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¿Cuántos Colores?
- 2000
- Documentary
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
¿CUÁNTOS COLORES? explores the beautiful colours of Cuba's people, the fading symbolism of her socialist red, the influence of the Greenback and the physical and political colours that tint the world's most famous cigars. Forty years after Ché and Fidel's Cuban Revolution, Capitalism, Communism and Havana Cigars remain intertwined.
32EE
- 2005
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
32EE is the story of 13-year-old, Nikki, who is determined to get rid of her breasts anyway she can. She hits, punches and straps them with bandages, until one day in maths class her worst nightmare comes true: her breasts start growing and don't stop until they reach EE.
Aatmaa (Soul)
- 1998
- Documentary
- 24mins
- Status: Completed
A documentary about the death of the fimmaker's mother.
Absolution
- 2001
- Short film
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
When 80-year-old Poppy suffers a stroke, 11-year-old Malcolm is faced with the dubious motives of his mother and Poppy's son Charles in a petty struggle over a teapot. Malcolm's ultimate intervention achieves a kind of absolution for them all.
Acquiring a Taste for Raffaella
- 1996
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
You have to be careful with Biscotti di Amore - Italian 'love biscuits'. There are a few surprises in this traditional recipe!
The Adventures of Handyman
- 1995
- Short film
- 4mins
- Status: Completed
Some superheroes are less well-known than others. Reg O'Grady seems just like any other mild-mannered husband - until he turns into 'Handyman'!
After The Away
- 2019
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Two boys have the ability to disappear to their own place in the forest. When they get caught skipping school they are thrust into a world of prejudice and discrimination causing them to question what their friendship and special place means.
Afterlife
- 2006
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
A female flight attendant on a trans-Pacific flight asks the question: 'What would you do with the last five minutes of your life?' And answers it in the worst case scenario.
Afterwards
- 2001
- Documentary
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
During World War II, Lotte Weis lost her entire family of two brothers, three sisters and both her parents in Auschwitz-Birkenau, her journey became a search for meaning in her survival.
Agnes, Maude and Pearly Too
- 1999
- Short film
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
On this day, in loving memory of Pearly, Agnes and Maude play a game on Pearly's favourite poker machine. But when they hit the jackpot, money isn't the only thing that comes spilling out.
Ah Hu's Retreat
- 2001
- Documentary
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
A filmmaker's letter to his dead grandmother...A Chinese temple in the backblocks of an inner-city estate...Two worlds collide as two cultures try to resolve each other.
Alias
- 1998
- Short film
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
ALIAS takes us into the daily life of a male sex worker and introduces us to Jae, Todd, Toby and Craig - the four sides of this world.
Aliya
- 2005
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Set in Mount Druitt in Sydney's outer west, ALIYA is a soulful story about two young lovers and their struggle to survive pregnancy, poverty, family problems... and each other.
All God's Creatures
- 2013
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
Having just lost their father, brothers Asher and Charlie's already fragile relationship undergoes a test of almost mythic proportions when one of them commits an act of mindless cruelty.
Alligators Hatching
- 1990
- Short film
- Experimental
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
An experimental film about ducks, music and alligators hatching.
The Amateur Developer's Handbook
- 2001
- Short film
- Animation
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
DIY property development for the enthusiastic beginner or the cowboy entrepreneur.
Amelia Rose Towers
- 1993
- Short film
- Experimental
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
If, as a child, you were picked last for a team and sought as your refuge a wish or a dream, if you ever felt lonely, peculiar or blue, then Amelia Rose Towers is a lot like you! True!
Angel
- 1989
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
Some time in the 17th century four friends meet in a beautiful house. They discuss their feelings, hopes and dreams. But all is not as it appears in their dreamy world.
Arcadia
- 2002
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
'I know that you're there, because I can feel you. Why don't you come out and play with me? In the dark I hear you breathing. Watch out for the Hairy Man.'
art ads life
- 1994
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
A formalist and structuralist look at the changing relationship between artwork, advertising and people since the 1940s. Advertisements from each era are brought to life; art-works are shown in unfamiliar forms; and a picture of life in each decade is painted in anecdotes of the times. Documentary and drama combine to form an unusual vista of the recent past and an opportunity to explore the changing styles and biases of the times.
The Art of Bonzai
- 1998
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
Josh and Laurie have reached a crisis point in their relationship. Josh is trying to hold the pieces together... 'A couple of days ago we were in love, or was that just bullshit?' Laurie just wants to get out of this place. The art of Bonzai holds the key to showing Josh what he really wants.
The Art Of Darts And Dying
- 2009
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
Terry Discount has spent his life working towards godlike status at his local pisser. He is a star darts player, champion drinker and celebrated smoker. So in extremis is Mr Discount that death arrives one day in the form of an archaic, silver-tongued dandy determined to take him to the underworld. Soon the two are engaged in an epic darts match foe Terry's soul and, more importantly, his status within the pub.
Ash Wednesday
- 2003
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Three siblings are reunited as a family in crisis. They all need one another in dramatically different ways, but are they willing to pay the price to call themselves family? ASH WEDNESDAY is an intense psychological drama exploring the complex nature of sibling relationships, asking where does our responsibility to family end? Does family have the right to ask us to sacrifice it all? Do we have the right to say 'no'?
Ashes
- 2003
- Short film
- 3mins
- Status: Completed
Some things in life are only seen in dreams. A short film about life, death and cricket.
At Midnight
- 2014
- Documentary
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
A dancer recalls the Second World War and her harrowing escape from Communist Hungary in 1956. In search of safety and freedom, she leaves everything behind, including her filmmaker husband, and builds her life anew in Australia. Meanwhile, her husband immortalizes her escape on celluloid, which provides the flickering backdrop to this, her side of the story.
An Athlete Wrestling A Python
- 2019
- Short film
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
Life imitates art when Julien Goethe directs an unhinged version of An Athlete Wrestling A Python.
Audacious
- 1995
- Short film
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
Stella, a married woman, bored with her husband's bedroom behaviour, embarks on a daring journey to the 'other side' of sexual satisfaction. AUDACIOUS is a story that deals with the difficulty of intimacy in a world dominated by newer and better 'communication' technologies.
Azzadine
- 1991
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Azzadine is a model whose life briefly touches that of a Japanese boy. A cyclic piece suggesting the fragility of life, combined with the apparent paradox between the random nature of fate versus the idea of destiny as being shaped.
B.L.A.C.K. An Aboriginal Song of Hip Hop
- 2005
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
B.L.A.C.K is a cipher scribed by independent and Australian Indigenous hip hop artist, Wire MC. Through interview and observation, the song is deconstructed to speak of contemporary issues around Aboriginal blackness, politics and culture. The filmmaker aligns himself with Wire MC delivering a format equivalent to a hip hop freestyle in order to draw a more powerful conclusion of what it means to be B.L.A.C.K., Born Long Ago Creation's Keeper.
Backfire
- 2006
- Short film
- Animation
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Elli the Elephant is desperate, dateless and bored watching Backfire, a feature drama where a hunky fire fighting elephant saves a damsel in distress from a towering inferno and takes her off for a sunset romance. After noticing a box of matches and full waste paper bin, she has an idea. What follow is a comedy of errors when the hunky fire fighting elephants end up proving to be bungling fools and she ends up having to save the day.
Bad Habits
- 2006
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Bill has to make a compromise when forced to choose between his wife and his best mate. His best mate is his dog, Seven.
Bad Hair Day
- 1995
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Jennifer, a young filmmaker, is having a bad hair day - until she discovers she can edit scenes from her own life. The results, however, are not quite what she had in mind...
Bait
- 1993
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
An unwelcome memory from the past surfaces unexpectedly.
Balloon Girl
- 1997
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Balloon Girl thought her destiny was to exist alone, forever isolated from the world she inhabits, but then... Pin Man, and the chance for real love, the chance to really live - if only for a second.
Basilisk Stare
- 2002
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
This psychosexual drama launches the viewer into the innerspace of the male psyche in order to depict the way the modern male constructs sex. The film both excites and disturbs the viewer with the use of a split screen, which allows for the pitching of two images against each other in order to create a sense of both excitement and voyeuristic curiosity.
Battered
- 1997
- Short film
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
Anastasia is a singer in a dingy nightclub. One night, on her way home from work, she calls in at a fish and chip shop for a take-away. But when confronted with the bleak yet surreal world of the cafe, she is transformed into a self-styled vigilante.
The Beat Manifesto
- 1995
- Short film
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
A comedy about jazz, poetry and sheep.
Beats Across Borders
- 2005
- Documentary
- 52mins
- Status: Completed
Explores the journey of seven 'at risk' youth arts groups around the world coming together in Sydney to collaborate on a performance for the opening of the Oxfam International Youth Parliament. Guided by Cirque du Soleil and under the direction of Sue Broadway, 'Beats' is a story that celebrates the diversity of young artists.
Behind the Mask
- 1998
- Documentary
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
A group of preadolescents from Melbourne, Australia, adopt the ancient ritual of mask making and storytelling. In search of a voice, they perform for their elders and peers - their grandparents, siblings, teachers and friends.
Being Keith
- 1997
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
In the space between dream and reality the only place left is BEING KEITH. Through a cold and windswept landscape a hitchhiker is drawn to the light of a lonely roadside cafe. Inside a pregnant waitress and a middle-aged European couple appear as though expecting him. The hitchhiker, Gary, has never seen them before.
Ben
- 2001
- Short film
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
An emotionally abused teenage boy fights against insanity after his mother's violent suicide in a car crash when he was nine-years-old.
Bias
- 1999
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
On the edge of the world two codgers, Bert and Reg, battle for the title of lawn bowls champion. When a little snail gets in the way their true colours are revealed.
The Big Cheat
- 2005
- Documentary
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
What are the emotional and physical consequences of being cheated on in a relationship? THE BIG CHEAT is a black and white, film noir documentary which explores the stories of two women whose trust has been broken.
Bin Appetit
- 2006
- Documentary
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
BIN APPETIT is a twelve minute documentary about the art of Dumpster Diving and follows a group of adults, young and middle aged, who live out of the bins in Sydney. They call themselves Freegans and are in a protest against the world's waste. Societal stigmas are pushed aside as we celebrate an alternative approach to living.
Binary
- 2001
- Short film
- Experimental
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
Trapped in a cell of fear, Claire's longing for connection propels her beyond the known world.
Birthday Boy
- 2004
- Short film
- Animation
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Korean War, 1951. Little Manuk is playing on the streets of his village and dreaming of life at the front where his father is a soldier. He returns home to find a parcel on the doorstep and, thinking it is a birthday present, he opens it. But its contents will change his life.
The Birthday Present
- 1997
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Kids, guns, love, relationships and how far you can go when it gets out of control.
A Bit of a Tiff With The Lord
- 1994
- Short film
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
Late one night, on his property in far western New South Wales, an old man in pain goes out hunting and manages to bag God.
Black Berries
- 2004
- Short film
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
BLACK BERRIES is a story about Candy and Lao, two 12-year-old best friends. One fateful day while walking home, the girls come to a laneway - the short cut. Lao begins to walk down it. In a moment of loyalty, Candy keeps a promise she made to her mother and chooses the long way home. To begin to try and understand the complex nature of relationships, is to begin to grow up.
Black Sorrow
- 1991
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
A man is drawn into a compelling world of darkness and beauty, and discovers that he cannot break from it.
Blood Brothers
- 2004
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Paul and Ben are blood brothers; they've got heaps of brothers and sisters, but they're the only ones with the same mum and dad. Life's tough on the outskirts of Sydney...but the boys have always got each other.
The Blue Mountains of Harry Phillips
- 1999
- Documentary
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
Using his still camera, Harry Philips served the clouds at the open air church of the Blue Mountains for 40 years at the beginning of the century. Nature provided all the answers for this unique visual poet in his life long quest for spiritual transcendence.
Blue Poles
- 2004
- Short film
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
Australia, 1974. Libby, a tired hippie, is running from a failed relationship. She hitches a ride with a young farmer named Miles. Miles is on his way to Canberra. While stopping at a motel, Libby reads Miles' journal. She reviews the experiences they have shared in their short time together. She is both compelled and disturbed by the truths that lie in Miles' words. BLUE POLES is a story about a woman coming to understand her conflicting desires and responsibilities.
Body of Memories
- 1994
- Documentary
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
BODY OF MEMORIES is a short documentary which contemplates the body as a vessel of memory! A film that explores concepts of aging, identity and alzheimers disease.
Boost
- 2002
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Jack West lives his life addicted to the very anti-aging drugs he peddles on late night TV. Confronted with his own mortality, how far is he willing to go to live forever? BOOST is a black comedy about our sometimes criminal obsession with eternal life.
The Bottom Line
- 2002
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Randolph Ritzenback is at the cutting edge of international financial logistics. He's the top gun of HearnCorp Global Finance. An everyday assignment takes Ritzenback to Sydney, Australia, where a recent acquisition causes his boss, Mr Hearn, some concern. A tiny Sydney based firm - Combined Alternatives International - is doing the business of a company more than 100 times it's size. As Ritzenback tries to find the secret of the company's success, he is about to discover that the cutting edge he thought he had honed, has just moved - and that's THE BOTTOM LINE.
Bound
- 2000
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
A boy, a dead body, a relentless pursuit - it's not what you see, it's how you see it. BOUND is an urban tragedy that jumps back and forth in time to reveal instincts colliding and lives unravelling in a world that rushes on regardless. It is about what happens when you make all the wrong decisions for the right reasons.
Boys Grammar
- 2005
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
School yard bullying is taken to the extreme when a boy is raped by his peers in a school changing room. The boy confronts his attacker only to find that he too is caught up in a cycle of violence and intimidation which singles out those who are different.
Brave
- 1994
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
A gritty tale of misguided revenge set in the underbelly of Sydney where, in the world of the homeless, identity is hard to come by and harder to keep, and trivial possessions become things worth fighting for. Tough and bleak in its outlook, BRAVE is a film that's not afraid to be brutal.
Bread
- 2007
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
A keen young sports girl misses out on a crucial soccer game because she has to work in her family bakery.
Breathing
- 2007
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Two brothers, Brendon and Callum confront the true nature of their relationship.
The Bridesmaid
- 2004
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
15-year-old Tanya is threatened by her mother Lorraine's impending marriage. When Lorraine's fiance Warren arrives for the weekend, Tanya's anger, burgeoning sexuality and adolescent romanticism threaten to destroy her mother's happiness.
