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52 Tuesdays
- 2014
- Feature
- 110mins
- Status: Completed
Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week, every week – only on Tuesdays – 52 TUESDAYS’ unique filmmaking rules bring a rare authenticity to this emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility and transformation
Aftertaste
SERIES OVERVIEW
- 2021 - 2022
- TV drama
- 12 x 30mins
- Status: Completed
When his latest outburst goes viral, volatile celebrity chef Easton West flees back to his hometown in the Adelaide Hills and tries to reinvent himself through an unlikely partnership with his 19 year-old pastry wunderkind niece.
Aftertaste series 1
- 2021
- TV drama
- 6 x 30mins
- Status: Completed
When his latest outburst goes viral, volatile celebrity chef Easton West flees back to his hometown in the Adelaide Hills and tries to reinvent himself through an unlikely partnership with his 19 year-old pastry wunderkind niece.
Aftertaste series 2
- 2022
- TV drama
- 6 x 30mins
- Status: Completed
Season two picks up with Easton West living his life out of the public eye and concentrating on being a better man, until his new-found peace is shattered by the return of his niece Diana to Adelaide, flaunting her successful career and love life in London. But both must put their troubles aside when a secret from the past throws the West family into more chaos than ever.
Animals
- 2019
- Feature
- 110mins
- Status: Completed
After a decade of partying, Laura and Tyler's friendship is strained by Laura’s new love and her focus on her novel. A snapshot of a modern woman with competing desires, at once a celebration of female friendship and an examination of the choices we make when facing a crossroads.
The Art of The Game
- 2018
- Documentary
- 27mins
- Status: Completed
Art of the Game reveals two of Australia’s most innovative photographers – Trent Parke and Narelle Autio – as they bring together the worlds of art and sport in their first ever moving image work Summation of Force. What is it about the sport of cricket that has inspired the work of artistic giants such as Beckett, Francis Bacon and Eadward Muybridge? Art of the Game explores the parallel narratives of Trent and Narelle’s careers and the making of the new work, with an essay that looks at how the idiosyncratic sport of cricket is a metaphor for life and art.
Beyond Beliefs
- 2007
- Documentary
- 54mins
- Status: Completed
In March 2007, 330 Australians were brought together for three days to deliberate on the relationship between Muslims and Non-Muslims in Australia. Experience this journey through the eyes of four very different people.
Brumley's Suitcase
- 2017
- Documentary
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
One of the world’s greatest songwriters. A suitcase filled with never-before-seen songs, half-written. Three musicians from the other side of the world – Adelaide, South Australia – brought together with musicians from Austin, Texas, to bring these forgotten gems of American songwriting to life. A once-in-a-lifetime journey of discovery.
Elephantiasis
- 2010
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Meredith suffers a serious affliction – Elephantiasis: being showered with elephant-themed gifts on any occasion. It’s a pity she hates elephants.
F###ing Adelaide
- 2017
- TV drama
- Online
- 6 x 15mins
- Status: Completed
A comedy drama told from six different perspectives of a family who reunite in Adelaide when mum plans to sell the family home. Any sense of togetherness quickly crumbles to reveal how f**ked and glorious it is to be home.
A Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl
- 2017
- Documentary
- 20mins
- Status: Completed
A detailed study into the curious and unique creature commonly known as the 12-year-old girl.
Hannah Gadsby's OZ
- 2014
- Documentary
- 3 x 27mins
- Status: Completed
Australian stand up comedian Hannah Gadsby is a closet art scholar. Armed with rapier wit and a desire to pick beneath the paint, she travels across the continent in search of Australia's national identity. From first settlement to federation to multiculturalism, Hannah will forge an irreverent new image of who we think we are by examining our identity through the history of our art.
The Hunting
- 2019
- TV drama
- 4 x 54mins
- Status: Completed
THE HUNTING intimately and dramatically imagines the lives of four teenagers, their teachers and their families throughout the lead up, revelation and aftermath of a nude teen photo scandal. When two high school teachers discover students are sharing explicit photos of their underage friends and peers online, the revelation has unbearable consequences for their students and their families. Tackling themes of misogyny, privacy, sexuality and sexualisation, online exploitation, masculinity and gender, the series uses this singular event as a way of exploring some of the most pressing issues of our time and offering a vital portrait of contemporary, multicultural Australia.
