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Produced for the Adults Learning series, this short film presents a training session in which adults are introduced to punch card systems, exploring their apprehension and adjustment to emerging computer technology.
Daisy falls head over heels for David - a boy in her class - after they bond over shared opinions and experiences. Everything goes unbelievably well. No issues whatsoever.
Two kids try kill an insect.
An incarcerated Jewish teen encounters a mysterious tattooist with unclear intentions when he decides to get a tattoo, against the conventions of his religion.
Breaking open Stanley Milgram's infamous 'Obedience to Authority' experiments, Shock Room questions whether we're really programmed to obey.
Jones proposes to his girlfriend only to receive the worst possible reply, 'No'. Not being able to handle the heartbreak, Jones works on inventing a time machine so he can travel back and fix the dire complications within the relationship. Once the time machine becomes operational, friendships, loyalty and love is tested.
A Magician performs for her freaks in the circus when she looses control and finds something is living inside her. At an attempt to keep this creature away she comes face to face with her child only to end up in another womb.
A struggling art student's race to complete her self-portrait turns nightmarish when it begins to bleed-dragging her toward the edge of self-destruction.
In this highly acclaimed animated film, a lone sea turtle travels through space, her breath creating a whole new atmosphere. This becomes filled with forests, rivers, mountains and enterprising monkeys…so enterprising that they are forced to learn about sustainability the hard way.
Lily, a second-generation Chinese teenager, discovers a kite while helping at her parents' restaurant, and in her quest to fly it high she journeys through Australian suburbia and terrain.
Brett’s Grammar School is filled with identical students and teachers... called Brett. The Bretts are obsessed with one sport - tunnel ball. A new student, Bret, arrives and steals the show on his first day with his impressive tunnel ball ability.
A tape is found after the disappearance of a teenager in a small Australian town. On the tape is his descent into a shifting inescapable labyrinth disguised as a children's tv show....
A down-spiralling stand-up comedian is forced to confront his inner demons when a routine rehearsal for his comeback show collapses into a brutal psychological reckoning on stage.
A struggling production company take on a deadly assignment.
One man’s upbringing in Dunedin, New Zealand. Following his early life, bullying, and his own advice for the current generation. Unfiltered.
A nude woman walks along a beach and does some fire dancing.
Reckoning with the inheritance of childhood trauma, a past in ruins, and the possibility of redemption.
In the mid 1990's Mr. Ball managed a band called The Cracked Tiles. Thanks to his Certificate III in Business (Administration) and his superior intuitive powers, Mr. Ball acquired the rights to their album 'Hi-Vis Factory'. Due to various circumstances, which Mr. Ball would rather not comment on, the album was never released. As a last ditch attempt to make some money he is now releasing it after 25-30 years, no one seems to be sure on the maths for some reason. Probably because we don't know when it will actually come out.
What happens when a girl’s parents find the "perfect" boy for her? Is she ready to say yes, or does she want “more”? ✨ Watch as sparks fly, emotions run high, and love takes turn after turn! A story that was supposed to be simple… but as Merunasri and Dhaventhiran learn, love writes its own stories.❤️ Witness the magic of an unexpected love story, coming soon!
A brief encounter of a free spirited Ghost making his way through the dark misty and foggy woods, suddenly being confronted at full force by an unexpected phenomenon.
Depiction of the ugly side of Australian life.
This game is the grand decider in which state has the better payers and consequently which state is better. Nothing is off the cards when it comes to this game and the players leave it all on the field, head to head who’s gonna take it home?
The animate body as a medium for the celebration of life is on display as a young Jane Korman dances with her parents and their friends, all of whom are Holocaust survivors, in an Australian forest.
Richmond = rich world, rich woods. 1990 to 1995. The sites which resonate with meaning and feeling for the film-maker, now leaving Richmond, heading north by northwest.
Kala Kunbolk follows women of Gunbalanya, Arnhem Land, in their quest to preserve their age old tradition of collecting pandanus leaves and natural colour on country to create handcrafted baskets.
Voice of Change is set on Bougainville, an autonomous region of PNG coming out of a 10 year civil war. Humanitarian Sister Lorraine lived through the crisis emerging as a mediator to promote peace and reconciliation. Now she leads the Nazarene Centre, assisting individuals and families with their daily struggles, as Bougainville is not just re-building infrastructure, but its people.
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 staccato study of street level action and inter-action. People and vehicles on everyday journeys are atomised into coursing fragments of light, shadow, angle and inertia, reiterating and disassembling the creation of motion out of still frames at the heart of cinema. Filmed in ten cities on four continents.
Charts the causes and course of the Persian Wars from the Ionian Revolt in 499 BCE through to the Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE.
A story of Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones, an extraordinarily vivacious 10-year-old-girl, and her adventures at the Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy. From royal cruises to Christmas balls, the new school year holds no shortage of excitement and surprises for Alice-Miranda, Millie and Jacinta.
An experimental animation that draws the micro and macro into stark relation, "White Bat" occupies a no-zone that separates you from your own body. "White Bat" is a virus dripping from the roof of your skull. Its violence and racism peppers your body with denial, numbness and avoidance, and festers.
Presented by Vodka O, darling of aussie indie-pop Amy Shark performs stripped-back versions of acclaimed hits like 'Adore' as well as some brand new tracks from her album 'Monster Love'.