The Bronze Mirror
- 2007
- Short film
- Animation
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Based on a Korean folktale, THE BRONZE MIRROR is a story about a family who encounter a mirror for the first time.
The Brother
- 2004
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
As members of a family gather and await the return of a loved one, old recriminations and accusations bubble to the surface. This evening will determine the family's future.
Brunch Shift Masacre
- 2018
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
Brunch Shift Massacre is a descent into the hellish depths of the life of a waiter during a busy brunch service that turns into a violent climb back to sanity.
Bullet Proof And Blind
- 1994
- Short film
- Experimental
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Five minutes to midnight, 1999. One bullet, three targets - confusion, choices and suspense.
Burning Ambition
- 2004
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
Today is the unveiling of The Flame of Hope, a radical design by the ambitious Lily Lent. It will harness the sun's energy to create a permanent fireball so great that it can be seen from space - in theory. Lily's veneer of self-confidence threatens to crack as she deals with the day's problems. BURNING AMBITION is a comedic retelling of the Narcissus myth: does self-adoration lead to self-destruction?
But Why?
- 1999
- Documentary
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
A funny, thought-provoking documentary about children's perceptions of the creation of the universe, aliens and God.
Butterfly Man
- 2004
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
The story of Don Herbison-Evans, a man who collects butterflies then experiences a human metamorphosis on the dance floor.
By This River
- 2013
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
Following the death of his mother, a young boy becomes increasingly convinced he can reach her by building a raft and travelling along the river Styx.
Call Waiting
- 1997
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
CALL WAITING is about having the confidence to be engaged.
Capital V for Virtue
- 1995
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
Faith...Hope...Charity...Courage...Temperance...Prudence...Justice...and the seven Cardinal Virtues.
Car Park
- 2003
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Welcome to the world of CAR PARK... a multi-layered absurdist satire on the nature of relationships, communication and finding a @*$?! parking space when you need one.
Cattle
- 2018
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
The unspoken fears 16-year-old Sarah has about losing her mother to cancer are heightened when unexplainable and disturbing occurrences happen on the family farm.
Change of Heart
- 1995
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Steve is in jail for killing his lover. He escapes from jail to have a second chance at life and encounters the spirit of his dead lover in a mortuary. The spirit wants revenge. Steve wants to escape.
Change of Heart
- 2004
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
Since the dawn of time there has been a universal fascination with the human heart that no other organ has inspired. Although modern Western medicine tells us it's just a pump, the belief that the heart is something far greater persists. But are people who have a heart transplant just receiving a spare part? Ask Elka, a desperately sick but lively young 17-year-old girl, waiting restlessly in St Vincent's Hospital. Or John and Anna Gava who are travelling up to Brisbane to meet the recipient of their deceased son's heart. What really happens when a human heart gives life to a body other than the one it was created in?
A Change of Heart
- 1998
- Feature
- 100mins
- Status: Completed
A bittersweet comedy on how you can sell the public anything, but you can't buy respect...it has to be earned.
Cheerleaders
- 2001
- Documentary
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
CHEERLEADERS looks at the discipline and dedication needed to be a cheerleader and explores what it means to 19-year-old Lousie and her family.
Cherish
- 1998
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
'What peace is there for us whose best love cannot return them even for a day?... The last word was yours.' (Jeannette Winterson, Written on the Body)
Chocolate Cake
- 2007
- Short film
- Animation
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
CHOCOLATE CAKE tells the story of a homeless man, Oldrich who's life is thrown into turmoil when he catches a glimpse of an enormous chocolate cake. Oldrich attempts to secure a piece of the delectable delicacy for himself, but without money is faced with a difficult decision.
Clarissa
- 2004
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Clarissa, an overweight teenager, is inspired to fight her fears and pursue her dream of becoming a ballerina after an abusive encounter with Sam, a shallow ad man, on her way to school. From the moment Clarissa accidentally bumps into him on the train, both girl and man will have to face their inner hazards of outward appearances in order to access the hidden magic buried deep within themselves.
Clown Doctors
- 2000
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
Doctor Fruit-Loop and Doctor Bubba-Lovey want to infect hospitals with laughter. In order to open the first clown doctor unit in Queensland, they need to select two New South Wales Doctors who must be able to perform in the very special 'open heart surgery' for sick children in The Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane.
Code Blue
- 1995
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
At a busy city intersection, people are going about their business - waiting to cross the road, minding their children, arranging to pick up the dry cleaning...But how do you know if the rhythm of the city has been broken?
The Collective
- 2000
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
The story of one man's obsession which has unexpected consequences of retribution and transformation.
Concrete Flesh
- 1994
- Short film
- Experimental
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Driving along the freeway, a man loses his concentration - just for a second. And in that second, his life passes before his eyes: Speed and decay...Freeways and faded spring...
The Consultation
- 1993
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Betty sees Larry across a bar. There is mutual interest, engagement, excitement, and of course, a bedroom finale. A stylish erotic drama with a twist in the tale.
Conversations With a Dead Man
- 1992
- Short film
- 27mins
- Status: Completed
An army officer inhabits two worlds: the banal suburban world of bureaucratic Canberra where he works as an intelligence officer and a bizarre private world in which he moonlights as a mercenary, not for money, but for ideological reasons. On the eve of his arrest he spends the night alone except for the dead man. As the military police close in, memory and hallucination collide. CONVERSATIONS is about a modern warrior's code of honour. It is an Australian samurai film.
Cosette
- 2006
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Cosette lives a sheltered, ignorant life in an isolated world with her alternative-lifestyle father Jim. When Jim suddenly dies, Cosette is left to fend for herself. Scared and hungry, she embarks on a perilous journey across land and water and discovers that the world she thought existed is not nearly as horrible as her father led her to believe.
Country Comfort
- 1997
- Short film
- 3mins
- Status: Completed
Behind the scenes at a furry feminine hygiene commercial.
Cradle
- 1991
- Short film
- Experimental
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
A woman's journey home becomes a tightrope strung between her own childhood and that of her son, between violence and love... fear and hope.
Crawlspace
- 2004
- Short film
- Animation Experimental
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
CRAWLSPACE is a 3D animation exploring the cyclic nature of want and freedom from want, illustrated by one man's journey from need to greed.
Creepy Crawleys
- 2002
- Short film
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
CREEPY CRAWLEYS is set in an isolated Australian country town and tells the story of a mysterious old mansion and its owners, past and present.
Crooked Mick
- 2005
- Short film
- Animation
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
Strong-Arm Sam and his promoter Gus are down on their luck. Sick and tired of hearing about how much stronger Crooked Mick of the Speewah is, they decide to travel to the Speewah and challenge Crooked Mick.
Crouching at the Door
- 1997
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
This film looks at the dark, destructive nature of sibling rivalry and the unconscious cruelty of family expectations.
The Cup and The Lip
- 1995
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
A difficult child and a good mother. A loose tooth. A sign on a wall. An imaginary word. Ecstasy. Anger... A film about the ultimate taboo.
Cupid
- 2009
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Since ancient times, Cupid, the God of Love, has ignited the spark of desire for all of humankind. Until one fateful night, trying to help out the hapless Roman, Cupid unwittingly falls prey to his own arrow and is locked into a desperate contest for the heart of beautiful singer Lauren.
Customs
- 2001
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Two young girls find themselves on a Russian container ship at night in a psychological drama about loneliness, intimacy and fear.
The Cut
- 1999
- Short film
- 4mins
- Status: Completed
Twenty-seven years after the most horrific and violent moment of his life, a desperate man attempts to deal with it.
Damming
- 1991
- Short film
- Experimental
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
The drowning of a valley resurrects Jude's memory of the death of her sister. Jude grieves for both. DAMMING is a surreal, water-based descent into the grieving process.
Danya
- 2005
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
DANYA is the story of a troubled eight-year-old girl, whose determination to find out about her late mother leads to a deeper connection with her remote father. Set in autumn in contemporary Sydney, across two neighbouring terrace houses; the story observes how three generations deal with death, as told from a child's perspective.
Deadlock
- 1993
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
Anna has a man arrested from her apartment. This moment leads to a gradual revelation of the relationship between these two people, and the reasons behind the decision that Anna must finally make.
Debut
- 2005
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Jerry is contemplating the impending high school formal, when he hears the sounds of his mother, Ruby, and her new boyfriend fucking. At the formal, he sees Jade, a 16-year-old girl, leave a cubicle after having sex and he takes her home. Jade puts on one of Ruby's dresses. The following morning, Ruby comes home to find Jerry and Jade in her bed...
Dessert: An End In Three Acts
- 1994
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
Shortly before her marriage to an unexciting Manfred, Rosa embarks on an affair with the much more exciting Guy. A luscious look at the rich layers of fantasy, pleasure and guilt in which Rosa indulges in her search for fulfilment.
D-Evolution
- 2002
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
When the Huntress Shar catches her prey, the gorgeous Khan, in a lush forest glade, she thinks she's come to the end of her hunt. But it's only the beginning...
Dishlickers
- 2001
- Documentary
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
DISHLICKERS celebrates the exuberant never-say-die culture of the greyhound track through its warm and witty characters and sleek enigmatic heroes, the greyhounds. This is a humorous and empathetic insight into a working class world rich in ritual, beauty and passion as we follow the fortunes of two owners and their dogs as they vie for the title of best sprinter in New South Wales.
The Dissector
- 1995
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
Pursued through time, the Immortal Twins of Time can't escape the scalpel of a renegade doctor they call the Dissector. To seek immortality is to lose life. Time doesn't heal, it kills. 'God is not here, I am. Here for the operation...'
Domesticated Animals
- 1998
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Jack lives and breathes the CBD. But his orderly schedule is challenged when his dog dies.
The Door
- 1993
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
A story of family tensions and the original family triangle – a girl, her mother and her step-father – plus Weet-Bix and a door.
Dots
- 2017
- Short film
- 23mins
- Status: Completed
People start dying after the arrival of a mysterious stranger in a small Australian town. Despite this, the local police officer is too preoccupied by his dream Mercedes to pay attention to the deaths surrounding him.
Dressing Dad
- 1999
- Documentary
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
If your Dad wore a dress, would it make him less of a father, less of a man?
The Drip
- 1996
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
No matter what doting Helmut does, Gertrude is never satisfied. Things are about to change. When an ever-increasing drip starts falling from the sky onto Gertrude, it's Helmut to the rescue! A slapstick comedy with a touch of cartoon lunacy.
Dusty Hearts
- 1991
- Short film
- 29mins
- Status: Completed
DUSTY HEARTS is a black comedy about one man's destiny. Sax Elthan is a hapless musician, a refugee from the inner-city. Rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to the outback to look for work. One burning Wednesday he finds himself behind a highway, waiting for a lift, contemplating his future. It arrives in the shape of a beat-up Volkswagen with a wardrobe tied to the roof.
A Dying Art
- 1999
- Documentary
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Hank Van Leeuwen's lifetime obsession has been taxidermy. He works during the day at the Australian Museum but every spare moment is dedicated to stuffing exotic creatures. Through a special relationship with a couple of zoos, Hank has built up a huge collection which includes lion, cheetah, baby rhino, seal, birds, giraffe, bison and polar bear.
Eat Your Greens
- 1999
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
You never know what you've got until it's too late.
Egg
- 1991
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
An elderly woman living alone in her suburban family home makes a friend - a fallen bird's egg she finds in the local park. She takes 'Egg' into her home and to her heart. A film about loneliness, life and love.
El Angelito
- 1994
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
Amongst the saltpetre, the harsh desert and the unforgiving sun, a town is terrorised by a winged man. Elsa searches for her missing daughter, Manuela, as the silent desert finally reveals its secrets.
Electric
- 2018
- Short film
- 23mins
- Status: Completed
It’s 1938 and Italian neuroscientist Dr. Ugo Cerletti invents Electro Convulsive Therapy, performing a world first live human experiment. Adapting a unique poetic radio-play, Electric is focused on the profound connection between creativity and the schizophrenic mind, breaking through from madness into beauty and self-expression.
Elliot's Way of Hearing
- 1997
- Short film
- Animation
- 2mins
- Status: Completed
This two minute poem depicts the frustration and anger deaf people feel when they cannot be heard. Combining live action and animation it shows a way of communicating that everyone can understand.
Elly
- 2000
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Elly is a young woman who is forced to face an incident from her past, involving her sister. The present and past collide as Elly faces her greatest fear yet.
Emit
- 2006
- Short film
- Animation
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Emit is a clock brought to life by the Voyager space probe's final plummet to the surface of a post-apocalyptic, rubbish covered planet not disimilar to our own. Emit stopped at 11:55, as did the rest of the planet. Now he is ticking again, he sets out to find life and discover what makes it tick. But not everything is what it seems.
End of the Line
- 1996
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
It's the end of the line for Angela. And it's Dale who finds himself hanging on the other end of her line.
Enemy Alien
- 2022
- Documentary
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Enemy Alien is a poetic retelling of the experiences of Joseph Murakami, a fourteen-year-old boy, summarily rounded up by his government on the basis of his ethnicity, and the loss this traumatic even imprinted upon him.
Eve
- 2006
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Eve's boyfriend Jack presents her with a microwave oven for Valentine's Day. Jack has unofficially moved into Eve's housing commission room and together they plan to move forward from their troubled pasts. Eve is thrilled by the gift, but know it won't last long in their environment. An intrusion into their privacy sparks an argument, and Eve sets out to get a lock for the door. When things don't go smoothly, trouble ensues.
Everspring
- 2001
- Short film
- Animation
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
During the Chinese Chi'ng Dynasty, the nun Ng Mai developed a potent style of Kung Fu with the help of her young student Wing Chun (Everspring). When the Manchurians invaded China they sent a ruthless warlord to kill the nun in order to stop her teaching the Chinese people how to defend themselves. But Wing Chun calls on all her skills to defeat him.
Everything We Are
- 2006
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
A 12-year-old boy is forced to leave the female refuge where he lives with his mother. On his way to school he encounters a strange man and tries to find a connection.
Eviction
- 2003
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
EVICTION follows the haunting journey of a tormented man's desperate struggle to deny his new existence.
The Evolution Of Herb
- 1995
- Short film
- Animation
- 1mins
- Status: Completed
The story of the world - from 'go' to 'woe'.
Ex
- 2003
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Rachel's girlfriend, Kath, has finally moved in and Rachel has arranged the perfect weekend. Her plans start to unravel, however, when Kath's ex calls...
