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Cheap blonde (1998)
You can watch Cheap Blonde here in its entirety. This experimental film rearranges the same sentence 22 times: ‘A famous filmmaker said: “Cinema is the history of men filming women”’, while deconstructing the video image of a woman bathing in ... [read more]
Marriage resisters (2002)
Anna Yen says in a voice-over, ‘Once upon a time, long ago, in a land far, far away’. The story she tells is about Yen’s grandmother’s region becoming famous for silk growing. There are extreme close-ups of silk passing through ... [read more]
Gauguin’s paradise (2005)
Gauguin arrives in Tahiti to find the paradise he longs to paint has almost completely disappeared. But he soon finds models to paint including fourteen-year-old Tahitian girl Teha’amana who also becomes his lover. Stephen Eisenman, author and Professor of Art ... [read more]
Salute to the Aussie male (1982)
The program’s survey says that the Aussie buttock is the sexiest attraction to the Aussie female. [read more]
‘No wonder mama left you’ (1997)
Sonja Buloh (Kerry Fox) confronts her alcoholic father Bojan (Kristof Kaczmarek). Upset with him for not responding to news of her pregnancy, Sonja lashes out at Bojan. [read more]
Down on the farm (2001)
Rupert Murdoch, now in his 70s, is ruthless, attractive and charismatic. His sister, Janet, recalls their years of growing up at Cruden Farm where Rupert and his three sisters spent an idyllic childhood. Through her memories and the accompanying archival ... [read more]
Looking for work (1953)
This sequence depicts men brought to Australia on a work contract (Giuseppe Michelini, Luigi Borsi, Giuseppe Cusato, Giorgio Mangiamele) seeking work after the employment promised by the Australian government has failed to materialise. Friction between two of the men in ... [read more]
Backyard play (1932)
This simple home movie clip taken by Leslie Francis Farey from 1932 shows us children candidly playing in a suburban backyard in Melbourne. Three children play with a pram, doll and tin drum. The youngest child is holding what looks ... [read more]
Buddha and the Bodhi Tree (2001)
Dr Rachel Kohn takes us to India where the Buddha sat and meditated under the Bodhi Tree for four weeks, resolving to find the origin of suffering and the means to eliminate it. [read more]
‘Hang by the neck’ (1975)
The villainous Liz (Margaret Laurence) visits the incarcerated Gary (Mike Ferguson) to taunt him about the murder for which she has set him up to take the blame. [read more]
The role of the public servant (1970)
Dr HC Coombs, the great Australian public servant and advisor to six Australian prime ministers, talks about whether it’s possible to be an entirely neutral public servant. [read more]
The mall (1982)
Debbie and Gina (Tina Waller and Lorraine Palamara) hang out at the mall. Not having money doesn’t stop them enjoying the merchandise but they are easy pickings for the store detective. [read more]
Beauty and the boy (1983)
Aunt Vanessa (Wendy Hughes) has returned from London, where she has lived for some years. Her sister Lila (Robyn Nevin) takes PS (Nicholas Gledhill), the six-year-old son of their late sister, to the ship to meet her. PS has never ... [read more]
Love at first sight (1997)
Guy (Richard Roxburgh) is trying to find out who owns the cat in his arms. Although he is a stranger, Lizzie (Cate Blanchett) invites him in off the street because she sees he is distressed and the cat is actually ... [read more]
Mary opens the trunk (2007)
Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) finds a framed photo of Houdini’s mother on her wedding day. 'She looks like you’, Benji (Saoirse Ronan) tells her. Mr Sugarman (Timothy Spall) enters, overhears the comment and confirms that McGarvie was 'the absolute image’ ... [read more]
Holiday lifestyles (1922)
The holiday accommodation in Sorrento is shown, along with tennis courts and gardens. A title card ‘all the girls are lovely by the seaside’ introduces men in their swimming trunks and women with parasols relaxing on the beach. A group ... [read more]
One version of an interrogation (2002)
In a flashback, Max Stuart (David Ngoombujarra) is under interrogation in the Ceduna police station. Constable Jones (Garry Waddell) beats him, another policeman throttles him. Detective Sergeant Turner (Roy Billing) begins to dictate a confession, correcting Stuart’s English for the ... [read more]
Metropolitan life (1946)
A montage of modern city life in Sydney is accompanied by descriptive and romantic voice-over narration to build a picture of the metropolis during the day. The ‘city in the sun’ is shown through scenes of flower stalls, street vendors, ... [read more]
‘Exciting biting’ (1959)
This television advertisement from 1959 features a group of performers, each holding a Crunchie bar, in a studio with a large Crunchie bar prop. They dance and mime to a song about Crunchie. A male voice-over describes the bar and ... [read more]
Calling all dreamers (2001)
A homestead. The point of view moves from the exterior of the homestead into the interior, entering through the window. A small girl child’s voice begins to sing, 'One night the moon …’ A young girl is snuggled with her ... [read more]
