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Bit of Black Business – Nana (2007)
A Little Girl (Kiara Gibson) loves her Nana (Mitjili Napanangka Gibson) and follows her as she hunts, sells art and patrols her Alice Springs community for drug runners. Nana has everything and everyone under control. [read more]
Passionless Moments (1983)
Passionless Moments is a lighthearted series of vignettes sharing people’s fleeting thoughts. Jane Campion combines a serious documentary style with a whimsical look at the small moments people experience everyday. [read more]
A World to Conquer (1956)
In this amateur science fiction short drama made by John and Frank Straford, a man (Kerry Beckwith) witnesses an alien surveillance camera land in his backyard, but his wife (Jeanette Van Boom) does not believe him. [read more]
Australia Post – Animation (c1988)
This is a set of five Australia Post animated television advertisements, produced between October 1988 and June 1989. [read more]
Sweetie (1989)
Kay (Karen Colston) and Sweetie (Geneviève Lemon) are sisters, although Kay wishes they weren’t. Kay is shy, superstitious and sexually repressed. Sweetie is loud, slovenly and quite possibly mentally ill. Her arrival, with a junkie boyfriend (Michael Lake), disrupts Kay’s ... [read more]
Stan Ray and George Moon Jnr: Specialty Dancers (1931)
Entertainers Stan Ray and George Moon Jnr perform a tap dancing routine as part of Frank Thring’s Efftee Entertainers series of variety shorts. [read more]
Dimpel, Konrad: Canberra and Snowy Mountains (c1954)
This mute, colour home movie made by Canberra resident Konrad Dimpel shows various scenes in and around Canberra and includes a woodchopping competition at a local country show. [read more]
Delivery Day (2000)
Sixth-grader Trang (Deborah Le) starts the day keen to go to school. Her mother Trieu (Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hien) asks her to stay home. Trieu and Uncle Le (Hieu Phan) need help in the garment workshop they run from their ... [read more]
Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997)
Guy (Richard Roxburgh) meets Lizzie (Cate Blanchett) while trying to find the owner of a cat in distress. For him, it is love at first sight and within six weeks they decide to marry. Guy starts daydreaming about his old ... [read more]
‘For the whole of Australia’ (2002)
Yvonne Margarula speaks about the impact of the negotiations on the Elders, and how many of them were worn down by having to continually defend their point of view. [read more]
The end of Ted Parker (1980)
Club president Ted Parker (Graham Kennedy) is under pressure to resign, following allegations that he beat up a stripper at a club function. In the committee room, ex-coach Jock Riley (Frank Wilson) and administrator Gerry Cooper (Alan Cassell) engineer his ... [read more]
G.P. – Toss a Coin (1989)
G.P. is a television drama about the professional and personal lives of the staff at the Ross Street Surgery, a busy suburban medical practice run by doctors William Sharp (Michael Craig) and his nephew Robert Sharp (John McTernan). In this ... [read more]
BMX Bandits (1983)
Teenage BMX bike riders Goose (James Lugton) and PJ (Angelo D’Angelo) become friends with Judy (Nicole Kidman), who is working the summer at a supermarket, when their bikes are destroyed by runaway shopping trolleys. Judy is fired and, with ... [read more]
The Alibrandi curse (1999)
Josie (Pia Miranda) and her friends Sara (Leanne Carlow) and Anna (Diane Viduka) escape from ‘Tomato Day’ at Josie’s grandmother’s house to go to the beach. Josie’s mother Christina (Greta Scacchi) gives her a mouthful at home later for running ... [read more]
Ninety Nine Per Cent (1963)
Italian immigrant widower Joseph Pino (Francesco Pino) and his school-age son Peter (Carmelo Pino) are opposites personality-wise, living a domestically chaotic life after the death of their wife and mother. When Pino – which is what Joseph is usually called ... [read more]
Going to the opera (2002)
The Australian opera is on tour with La Boheme. The conductor, Tobias Foskett, prepares before the performance. The cast dresses and puts on make-up. Audiences arrive at the theatre and taxi driver, Nicolaas Voorendt admits he always cries during the ... [read more]
‘No thought for the mothers’ (2008)
Sue Gordon AM of the Yamatji Nation describes her experience of being removed from her family and what is recorded in her file. Author Steve Kinnane of the Miriworng Nation attempts to understand his mother’s experience of removal as a ... [read more]
Candy (2006)
Dan (Heath Ledger) and Candy (Abbie Cornish) are young and in love – with each other, and with heroin. He’s an aspiring poet, she’s an aspiring painter. Their days and nights are full of lovemaking and dope, often a gift ... [read more]
Suburban Mayhem (2006)
When John Skinner is beaten to death in his suburban home, suspicion falls on his daughter Katrina (Emily Barclay), whose grief is short-lived. In fact, she seems to love the media attention that follows her new notoriety. Months after the ... [read more]
Lantana (2001)
In the midst of a midlife crisis, detective Leon Zat (Anthony LaPaglia) investigates the disappearance of a prominent psychiatrist, Dr Valerie Somers (Barbara Hershey). Zat suspects her husband John Knox (Geoffrey Rush) of having had a homosexual affair with Patrick ... [read more]