The Exploding Woman
- 2001
- Short film
- Animation
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
After giving birth a woman finds herself estranged from the fulfilling world that she knew before. Feeling isolated and entrapped, she spirals into a dreamy unreality that threatens to explode if she does not find the strength to regain her sense of self.
Fab Fabi
- 2006
- Documentary
- 2mins
- Status: Completed
Fabiana Pefilio (known by her teammates as Fabi) has been playing soccer since she was seven, spurred on by her father who played professional football for Uruguay. She may look small and delicate off the field, but when she plays, she turns into a goal-scoring machine and she dreams of one day representing Australia. Does she have what it takes?
Facade
- 1989
- Short film
- Experimental
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Behind the facade of the politics of urban redevelopment.
Falling
- 1994
- Short film
- 19mins
- Status: Completed
Max and Cloudy wait anxiously at the hospital for news of Max's wife, Lucy, who has had a fall. A couple of hours earlier, Max and Cloudy had been making love in the garden. As the night progresses, Max and Cloudy's 'perfect moment' transforms itself into something far from perfect.
Famed
- 2001
- Short film
- Animation
- 3mins
- Status: Completed
Fame comes at a price - the individual as a commodity. A live action animation.
Father
- 1998
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Two young sisters create the father they want.
The Fence
- 2013
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
It's 1992 and Virak is new to Australia. Having fled his native Cambodia by boat the year before, he resides at the Villawood Refugee Hostel waiting for his application for asylum to be processed. Little does he know that his life is about to change with the building of a simple fence.
A Few Small Dramas
- 1994
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Four young children try to break into their own house, determined to save a box of chocolates from the hungry jaws of their pet dog. But there are a few other small dramas going on at the same time...
A Few Things I Know About Her
- 1996
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
A detective is investigating but discovers some puzzling and contradictory things - six short vignettes about the female of the species. Titles include Trouble in Paradise, Measuring Up, Peas in a Pod, Playing Hard to Get, French Heels and Detective Sequences.
Figures in Motion
- 1999
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Pioneer photographer Eadweard Muybridge organises a photo shoot with his wife and his secret male lover. Both models assume they are going to be posing alone and are, as expected, surprised when they meet each other. What begins as a simple and sedate domestic scene escalates out of control as Muybridge subtly, but masterfully manipulates the scene in order to create drama.
Filatelista
- 2004
- Short film
- Experimental
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
A man searching for a missing piece of himself is caught in a cycle of remembrance. FILATELISTA is an experimental film that examines memory, loss and identity to create a lyrical meditation on the complex relationship with our childhood. Using layers of images, music and non-justified sounds, the film poses the question - can we fully let go of our past or will we be haunted by it, forever searching for an understanding of who and why we are?
Fire Babies
- 1993
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Imagine that you've been sent to pick up your great aunt to take her to a family funeral. You have never met her because she is a black sheep of the family and has no intention of coming along. Instead, by the end of the day, you are having a bath together, as well as a revealing confrontation.
The First Thing I Remember
- 2005
- Documentary
- Experimental
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
What is your first memory? In this experimental documentary, 12 people share their answers to this question.
The Fish Bowl
- 1999
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
An upper middle-class couple are sitting in their living room on a Sunday afternoon. He is filling out a crossword. They are isolated, alienated in their separate worlds. Suddenly the silence is broken and an opportunity for communication seems to happen.
Flight
- 2004
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Discovering his family is not like any other, a young boy schemes to escape from home.
Flight of the Bumble Bee
- 1991
- Short film
- Experimental
- 3mins
- Status: Completed
A 'nature' interlude of dramatic twists and turns.
Flipsical
- 2007
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
FLIPSICAL is an absurdist sci-fi comedy about the juxtaposition between who you think you are and who your parents think you are.
Flitters
- 1991
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
Short narrative in which two young brothers share a preoccupation with cockroaches. This is the bond which allows one of the boys to communicate with his autistic brother. Their relationship is interrupted by their parents' decision to put the autistic child into a foster home.
Flowers By Request
- 1992
- Short film
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
Two sisters-in-law who live a quietly eccentric life must come to terms with the possibility of separation when one of them has a stroke.
FLUX
- 1999
- Short film
- Animation Experimental
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
FLUX is a film about trust, about an accident, about falling out of love and about emerging from grief.
Flying over Mother
- 1997
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
It is 1943 and Vladimir is growing up on an isolated farm somewhere on the Russian Steppes. He has been brought up on his mother's stories of all the dangers that lie in wait for boys who misbehave. He is trying, not very successfully, to overcome his fears, until, one day, something happens that will change the direction of his life. It is 1957 and Vladimir has finally reached his goal - he has trained as a cosmonaut and is circling the Earth. But unfortunately his capsule has malfunctioned and things don't look so good for him...
Follow Me
- 1996
- Short film
- Experimental
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
FOLLOW ME is a 'rites of passage' film, where the past and present collide, propelling a young man on a journey that traverses a landscape of childhood, flights of fancy, sensual pleasures and confrontations with the abuse and violence that has punctuated his life.
fOUR
- 2008
- Short film
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
Two couples with troubled marriages embark on a plan of enlivening their relationships and find that love doesn't always work as it should.
Four Minute Festival
- 1996
- Documentary
- Experimental
- 4mins
- Status: Completed
Film coverage of the entire 42nd Sydney Film Festival. A hundred features...four minutes!
Fragments
- 1996
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
A mother's spiralling decline into mental illness and her daughter's pain at being torn between the ties that bind and her own survival.
Freestyle
- 1996
- Short film
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
A man is murdered in a swimming pool at the beach but did anyone actually witness the event?
Fresh Bread
- 1995
- Short film
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
A short film about Rob and Sally, a wealthy middle-aged couple, on holiday at the beach. Sally wants romance back in their relationship. To avoid Sally's romantic intentions Rob goes to the local fresh bread shop and something happens on the beach, something that's never happened before in his life. Something like... magic.
Fuckwit
- 1994
- Short film
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
Are you a fuckwit? Would you walk into a pub with the word written on your forehead? What would you do when the bystanders start to laugh? Enter the world of the murder/suicide, where the murder goes well but the suicide doesn't work out. He's a jilted lover, he's a little bit crazy, he's a real...
Full On Blaks
- 1995
- Documentary
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
In the outer suburbs of Sydney, a filmmaker hands her camera over to a group of boys. FULL ON BLAKS is a self portrait by teenagers of Pacific Islander descent. A free flowing, smooth, grooving discourse on race relations, the politics of basketball and masturbation.
Fuse
- 2005
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
The film centres on a young Aboriginal girl, Gii, who is seeking to avenge the death of her older brother who was unjustly incarcerated for a petty crime and died in custody. Now desperately alone and angry she finds the judge, Ronald, that sentenced her brother. The story unfolds in the judge's bachelor apartment where he is held captive and forced to confront the consequences of his decision. The film explores the issues of loneliness, loss and judgement.
Game
- 1993
- Short film
- Experimental
- 4mins
- Status: Completed
GAME is a journey from an imaginary state of purity and innocence to an apocalyptic, decadent and desperate situation.
Generation
- 1997
- Documentary
- 28mins
- Status: Completed
A half-hour documentary which follows four very different teenagers over the course of a regular Saturday night. Set in and around Manchester, the film interweaves each of their stories to create an evocative tableau of life in a northern English city.
The Gift
- 1999
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
Jay has a single day left to declare his love. Will he have the courage?
Glass
- 1996
- Short film
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
He is an obessive bookmaker. She is addicted to talkback radio. A film about love, loneliness and the dark magic of dreams.
Goblin Market
- 1996
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Morning and evening maids heard the goblin cry, 'Come buy our orchid fruits, come buy, come buy.'
Godmode
- 2001
- Short film
- Animation
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
For Goddess Maya, the job of reincarnating dying souls from cyberspace has become mundane. But when the opportunity arises to hack into another computer network, things are suddenly less boring.
God's Bones
- 1994
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
A story about the residue of love and passion.
The Good Fight
- 2001
- Documentary
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
THE GOOD FIGHT is a film about masculinity in a modern world, spirituality and the lore of the boxing ring. Set in Dulwich Hill in Sydney's inner west, the film delves into the gritty existence of a local 'Fight Club' led by an unlikely character, Father Dave Smith. The story evolves around Father Dave's relationship with the young people who frequent the Fight Club.
Grace
- 2000
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
A lonely girl. A woman on the run. What happens when an immovable object meets an irresistible force?
Great Falls
- 1998
- Short film
- 22mins
- Status: Completed
'...I thought to myself that my life had turned... it was something that happened to you - I knew that - and it happened to me in this way.' From GREAT FALLS by Richard Ford
The Great Sasha
- 1999
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
A great mime artist at the end of his career finds himself performing in a two-bit circus. unable to gain acceptance from his peers, things change one night for the Great Sasha - a night where mime becomes real.
Green Tea
- 1995
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Through the ritual of a Japanese tea ceremomy, two people share an unexpected moment which alters their perceptions of both the ritual and themselves.
Grey
- 2002
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
An Aboriginal couple in their thirties, Annika and Randle, have very different ideas on how to approach the reconciliation march between black and white Australians.
Gunsmoke
- 1996
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
'A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim' - George Santayana A man and a woman are travelling together to the country to deliver the ashes of a mutual friend. When they break down they start to talk and he tells a story about getting a light for his cigarette when he was working late one night.
Guru
- 1996
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
In the West, people fall in love and then get married. In India, people get married and then fall in love. But this is not India - this is Paramatta, Sydney, Australia... A film celebrating cultural clashes amidst a wild and wonderful festival of colour.
Gut Feeling
- 2019
- TV drama
- Online
- 3 x 12mins
- Status: Completed
Liv, a 28-year-old advertising creative, who is pretty happy: good job, nice Sydney apartment, and a good enough relationship with her boyfriend Luke (Liam Seymour). Things are ticking along nicely, until the day she meets her intuition Uta.
Half Mongrel
- 1998
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
A guilt-ridden man's unsettling dreams and his fear on impending fatherhood lead to a life of drink and sexual frustration.
Happy Mother's Day
- 2000
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
Caught between violence and despair, teenage Helena devises a plan to deliver the ultimate Mother's Day gift.
Harvey
- 2000
- Short film
- Animation Experimental
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
A dark tale of obsession and loneliness about a man searching for physical and emotional completeness. It is only when he thinks he has achieved this goal through the unwilling coalescence of his neighbour that he begins to understand the painful, irresolvable nature of his obsession.
Has Beans
- 1998
- Short film
- Animation
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Two tribes, one table, lots of fun. There can only be one....
He and She
- 1993
- Short film
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
Malicious damage to a fence, trespassing, causing a disturbance in a public place, driving a vehicle unlicensed, driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.12 percent, drunk and disorderly. Kay and Billy are not criminals – they've just been out on the town.
Heart of Pearl
- 1993
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
An old soldier is trapped in time. Only a ticking watch separates his ritual from the enveloping jungle... HEART OF PEARL is based on stories of Japanese soldiers who remained hiding in the jungle for decades after the end of World War II.
Heartless
- 1997
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
'If I gave my heart to you, then I'd have none and you'd have two.'
Heaven
- 2013
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
A desperate old man invades a heroin dealer's home, making some very unusual demands.
Hell, Texas and Home
- 1995
- Short film
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
Home is a long way off when you have to go through hell and Texas.
The Hit
- 2003
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Eva Olivetti is a 23-year-old hit woman whose latest job will be her toughest. She finds herself the victim of her venomous family when she discovers that her target is her manipulative mother.
The Hollow Tree
- 2007
- Short film
- Animation
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
After crashing his car, a man runs into the nearby woods carrying a mysterious sack. While its contents seem to weigh on him physically and emotionally, he is reluctant to let go - even when he feels he is being followed. Should he try to hide his burden or should he face his demons?
Home Run
- 2007
- Documentary
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
The long haul trucks of Australia, ablaze with light, sail through the night with their loads. At the helm of his truck, Chris Penfold is ever on the move in search of his next pickup or stop. But small family owned businesses and family traditions like these are under threat from many angles/ Will Chris' son Hayden still dream of driving trucks like Dad?
Home Time
- 1999
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Dennis has never known anything but captivity - foster homes as a child, juvenile detention in his teens, and gaol for most of his adult life. HOME TIME is the story of Dennis' hope, and his search for a place to belong.
Hope and the Mass of Men
- 1991
- Short film
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
Australia 1976. Ten year-old Hope lives in an idyllic rainforest setting with her family. But even here she is confronted by the dark side of human nature.
Horrible Man
- 1989
- Short film
- Experimental
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
A farmer, his wife and child live in a paradise which is invaded and destroyed by the 'Horrible Man' who represents all of us with his all-consuming greed and disregard for the health of the world and its peoples. It is the story of our planet told in allegory.
A Horse With Stripes
- 1990
- Short film
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
As the crosswords get bigger, the clues come to life in this comedy of suburban paranoia.
Hungry
- 2006
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Reg wakes to find himself locked in his own cellar and the world not quite right. As he struggles to be reunited with his daughter he is set upon by foul creatures hungry for brains. The choice is simple; he must slay or be slain. Can Reg transform from farmer to hero, and are there enough shovels to dispel those dastardly zombies, or will time run out?
Hunting The Wild Pineapple
- 1989
- Documentary
- 47mins
- Status: Completed
Thea Astley takes us on a journey to see it all: the loneliness in aging, and subordination of women and blacks, the tyranny of religion, patriarchy and sexual repression. HUNTING THE WILD PINEAPPLE searches for perspective and depth in two-dimensional representations and picture postcard kitsch. It's a film about the woman, her dreams, her work as a satirist - and it's a film about the battle for acceptance of women satirists in general.
Icarus
- 2000
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
2093, the first hyperspace astronaut Kate Riley departed Titan and was presumed lost forever.
The Illustrated Auschwitz
- 1992
- Documentary
- Experimental
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
The voice of an Auschwitz survivor is scored with a collage of imaginings.
I'm Allergic
- 1996
- Short film
- 3mins
- Status: Completed
Trick has a crush on Sherry, so he robs the bank she works in and takes her hostage. But it isn't long before he wishes that he'd left her behind.
In Case of Alan
- 2005
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
An urban fairy tale about Alan and the elusiveness of what we need to tell him.
Incarnation
- 2005
- Short film
- Experimental
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
INCARNATION is the journey of a birth, as seen from the point of view of a soul. It is a lyrical, poetic story, which takes us through various worlds, each of which carry specific qualities and characteristics which fashion the soul along it's downward flight towards a human life in the physical, earthly realm. Finally, the threshold between the non-physical and physical world is crossed, and we arrive as we always have, as a newborn baby.
