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Alex, a self-assured young gallerist, escapes the city for a summer-idyll with his artist-friend Daniel. When met with an unexpected beach house guest, the alluring Chloe, Alex's best-laid plans unravel and the holiday draws to a close.
Stacy throws a party in a strangers house, she soon discovers the home owners dark past, which makes their dreams come true.
Siblings Andy and Zach are stuck in lockdown in two different houses, and the only thing that connects them is their phone calls. Each trapped in their own heads, they're forced to come to terms with themselves before their relationship collapses under the weight of their neuroses.
Based on a short story by Jen Webb, Terra is a short film about restoration and reconnection with the earth in the age of a climate crisis.
Katia Schwartz is a Deaf and Queer professional Aerial performer, and the owner/founder of Sky Sirens dance studio in Sydney, Australia. After an unexpected diagnosis with a profound hearing loss not once but twice, she is compelled to reflect on her identity, life and career. Katia's story is a unique journey through passion, loss and love from a perspective rarely represented on-screen.
Three queer misfits inhabit the Australian bush, scavenging debris from a ruined society. They live in a mundane dystopia, sleeping among human rubbish and playing with unfamiliar artefacts. After the arrival of a mysterious stranger through a nearby drainpipe, their reality descends into a psychedelic dreamscape.
A little book, three girls and a big game. In 1975 Jan Harper wrote a children’s book Girls Can Do Anything featuring three girls who wanted to play Aussie Rules Football. With the recent establishment of the AFL Women's League footy continues to be a metaphor for female participation in contemporary life.
While celebrating their mother's impromptu visit to Australia, the reunion is short lived as Zara learns of her mother's plans to take her younger sister back to Somalia to have her circumcised. Needing to flee the family home, Zara reaches out to Maya, an old friend from the same community. Despite aiding in the escape, Maya ultimately betrays Zara, bringing the sisters back home to face the consequences alone.
Have you seen a big cat in the Australian bush? Deeply ingrained in Australian folklore are tales of big cats roaming the bush. The Hunt follows researchers in their life long pursuit to prove these animals exist.
A documentary of Asian Marching Boys and Friends. An LGBTIQ+ Asian group that has been marching in Sydney Mardi Gras over 15 years. Being LGBTIQ+ and Asian in Australia is not easy. This community group and Mardi Gras Festival have helped them to have the place to raise and roar their voice louder, promote the visibility and acceptance of being LGBTIQ+ Asian people in Australia. The perspective interview of the community leaders and group members reveal how they create a very strong group and outstanding parades until become well-known nowadays and always being presented on the TV news and media every single year.
The Australian resort city known as Gold Coast has a problem with sharks in their suburbs and is looking for possible solutions.
An intimidating encounter with a group of teens forces a 12-year-old to ponder her place in the world.
A detective, still reeling from the unsolved murder of a beautiful teenager, recounts the events surrounding the girl’s mysterious death as her own psyche begins to fracture.
Caden, a disturbed loner whose girlfriend has recently died, takes his anger out on an unknown victim. As he buries the body in a seemingly empty location - everything doesn't go according to plan.
An experimental film dedicated to the "blink". Dynamic abstractions (created through the use of prodigious optical printing and directly working the film frame) investigate the nature of human optics. Music by Maurizio Kagel.
Jandamarra's campaign against white settlers in the Kimberleys in the north of Western Australia in the 1880s remains a source of pride and inspiration for the Bunuba people. A book, a play, and now a documentary film, are helping to bring the story to a wider audience and a new generation of Bunuba people. A feature film is also in development.
In this fifth and final film in the Doon School quintet, MacDougall focuses on the life of one student whom he discovers at the school. The film was made in parallel with 'The New Boys' and intersects with it at several points. However, instead of looking at the group, it explores the thoughts and feelings of Abhishek, a 12-year-old from Nepal, during his first days and weeks as a Doon student. This is at once the story of the encounter between a filmmaker and his subject and a glimpse of the mind of a child at “the age of reason”. This is the most intimate and interactive film of the series.
