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‘Dead landscape’ (2000)
Out in the bush, ecologist Wyn Jones says that Australian bushland is not necessarily devoid of life if no mammals are visible. He points out that many animals are nocturnal and that other species like birds and insects can flourish ... [read more]
Aboriginal women in leadership (1988)
Laurel Winder talks about Gloria Brennan’s contribution to Aboriginal women’s rights. The women talk about the different treatment of Aboriginal men and Aboriginal women who take on roles of leadership to initiate change. [read more]
Campfire story (2007)
A group of children sit around a campfire listening to two Anmatjere elders (Patsy and Jane Briscoe) telling a ghost story called Bungalung. Young men act out the scenes described by the women in the story. [read more]
Berlei corsets (1920)
Two women dressed in dark underwear, silk stockings and shoes model two styles of Berlei corsetry. They stand on raised platforms in front of a plain backdrop, the larger space of the studio visible beyond it. They turn, step down ... [read more]
A couple dancing (1939)
Tamara Toumanova, wearing a light coloured headpiece, lifts her head to camera. She and a male dancer together perform a brief routine on the grass outside of Murray-Will’s beach house. In a slow motion sequence, the pair continues their routine. ... [read more]
Archer’s cabaret (1993)
Australian singer Robyn Archer has specialised in cabaret singing. Archer talking about her craft is intercut with performance pieces. Archer also talks about the beginnings of cabaret in Paris in the 1880s. [read more]
Wrap me up with my stockwhip and blanket (1936)
'Wrap Me Up With My Stockwhip and Blanket’ was recorded by Tex Morton in August 1936 for Regal Zonophone at EMI Studios in Sydney. Morton sings and plays guitar on this recording of the song. The song is a ... [read more]
Solo dance on Bungan Beach (1936)
A solo dancer performs a dramatic contemporary dance routine on the shoreline of Bungan Beach. His routine contains arm gestures and facial expressions as well as leaps and lunges. As he dances, the ocean water licks his feet. The clip ... [read more]
Blackbuster (2012)
You can watch the short film Blackbuster here in full. Pirated-movie dealer Kainen (Jeremy Ambrum) is spurred into a confrontation with rowdy punters at a Queensland pub defending the honour of the publican’s daughter, Tanika (Naomi Bowly). Undeterred by the ... [read more]
Judgement day (2005)
A secret surfing competition has been set up between Anna (Mara Scherzinger) and Joe (Matt Rudduck) to determine which of them gets the coveted seventh spot in the Solar Blue Surf Academy. Joe has chosen The Gallows, a treacherous surfing ... [read more]
Desperate times (1984)
The wharfies have been locked out and replaced by scabs. Their union boss Sam (Ray Barrett) has been jailed under a Federal government emergency powers act and his place taken by the union secretary (Chris Haywood) who doesn’t have the ... [read more]
Taxi driver (2000)
Romaine Moreton recites her poem ‘Taxi Driver’ over images of her riding in the back of a taxi heading to a performance in Sydney. [read more]
Operating theatre, laboratory and x-ray (1928)
A fixed camera films the inside of an operating theatre in the Henry Meeks Pavilion of the hospital; a slow pan shows medical staff at work in the laboratory; another pan reveals a 'Violet Ray Atelier’ set up in a ... [read more]
Graeme Murphy (1988)
Choreographer Graeme Murphy directs dancers in rehearsal for a cricket ballet. We then see the Sydney Dance Company performing the ballet, and end with Murphy talking about what he looks for in Australian dancers as we see a rehearsal of ... [read more]
Dependency (1986)
Over photographs of happier times, both during her relationship with Steve, and from the time before, Liz quotes her mother and some feminist writers and deliberates on her struggle with dependency on a lover, and on the general nature of ... [read more]
Go away (1978)
Essie Coffey gives the children lessons on Aboriginal culture. She speaks of the importance of teaching these kids about their traditions. Aboriginal kids are forgetting about their Aboriginal heritage because they are being taught white culture instead. [read more]
It takes all kinds (2007)
Esther Blueburger (Danielle Catanzariti) is now attending Sunni’s (Keisha Castle-Hughes) school. The freedom she has there is very different to the regimented nature of her old private school. Sunni shows her around, giving the audience a visual run-through of the ... [read more]
Third time lucky (1984)
The South Australian explorer John McDouall Stuart (Clive Marshall) had learnt his skills as a bushman from the great explorer Sturt. What he learnt from his mentor was to travel light, using horses not drays and moving fast over the ... [read more]
A trip to Kundjabe (2001)
The family travel to Kundjabe to fish. The women bait the hooks with worms, while they talk about the different types of food available to them. There is a great familiarity with how the family relate to this place. [read more]
Animated vaudeville (1960)
An animated ‘poster man’ arrives at the front of a building on his bicycle – glue tin, paintbrush, ladder and posters in hand – to erect a poster on its facing wall. In a series of clumsy mishaps, the man ... [read more]