Infidels
- 2004
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Jimmy has a secret he has kept from Mia for too long. He can't sleep, can't eat, but will telling her make it any better or just ease his sense of guilt? INFIDELS is a story of relationships tested by past secrets revealed. It was an offslate production in Queensland for a minuscule budget with the generous support of the Queensland office of AFTRS and the Screenwriting Department.
Inheritance
- 1999
- Short film
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
Reuben learns why he is different. Now 'Cowboys and Indians' will never be the same...
Inja
- 2001
- Short film
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
South Africa, 1980s. Using a young Xhousa boy as a pawn, a farmer teaches his puppy to be white man's best friend. Ten years later, both their lives hang in the balance at the mercy of the dog. In English/Xhousa with English subtitles.
Insecurities
- 2004
- Documentary
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
What effect does fear, on a large scale, have on people? Do we make judgements in a state of fear that we might not otherwise make? INSECURITIES is a snapshot of Sydney in 2004, focussing on the psychological impact of the threat of terrorism on Sydney-siders and Sydney's public spaces. The film explores fear, safety, security, racism and patriotism through the eyes of its subjects, and takes us through a Sydney at once altered and familiar.
The Instructional Guide to Dating
- 2005
- Short film
- Animation
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
There are many hazards to avoid in the airport of love. How do you choose a co-pilot to take on your journey? What is the best way to eject from a date that's in a tailspin? How do you avoid excess emotional baggage? THE INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE TO DATING is essential for every modern girl and guy to navigate through the turbulent dating scene.
The International Misfits
- 2001
- Short film
- Animation
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
You wouldn't believe it...The International Misfits stop at a supermarket where their brains, brawn and style are called upon to help out the shopkeeper and a troublesome member of staff!
Into the Night
- 2002
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
A lost and fragile boy new to the streets. A wary teenager just thinking about the money. A wealthy man playing out a delicate and lonely game. Over one night their lives will intersect in unexpected ways, blurring the line between betrayer and betrayed.
Intransit
- 2000
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
A boy journeys into his own dark underworld where he is confronted by the vengeful father of his imagination.
It's Time
- 1994
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
During the Whitlam era, a bay is born with wings. As she grows older she rises above her squalid reality by learning to live with her dreams. A short film about hope for the post-Whitlam generation.
Ivan
- 1998
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
A young man's conflict between the Russian culture of his parents and the Australia of his birth. The story begins when Ivan's parents leave war-torn Russia in 1945 and ends with the tragic circumstances of Ivan's break up with Cassie, his lover.
Jess' Homecoming
- 1998
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Jess comes home to a close family. Too close. Mum's gotta go even though Dad still wants her. Jess just wants a happy family.
Jigsaw Girl
- 2007
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
14-year-old Caitlyn's world is thrown upside down when she stumbles across a woman she believes to be her mother - a woman who supposedly died when Caitlyn was just a baby...Rejecting her father as a liar, Caitlyn pursues the woman hoping for the answers to everything that feels amiss in her life. She soon discovers, though, that the truth is more complicated than she thought, and that no one has all the answers in life.
Jopet Pismo
- 1989
- Short film
- 28mins
- Status: Completed
Jopet pismo - another letter, another letter from home... Reconciliation between the past and the present is made harder for migrants Janko and Frane by their daughter Kate. When it looks as if they might return to Yugoslavia, she is angry and frustrated, saying that she is Australian and does not even remember their life there.
Journey of a Lifetime
- 1989
- Short film
- Experimental
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
A poetic interpretation of the journey of a man's mind back through his life as he lies only minutes away from his last breath.
Joy
- 2000
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
Thursday night. Late night shopping. Joy, 15, wants to have fun. JOY is an exploration of an adolescent girl's journey of self-discovery set in the garish twilight world of Sydney's late night shopping malls and roof tops. The film uses exciting techniques such as speed ramping, freeze frames and scrolling text to convey a poignant and disturbing trend in Australian and International youth. Writer and Director Cate Shortland is recognised as one of Australia's most exciting new filmmakers.
Joyride
- 2007
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Ana treasures her beloved Bryce. Bryce, however puts their relationship at risk by boldly pursuing his goals with a gun. These priorities put their relationship somewhat out of balance. When Bryce gets thrown into prison, Ana realises she must do something to get him out. In the pursuit of getting him out, she discovers something new about herself and the balance of power changes.
Jumping the Gun
- 1992
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
The morning after the night before. Combining styles from film noir, TV advertising, romantic novels and city ghetto realism, this is a farcical look at how one woman's 'morning - after' fantasy turns into a tragi-comic nightmare.
Jungle Bunny
- 1999
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
What goes around, comes around. But this time it comes with spicy rice and a side salad.
The Kangaroo Guy
- 2014
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Keith Donavon, a regional MP struggling to be taken more seriously is accidentally drawn into telling a lie during a live television interview. Now he must choose to either face the consequences from his comments, or do whatever it takes to avoid being branded as Australia’s newest political scandal.
Keys
- 2019
- TV drama
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
An unknown piano prodigy, Lei is a 16-year-old teenager from South Sydney who deals with the daily struggle to survive. She lives with her single mother, Cecilia who fails to remain present in her life. Lei’s only form of escapism is when she touches the ivory keys.
Kick to Kick
- 1995
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
A light comedy about Aussie Rules football, family life and a boy's loss of innocence.
The Killing of Angelo Tsakos
- 1989
- Documentary
- 27mins
- Status: Completed
In 1985, Angelo Tsakos, a young Greek-Australian boy from the depressed western suburbs of Sydney, was shot dead by a probationary police constable while driving a stolen car. He was only 16. At the enquiry three differing versions of the event were described. This film reconstructs these versions and finds questions still unanswered. In 1989 his family was still trying to get a full enquiry into the killing of Angelo Tsakos.
Kindle
- 2007
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Inside the world of a youth refuge a passion is kindled when Hayley, a troubled teenager meets the new boy, Terrence, a secretive mysterious type and discovers that where there's smoke, there's fire.
Kiss Kiss
- 2007
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
KISS KISS is a socio-cultural-historical montage of kissing stories. The first kiss, the teenage angst-ridden kiss, the romantice, the illicit, the best, the worst, the longest, the wettest, the last. Told through the personal stories of many unique and intriguing subjects.
Kissing Katie Sanstrom
- 1998
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
As a young woman, Clare chooses marriage to Jack over the more unconventional artistic world offered to her by a young rising opera diva, Katie Sanstrom. Forty years later, after Jack's death, Clare revisits Katie to decide whether she made the right choice.
The Lama of Greystanes
- 1999
- Documentary
- 19mins
- Status: Completed
Zatul Rinzin Rinpoche is the eleventh reincarnation of the Lama (or spiritual leader) of the highest monastery in the world, Rongbuk, which lies at the foot of Mount Everest in Western Tibet. In 1959, when the Chinese invaded Tibet, Rinzin was forced to flee his homeland. Now 57, he lives in Greystanes in the outer western suburbs of Sydney with his wife and three children. Rinzin is no longer a monk but he is still a Lama - a responsibility he must hold his entire life. He now works as a security guard to support himself, his family and his monastery back in Tibet.
Late Shift
- 2004
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
A dark, surreal film following a young man on a collision course with his future.
The Laundry
- 1998
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
A big man covered in blood enters a basement laundry. Is the threat in her mind or is it real? And which is scarier?
Left Lane Ends
- 2000
- Short film
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
Not paid sex, not Sleep-Eez, not working the late-night shift can help Danny sleep. Not until his ritual gets invaded by a girl.
Let's Wait
- 1998
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Walking down a street one night, Gina sees her soul in someone else. She follows her soul through the night disclosing her fears, her thoughts, in doing so begins to accept her life for what it is.
The Letter
- 2000
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
A visually beautiful film about the pain, fear and courage of novelist Fanny Burney who had her right breast removed without anaesthetic. Based on a real letter she wrote to her sister in 1812.
Letters to the Future
- 1993
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
A woman returns from the future as part of a pilot scheme for her people who must regain human form to survive, but her experiences of earthly love and passion cause her to despair. She has to resolve her dilemma – to remain human or to return?
Liebermans In The Sky
- 2009
- Short film
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
Alan Lieberman is a beleaguered waterbed salesman who just can’t seem to make a sale. With his father’s 40-year-old business on the verge of collapse and his life in disarray, Saturday’s runout sale might just be his last chance. With his trusted employee, Glenn Goodman, at his side how could he fail?
Life @ 24fps
- 2003
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Cinema projection is a dying art. Five projectionists are interviewed about how film projection has changed and how this has affected our experience of going to the movies. Perhaps these are the last of the 'true' cinema projectionists.
Life and Death
- 1997
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Five minutes in a man's life that happen to be his last...
Life on Earth as I Know It
- 1991
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Lois is depressed about the world. In a fit of despair she moves to the cockroach-ridden claustrophobia of Newtown. Then she meets Kate. LIFE ON EARTH AS I KNOW IT is an imaginative story about the four-letter word – love.
Lightness
- 2002
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
Harry works in glass factory by day and blows glass for his own pleasure by night. But Harry is growing older and is unable to keep up with factory quotas. One morning he discovers a 'failure to comply with set quota' notice in his pigeon hole. He pushes himself to keep up but collapses. The factory cleaner discovers him that evening lying on the floor and nurses him through the night. As dawn approaches, Harry is magically regenerated into a child.
Lillian and I
- 2002
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Year after year Lillian teaches her music students the same boring piano scales, neglecting her own creative yearnings. Until one day Lillian's piano can't take it any more.
Little Blue
- 2002
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Sometimes it takes more than a bath to change the way we think.
Little Blue Pill Called Song
- 2019
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
'Little Blue Pill Called Song' is a short musical film about Jordan Reed, a customer service rep, who works for a pharmaceutical company. After hitting rock bottom following a near dismissal, an overly charismatic and mysterious individual in a blue suit appears and attempts to brighten Reed’s day with a pill called Song, transporting him into a musical wonderland where all issues seem to be alleviated.
Little Echo Lost
- 1999
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
LITTLE ECHO LOST takes us into the world of the last surviving Echo Man. Echoes are part of the fabric of nature, the nature we hear, not see. These are the Echo Man's responsibility.
Little Room
- 2004
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
In the aftermath of an horrific and unseen catastrophe in a busy office workplace, three survivors find themselves trapped together in the janitor's closet with nothing but a light bulb and their wits between them. Outside, a force of monstrous proportions threatens to rip them apart should they be discovered. Inside, tensions are high, tempers are at boiling point and someone's watch keeps on tick, tick, ticking...A comedy about the horrors of office politics.
Little Secret
- 2017
- Short film
- 2mins
- Status: Completed
"After coming out, a son learns his mother’s Little Secret….". A young man, being dropped off to university, summons the courage to come out to his mother. He doesn't get the response he expects, and now he must deal with the consequences. Will his life ever be the same? A story about taking the risk to be yourself no matter what your age.....
Little White Lies
- 1997
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Coming out is hard to do - but is procrastinating any easier? Modern convenience becomes persecutor in this fast-pace morality farce. Reb finds that when you've got a secret and they've got your number - a little white lie can sometimes do wonders - just not always!
Living On
- 2005
- Documentary
- 22mins
- Status: Completed
An actor with a young family is diagnosed with cancer, an environmentalist is attacked by a crocodile, a dental therapist has both breasts removed and a young gay man is told he is HIV positive. Twenty years on, they describe their brush with death, the impact on their lives and how they have ultimately reinvented themselves.
Look Sharp
- 2006
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
LOOK SHARP is the story of Jo, a dedicated stills artist who has spent the night with gang members Darren and Jason in order to document their brutal street world and sense of kinship. To what length will these characters go in the name of art? As the photo shoot prevails we witness the effect of the female eye on masks of masculinity.
Lost
- 2002
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
LOST is the story of a boy seeking fame for fame's sake, a desire that will ultimately end in failure.
Love from Guy
- 1997
- Short film
- 23mins
- Status: Completed
Guy's wife has left him after an argument and now he is trying to contact her. He records a series of videotapes for her in which he seems gradually to come to terms with his attitudes and his behaviour.
Lovely
- 1996
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
...a short tale about the fragility of everyday existence...
Loveproof
- 2006
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
In the late 21st century, the world is stricken with chemical warfare and a declining population. A soldier brings his new love, a displaced migrant, back to his utopian home only to discover that they will have to resort to extreme measures to stay together. LOVEPROOF is a modern day fable about love, sacrifice and displacement.
Love's Labourer
- 2003
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Ern, council worker and hopeless romantic, tries to negotiate his way around the obstacles of modern dating.
Loyal To My Image
- 1991
- Documentary
- Experimental
- 21mins
- Status: Completed
'Who decides who has the right to mother and what are the emotional, financial and social costs in human terms?' LOYAL TO MY IMAGE is a powerful documentary about adoption, mothering and personal identity examining one woman's experiences both as an adopted person and as a mother who relinquished her child.
Lullabies
- 1993
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
LULLABIES condenses the contradictory thoughts and emotions one experiences when a lover is absent without notice.
Lunar Defence
- 1997
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
A full moon, a pig's head and a forgotten anniversary... LUNAR DEFENCE is a 'regular' night gone horrible wrong.
Lunavision
- 1991
- Short film
- Experimental
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
On a moonlit night, in deep vegetation, a wooden hut stands in the forest. Inside are a woman and her two children. She wakes the children and they start a journey through the forest. After a few minutes they reach a modern house and are invited in to watch television. On the screen is a lunar landscape with an astronaut descending a ladder. This is the live broadcast of the first man walking on the moon.
Making Mark
- 2005
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Young, contemporary painter Mark Hanham is trying to make a go of it as a serious artist. Mark's style is pretty chaotic but lately he's had some success selling canvases out of an elite gallery in Paddington. Even so, its hard to feel professional when you're still living at home and your studio is a dingy storage space in a car park underneath an old apartment block.
Making Sense
- 1999
- Documentary
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
Helle hears colours, sees sounds and tastes shapes. Welcome to the world of synaesthesia, a 'union of the senses' and one woman's unique journey of discovery and self-expression.
Managed Response
- 1994
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
Australia, Melbourne, springtime, afternoon. As three brothers prepare to go to their father's funeral, they all find ways of hiding their grief behind a manly excuse.