“After three very hectic films, I needed something to soothe my nerves. I came across these Coptic crosses in a Greek souvenir shop. and at the time I also heard some Gregorian chants. I thought these cheap plastic crosses looked really beautiful...and I shot them against black velvet so that they appeared to float, emanating something, in a deep space...kind of heavenly images. Nothing much happens...it's really a meditation. Funnily enough I found that the Hare Krishna Movement (which was flourishing at the time) rented the film out a lot to use at their camps. Another time Albie [Thoms] used some of the footage on GTK [ABC TV's youth/pop program], where it looked very odd indeed. I believe that Gregorian chants were in the hit parade only recently. This sort of spirituality touches all kinds of people...” (Paul Winkler)
Eskimo Joe’s sophomore album, A SONG IS A CITY, debuted at number 2 on the National ARIA album chart, reached double-platinum sales, got huge critical acclaim and won two ARIA awards for the band for Best Producer and Best Engineer at the 2004 awards in Sydney. The Eskimo Joe self-titled DVD follows the band from the very beginning of their careers, including a retrospective of all 9 clips… from the young band featured in TURN UP YOUR STEREO to the most recently filmed LIFE IS BETTER WITH YOU. Other DVD features include a supergig consisting of the best live footage from both Homebake 2004 and the Big Day Out 2005, a fanography which will highlight photographs of fans with band members, a documentary filmed in Melbourne at various venues including Sing Sing Studios where the guys originally mixed ASIAC (A SONG IS A CITY) with Nick Launay and a secret, must find ‘easter eggs’ …….which may involve Eskimo Joe Karaoke style!
The untold story of the Claremont serial killings. For the first time, those touched by the disappearance of three young women in Perth's affluent nightlife district break their silence. Hear from those who lived through the reign of terror.
Ok, Trendsetters! This is Rodney Rude blazing across the stage and coming at you live in your lounge room with a huge crock of over the top comedy, served up with generous lashings of verbal manure and good old bad taste. And he’s brought with him his side-kick mate Rodney Half-Rude followed up the rear by Harry Muff, the Diver.
An abstract play of light, colour, geometric shapes and patterns synchronised with synthesised music. The image patterns have been created by scratching, drawing, painting and overlaying directly on clear and opaque film and fragments of photographed positive and negative images.
While backpacking in Australia, Jac attempts to hide her pregnancy from her best mate Hazel for fear of becoming 'redundant', but their assumptions land them in hot water with a stranger.
A family day at the beach turns bad when someone goes missing
Meth Kelly explores how Australia’s colonial frontier narrative has been shaped by the imaginary heroic actions of the cult figure Ned Kelly. Through a video work projected in one of the shadowy tunnels of the ex-convict structures at Cockatoo Island, this work questions the legitimacy of Kelly’s hero status through a modern reinterpretation of his moral persona. Thornton skews the national narrative rooted in the romance of a Western, by transforming Kelly into a “meth head robbing a 7 Eleven”, placing him in a banal (sub)urban delinquent realm, far removed from cult status. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney.
After splitting up with her partner, a young mother externalises her feelings of loss and resentment through the family’s possessions.
Cub Sport perform their new album, LIKE NIRVANA, live and in full.
Fidelity is a short film that follows the story of Charlie and Hugh, lovers who inevitably face the realities of HIV in the 1980s.
Adam struggles with how Tom is handling the breakup of their relationship.
The pull of ancestry as it shifts into the present, communication across generations, heritage as it delivers you to the future, viral cooking show videos, honouring those you love, familial creativity and collaboration, moving with the geopolitical tides across Asia, cooking as a useful and caring act.
TAKE (te reo Maori: issue, promise, challenge) weaves mana wahine (female knowledge), dance and archival materials to retell the story of the removal of the ancestral Maori meetinghouse, Hinemihi o te Ao Tawhito, from Aotearoa, New Zealand to England in 1892. It is a call to return Hinemihi, embodied by Australian born Maori dancer and performance artist, Victoria Hunt. Set in the liminal spaces between history and emotion TAKE unfolds a story of origins, of traumatic events and colonial violence.