With honesty, humour and heart, Deafinition presents the first-hand narrative of Paul and his experiences being deaf. From the physical day-to-day, social interactions, the intricacies of communication and language, the frustrations and challenges we see it all unfold through the inner world of Paul.
There are approximately 6.5 billion moments that occur on Earth everyday... Some remembered. Some forgotten.
Australia's first national sudoku team The Numbats - four ex-rugby mates - travel into the unknown of competitive puzzling as they enter the World Sudoku Championships in Goa, India.
On the sixth month anniversary of his break-up with his ex-girlfriend, Michael decides to celebrate by ordering a girl from an agency and tries to recreate his failed relationship. Sometimes it's best to let sleeping birds lie.
Thoms dedicated three months and a toolkit of pins, razor blades and scalpels to create the rich, abstract surface texture in Bluto. The result, according to the filmmaker, ‘was something like thunder and rain, interspersed with burps, belches and farts, which added an urgency that seemed to express the anxieties of the time’.
A discussion by friends with long-winded histories and a love of drinking results in four of them running off to house-sit for a long weekend while playing Killer, a schoolyard game where each player has to "take out" targets over a period of time using everything from water pistols to bits of cardboard with "sword" written on them. As the game progresses and frustrations rise, sexual tensions surface and it's obvious that with the possibility of only one winner, some people will do anything for victory. Dead Man Drinking is a full-length independent feature-film released for free under a creative commons 3.0 license.
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.
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.
This withdrawn concert film showcases Neil Hamburger, America's Funnyman, at the top of his game before a sympathetic Sydney crowd.
Max Bourke (played by Max Bourke) tastes tea in his boost juice, and in an effort to find out why, he has to infiltrate British HQ.
A girl moves back to her hometown and tries to pick things up with the special someone she left there.
Perched on the edge of the continental shelf, 300km from the Australian mainland lies Scott Reef. This ancient coral atoll, isolated for millions of years from other reef systems and mainland influences, has developed its own sub populations of unique species. Formed more than 15 million years ago Scott Reef is home to more than 1200 species including endangered seas snakes, green turtles and spectacular corals. Endangered pygmy whales and other rare cetaceans stop at Scott Reef on their annual migrations to feed on the abundant krill. It is one of only a few spots along the west coast of Australia where krill can be found in sufficient quantities to replenish the needs of these large creatures. But Scott Reef is under threat.
When Adam, a self-absorbed and lonely millennial, wakes one morning to find his estranged half brother on his doorstep, he must face the family he’s been running away from.
After his sister chastises him for being unable to move on from their mother’s death, Dalton, a grieving, mid-20s alcoholic, impulsively decides to take his mother's urn and embark on an aimless journey across the Australian outback. With no clear destination and only the open road ahead, he sets off in search of some kind of solace. Along the way, Dalton crosses paths with Cassie, a high-strung and anxious actress whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere. Cassie is on her way to an important audition but now finds herself stranded, out of fuel, and panicking about missing her opportunity. With no phone signal, little hope, and only two bottles of water and vodka between them, the two reluctantly agree to walk to the nearest petrol station together. Through moments of humour, irritation, and vulnerability, the two unlikely companions form an unexpected connection in the vast landscape before reaching an explosive and hopeless climax.
Super 8 black and white short film.
Sam Taunton is the perfect comedian for couples, parents, groups of friends, friends of friends, enemies, dogs, cats and anyone else. Cancel everything and spend an hour with Australia's best stand-up comedian (self-appointed).
WAP stands for White Australia Policy, a racist policy which limited migration into Australia into the nineteen fifties. This policy can be read as a marker of the guilt surrounding the Aboriginal genocide that had blotted white settlement of Australia since its inception. This film re-frames historic material to allow the voices of the deferred and dispossessed to speak their trauma, speaking often through the bodies and voices of the oppressor to reveal the unspoken truth.
A watchful little girl observes shades of grief at her father’s funeral, ultimately coming to terms with death in her own unique way.
A ghost takes one last look at the world before leaving forever.
Nathan's fever dream of a gym session grows complicated when he realises that he has feelings for a new member, and the two proceed to dance around their desires.
Ten year old Ruby's relationship with her beloved antique doll takes on a sinister dimension when she comes to believe she can be reunited with her dead mother.
Two closeted actors en route to an awards show argue in a chauffeured limo about how important it is to appear straight.
Workaholic Lara is having the day from hell and the last thing she needs is to spend her time interviewing smug couples about their endlessly fulfilling love lives. When she pays a home visit to a bubbly gay couple (Ricky and Martin) who are seeking De Facto visa status a hidden agenda becomes apparent, causing Lara to reevaluate her own life and make some big decisions. "Vis à Vis" is a bittersweet, topical, offbeat comedy that looks at the choices we make, and the lengths we go to, for the ones we love.
An evolutionary tale of Don Herbison-Evans, a man who collects butterflies and then experiences a personal metamorphosis on the dance floor.
When the Kellys Were Out is an Australian feature-length film directed by Harry Southwell about Ned Kelly. Only part of the film survives today.
Founding father of Anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski's work raises powerful and disturbing questions today. This is a look at his legacy and the imprints it has made on the generations that followed.