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Living Room (1988)
An experimental documentary set in Sydney suburbia. A series of people pose for time-based portraits in their home environments. [read more]
Kolynos Dental Cream Advertisement: Kisses (c1945)
A cinema advertisement for Kolynos Dental Cream that claims brushing with Kolynos improves your teeth and gives you a kissable smile. [read more]
Burning Man (2011)
After a personal tragedy, workaholic Sydney restaurateur-chef and single father Tom (Matthew Goode) turns to promiscuous sex to bury his emotional turmoil and calm his high stress levels until another calamity threatens his life. [read more]
‘Fallen from the sky’ (2000)
The Japanese man (Rikiya Kurokawa) arrives at a suburban house in Australia to buy a car. A young blind woman (Rose Byrne) shows him into a crime scene, with blood and brains on the ceiling. She is a cousin, now ... [read more]
Shifting Sands – Passing Through (1998)
A drama about a young family who pass through a town that isn’t quite what it seems. [read more]
Rinso Washing Powder: Fairy Story Comes True (c1935)
This black-and-white advertisement tells a simple story of how a good intentioned young girl helps grant her mother’s wish to have a washing day that does not require long hours of scrubbing. [read more]
Dipping Sheep (1899)
A farmer pushes sheep underwater with a plunger as they pass through an arsenic sheep dip. [read more]
Pianoforte (1984)
A young woman who yearns to become a concert pianist is rescued from a sleazy cabaret by a mysterious cat burglar with whom she falls in love. [read more]
George Wallace: Australia’s Premier Comedian (1931)
A comedy musical and dance routine by George Wallace, directed by Frank Thring as part of his Efftee Entertainers series of variety shorts. [read more]
‘The bow-wows now are all the rage’ (1939)
George (George Wallace) leaps into song in the courtyard of Mrs McAllister’s dog kennel (and boarding house). Jean McAllister (Lois Green) whips off her skirt to join him, dancing in hotpants. Henry (John Dobbie) and a large cast of passers-by ... [read more]
Catching Crocodiles (1933)
This wildlife documentary made by Australian Educational Films shows methods used by hunters to catch freshwater and saltwater crocodiles in Australia’s far north. [read more]
Holden Car Cinema Advertisement: On a Tour of Australia’s Banana Plantations (c1955)
This is a cinema advertisement for General Motors Holden in which a couple driving a Holden sedan take a tour of Queensland’s banana plantations. [read more]
Nobby’s Nuts (1988)
Characters in posters on a pub wall come to life and interact. Coming together in one poster, they decide to make a party of it and ‘nibble Nobby’s Nuts’. [read more]
Compass – Paws For Thought (2000)
Traditional Christianity taught that humans are superior to animals. Science is rapidly changing that perception. So is non human life important and if so why? [read more]
Dimpel, Konrad: German Christmas celebrations, Lutheran Sunday School picnic (c1966)
A silent, black and white home movie containing scenes from a Lutheran Sunday School picnic, filmed by Canberra resident and amateur filmmaker Konrad Dimpel. [read more]
Message Stick – Wayne’s World (2005)
An episode that introduces us to award-winning filmmaker and actor Wayne Blair. [read more]
Message Stick – Bill’s Wake (2001)
Bill Neidjie decided to have a wake while he was alive, rather than waiting until his death, to hear what everyone would say about him. [read more]
Opening up the west (1963)
Graphics, paintings and voice-over tell the story of why it took 30 years for the settlers of New South Wales to cross the Blue Mountains and gain access to the fabulous pasture lands beyond. It needed a true bushman, one ... [read more]
Prices and wages (1948)
A woman in the butchers can only afford to buy cheap meat; a young boy doesn’t have enough money for a chocolate; a woman is outraged by the cost of vegetables from the grocer; a man in a café is ... [read more]
The AIM nursing hostel, Birdsville (1947)
At the Australian Inland Mission nursing hostel in Birdsville, the AIM sisters alternate between nursing and domestic duties. One of the sisters treats a young girl who has an injured finger. She washes and dresses the girl’s ... [read more]
