A documentary examining women's experience of using public spaces. It highlights the impact of fear and actual experience of harassment and attack on women's participation in community life. It also discusses the consequence for women of poor planning and design of public areas.
Set amidst the grim world of a Sydney boxing gym, one woman must fight for both honour and tradition whilst another woman is poised to destroy all in the pursuit of greed. This is a world in which men hide behind the shadows of the past and their fists are often the only way to survive.
Sixteen-year-old Mars wants more from her life than just a fistful of flies which, to her, is a fistful of nothing. Stifled and dominated by her family, Mars just wants to be free. Denied relationships with the people who truly understand her, Mars battles her family on her own, and in her quest to be treated as a grown-up she gives her mother the courage to act and forces her father to make the choice of his life. A story about how a young girl finally finds the courage to have faith in herself.
JUST DESSERTS is a reflective and evocative film which looks at the development of Maria Stroppi's sexuality through food. Set in 70s' suburban Australia, the film deals with fragments of Maria's memories of her turbulent past growing up in an Italian Catholic family.
Bowling sex, sex bowling, a video of multiple orgasm in the ghetto, triangles within triangles, pins hitting pins hitting pins, strike me, spare me, love me.
Sex & Fish & Sex & Fish.
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?
Tells of a multi-national chemical company and local residents in Botany, on the south side of Sydney, who are all working together to find a way to treat a stockpile of toxic hexachlorobenzene waste, through a unique form of community participation.
The harsh realities of the plight of homeless youth pervade this film literally and stylistically. The film describes various individuals' journeys which have led them to a new type of family in group house youth refuges.
A daughter is catapulted on a journey of discovery following the death of her mother, a pioneer Australian filmmaker.