Bonner, a Jagera Elder, was the first Indigenous person elected to Parliament, serving 12 years across four federal governments. Former teacher and barrister Pat O’Shane, a Kuku Yalanji woman, became Australia’s first Aboriginal magistrate – a position she held from 1986 until 2013. Birri Gubba Gungalu radio host Tiga Bayles ruled the airwaves, presenting Sydney’s Radio Redfern and establishing the Brisbane Indigenous Media Association and the National Indigenous Radio Service. And Noonuccal poet, conservationist and activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal was the first Aboriginal person to publish a book of verse.
Plagued by visions of what her future could look like, Marcy becomes addicted to a pill that gives her vivid dreams and changes her appearance.
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.
David Bromley found that art appeased the voices in his head and helped him find beauty in the world. So he made the life-changing decision to commit his whole being to something meaningful. Light after Dark takes us into the world of this prominent Australian artist. With intimate access, we peel away the layers of anxiety, phobias and suicide survival, whilst embracing the humour, energy, and love that is ever-present in the Bromley world. David’s journey is not complete without his wife Yuge and it’s through this powerful partnership that we witness firsthand the fragility of David’s world and state of mind. As the Bromley’s live their authentic lives, interviews with friends, critics and musicians add perspectives and insight on creative process, mental health, and commercialisation of art.
I Found Water is an autobiographical experimental film that employs textured images drowned in darkness, to examine deteriorating memories and the mysterious logic of their preservation.
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 Chinese woman who migrated from South-east Asia doesn't feel apart of Australian culture or Chinese, causing her to feel alienated.
This award-winning documentary delves into the events of Black Saturday, the devastating bushfires that paved through Victoria, Australia, from February to March 2009. Through heartfelt interviews and personal stories, it explores the resilience of its survivors and veterans, and the strength they faced in times of utter darkness.
Examines the story of the murder of Tara Brown, a horrific case of domestic violence that shocked Australia.
A mafia boss (Boss Ton) turns to his least competant worker (Joe Mafia) after killing every other one. Eventually Boss attempts to kill Joe but is persuaded not to on the promise of a large cash reward.
Kaugere in Port Moresby, PNG. Rugby coach Albert Muri is no stranger to crime and the raskol gangs that tore his family apart. His eldest son was killed by the police and his second son is serving life in prison. Dia, his youngest son remains his last beacon of hope helping him training the local rugby team, channelling criminal minds into sporting heroes. As Desmond is pardoned and gets out of prison, the question arises: what future is there in a settlement that more closely resembles a slum and where everyone lacks everything?
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.
When her Naivety takes over, Dove runs away from home and is challenged by the people she meets on her journey.
Whilst helping her crush Ailish make a bird suit for the upcoming Moomba Birdman Rally, Pavi must decide if she’s courageous enough to take a leap for love.
Papunya animated story of the Snake and the Tape Recorder
After the events of a pandemic, two boys finally leave on their road trip. But not everything goes as planned.
Walk with David Holmgren (co-originator of the permaculture concept) across Djaara Country, as he shares his insights and discusses his unique approach to reading landscape, a wealth of knowledge and wisdom developed over forty years. David’s approach contributes to re-embedding reading landscape into our cultures as a known and fundamental human capacity, providing an opportunity for humans everywhere to deepen their connection to place.
Different encounters as experienced by the indigenous population of Australia’s Northern Territory frame the narrative, enriched by the collective’s approach to filmic ‘world-making’.
A surrealist painter’s nocturnal trials.
Papunya animated story
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!
There is no one way of seeing anything. Everything must reflect on itself. Time is not linear nor is the way we perceive anything.
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.
It was always going to happen—one day the chickens were just going to get to the point where they’ve had enough. It’s payback time.
Join an intimate chat over drinks with Lui, Ben and Stella as they explore the labels used within the LGBTQIA+ community when online dating such as poly, tops, bottoms, vers, bears and twinks. We often use labels to find tribes and self-identify sexual interests but does this pigeon-hole relationships?
A young hedonist's pursuit for pleasure is rudely interrupted by a neighbour whipper-snipping his front lawn.
In a race against time, a man goes on a fun filled adventure to find a Kombi van, revisit his hippie youth and explore the meaning of life. Meeting a colourful array of characters in the Australian Kombi world, he discovers that Kombis are not only cultural icons of freedom but are now also big business. While attempting to get a clapped-out Kombi on the road, he courageously faces his own mortality and embarks on a spiritual journey reminiscent of the 1960s counterculture.
“Citizen Gane” chronicles the life of legendary Australian Graffiti Writer Gane 2, who back in the early 1980’s at age 12, was one of the very first generation writers to play a significant role in developing the Graffiti and hip hop scene in Australia. His influence was felt for decades after, until his passing in October 2022. He first came to the attention of the Australian public back in 1985 when, aged 15, he was featured on the popular television program 60 Minutes. Overnight, he was a graffiti and pop culture sensation. Reviled by the general public but revered and admired amongst his peers, it earned him the highest honour of “King” status. The King of Sydney.
