A CLASSROOM IN THERESIENSTADT is a seven minute video commissioned for the 'Within Walls' exhibition at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Theresienstadt is an old fortress town 60 kilometres north of Prague. In 1941, the Nazis established Theresienstadt as a ghetto for Jews. Frank Weiss survived his imprisonment there and Auschwitz and now lives in Sydney as a retired engineer. Our film tells the story of an event that Frank recollects from one afternoon in 1942.
Roger Law was the artist and energy behind the UK puppet show Spitting Image before he deported himself to Australia to explore his remaining artistic talent. Roger Law takes us on his journey of personal discovery through the wonders of Australian wildlife and his work in Jingdezhen porcelain.
In a frontier village in Pakistan, a Pashtun boy longs to go to school rather than follow his father into the gun making business.