Markings
- 2001
- Short film
- Experimental
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
A road movie told through the emotional landscape on the body.
Marzipan
- 1992
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Set in 1970, MARZIPAN is the story of Jenny's wedding night. Will it be everything she had hoped for? Or will it be like marzipan – sweet at first, but with a bitter aftertaste?
Maybe Mum's Not the Word
- 2005
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
MAYBE MUM'S NOT THE WORD is a funny, moving look at the lives of three women in their thirties with very different ideas on motherhood and why 'Mum' may or may not be the word for them.
Maybelline's Hair and Beauty Salon
- 1993
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
Maybelline's having a hard day. Her boyfriend's cheating on her, her clients are demanding and the hair-do from hell has just walked in the door...
The McDonagh Sisters
- 2003
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
In the 1920s, Isabel, Phyllis and Paulette McDonagh were sisters, best friends and business partners. Together they were the first Australian women to form their own film company. Amazing footage from their films that has survived and been preserved, combined with interviews, archival photographs, and colourful reenactments describe a remarkable life of women making movies more than 70 years ago.
Meditations on a Name
- 2007
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Wattle hates her name - she's suffered through it her whole life. A long hot day on the road sees Wattle and her hippy father Rajen have it out, once and for all.
Medusahead
- 1997
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
A micro-opera in which a decapitated soprano sings of the plights and delights she encounters as a woman whose crowning glory has been transformed into a viperine nest and whose powerful look petrifies curious onlookers.
Melancholy
- 2001
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
A suicide, a devastated fiancée and a young woman with a story to tell - sadness is a trap.
The Men's Room
- 2001
- Documentary
- 4 x 26mins
- Status: Completed
Dive into the 'pool reflection' with comedians Anh Do and Subby Valentine as they gain insight into the big issues that affect men. THE MEN'S ROOM is a show about what it means to be a man in modern Australia, exploring such topics as work, health, relationships and sport.
Merv
- 1992
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
More to the man than meets the eye!
A Message from the Party
- 2006
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
A MESSAGE FROM THE PARTY is a self-made 'documentary' by Vivien, an eccentric and well read, though unemployable 38-year-old intellectual who lives at home with his mother. Dissatisfied with the mediocrity of our times, and dismayed by his mother's waning adoration, he has decided to form a political party and mount a revolution from his living room. This film is his call to arms.
Midas
- 2000
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
MIDAS is a retelling of the story of King Midas and the Golden Touch. It is told from the perspective of the narrator who was read the tale over and over again as a child. The film begins brightly but becomes darker as some of the narration's unspoken implications are revealed.
Mijn Man
- 2005
- Documentary
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
A documentary about Karina and her relationship with Walter Spies, a German artist who influenced Indonesian art in the '20s. Karina was six, sitting on Walter's lap, when she saw him drawing 'The Seated Man'. This artwork brings back fascinating memories of a childhood in Java. But Karina is now 80 and decides it's time to let go and sell this picture. (DVD includes fascinating interactive extras on Walter Spies, Karina's personal stories and the making of the documentary).
Milk
- 1999
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
The demise of a strangely formal relationship between two lonely neighbours. The old man lives upstairs. Every evening the downstairs woman knocks on his door and asks to borrow a jug of milk. He is always waiting.
Milk Men
- 2004
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
The film to end nipple-envy forever. Men have mammary glands as well, but are they willing to use them? For too long, the oversized female nipple has stolen the limelight from her humble male counterpart. With the help of scholars Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Fiona Giles, this mockumentary proves once and for all that men are not as useless as tits on a bull.
The Misfortune of Others
- 2013
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
What connects an emotionally down-trod housewife, her nasty husband, a sexually frustrated dentist, an Olympic fencer and an elderly woman with a terminally ill parrot? An ultra droll, black comedy about the misfortune of others.
Missing: A Search for Susan Purchas
- 2005
- Documentary
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
Susan Purchas was 21-years-old when she disappeared in the spring of 1982. In this documentary Sue's family and friends remember her, helping us build a picture of Sue and the disturbing circumstances surrounding her disappearance. The film combines a searching visual style with archival Super-8 footage.
Mockingbird
- 2007
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
When Emily is dragged to the country so her mother can pursue a new relationship, she seeks refuge in the neighbouring farm boy. At first a ploy to regain her mother's attention, Emily begins to fall for him and urges him to escape his violent brother. As her relationship with her mother disintegrates, Emily also wants out. But sometimes patterns of behaviour aren't easy to escape.
A Modern Marriage
- 2003
- Documentary
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
Kavita is getting married to Suresh, and even though they have only met a few times, her parents approve of the match. A MODERN MARRIAGE is a documentary that explores Kavita's journey towards an arranged marriage. This film explores family, ideas, dreams and how this Hindu tradition fits into an Australian contemporary culture.
The Money Shot
- 2000
- Short film
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
Two friends make a porn film together... How hard can it get?
Monomania
- 1989
- Short film
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
Helping those you adore is a noble undertaking, and when it involves kidnapping a famous actress to give the understudy her chance at the starring role, things can get a little out of hand. But, as in all the best romance, true love triumphs in the end...
Monster Fish
- 1992
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
A happy story about divorce. When Alex's mother decides to leave her husband and live with Alex's art teacher, Alex has mixed feelings about the situation – but mostly she wants to know if the dog can come too.
Mozzie
- 2000
- Short film
- Animation
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
A tale for all ages about global warming, chloro- fluorocarbons and radical brain surgery.
Mr Cheng
- 2005
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Lawrence Cheng was abandoned at the age of four in Hong Kong; he has no knowledge of his birth date, birth place or real name, but has an incredible story. MR CHENG is about a man who is searching for a family he never knew and a history he doesn't have. It explores the construction of identity and strength through abandonment and loneliness.
Mr Ikegami's Flight
- 1995
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Mr Ikegami is in Sydney on business. Back in Tokyo, his wife, Seisuko, is expecting their first child. A tale of divided loyalties.
MumLife
- 2022
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Sarah, a first-time mother, is struggling to connect with her newborn baby and is pushed to her limits when she discovers a surprise birthday party has been organised for her 30th by her insta famous bestie.
My Familiar
- 1998
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
A mother and daughter scam, a seance, a shocking revelation... A Victorian melodrama with startling diversions to the 12th Century.
My Father's House
- 1993
- Short film
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
A woman's memories have assumed a musical voice. Her haunting melody reaches into the past, forcing the man she trusted to confront the nature of his love.
My First Panic
- 2019
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
On her way home from a night of hedonistic partying, Ruby, an anxious young woman, experiences her first panic attack. With every new environment her panic escalates, and with each person she encounters unable to help, Ruby is forced to face the relentlessness of her anxiety disorder.
My Love Of Nature
- 1996
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
A taxidermist is interrupted in his work by a butterfly that has flown into his lab. He gases it to add to his collection but suddenly feels guilty at what he is doing. He rushes out of his lab but there he is contronted by the fecundity of the natural world - a stark and horrifying contrast to the dead creatures that he handles in his sterile laboratory.
My Sister and I
- 2007
- Short film
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
In a freshly built mansion, two virgin sisters share a unique connection, a tiny room and a simple promise.
Myths and Legends
- 1990
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
The magical world of two young boys - a junkyard where they share games and stories and hunt for lost treasure - is disrupted by a gang of bullies. The boys call on a mythical creature. the Guardian of the Junkyard, to help them restore order.
The Naked Lady Vanishes
- 1998
- Documentary
- 27mins
- Status: Completed
A 'Storm in a B-cup' involving some of the country's top barristers and judges... and a nude woman whom each of them has very strong ideas about. Low art versus the high moral ground as the Sydney legal profession erupts over the curly subjects of censorship, sexism, pornography and political correctness.
Next Attraction
- 1989
- Short film
- Experimental
- 3mins
- Status: Completed
Sally thinks life in the movies is where it's at... Until she discovers the gap between reality and illusion.
Nightride
- 1997
- Short film
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
In the dark streets of suburbia, a young man catches a Nightride bus only to find himself trapped by a masked man who murders the driver and takes control of the wheel. He must escape, but at what price?
Nightwork
- 1994
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Out of the mouths of babes and into the deep of the night. Rachel believes she is being two-timed and so embarks on a comic and obsessive journey driven by suspicion and jealousy.
No Night
- 1996
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
When everything seems to be over, Jerry begins the most fantastic journey of his life...
None of the Above
- 1993
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Is it a hard-nosed investigation of the world of bondage and discipline? A light-hearted musical tribute to dominance and submission? A dark journey through the steamy underbelly of adult perversion? Or is it... None of the Above? We got the dirt on this one – there is none. That is, all we could pin to it is glamour. Pure, disciplined, adult, old-fashioned glamour. Or not.
Nonno Pepe is a Video Head
- 1994
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
An old man finds new spirit after the death of his wife when he gets a video camera. A sweet, succinct look at the many parts that make up the sum of one life nearly completed.
Not Like A Wife
- 1989
- Short film
- Experimental
- 4mins
- Status: Completed
'Not Like A Wife'... Sort of like a video clip. Very like a drama clip.
Not So Super
- 2004
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Henry Baker, accountant and superhero, returns home to find he's been robbed...again.
Number One Fan
- 2007
- Documentary
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
In 1969, Laurie Nichols rose from obscurity and earned the title of Balmain Tigers Number One Fan. Over the following decades, his devotion and loyalty saw him transcend the crowds on the hill to become an established part of the team. A renowned shadow boxer, Laurie was later to fight hard for the survival of the club. He died three days before the newly formed Wests Tigers first game.
The Obituary
- 1992
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
While he spends the day in bed with a cold, Phillip's friends become convinced that he has killed himself.
Odd Jobs
- 1994
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Be prepared...Be very prepared! Two Boy Scouts, intent on earning money by doing odd jobs, stumble upon a spooky old house and its macabre owner. He looks forward to scaring them with his 'house of horrors' - but young boys today aren't so easily frightened.
Once in Time
- 1989
- Short film
- Experimental
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
In a small town in the western plains of New South Wales a friendship evolves between two children, Trish and David. Their lives are revealed through the poetic recollection of moments from Trish's childhood; the arrival of strangers to the farm, bikes, fights and graduation nights. 'Once in time' is a film that explores the geography of our memories. There is a time and a place where memories become part of our lives...
A Once Smiling Woman
- 2000
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Set at the time of the axe-murders in Sydney's Kings Cross A ONCE SMILING WOMAN is a film about loneliness, violence and longing.
One Man's Family
- 1993
- Short film
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
Harry Langford and his wife Ella believe to escape detection for murder is to escape punishment. They are wrong!
Orange
- 1996
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
ORANGE is a story about the unspoken complexities of men - their dreams, their schemes and the things that are more important than football...
The Other Son
- 2001
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
It is just another ordinary evening at Vera's well-ordered suburban home. Dinner is on the table. Vera, her husband Frank and only son Troy tuck in just as a noise alerts the family to a foreign presence. Luke enters - a boy of Troy's age. None of them have ever seen him before...
Our Feral Friends
- 1994
- Short film
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
A pseudo-documentary about the lifestyles of three young men who live in the far western suburbs of Sydney - soaking on whisky and toking on the green stuff.
Out on the Tiles
- 2004
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
Desmond's life with Maureen is about as interesting as the country town they live in. That is, until their son Rob delivers a surprise present to spice up his father's humdrum existence. But who would've known this gift could mean so much more than just an alternative to pork chops and peas...
Outside Looking In
- 1989
- Short film
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
Karl Brenning has to cope with puberty, antagonistic peers, an authoritarian grandfather, football, a trendy priest and an identity crisis. But he grows beyond them all...
Over in America
- 1997
- Short film
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
It's the hour of the wolf. A truck carting a mysterious biohazard shipment is hurtling along a lonely country road. To break the monotony, Vern begins telling Warren about the strange events that are occurring over in America - UFOs, serial killings and Elvis. They are oblivious to the fact that these are the very things that are happening all around them. That is until Vern begins to feel unusually hot...
Overture
- 2003
- Documentary
- 22mins
- Status: Completed
On 14th September 2002, three composition students at the Australian Film Television and Radio School had their first experience of a live orchestral recording session as they recorded their music for three student films.
Painless
- 2003
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
PAINLESS explores sibling rivalry within the context of the grand curative ambitions of modern medicine. The desire of George, a humble nurse, to become 'a miracle worker' reflects the gothic and alchemic nature of this particular place of healing. Like Dr. Faustus, George makes a deal with his own Mephistophelean consciousness and deludes himself that an act of pride and selfishness has indeed resulted in a cure for the incurable.
Palace Cafe
- 1993
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
It is late at night... and a lonely man dreams of coffee and romance.
Pandora's Box
- 1994
- Short film
- Experimental
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Curiosity turns Pandora's travel case into Cocteau's wardrobe. Hope is around the corner if only she can let go of the past.
Paradise
- 2007
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
PARADISE is about how two mates come to terms with entering a new world, about re-imaging what their Paradise looks like.
A Parting
- 1990
- Short film
- Experimental
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
A short film about grief, love, memory and isolation. A man, living alone and working as a nightwatchman in a decaying industrial plant, is visited by a past lover who has recently died. Through this experience, he is able to reconcile himself to her death.
Passing Through
- 2007
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
When work obsessed Julian returns to his childhood home after his mothers' funeral, he finds things are not as expected. There is a woman, Gemma, living in his house with his mother's permission who he knows nothing about. But Gemma knows about Julian. Gemma also knows about grief. Can this unexpected encounter help Julian to connect with his long suppressed emotions and grief?
The Passion of Her
- 2003
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
THE PASSION OF HER is a black comedy about what happens when you pursue your desires all the way. Anna lives at home with her mother. Her hobbies include soap operas, reading magazines, hockey and fantasising about the handsome Gab who lives over the road. When Gab's fiancee Libby, confronts Gab on the lawn about his change in their honeymoon plans, Anna takes a stand that changes her life, and Gab's too.
Passion with a Pedigree
- 2004
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Val is passionate about cats and cockatoos, while Ken is fanatical about flying model aeroplanes...A retired couple from western Sydney, they share their obsessions and philosophies on life.
Pending
- 2001
- Short film
- Animation
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Jasmine flees the dogs of war for the towering City of Anchors. But between her traumatic past and her hopes of a new life, Jasmine must first face a heartless bureaucrat.
Perdition
- 2005
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Josephine is a young woman who is in the fight of her life, pitted against Amon, a suave, self-assured and malicious seducer and Ash, her Armani-clad conscience. In a battle to the death, where addiction is pitted against freedom, can a person survive?