I Want To Dance Better At Parties
- 2013
- Documentary
- 30mins
- Status: Completed
In need of some form of human contact, a grieving man takes up Latin dance classes with a young instructor.
Life In Movement: The Tanja Liedtke Story
- 2012
- Documentary
- 85mins
- Status: Completed
At 29, Tanja Liedtke was appointed as the director of Sydney Dance Company; she never started the job. Her sudden death brings life into sharp focus.
My Last Ten Hours With You
- 2006
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
At 6am Jeremy and Mark will go their separate ways. Their last ten hours together, over one hot night, will be punctuated with friends, fights and frustrations as they wait it out, each dealing with the loss of love in their own way.
The Mystery of Flying Kicks
- 2009
- Documentary
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
Murder, sex, drugs, art and politics. A film exploring the mystery of why sneakers appear on telephone lines around the world.
Necessary Games
- 2009
- Short film
- Experimental
- 19mins
- Status: Completed
A dance film triptych about the human need to connect and the games we play. A collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and Closer Productions, Necessary Games is three new dance works made specifically for the screen. With three different takes on intimacy and connection and three explorations of the games we play, these films show honest, idiosyncratic movement and compelling interactions.
Ok, Let's Talk About Me
- 2004
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Status: Completed
'Next year I'm gonna be 18; when I'm 18 I'm gonna get my own place, have a car, have a nude girlfriend and you can come around to my place for pizza'. Meet Eddie. He's a 17-year-old boy with Down Syndrome. He's stubborn and charming, funny and sometimes temperamental. Through the course of this documentary the viewer is invited to get to know Eddie - a rare treat - and journey with him as he turns 18 and prepares to leave school.
Once Upon a Time in the Western Suburbs
- 2016
- Documentary
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
After previously collaborating on the award-winning I Want to Dance Better at Parties, Matthew Bate and Gideon Obarzanek team up for Once Upon a Time in the Western Suburbs. This VR dance work puts viewers in the middle of a street dance battle featuring artists from the XO State festival, held as part of Arts Centre Melbourne's AsiaTOPA in February 2017.
Sam Klemke’s Time Machine
- 2015
- Documentary
- 89mins
- Status: Completed
Sam Klemke has filmed and narrated his entire life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human.
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
- 2010
- Documentary
- 90mins
- Status: Completed
The most important recording of the 1990s grunge era wasn't made by some alt rock star. It was a covert audio recording of two drunken men living in a small flat in San Francisco, who spent their available free time yelling, screaming, hitting and generally abusing each other. The tapes went on to inspire a cult following, spawning sell-out CDs, comic artworks by Dan Clowes (Ghostworld), stage-plays, music from the likes of Devo, and a Hollywood feeding frenzy.
Stuck In The Middle With You
- 2016
- Documentary
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Jointly directed by award-winning filmmaker Matthew Bate and internationally acclaimed director/choreographer Gideon Obarzanek, Stuck in the Middle With You is a virtual reality experience in which the viewer becomes part of the on-stage performance of a live dance work with the Sydney Dance Company ensemble. The project is the first VR work commissioned by The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).
Stunt Love
- 2010
- Documentary
- 27mins
- Status: Completed
An epic rollercoaster love story set against the backdrop of the birth of cinema in Hollywood, Railroad Man tells the story of Jack McGowan and Helen Holmes’s passion for one another and for making movies.
Summation of Force
- 2017
- Short film
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
In a moonlit suburban back yard, two brothers battle one another in a mythic game of cricket. An immersive study of the motion, physics and psychology of elite sport, Summation of Force is a cosmic, dreamlike and darkly beautiful metaphor for life.
Video Nasty - The Making of Ribspreader
- 2020
- Documentary
- 6 x 8mins
- Status: Completed
A six-part series for online from Closer Productions, that follows underground horror filmmaker Dick Dale on his quest to make his first low-budget feature film Ribspreader. Infamous for producing what he describes as ‘splatter-punk video nasties’ Dick has been a cult hero in Australia’s underground film scene for over 20 years.

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