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Michael and Bruce are the joint owners of a computer software company which is the subject of a fierce takeover bid by a rival corporation. Then attractive 22 year old Eloise, who is inexperienced and under qualified, applies for a job as Michael's personal assistant. She's intelligent, she has a sense of humour. Michael hires her on the spot. But is Eloise what she seems?
On a dive to the wreck of the Titanic, the crew of the Orion submersible become trapped on the ocean floor. Marcus Graves, his son David, social media influencer Jackson, and Titanic enthusiast Alejo embark on the perilous journey. Director
Lucille Bone moves with her body and her mind to understand how our body exists in this world. “When we look inward— Past the blindness we wear— We begin to unbind the heart, To loosen the hold of what was never ours to carry. To become the feather, We must first meet the weight.”
The beautiful Lune wanders her garden when a meeting with a vampire changes her. For better or for worse?
A girls' own adventure - two girls enter a fictional landscape, affecting the course of events. A remake of Jacques Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating.
A short horror film.
In Australia with its rapid development there is a need for insistence upon town planning. This film illustrates what has already taken place in our leading capital cities, where planning has been haphazard.
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.
Journalist Sarah Dingle goes on a journey where she digs through hospital files, chases leads, and takes a DNA test to uncover the truth about who made her and how, but the discoveries are more disturbing the deeper she delves.
A person in a fishing boat looks deep into the reflective water around them.
Rahma, an Eritrean migrant, contends with feelings of isolation and disconnect while raising her four young children in Melbourne's inner suburbs.
Comprised entirely of hundreds of pirated film samples, Hello Dankness is a bent suburban musical that bears witness to the psychotropic cultural spectacle of the period 2016 to 2021. Set in the American suburbs, the film follows a neighbourhood through these years as consensus reality disintegrates into conspiracies and other political contagions. Part political satire, zombie stoner film, and Greek tragedy, the work is also informed by the encrypted memetics of contemporary internet culture.
When Elisa gets home to the suburbs after a hard day at work and calls a lesbian phone-sex line she expects to get into one of her fantasies and have some fun. Things start to go horribly wrong until the final climax which proves not to be the one Elisa was expecting.
A mixed martial arts documentary following Lachlan Stitt (Amateur MMA Record: 3-1-0) as he trains for the Beast Welterweight Title at Beast Championship 7: Samurai. This short film delves into the psyche of an amateur fighter and the challenges he faces leading up to the biggest bout of his career.
In the line-up of great Australian realist films of the '70s, this short student film, nominally a documentary, is the most in-your-face and "gritty" realist film you will see. It's powerful and unforgettable. "It's a ground-breaker, venturing into the dark, slovenly lives of a couple of outsiders", said Nigel Buesst.
A young soldier returns from the War, greeted by his girlfriend who hopes that their lives will return to how they used to be. However, he is a changed man.
Marty and Moog take their modified cars off the beaten track for a multi-day adventure!
Ruby executes an audacious plan to finally be alone with her crush, leaving a trail of destruction in her wake.
Since the late 1970's a thriving underground scene of extreme music has continued to evolve in Australia. Metal Down Under takes a look at the bands, people and events that have shaped this unique slice of Australian history. More than just the music, we meet the characters that make metal in Australia what it is today. From promoters, radio hosts and magazine editors, to band members and extreme fans, Metal Down Under introduces you to a world you either didn't want to know existed, or have been a part of all your life. Featuring over 40 exclusive interviews as well as rare archive footage and photographs from Metal for the Brain, Metal for Melbourne, The Big Day Out, SBS, music videos, live concerts and much more.
Two men try to bury a body.
The tangible benefits of watching this film may be in allowing the intangible to enable changes in mood and perspective.
Frustrated by their lack of connection, Patrick resorts to desperate measures to spend more time with his six-year-old son, but in a moment of truth he must make a decision that will determine their future together.
An early Australian silent film depicting historical events on the Young district goldfields, then known as Lambing Flat. During the gold rush of 1861, tensions between Australian miners and immigrant Chinese led to rioting, with Chinese miners attacked and driven from the diggings. The film portrays these events as being the genesis - or birth - of the White Australia policy, a significant political issue of the day.
Found in the (now possibly lost) film archive at Lab Laba Laba in Jakarta, footage from a trailer of the 1981 Indonesian propaganda film Kereta Api Terakhir (The Last Train) melts into a soup of chemigrammed perforations. A film about the silence that follows the unspeakable; about blurred visions, untold histories and inaccessible archives.
Directed by Beaumont Smith.
A watershed program in Australian television, The Dream aired every night for the 15 nights of the Sydney Olympic Games. Roy and HG engaged in loosely scripted banter, hilarious athlete interviews, and most famously a reinterpretation of Gymnastics, Greco-Roman Wrestling, Weight-lifting and Diving with their own distinctive commentary style.