A Permanent End
- 1996
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
A couple are in their house eating a meal and looking out of the kitchen window. It is obvious that their relationship is strained. When a man collapses in the street with a heart attack, his struggle for life is mirrored by the struggle inside the kitchen. In both cases, a permanent end is reached.
Personals
- 1995
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
'Seeking stories. Sleazy, sexy or sordid tales sought for short documentary on the experience that is Women's Personals'. Three women talk about their various expectations and experiences with lesbian personal columns.
Phobia
- 1999
- Documentary
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
A short docu-drama which case-studies agoraphobia and claustrophobia.
A Place by the Sea
- 2008
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
A PLACE BY THE SEA follows a group of children as they are thrust together for two weeks living under the watchful gaze of Stewart House. Set against the backdrop of Curl Curl beach, this 26-minute documentary explores stories from the 1930s through to the present day, and reveals how much a place continues to impact on the dreams and memories of those in need.
Placement
- 2001
- Short film
- Animation
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Max is a steadfastly religious man, deeply opposed to human cloning. However when his young daughter dies in a tragic accident, Max is forced to reevaluate all that he believes in.
Placenta
- 1991
- Short film
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
In a world of mutations and horror a woman carries the perfect boy deep within her. To ensure his safety she maintains the pregnancy for 18 years. And all is well until a young girl comes calling, and our hero ventures into reality. A fractured Freudian view of the original love triangle. One boy's dream... every mother's nightmare!
Plastic
- 2008
- Short film
- Animation
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Whilst Anna is preparing for a first date with Henry, a man she has secretly loved for years, everything goes wrong until she discovers the impossible - to sculpt her appearance like clay to any shape she desires.
Pleasance
- 2007
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Les and Errol are two elderly brothers living on their family property of Pleasance. Their existence is well-worn, a functional marriage of needs that neither questions. Then one day Marie, Errol's past love, returns to the district. The two are once again drawn to one another and as Errol spends more time with Marie, his relationship with Les becomes strained.
The Plunge
- 1991
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Mariel and Peter have a nightclub act. In fact they have a number of nightclub acts, but Peter knows he has found the perfect one – if only Mariel will take the plunge.
Plus ça Change
- 1991
- Documentary
- Experimental
- 24mins
- Status: Completed
Detachment...abstraction...nostalgia. This film, a documentary essay, examines the experience of a young woman who, after working for some years as a professional marine navigator, retrained at the Ecole Louis Lumiere in Paris as a cinematographer. It explores the connections for that individual between cinematography and navigation as activities and as ways of seeing and feeling.
Pointes
- 1991
- Documentary
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
POINTES is a non-dialogue documentary – lyrical and fluid in tone, with a naturalistic hard edge. It focuses on the life of pointe shoes at various stages, from their making in the Bloch's shoe factory through their breaking in, performance and discardment. The documentary draws a strong parallel between the lives of the shoes to that of a dancer's career.
Postcard Home
- 1995
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
This film examines the notion of the commodification of culture: how it is bought and sold as Buddhas or koalas and how we as tourists enter into that contract.
Precious
- 1996
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
PRECIOUS is a 'video age' silent film, a black fairytale love story. It is made in homage to 1995, being the centenary of the birth of cinema. True wealth... What is precious and what is not? Two young people hold precious their love over their riches. Jean and Phelli find when they separate from brutality that they have each other, their sensuality and their love.
Preoccupied
- 1998
- Short film
- 4mins
- Status: Completed
Sometimes you just can't work out where the time has gone.
Press Any Button
- 2003
- Short film
- Experimental
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
For Sophie, every day is full of choices... Independent, mother, consumer, woman. What will it be today?
Project Vlad
- 2000
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Vlad is a Russian chimpanzee cosmonaut. Sent into orbit as a prelude to manned space flight, his hopes for heroism have long since faded. Vlad is a victim of Cold War politics; a long forgotten anachronism whose fate is to trace an endless and lonely trajectory around the Earth.
The Pursued
- 1990
- Short film
- 34mins
- Status: Completed
Based on the story 'Los Perseguedos' by South American writer Horacio Quiroga, THE PURSUED is the story of a young couple and their encounter with a man suffering from a persecution complex.
Range Of Experience
- 1993
- Short film
- Experimental
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
An ironic exploration of a future world where Virtual Reality has replaced dreams. The ability to experience life's basic emotions has been lost to humanity. Are we really in control of the decisions as to what we experience with Virtual Reality? Or is our journey being dictated?
Redfern Beach
- 2001
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
A young man chooses between money and magic. A story about fishing, friendship and faith.
Redreaming the Dark
- 1998
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
During a blackout in the family apartment, an intellectually challenged young black woman is thrown into turmoil. It is the darkness which promotes fear in the young woman and it is her elderly grandmother who soothes her, teaching her not only to embrace the dark but also to affirm her dark self.
Relative Strangers
- 1998
- Short film
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
Simon thought he knew his parents... A film about a family, a deception and its legacy.
Requiem
- 1991
- Short film
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
A successful composer is approached by a young widow who requests a requiem for her late husband, a taxi driver. But how can he abandon his current commission, which is far more important?
Restoration
- 1999
- Short film
- Experimental
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
On a remote property in New South Wales in 1912, a travelling portrait photographer captured the image of a young woman who worked as a maid. Years later the ghosts of the two characters reenact what went on beneath the surface at their meeting, and the events are pieced together through a mixture of dance, photos and memories.
Retreat
- 1990
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
'Retreat' is about travelling - about outward and inward journeys. Two people confront the world in different ways - one by moving on, and the other by staying still and taking in only what passes by. Briefly their worlds connect.
Retro Sheilas in Space Aliens are Tooling Our Sheilas
- 1997
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Three Aussie super-sheilas and their Big Mack trucks embark on a mission to defend the Earth against the alien invasion. Ready to meet their foe head on, at an interstellar truck stop, they uncover a futuristic form of interplanetary relations... For Adults Only
The Road Home
- 2003
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
Roy Read was raised an orphan and told he wasn't Aboriginal, just 'darker than others'. At Kinchela Boys Home he was subjected to the horrors of institutionalised life. Now 49 years later, he returns to face the demons of his past and reconnect with the family he never knew he had.
Road Song
- 1993
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Guy meets girl. Girl hates guy. And an unfortunate relationship is discontinued.
Road To Alice
- 1993
- Short film
- 29mins
- Status: Completed
On the road to Alice, dead bodies, romance and a black HD Holden. Jimmy owes Dimitri more money than he can spare. He decides that a holiday would be a better bet. On his travels he meets Louis and things start to go wrong.
Rock Et Man
- 1997
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
The allegedly true story of Darwin Edward Cole, a serial killer on 'death row', who claims to have deflected Tesla's comet from its intersection with the Earth's orbit, thereby saving the world from certain destruction. He also claims to have returned with a new virus that only kills 'deviants', thus ridding the world of another plague. He confesses to the murders and insists that he is sane, refusing all attempts to have himself declared unfit to plead.
Rock I Gave You the Best Years of My Life
- 2005
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
A short documentary about the day you wake up, the sheets are drenched in sweat, outside it's mid-afternoon, all your friends own their own houses and your rock dream is over. Or maybe it isn't. ROCK I GAVE YOU THE BEST YEARS ON MY LIFE is a conversation with four blokes from four rock epochs about the 'balls out' decade they gave to rock and how they responded to life after the passing of their major band.
The Rockhopper
- 1994
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Ruth, a successful career woman, returns to her home on the New South Wales south coast after a long absence overseas to attend her grandmother's funeral. She finds herself immersed in the maelstrom of small town connections and characters. When events don't go as planned, she is consequently forced to challenge her overbearing father.
Roger
- 2004
- Documentary
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
Roger recently said, when asked about the end of his life: 'I wanted to be on the side of growth.' I think that sums it up. As a Catholic priest, he was pro women's rights and a strong anti-war activist at a time when most priests were neither of these things. If we are made up of our memories, who are we when they fade? Despite that desperate impediment, even now, the real Roger is vibrantly with us.
Roses
- 1999
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Roses are an old woman's only continuum... a link to the past, an anchor in the present.
Roses Are Red
- 1994
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Joy and Di are two women on a mission, but Di wonders whether Joy has got what it takes. Joy wonders if she has got what it takes. After all, it's not easy being a parking cop. Brian thinks it's even tougher being a flower seller - and the last thing he needs is a parking ticket.
The Round Ball
- 2006
- Documentary
- 2mins
- Status: Completed
Stefan Macinko is so devoted to soccer he takes his ball everywhere. We begin with him journeying to the shops to buy milk, kicking the ball all the way. We then learn about those he admires, and see his brother as his chief idol - a beautiful family bond, with soccer at the core. We learn of Stefan's major ambitions and visions. Fortunately, he proves exceptionally focused and we hope his dreams may one day come true.
Rubberman Accepts the Nobel Prize
- 2001
- Short film
- Experimental
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
RUBBERMAN ACCEPTS THE NOBEL PRIZE in his native language of dance which is simultaneously translated for broadcast worldwide. This stretchy comedy is a fantastical display of super heroic feats through which Rubberman shows us why action figures deserve more respect.
Run Beside Me
- 1994
- Short film
- Animation
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
As Anna searches for a gift to give her father, the words, voices and images from her childhood dance before her and carry her from land to sea. For Anna, there can never be any object to give in return for a lifetime of love.
Sammy Blue
- 2000
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Sammy Blue is a young boy who wants to escape from the white noise of reality in his everyday life.
The Santa Class Test
- 1988
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
From the short story by Peter Murphy. A would be Santa endures the heat of summer and gruelling rehearsals all in aid of Christmas cheer. But does the new Santa have a future in Kiddieland? Can he pass the Santa test?
Satellite
- 1999
- Short film
- Animation
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Pip finds the value in his time with his whacky inventor grandfather after he encounters the diversion of satellite TV.
Savageries
- 1996
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
SEVERENCE, DEVIANT DEPILATIONS, SCARS IN THEIR EYES: Three short films exploring the brutalities of life - in birth, sex and death.
The Saviour
- 2005
- Short film
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
Malcolm is a gentle, effective door-to-door evangelist who's in love with a married woman. With pressure mounting from his church to convert her, Malcolm decides his bible is the very weapon he needs to destroy the marriage that's keeping him from his true love.
Scrabbable
- 2007
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
With the world championships always in the back of his mind, one of Australia's top Scrabble players faces some of his most competitive rivals in the quiet south coast regions of Ulladulla. SCRABBABLE is a short documentary exploring the player's passion for the game, the struggle with the letters and the obsession that comes with being a master Scrabble player.
The Sea
- 2006
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
A young boy works in the mines with his father, a collier showing the first signs of Black Lung. Spending his days confined within the dark bowels of the earth, his only respite is the gentle, encouraging presence of his father and his fascination with an ancient underwater city model his father builds. THE SEA is a fable about a young man's love for his father allowing him to confront his greatest fear - death.
Searching for Michael Peterson
- 2007
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
Between 1972 and 1977 Michael Peterson was the best surfer in Australia. There is a fine line between madness and genius and the stories of MP's exploits are part of Australian surfing folklore. SEARCHING FOR MICHAEL PETERSON features interviews with World Champions, filmmakers and locals who watched the whole mad ride with classic footage of MP not seen for 30 years.
Secret Women's Business
- 1999
- Documentary
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
SECRET WOMEN'S BUSINESS at the Korean bathhouse in King's Cross, Sydney
Seduction 101
- 1996
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Ben and Louise start university and discover the politics of the campus and the politics of sex. A film about political correctness, romance, hypocrisy and human nature.
See Me
- 2001
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
A father with a lovingly restored Pontiac, a young son and a mysterious noise...
A Sense of Smell
- 2000
- Documentary
- 23mins
- Status: Completed
A young woman returns to Paris, the city of her birth. By talking to Parisians, she discovers that her sense of smell is the key to unlocking her memories.
September
- 1993
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
He was naive – a young man conquered by obstacles simply because he refused to acknowledge them. He didn't know the secret of love then. He hadn't been hurt. And now he is tormented by the inescapable past. The only way to love a woman forever is to lose her forever.
Sequin in a Blue Room
- 2020
- Feature
- 80mins
- Status: Completed
After a chance encounter at an anonymous sex party, a sixteen-year-old boy hunts through the world of a hook-up app to track down the mystery man. Favouring the instant gratification of anonymous, no-strings sexual encounters over meaningful relationships, high-schooler Sequin is part of the always logged-on, but never-engaged, hook-up generation. He ghosts ex-partners and remains emotionally unavailable. That's until he finds his way to an anonymous sex party, where a whole new dizzyingly alluring world unfolds before him. In one scene, Sequin connects with a mysterious stranger, but they are separated suddenly. Utterly fixated on this man, Sequin sets off on an exhilarating and perilous mission to track him down. Co-written by Jory Anast and Samuel Van Grinsven, SEQUIN IN A BLUE ROOM is a highly-accomplished queer coming-of-age tale and a breath of fresh air from the Australian independent film scene.
Serendipity
- 1992
- Short film
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
Judy is seven-years-old and about to take her first holy communion. The sudden death of her father leads Judy away from the blissful innocence of childhood and into the adult world of self doubt. When no one can answer her questions, Judy seeks her own truth.
Serving Suggestions
- 1998
- Short film
- Animation
- 3mins
- Status: Completed
Kevin has just escaped... in the supermarket.
Sex With The Ex
- 2007
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Vincent and Alessandra have fallen out of love. Vincent wants Alessandra out of his life, but Alessandra wants a child. While time is running out, Alessandra will not leave till she gets what she wants, at any cost. Can Vincent still come out on top? In a murky basement bathroom, it all comes down to a battle of wills.
She's An Angel
- 1993
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
A film about love, friendship and betrayal. Tony is about to marry Angelina, his childhood sweetheart. He is sure she's an angel, just like all Italian girls should be. But on the eve of his wedding he decides to confront his best friend and best man, Vito, to force a confession he'd rather not hear. It could mean the end of a friendship that spans church field soccer games to teenage bucks' parties.
Shot Open
- 2008
- Short film
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
Hunted and in a strange land an exiled Polish thief struggles to get to Sydney to start a new life. When he takes refuge with a young woman his understanding of the world, and his role within it, is permanently altered.
The Shot
- 2002
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
After a long career as a war correspondent photographer, Mick is a true artist. He is capable of seeing through the horror of the environment around him and manipulating his audience... until he himself falls victim to the worshipping of THE SHOT.
