Australia Movies

This black-and-white newsreel segment shows a team of scientists making their way to Heard Island in 1949 to relieve the previous year's team. The seg...

In 1918 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife, son and four daughters were summarily assassinated. In 1992 the bodies were unearthed only to discover t...

A groundbreaking short documentary that shines the torch on Melbourne, a city regularly alive with activity and fervour, that has since been felled by...

Short animation by Wendy Chandler.

A meditation upon the redemptive power of Christ's crucifixion. The film employs a variety of styles including animation, newsreel footage, hand paint...

“I wanted to make grass grow...to show the life force of a tree. Bark-Rind was shot totally single-frame...each shot exposed three times...close-up, m...

This film makes clear for the layperson the whole pattern of building construction for a brick home, from the moment that the architect prepares worki...

Explores the tension between a Japanese theatrical mask-maker and the mask itself.

A young man under the influence of an unknown substance loses his perception of time as his mental state progressively deteriorates.

How do you tame the falling rain? This film is about giving meaning to the intangible idea, we all love to call ‘creativity’.

On the eve of bicentennial celebrations, Strangers in Paradise looks at Australian culture through the eyes of tourists on a ‘Dreamtime’ tour.

The film outlines the history of the redevelopment of the Sydney suburb of Waterloo. Residents are interviewed and archival footage is used to outline...

This astonishing documentary investigates how an advertising slogan invented by Madison Avenue executives in 1948 has come to define our most intimate...

A process of gradual revelation - while it is not a measured and sequential revelation, the viewer must collect and correlate fragments of visual info...

A short animation of Charles Lloyd’s dry points. Sound composition by Arthur Cantrill.

“In Robert Klippel – Junk Sculpture No. 3, 1963 (1965),a spiky Klippel creation resonates almost visibly with the high, piercing tones of Larry Sitsk...

In the Brisbane Creative Leisure Centre, conducted by the Cantrills, children are shown reproductions of stained glass windows and then make large tra...

A movie shot in India

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

A widow struggles to reconcile with her past, as a mysterious threat wages misfortune on the family farm.