A documentary about a Brisbane-based DJ named Sebastian.
24 hr fake news of visceral simulation. Everything now exists in a heightened state of simulation, from TV news broadcasts to internal human bodies, nothing is real, everything is constructed.
A study of the people living and working in the Pittwater area 25 miles north of Sydney.
Verdi’s monumental music makes this historic epic an enduring favourite. Davide Livermore’s radiant production is a thrilling theatrical experience. Ten towering digital screens create ever-changing floor-to-ceiling set pieces. Immersive digital video design ranges from rich symbolism to vivid landscapes. Opulent costumes and props reflect the splendour of Egypt at the height of its power. Together with dramatic video, the massed grandeur of the famous Triumphal March is a visual and musical feast.
Boy has 12 hours to prepare to for his first fight
An idyllic run turns nightmarish for a young woman when the sun goes down.
Super8 bi-packed onto 16mm with recurring patterns and combinations of superimpositions. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)
A man on the brink of death enters a church.
Two friends, Hazel and Pike struggle to let go of each other as they reach a cross roads in life.
A dance of impressions, of humans and animals and nature. Light and movement, music and silence, melancholy and laughter, Daddy-Long-Legs takes delight in cinematic and musical play ...
A film about the end of the world: the myth that has been with us since the beginning of civilization, and the possibility made real at Hiroshima in 1945. The journey takes us from medieval paintings to 50s sci fi movies and leaves us better able to understand and deal with our destructive urges.
Formidable grandmother Isla Roberts is adamant. She insists that although she’s not a lesbian, her girlfriend Susan is. In this tender, richly humorous portrait of an 87-year-old horse carriage driving champion, we learn what makes an ordinary life extraordinary. Straight-shooting Isla’s lived experience of rural Australia, raising a family in severe economic hardship, and finally coming out later in life, all make for a poignant documentary of a woman who’s well ahead of her time and refuses to be put in a box. Director Marion Pilowsky tracks Isla for an eventful, cathartic year with empathy and incisiveness.
When the strange sounds in her new home prevent Elle from enjoying a relaxing night alone, she begins to suspect an evil presence. As she discovers the true intentions of her tormentor, her night becomes a fight to survive.
An Italian cinematographer finds himself in the midst of the Greek socio-political crisis. He returns home to Milano to his ex-wife and daughter, only to be drawn back to Athens, where an Australian TV producer hires his services as a maverick cinematographer.
By using plants, mud and salt in conjunction with alternative photochemistry, images are 'grown' on motion picture film. What at first glance is perceived as abstract turns out to be a concrete precipitation from phenomena that surround us in everyday life. The 'aliveness' of the images is underlined by Andrea Szigetvári's evocative sound-design.
Killer Love is a comedy/horror short film about sour break ups. It's about ill-advised couples counseling, love, trust, lust and revenge. It's about the masked killer in the woods, ready to take an axe to your head if you can't sort your shit out. It's about two couples, Violet and Henry, and Martin and Sasha, all looking for their own perfect weekend away, not knowing of course that Violet has promised the perfect weekend to her one true, and far less friendly, love. Hearts will be broken.
Two young men make a bid for freedom from the confines of a mysterious rural commune.
Architectural distortions of the second city.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Glumps plus a few things you can probably live without knowing.
Exposé of the ill-treatment of Aboriginal workers by white men. A dramatised documentary about the June 1957 Aboriginal strike on Palm Island reserve, off the north Queensland coast.
The Doco About Loving Yourself
A confused interviewee is tormented by his two potential bosses to his breaking point
In the tradition of the 20th century classic novel 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance', Growing Old Disgracefully is a biker documentary about a son's struggle to understand his father five years after a family break-up. Riding with his dad and the Ulysses club, we trace a motorcycle adventure across the southern Australian landscape, and the emotional terrain of family relationships.
A man wakes up tied to a chair, but when his captor shows signs of killing him, he must escape.
A piano prodigy living in Western Sydney struggles to survive. Torn between her mentor Mrs Hagedorn and her mother Cecilia, Lei must make decisions that can change her entire artistic future.
Two teenagers, Tom and Mac, are pulled and chased around Brisbane city as they argue about drugs, kickons and their life ambitions.
Josh is on holiday while his best friend Nick housekeeps for him.
Desperado Louise fronts a rumour that her daughter is the immaculate conception baby of Usain Bolt, a born winner destined for marathon stardom.
The journey of 3 mates coming to terms with the death of their best friend Archie
Two students set out to avenge the death of their Master in a world full of bad guys and thugs.
A man resorts to partying whilst stuck in an apartment.
Four university friends on the final push to adulthood take one last adventure through the bush in search of creating one last memory of youth.