Sibling Bliss
- 1996
- Short film
- Animation
- 3mins
- Status: Completed
Aggressive interaction between siblings is a familiar experience. Mostly it happens within the family home and we grow out of it before any real damage is done. SIBLING BLISS, a clay animation with visual effects, illustrates one such relationship, the brothers' being a hammerhead shark and a vacuum cleaner!
A Silence Full of Things
- 2005
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Political torture continues. As spectators, most people can look away or turn it off. Others live with marked bodies and memories, triggered by everyday smells, sights and sounds. A SILENCE FULL OF THINGS is a short, stylised documentary that travels sensuously inside one woman's experience of being tortured for her political beliefs.
The Silence of Peig O'Bede
- 1990
- Short film
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
It is 1865. An isolated slab hut. While a man roams the Australian goldfields, his wife, a mute Irish woman and her two small children fight starvation. Her husband is a professional storyteller and a dreamer. Unable to speak, how can she communicate her most desperate anxieties?
The Silence
- 2000
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
Coog and Doc work in a remote area of the Australian outback maintaining dingo fences. As the silence and loneliness drive them slowly insane, they discover that silence can be deafening.
The Silent Couple
- 1997
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
THE SILENT COUPLE is based on an old folktale that appears in many different cultures. It is the story of a newly-wedded couple who have just retreated to their bedroom to start their honeymoon. An argument develops over who should close a door which is banging downstairs. Neither of them wants to do it and so the stubborn couple begin a silent stand-off. During the night a series of strange incidents occur - but still they will not give in...
Silk Dreams
- 1991
- Short film
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
A rich and sensitive film about displaced persons in a strange land. It explores the sub-culture of the Indo-Chinese kids, which sits uncomfortably alongside the expectations of an older generation.
The Silk
- 1994
- Short film
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
A touching story concerning the interwoven nature of mature love. It explores repression of feeling, sexuality, fulfilment and regret, all of which form the emotional games that are played out in all relationships. The silk itself represents the underlying beauty in the everyday.
Simple
- 1994
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Xavier and Yvonne loved each other and everything was as clear as clear can be. But then...There were three!
A Simple Song
- 2003
- Short film
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
The age-old struggle for understanding between generations is captured in this musical about finding the courage to be yourself.
The Sinking of the 20th Century
- 1997
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
The 20th century sinks leaving two survivors, ill equiped, ill prepared and adrift.
Six Days Straight
- 2002
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Fifteen-year-old Jason patiently waits outside his posh boarding school for his father Arthur to pick him up. It is their usual Sunday visit. But when Arthur drags Jason to the wrong side of town on a crazy scheme to rob a cat charity, things go awry and father and son must work together to get the loot.
Skin Pricks
- 1996
- Documentary
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
Skin pricks: little pricks make a lasting impression. SKIN PRICKS is a modern micro-documentary exploring the motivation and stories of four people who have chosen tattooing as a form of visual expression of their individuality or beliefs. A tribal beat soundtrack by Russel Kilbey underscores this fast-paced documentary on a new generation of individuals who are making their own marks.
Slut - The Musical
- 2009
- Short film
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
Raunchy and smart, this is a special shout-out for anyone who'se been just that little bit different at school. Caught in a nether-world between what you know about yourself and what other people expect, this musical grabs you by the collar and slaps you round the chops - all the time with a smile on its face.
Smith
- 2002
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Smith is a modern 'film noir' about a woman tying to save her younger brother after he kills a man named Smith.
Snap
- 2002
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
You just found out your mother has died. And she was tracking you down when it happened because you ran away with her boyfriend. Now it's time to decide - break free from his control or...SNAP!
Sneak Preview
- 1997
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
A stylish film noir thriller, SNEAK PREVIEW takes a black comedy slant on the classic themes of love, betrayal, murder, twist and double twist. This film, starring Susan Prior and Anna Volska, is the winner 1996 Kodak Award for cinematography and 1997 AGSC Best Student Film Score.
A Soldier's Tale
- 1988
- Short film
- 38mins
- Status: Completed
In 1917, composer Igor Stavinsky and writer C.F Ramuz collaborated to produce a music-theatre work, entitled 'A Soldier's Tale', the story of a soldier returning from the wars who is tricked in to selling his soul to the Devil. Then, as now, the world was faced with intense moral, social and political dilemmas. Using advanced video technology, this Australian Television adaptation of their famous work reinterprets their Faustian morality tale for the late 20th century.
Something Honest
- 1998
- Short film
- 50mins
- Status: Completed
Jaded rock star comes home seeking fame and fortune... and seduces her son over lines of coke. Lonely Lesbian Fertilities Counsellor seeks solace in the arms of the wrong man... and finds out more about morning-after pills than she'd needed to know. In a world where social taboos are disintegrating... Llewellyn is caught in the cross-firs; a black (straight?) teenage boy with two white mothers... and unrequited crushes on his two best friends. The definitive non-nuclear family are struggling to say 'something honest'.
Sonnet
- 1989
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
A woman tries to fly from both her past and her present - a visual sonnet.
Sosefina
- 2009
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Sosefina escapes her family and run-down house to live in a display house.
Soshin: In Your Dreams
- 1999
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
Like most Korean parents, the filmmaker's parents wanted her to become a doctor or a lawyer. She is delighted to discover that the Hyun family (friends of her parents) are a successful 'show biz' family of singers and dancers. A touching and entertaining film exploring the idea that expectations of parents are based on unrealised dreams from their own childhood.
Sotto Voce
- 1992
- Short film
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
In a Medieval town you would expect the priest to have great influence, and in an unexpected way he does.
The Space in Between
- 2002
- Documentary
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
Between 'before' and 'after' there is a space - the space in between. When a parent goes to prison, the effects on children are traumatic, infiltrating every part of their lives. THE SPACE IN BETWEEN explores the instability, alienation's and social discrimination that families and their children experience when a parent is incarcerated.
Spaghetti Souffle
- 1994
- Short film
- 22mins
- Status: Completed
Kevin's close, but definitely ex-girlfriend Hilary arrives to help him cook dinner for his prospective new girlfriend - a spaghetti souffle. As the awkward and unappetising dish is put together, the equally messy nature of their relationship reaches a head.
Sparks
- 1990
- Short film
- 35mins
- Status: Completed
Chaos, insomnia, labels, medication and opera - Sparks is a journey through life in a halfway house for young people who have been in psychiatric institutions.
Spirit
- 1997
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
Spirit - a man in search of...
Splintered
- 2004
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
This is a film about the unspoken rules of friendship. After leaving his best friend stranded at the scene of their crime, teenager Gavin struggles with the guilt of his actions and desperately tries to regain his mate's trust.
Sport
- 2000
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Set in a future where drugs in sport are legal and athletes are willing to take potentially fatal risks to fulfil their dreams.
Spring Ball
- 1993
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Occasion, memory and friendship. A country community comes together for its annual Senior Citizens' Spring Ball.
The Spy Who Liked Me
- 1998
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
A woman turns heartbreak, misery and betrayal into a career.
A Square's Safari
- 1992
- Short film
- Animation
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
On Safari, leaving paper pushing behind, Roy Wright picks up his spear and flourishes it, hurling himself into the New Age. A humorous animation on the subjects of masculinity, bizarre natural phenomena and the possibilities of change.
Steeling the Skies
- 1999
- Short film
- Experimental
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
One man's hunger for human contact in a steel-hearted city. A film about language, architecture and love.
Still Life
- 2005
- Short film
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
A man in need of attention and intimacy takes part in still life drawing classes, but his world is turned upside down when a chaotic woman turns her affections to him.
A Story About Lights
- 2019
- Documentary
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
After a life-long perplexing experience with unidentified lights in the sky, a skeptical truck driver finally comes to terms with a far-reaching personal truth.
The Stranger
- 1994
- Short film
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
Long and Lin, both once professional dancers in China, now live in Sydney, Australia. Long lives a lonely existence. Unable to continue his career as a dancer, his life is dominated by the memories of his past success. Lin strives to live in the present, discarding any trace of her past life. When confronted by Long she denies any knowledge of their past friendship. To her, he is just another stranger who visits the brothel she works in.
Street Angel
- 2008
- Short film
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
Doctor Pangea, 'the world's deadliest geologist', has escaped from prison with plans to destroy Earth as we know it. As the clock ticks down to destruction, the city turns to its unlikely protector - 14 year old homeless girl Jesse, known to the rest of the world as the kungfu skateboarding superhero STREET ANGEL! Based on the cult hit comic, STREET ANGEL is an anarchic action comedy with its tongue in its cheek and its foot up the nearest bad-guy's arse.
Street Level
- 2004
- Documentary
- 27mins
- Status: Completed
Through the hip-hop rhymes of Johnno and Tanya, we enter the world of inner Sydney streets and kids who have lived on them. The streets are frequently a dark world - and one hard to leave. But through their music we hear a story of their lives on the streets and their journey.
SUB-
- 2006
- Short film
- Experimental
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
SUB- is a music-driven fable without dialogue that explores fear, nostalgia and oppression. Can a young girl born and raised in a makeshift submarine find the courage to escape?
Subject S
- 1997
- Short film
- Animation
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
The story of a man known only as 'S' - the psychiatrist's subject - who has an inexhaustible memory. His condition is both friend and foe, as we see him learn to take control of it, and his life.
The Suitor
- 2005
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Cindy Kwok is 20, Cantonese, and still lives at home. While she loves and respects her parents, she desperately wants the freedom to be herself and love who she choses. Cindy's relationship with her white boyfriend Brett, is tested when her parents arrange a suitor from Hong Kong. A bouncy comedy about cross cultural relationships, THE SUITOR explores Cindy's first steps towards independence.
Sunday
- 2000
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
A young man alone on an open road waits for a road to nowhere in particular. He encounters a couple of 'grey nomads' in a hearse, who take him on a demented journey towards his destiny.
Sunset Box
- 1997
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
When emptiness sets in, sometimes all that is left is the basis of survival - food, shelter and a place to go...
Surface Tension
- 1994
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Freida has something to tell Nick, but she doesn't know what she feels or how to express it. The unspoken is the source of a tension that grows and grows and eventually must burst like a bubble rising to the surface.
Surrender
- 1995
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
'The dreams...The letter...And now he's here in my garden. But what does he want from me?' Norman Kaye and Frank Wilson realise a relationship founded on life and death.
Sushi Noh
- 2021
- Short film
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
Trapped in the care of her lonely uncle, a young girl’s nightmares about a bizarre kitchen appliance manifest into reality.
Swallows
- 2018
- Short film
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
Set in Australia's frontier past, a young Indigenous worker begins work on an isolated sheep property and forms a connection with the owner's daughter.
Sweet Mercy
- 1999
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
When a panicked man dumps his girlfriend's body, he comes face to face with his own dark justice seeking retribution.
Sweet Tooth
- 2019
- Short film
- 23mins
- Status: Completed
Once upon a time, there were a brother and a sister called Hansel and Gretel. The children stumbled through the dark woods, lost and afraid, until they came upon a marvelous house of sugar and spice and everything nice. That is the fairy tale we know. But there are always two sides to every story. Many moons earlier, a little girl is born to a penniless baker’s maid - a baby blinded by the Red Devil’s disease. Together with her little brother, she must navigate a cold world and stand up to the hardened townsfolk who dislike them. But, as time passes, the children have fewer and fewer places left to hide and must seek refuge in the forest. Out there, it will be up to them to find a home where no one will ever find them. Until, one day, there would come a brother and a sister: Hansel and Gretel.
Swing Your Partner
- 1992
- Short film
- 4mins
- Status: Completed
A short sad film about Country and Western love.
Tackle
- 2004
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Rob encourages his son Ryan to follow in his footsteps and become a professional rugby player. When Ryan fails to make the school team, he is unable to face his father with the truth. He tells his father he's at training whilst pursuing his genuine interests. The lie builds and Ryan struggles to maintain the facade. TACKLE is about a crucial turning point in the relationship between a father and his teenage son.
Talk of the Town
- 2000
- Short film
- Experimental
- 4mins
- Status: Completed
Skyscrapers in Sydney express their sexual fantasies on New Year's Eve of the new millennium.
Target Audience
- 1990
- Short film
- Experimental
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Geoff is an amiable random killer whose greatest ambition is to be on television singing a song by his hero, Tom Jones. Mike is the producer of a television current affairs show and in need of a good story. Geoff and Mike seem made for each other - but how long can this partnership last?
Tatterson
- 2006
- Documentary
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
TATTERSON is the true story of the last days of an Australian soldier in World War II. Captain Vince Tatterson is fighting the Japanese in the jungles of the New Guinea highlands. In order to protect his family from the grim reality of his situation, Tatt sends his fertile imagination to work. He writes a letter home to his young nieces and nephews in which brutal images of warfare are transformed into exotic wonders of nature.
Tea for Three
- 1998
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Three gangsters and a tea pot.
Technomad
- 1998
- Documentary
- 19mins
- Status: Completed
What happens when reality goes off the rails and into the desert. The story of a Technological Nomad who is perhaps more at home in Cyberspace.
Teratoma
- 2003
- Short film
- Experimental
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
A story of obsession, addiction and self destruction.
Terminal
- 1991
- Short film
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
Gabriel returns to Sydney from London for the funeral of Rachel, his ex-wife, who committed suicide. There he stays with Mary, his ex-wife's childhood friend. The film deals with the effect the death has on them both, their attempts to deal with the loss and the confrontations each are faced with.
Terra Nullius
- 1993
- Short film
- 21mins
- Status: Completed
The story of Alice, a young Aboriginal girl who absorbs the fear and shame of her adoptive white parents. The film links the denial of Aboriginality to an invasive scene of incest which occurs throughout the film. A look at how untreated fear and shame get passed from one generation to the other. Expressionist images repeatedly disrupt the narrative to haunt us with the denial of racial and sexual abuse – legacies of colonisation.
The Third Note
- 2000
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
A blind woman and her Russian neighbour do battle with sound and music when he refuses to read a postcard for her. What starts as war ends in understanding.
The Third Stroke
- 1999
- Short film
- 2mins
- Status: Completed
A brief moment in time.
Thirty Five
- 2005
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
In a suburb much like any other, a family has just moved into number 35. When Jake complains to his mum that there is something strange under his bed, she reassures him that there is nothing to be afraid of. Jake, however, is about to prove that parents aren't always right...