A mad scientist's life turns pear-shaped after accidentally installing a vampire brain in his monster creation.
Stuck in the middle of her younger sisters big fat Persian engagement party, we are taken on a ride though the imagination and reality of a single Persian girl, and the pressures to get married.
A little boy helps his blind mother experience an art gallery in a surprising and unusual way.
Jasper is wild little girl who doesn’t come home when she’s supposed to and prefers a big sky over her head rather than a screen in front of her face. She doesn’t care what people think she should do or be. She just wants to fly - and she isn’t going to give up until she does. Jasper explores the idea that the dream of flight completely transcends gender.
Wherever has he come from? Who is he hiding from? And what on earth will she do with him?! With a literal Mobster layin' low under her bed - it's up to our 8-year-old girl to figure out what exactly he's doing there - and how to get rid of him.
Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame.
A desperate battle to grab the most precious commodity from the clutches of those who would deprive others of it.
An enchanting endriftment through a floating galaxy of the imagination.
If I punch myself in the face and it hurts does that make me weak or strong?
When a deep bond flourishes between two boys, a hairy secret and a devoted mother unknowingly stands between them.
This film reveals the roots of ballet in Australia and the story of the overseas dancers who brought their art to Australia. This encouraged the rise of local dancers who proved themselves adept in the classic ballets of Russia, France and Great Britain. It traces the birth of Australian choreography, decor and mounting with Australian dancers shown performing an Australian musical composition with Australian themes. Influential figures such as Edouard Borovansky, Tchinarova and Margot Stevenson are featured as well as the Borovansky Ballet, the Ballet Guild and the Bodenwieser Modern Expressive Ballet.
It takes a film noir shot at girls, guns and ventolin.
Julia, a wayward youth, walks into a music store. This could be the day that changes their life.
The beauty of the Australian bush is depicted in a carefully composed camera choreography of different aspects of flora and fauna. Close-up and panorama shots and Aboriginal music meld into a meditative view of the energy and harmony that shape the place.
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. Extras also include the Hilltop Hoods live at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 12th May 2007.
What would you do with a million dollars?
In Australian motor sport, there was only one “Fox.” Harry Firth was perhaps best known as the first manager of the legendary Holden Dealer Team and mentor to the great Peter Brock. However Harry Firth’s story is much more than just that. Not only did he win the Armstrong 500 and Bathurst multiple times as a driver and team manager, he also won five manufacturer’s championships, four Australian rally championships, Round Australia Rallies and the Southern Cross Rally. Add to that his influence on several great drivers, his involvement in the development of the Cortina GT 500, the Falcon GT and GTHO, the Torana XU1, L34 and A9X – all without any formal qualifications – and you have a true legend of Australian motor sport. His is a unique story of determination, rare cunning and motor sport intuition.
An incredible story of courage and the human spirit, which follows international celebrity endurance athlete Samantha Gash (Australian Survivor) on her epic 3,200km purpose-fuelled adventure across India.
Created especially to screen alongside Minding the Gap, skate video master Chris Middlebrook has dug through his archives to produce a fitting tribute to the local skate scene. #middlebrookvideoarchives is a re-edit of archival footage shot with the Sony VX1000 between 2003-2016.
In this experimental fashion film, a young woman enjoys a peaceful, secluded picnic before venturing into the bustling city.
A young man describes what happened night before and the day of a great day.
Sora’s family have certain expectations for her, but the seven-year-old yearns for a different life in this new country.
An exploration of the work of a new generation of young Muslim artists, who use their work to explore issues of faith and identity and what it means to be Muslim and Australian in the 21st century.
An exploration of the contrast between appliqué and bricolage in creation of Khayamiya.
A bee and a young woman attempt to escape a prison. Confronted by a guard, the bee sacrifices itself to free to the girl.
A citizen needs rescuing. Luckily there’s a superhero on hand. He just needs somewhere to change into his costume.