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Concertinas
- 1992
- Short film
- Experimental
- 13mins
- Completed
'Nine Directors...one minute each'. CONCERTINAS is a film made up of nine one-minute pieces, plus introductions, each directed by an emerging South Australian director. The films present diverse approaches to film form and narrative. A roller coaster ride through film language.
Domestic Vibrations
- 1993
- Short film
- Experimental
- 14mins
- Completed
A cleaner pursues his routine throughout a house, clearing up after a dinner party from the night before. Filmed entirely from the point of view of the household objects.
Egg
- 1996
- Short film
- Animation
- 2mins
- Completed
A computer-generated animation. This film illustrates a profound saying by Albert Einstein by means of symbolic images.
Fin
- 1996
- Short film
- Animation
- 1mins
- Completed
A computer-generated animation. Which came first - the chicken or the egg? This film deals briefly with a similar question - which will go first?
Love You Mum
- 2006
- Short film
- 18mins
- Completed
In an isolated sanctuary for terminal patients, Sister Evans is left alone in the long hours to carry out treatments as she sees fit. When a dying mother begs her daughter Belle to end her suffering, Sister Evans is there to propose a final solution.
Lovely Day
- 1996
- Short film
- Animation
- 4mins
- Completed
An oil-painting animation. A woman of unknowable origins sings 'It's A Lovely Day Today', whilst accompanying herself on piano. Objects and creatures evolve around her as the song progresses. Themes explored - human nature and the surreal.
Prelude
- 1996
- Short film
- Animation Experimental
- 4mins
- Completed
An oil-painting animation consisting of a series of metamorphoses of strange characters in rhythm with the hauntingly beautiful 'Air on a G String' by J.S. Bach. This film was created without storyboard allowing Chris Backhouse to discover 'moving pictures' from experimental play.
Sign Language
- 1998
- Short film
- 9mins
- Completed
Paul asks Rick, if a girl says 'I hope you enjoy that', is it a sign? Rick doesn't think so. Paul asks Tony. Tony thinks it could be. Three friends, hanging at the beach, review Paul's latest encounter with the opposite sex, but they illustrate more about themselves than what actually happened.
Small Fictions
- 1996
- Short film
- 14mins
- Completed
Stella photographs eight naked men. They tell fragments of stories, revealing details of their lives and emotions within the privileged confines of an artist studio. Later in the story the roles are reversed - the women in the studio do some of their own storytelling and offer a different point of view.
Sunday
- 1995
- Short film
- Animation
- 4mins
- Completed
What do the little people do on Sunday? Do they 'veg out' on the sofa...A little Beethoven can go a long way into making Sunday a day of high cultural activity.

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