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Cave Clan: Underground Artists
- 2017
- Documentary
- Online
- 5 x 7mins
- Status: Completed
When a group of Melbourne teenagers started exploring caves, mines and drains together in the '80s, they inadvertently discovered an underground world that would unite a community and inspire creativity amongst its members.
Chunky Bits
- 2000
- Documentary
- 24mins
- Status: Completed
CHUNKY BITS is a funky look at Melbourne's young and independent dance scene. Set in the Revolver nightclub, the documentary is based around the efforts of Chunky Move's award winning venture to attract a new and vital audience to contemporary dance. Featuring dance works by some of Australia's coolest choreographers - Lucy Guerin, Gideon Obarzanek and Phillip Adams and music by Speedy J Supersonic and leading DJs - Ransom, Voiteck and Lynton Carr - CHUNKY BITS takes its audience spinning into the future world of dance.
Circus Oz: The Big Birthday Bash
- 2009
- Documentary
- 3 x 28mins
- Status: Completed
To celebrate its 30th anniversary CIRCUS OZ: THE BIG BIRTHDAY BASH, looks at the larrikin fuelled, uniquely Australian performing arts company - Circus Oz. Filmed in 2008, this behind the scenes observational style series, shows the company in development and rehearsals for a landmark tour called the '30th Birthday Bash'.
Dream Lives
- 2002
- Documentary
- 25mins
- Status: Completed
Narelle Autio and Trent Parke are young Sydney photojournalists with a swag of prestigious international awards already under their belts. Their life-long mission is to document the surreality they see at the heart of everyday Australian life. DREAM LIVES follows Autio and Parke's ceaseless pursuit of fleeting moments that will never be seen again. These partners in love and life have amassed a body of work that has already marked them as two of the most significant Australian photographers of their generation.
Gascoigne Country
- 2000
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
GASCOIGNE COUNTRY explores the life and work of a remarkable Australian contemporary artist, Rosalie Gascoigne. Rosalie came to art late in life, aged 57 and went on to international acclaim. She died aged 81 in 1999.
The Guitar Age
- 1999
- Documentary
- 24mins
- Status: Completed
THE GUITAR AGE is a profile of one of the world's leading jazz guitarists - Ike Isaacs. Ike was the dominant guitarist in English jazz until the mid 1970s. He played with all the greats - including a two year world tour with Stephan Grapelli - this film includes a rare clip of Ike and Grapelli together. For the last 15 years of his life Ike lived and taught in Sydney and became a much loved member of the Sydney jazz community. This production is an intimate and emotional portrait of Ike in the last year of his life in Sydney surrounded by many of his friends - including some of Australia's jazz musicians George Golla, Ian Date and Madeleine Young.
Howard's Way
- 1999
- Documentary
- 24mins
- Status: Completed
Australia's art world was shocked last year when its rising star, Howard Arkley, died of a drug overdose. Fresh from his triumph at the Venice Biennale, Arkley had the world at his feet. HOWARD'S WAY builds on TV interviews taken just before his death and is combined with interviews with fellow artists to present a poetic and emotional voyage through an Arkley landscape of minimalism and abstraction. The production employs Arkley's methods of parody and play to examine Arkley's place in the pantheon of Australian visual art. Always the outsider, in this documentary Arkley reveals the methods and reasoning behind some of Australia's most celebrated contemporary art icons.
Inside the Square
- 2003
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
Chronicles the building of Federation Square - Australia's most ambitious architectural project.
Ken Unsworth - All Fired Up!
- 2001
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
Ken Unsworth, Australia's foremost performance artist and sculptor takes us on a dark, emotional journey through the layers of his artistic and emotional life.
The Making of My Favourite Australian
- 2008
- Documentary
- 27mins
- Status: Completed
A 'making of' documentary about the production of four of the 30 video portraits commissioned by the ABC and the National Portrait Gallery for the 'My Favourite Australian' exhibition that was one of the opening exhibitions at the opening of the new National Portrait Gallery in December 2008. Portrait subjects featured: Ruth Lewis, Tom Slattery, Gough Whitlam and Terry Hicks. Artists/filmmakers featured: Merilyn Fairskye, Bruce Petty, Bryan Mason, Craig Walsh and Sophie Hyde.
Opera Australia's Golden Jubilee
- 2006
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
OPERA AUSTRALIA'S GOLDEN JUBILEE is a glittering tribute to Australia's national opera company, Opera Australia. In an exclusive interview, diva Dame Joan Sutherland shares some of her memories of this world-renowned opera company, and past and present opera luminaries including maestro Richard Bonynge, Joan Carden, Anson Austin, Robert Gard, David Hobson, Moffat Oxenbould, Neil Armfield and Graeme Murphy offer their personal, candid and often colourful reflections. Containing rare and never-seen-before footage of opera from its very beginning to today, this is a musical history of a truly great opera company.
Painted Lady
- 2002
- Documentary
- 27mins
- Status: Completed
PAINTED LADY is a follow up to Ruth's film 'The Tightrope Dancer'. This film is an exploration of the life and work of eccentric artist Vali Myers.
Small Poppies
- 2000
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
Starring Oscar Award winning actor, Geoffrey Rush and AFI Award winner Deborah Mailman, SMALL POPPIES travels behind the scenes of Company B's theatre production of Small Poppies. Billed as a comedy, the play is set in a mythical playground on the first day of school and investigates what 'School Day 1' means for cast and audience alike.
Underscore
- 2017
- Documentary
- Online
- 3 x 10mins
- Status: Completed
Acclaimed Australian composer Nigel Westlake has scored films like Babe and Paper Planes. In this iview original series he draws on his own deeply personal journey through grief and loss to create the soundtrack for a new film Ali’s Wedding, which is Australia’s first Muslim rom-com. The program follows the process of making the film from paper to recording with his many collaborators like singer Lior and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Zulya and Friends
- 2003
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
Profiles the exotic world of Zulya Kamolova - one of Australia's most successful folk singers.

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