Rod O'Hara bought Bellingen Video Connection in 2018 when video stores were already considered to be on the way out – if not already dead. Now, years later, against all the odds, and after facing many personal setbacks, Rod and the local community have kept this iconic local business and bastion for lovers of television, film and screen culture alive - but for how long?
Through the eyes of a first-time club-goer and the voices of a few regulars, we take a look at the iconic Connections Nightclub through the ages.
Shot on Bidayǔh lands in Malaysian Borneo, mouthbreather is a meditation on Baker’s fraught but fulfilling journey re-learning her mother’s native tongue. Bukar Bidayǔh is an endangered Indigenous language spoken by approximately 50,000 people who live in villages at the base of the Bung Sadung mountain range in south-western Sarawak. Through a process of re-learning to think and speak in language, opportunities to communicate through time emerge. Mouthbreather is a reflection on the power of speaking language on the lands it arose from, and the relationship between naming, knowing and seeing.
Students have to solve challenges within the classroom and their friendships outside of class. Mr Cornley, the students main mentor, helps them to complete these tasks. With funny jokes and awkward moments, they'll manage through the year.
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.
In everyday life, sometimes things happen that we can't explain. Maybe they are made by small invisible creatures? A funny story about monsters sneaking around next to us.
Andrew Hamilton grew up in the far north shore of Sydney. He had a good upbringing, but found himself convicted for selling a large commercial quantity of magic mushrooms, LSD and the supply of MDMA. A self proclaimed 'Mushroom King', Andrew sold shrooms for over a decade before getting arrested. After doing time in prison, Andrew has found a passion in stand up comedy and is travelling around Australia making people laugh. The power of laughter which he experienced in a maximum security prison was the light-bulb moment that took Andrew from the cell to the stages.
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.
Get ready to hang ten this summer with Australia’s hottest rising star – Greg Larsen! The self-described “bad boy” of comedy is going to push all your buttons, and make you squeal... in a good way! Greg has been kicking goals in comedy for a while now, and this dirty-30-something is gonna give it to you straight (with a few curve-balls thrown in for good measure!). He’s been in The Tourist on Stan, Young Rock on NBC, and with his recent gastroscopy and colonoscopy, you might say the camera loves him inside and out! But where Greg truly shines is when he treads the boards to make live audiences giggle. He’s a big Aussie giggleman and he’s not afraid to admit it! Why don’t you come along and take a journey into the twisted mind of a real comedian? Get on the gravy train 'cause this lol-rocket is about to take off!
Xavier, a man living with Bipolar disorder, wakes with a goading presence in his room, soon joined by a more supportive character. As these two presences battle, he must rise above the bickering and ready himself for the day.
Things don't look too good for Geoff. But his son has a plan. Dare to Dream is the story of a father and son determined to have one last chance to reclaim their lives.
After he catches his teenage son watching gay porn, Dad Dragon gives him a stern talking to.
A young man goes through a breakup and experiences the 5 stages of grief
The Carnival captures the intimate moments of the sixth-generation carnival family, the Bells, as they haul their convoy of trucks, rides and workers from Batemans Bay to Darwin and back. Filmed over seven years, their journey includes pandemic shutdowns, bushfires, persistent rain and rising fuel costs – with a dwindling economy thrown in. The close-knit family battles not only to keep Australia’s oldest show on the road, but ultimately to keep their carnival legacy alive.
DOG WHISTLE is a mockumentary that follows the rise and eventual fall of an ambitious student documentary project. Compelled by rumours that a small right-wing political club is planning a racially motivated political demonstration on campus, a student documentary crew make a plan to uncover the insidious inner-workings of the Conservative Australian Men’s Party (C.A.M.P). However, while student director, Matt, sets out with a clear directorial vision, when he arrives to meet the club members for the first time and realises that he not only recognises the club’scharismatic President Jack, but knows him from a brief but heated encounter a few years prior, he suddenly becomes entangled in web of lies and the film suffers.
In the summer 1948, a well-dressed man was discovered dead on the beach at Somerton Park. No injuries, no identification, and every label removed from his clothing. There was no one missing who fit his description. A dead man with no name.
A group of flour-based sweets and loaves come together to make a new friend for their clique - a mischievous, weird and cute film in the kitchen.
Cartman and his landlord have a nice Burger Baby dinner together when it is revealed that Cartman is potentially scamming his boss and friend of the landlord. While walking home Cartman begins to feel unease as though someone is watching him. Is it is boss out to get him, is it a hitman hired by the landlord, or is it all in his head?
In the red-light area of Varanasi, India, an NGO-run education centre provides vulnerable local children with art therapy.
Angelo is about to call someone. Carmela answers.