This Girl in the Desert
- 2006
- Short film
- 34mins
- Status: Completed
After the death of her brother, Sam leaves the desert for a new life in the city. There she meets Andres, a young South American man with a troubled past of his own.
This River
- 2019
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Three Piece Suite
- 1992
- Short film
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
Three women, three generations, are preparing a reunion dinner. Under the same roof on one hot day, each woman 'stews' over her future. By the time things have cooled down one has moved in, one has made an escape and another accepts the fact that she is stuck for good.
Time of Death
- 2003
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
It is the future and the outlook is high-tech, dangerous and, for virtual coroner Berenger, soaked with crime. Hovercams patrol the streets, murder is a government-sanctioned tool and every fantasy is at your fingertips in the form of simulated adventures. A recovering 'Sim' junkie, Berenger is trying to rebuild his life with wife Sara after the death of their young daughter. Despite his job with the police department, where he views screen after screen of local killings, Berenger is starting to get it together again. But Berenger has a secret desire to get back what he has lost. To do this he'll need to obtain the ultimate illegal Sim. A dark and exciting sci-fi drama, TIME OF DEATH asks the question: can humanity survive the search for perfection?
Titus the Great
- 2001
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Reality is too much to bear for Tim who uses his unique creative gifts to escape into an isolated world of fantasy, until an unlikely intruder comes along.
Together in the Middle of Nowhere
- 2001
- Short film
- 16mins
- Status: Completed
Vince embarks on an odyssey through the city streets while his girlfriend Jacqui works in a strip club until dawn. Over one night they journey into the darkness of their own hearts to find out what really matters.
Too Little Justice
- 2004
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
'Everyday' racism escalates into violence as an Indigenous schoolboy is forced to fight for dignity. When he is framed for drug possession by a racist student, he realises he is trapped in a cycle of systemic cultural bias.
Total Social Misfit
- 1997
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Fifteen years spent in pursuit of axe-murderer 'Charlie', has made everyone a suspect in the eyes of former Chief Inspector Henry Rhodes. But when he finds Charlie in a chapter of Killers Anon, Henry's grip on decency is loosened by the prospect of acceptance.
Touch and Go
- 1997
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
This is a film about a moment of change. It is about the importance of contact between people. When we say goodbye we directly face the possibility of losing contact forever. We have to confront a pain of separation that goes as deep as our fear of death. The unknown lies at the other side of a goodbye, the chance of aloneness, the feeling of loss, betrayal, lack of love - and of course, the freedom of something new... TOUCH AND GO looks at how we deal with that point of separation.
Training Wheels
- 2006
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
George lives with her father Tony in a tiny house in the western suburbs of Sydney. Tony, unable to face the truth about his wife's abandonment of the family, projects an image of his absent wife onto their young daughter. At the precipice of a new understanding of herself and her sexuality, George knowingly disobeys her father and sets out to learn how to ride her mother's bike, a symbol of her thirst for freedom.
Tram Ways
- 1991
- Documentary
- 23mins
- Status: Completed
Obsessive fans of Melbourne trams - Gunzels are noted for their eccentricity and breadth of knowledge of the tramways. A warm hearted look at the people of Melbourne, their trams and their passion!
Tran the Man
- 1994
- Short film
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
Ray Moss has been nicknamed Tran by the Asian shopkeepers in his job as a security guard at a shopping centre in suburban Cabramatta. For Ray/Tran, the heat is on. His brother and uncle have had their heroin business undercut by Asian-controlled competition and they want Ray as their go-between.
Transgression
- 2005
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
TRANSGRESSION is the story of Grem: a 19-year-old arts law student at Sydney University. She is intelligent, talented, and articulate, born into a wealthy Hong Kong family. Grem is suffering from a body condition: she is biologically male. Grem identifies culturally, psychologically and spiritually as female and has always felt that way. We track her memories of childhood and teenage years, through the discovery and acceptance of herself and her identity.
Tree
- 2001
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
Following the death of her mother, eight-year-old Sara forms a surrogate parent relationship with a tree in her garden.
Triple Word Score
- 1998
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
When three octogenarians communicate through a scrabble board it spells nothing but trouble.
Truckies Don't Eat Quiche
- 2004
- Documentary
- 31mins
- Status: Completed
In TRUCKIES DON'T EAT QUICHE, writer/director Ben Davies takes a personal look at the similarities between the language systems of a group of Sydney surfers and those of popular media. In particular he considers that darling of contemporary culture: 'cool'.
A True Story About Love
- 2001
- Documentary
- 27mins
- Status: Completed
Originally conceived as a theoretical piece on Korean-American documentary filmmakers and cross-cultural identify in America, A TRUE STORY ABOUT LOVE ends up a personal and probing film about love, sexuality and the complex ethics of documentary filmmaking.
Trust Me
- 1998
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Misplaced faith sets an ex-nun in the path of a faithless runaway. Together they discover a past that is briefly entwined and moments of trust which bind them. TRUST ME - people are seldom as they seem.
Tuck and Cover
- 2002
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Nic and Pete are the perfect young couple. They live in a nice apartment. They have lots of friends. And they eat plenty of vegetables. There's only one problem - they hate each other. Tonight Nic is going to rekindle the magic in their relationship. Or die trying.
Turbulences
- 1990
- Short film
- Experimental
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
A poetic journey in an emotional inner world lost in an anonymous outside world.
Turn
- 2005
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
A surreal comedy about love, traffic and survival. Two drivers - ambitious Christine and struggling Leo - find themselves stuck in a side alley as they attempt to turn on to an impenetrable motorway. As the minutes turn to hours, and the hours turn to days, Christine and Leo realise they are completely trapped together, and must find a way to survive.
Turn Me On
- 2001
- Documentary
- 17mins
- Status: Completed
TURN ME ON explores the history of the vibrator. Through a group of sexpert characters, the documentary uncovers the socially camouflaged sex toy - hidden in the underwear drawer since it was invented over 120 years ago. TURN ME ON reveals a social and sexual history that some people would prefer remained a secret.
Twelve Moons
- 1995
- Short film
- 23mins
- Status: Completed
A poetic interpretation of a traditional Chinese ghost story, in which a young man falls in love with a ghost woman. Dialogue in Mandarin with English subtitles.
Two Fish
- 1991
- Short film
- Animation
- 4mins
- Status: Completed
Two fish see a dolphin in distress and decide to rescue it.
Two Nights
- 2006
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Over two nights, a young Chinese immigrant has sexual encounters with two very different individuals. Consequently, he has to choose between the one he wants or the one who wants him.
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
- 1997
- Short film
- 21mins
- Status: Completed
Henry Howard discovers a way to stay young forever, but life doesn't seem worth living without his childhood sweetheart Alice. Risking old age, Henry returns to convince her to join him. A bittersweet Australian fairy tale.
Unacceptable Behaviour
- 1994
- Short film
- 27mins
- Status: Completed
An empty church. In the confessional is a woman with a gun - and she is waiting for her miracle: 'Don't you think Jesus made a mistake when he healed all those people? Imagine if he had said, just once, the cripple was whole as a cripple, then you and your kind would not have taught me to feel guilty, to hate myself.'
The Underdog Principle
- 1996
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Three disabled guys, who are sick of being treated like idiots, decide to do something positive for themselves. So they rob a bank.
Undressing Vanessa
- 2007
- Documentary
- 21mins
- Status: Completed
This documentary is about the unlikely journey of a suburban Aussie boy - Tobin Saunders - who after being inspired by his mother's 1970's patio parties in Sydney's Northern Beaches, gave birth to drag identity and political activist, Vanessa Wagner. We'll see Vanessa's involvement with Australia's Gay & Lesbian Mardi-Gras, gain insight into her human rights advocacy and learn of the devastating news that brought Tobin & Vanessa full circle and back to the solace he knew as a boy.
Uneasy Pieces
- 1993
- Short film
- Experimental
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Five one-minute films exploring moments of unease in ordinary life. Each has a particular film style and autonomous story but together they generate a sense of anxiety in the world.
Universal Appliance Co.
- 1994
- Short film
- Experimental
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
1954 - an inventor finally gets a chance to mass produce his latest creation at the Universal Appliance Co. factory. Everyone is gathered to witness the event. As the invention forms the production line springs into life. A cacophony of haphazard factory sounds urges the watchers to break into rhythmic dance. But suddenly advertising and romance become distractions...
Unlocked
- 2004
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
A lonely single mother becomes obsessed with her teenage son's secret world. When she hears mysterious noises emanating from behind his locked door, it sparks her fears and imagination. A story about mutual isolation and desire unfulfilled.
Untitled/The Trees
- 2005
- Short film
- Experimental
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
Three high school students perform a stage play whilst a more truthful reenactment of their performance is played out behind the scenes.
Velo Nero
- 1990
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
This is a portrait of isolation and confused dislocation as a young Italian woman struggles to adapt to a new Australian life.
Vermin
- 2006
- Short film
- 23mins
- Status: Completed
Set in a city overrun by feral cats, VERMIN tells the story of Richard, an exterminator who is gradually losing touch with his humanity. He encounters a strange feral boy who behaves like a cat and makes it his mission to save him from the life of a hunted animal. As Richard's obsession with the cat-boy sets in, he uncovers his own animalistic urges and finds it increasingly difficult to maintain his position in the food chain in a brutal and isolating world.
Versus
- 2002
- Short film
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
A small car, a lost mobile, a joint and wild beasts can all lead to a bit of a mess - especially when you're trapped with the one person who knows how to drive you crazy.
Vindication
- 1994
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
A drama based on the short story by the existentialist Russian author Daniil Kharms. It is the story of one man who in his own mind has committed no crime and has done nothing, purposefully, to harm another person. However, the deeds and events he describes are far from innocent by general standards. Gut-churning descriptions of past acts are recalled in a chilling monologue as he grooms himself to mirrored perfection. It is when he is finally dressed that the importance of his attitude and his position are finally and significantly registered.
Walnut
- 2007
- Short film
- 11mins
- Status: Completed
Issac, a young skater is resistant to intimacy and struggling to connect with his girlfriend. In fact, Isaac finds it easier to relate to his old dog Walnut than to the rest of his family. When Issac faces his last day with Walnut, he discovers a new way of looking at the world.
Warm Strangers
- 1997
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
In the last moments of his life, Jess, a young Aboriginal man, attempts to reunite with the father he has not seen for years.
The Watchers
- 2001
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
In a world where our desires are monitored, a teenage boy is inspired to cross the line. He is shown a world where his actions may lead him. The choice now rests with him.
Waterbabies
- 2001
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
WATERBABIES looks at the increasingly popular use of water as an aid in child development and pregnancy. Ultimately WATERBABIES offers us a glimpse of ourselves at play in water.
The Wayfarers
- 1995
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
The toast is burning. A man has his head in an oven. Somewhere a photo is torn. A match is lit. An explosion occurs. A disparate group of characters come together at a forlorn roadside cafe. At a single moment in time, all these seemingly unconnected events collide with the forces of chaos, destiny and personal choice in this dark fable on fate.
Wedlock
- 1991
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Marcus, a professional photographer, responds to a last-minute plea to help out a mate by taking photos at a Greek wedding. There he is confronted by the bride – his ex-lover. The story explores their feelings at this unexpected and, for him, unsettling meeting.
Weeping Willow
- 2001
- Documentary
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
WEEPING WILLOW is the story of a dancer coming to terms with the death of his closest friend and biggest fan. It documents his journey to the present and into the future.
The Well
- 1991
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
The tale of a country couple whose marriage has soured. A stranger enters their lives and, in a magical performance, shows them the importance of not neglecting the spiritual life in the struggle for existence.
White Dragons
- 1999
- Documentary
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
White Dragons - three Australians who have embraced traditional Japanese martial arts. The White Dragons are Mike Hammond, Nina Pollock and James Fennessey.
Wild Planet
- 1989
- Short film
- 32mins
- Status: Completed
Twenty-four hours in the life of a naive, likable, and unassuming accountant, George Bonicelli. A film about speed, colour, liberation and a hint of romance!
Wired and Running
- 1993
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Sometime in the late 21st century mankind has achieved interfacing with machines. The technology has become so common and everyday that even the simple person on the street could acquire cybernetic enhancements if they were willing to pay the price. Many do, and street-punks with cyber-enhancements become corporate mercenaries. Kim is one such woman.
Witch
- 1993
- Documentary
- Animation Experimental
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
Examines the experiences of female practitioners of witchcraft in 20th century Australia. It contrasts the commonly held, negative view of the witch with a picture of Wicca and the related arts as an earthed and dynamic spiritual system. The soundtrack consists entirely of voiceover dialogue from witches and their antagonists. The filmmakers use various found objects, archival material and constructed images to illustrate their reactions to the different ideas contained in the voiceover in a vibrant, irreverent, frequently tangental and unashamedly subjective way.
Wolf
- 1998
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Is Claire haunted by her memories of Wolf or her own fantasies of being with him? A Little Red Riding Hood tale with a twist.
Work?
- 1999
- Documentary
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
WORK? is a documentary about Bek's first experience as a sex worker catering for women. Or at least that's how it started. But Bek never gets to a real job and the only people who screw her over are the film crew.
Working Harbour
- 2002
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
WORKING HARBOUR follows the ups and downs of life on Sydney Harbour through characters who work on tug boats and pilot boats.
The World Today
- 1997
- Short film
- 3mins
- Status: Completed
Sometimes it's safer not to think too much...
You Can't Catch Me
- 1991
- Short film
- 29mins
- Status: Completed
A child's place in the world is threatened when reality meets magic, fantasy and dreams.
Young Endeavour - Voyage of a Lifetime
- 1987
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
From August to November, 1987, a selected group of 12 British and 12 Australian men and women sailed on the specially-built 44-metre brigantine 'Young Endeavour', from Cowes in the UK to Fremantle in Western Australia, via Tenerife and Rio De Janiero. This is the story of that voyage, and of the people who made it.
Your Brother, My Tidda
- 2002
- Documentary
- 18mins
- Status: Completed
What happens when an Aboriginal man comes out to family? Sam has come out twice - first about his sexuality and then his HIV status. Aaron grew up as a Jehovah's Witness. His mother found out by accident that he was gay.
Zara's Tale
- 1993
- Short film
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
A Middle-Eastern woman and an Australian woman meet. They fight, they make up, they share their hopes and dreams with a friendship that crosses two cultures.
Zipper
- 1998
- Short film
- Animation
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Live action, choreography, animation and painting combine in a breathless trip through 20th century images in art and fashion - as you may not have seen them before.

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