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Alicia (1996)
Alicia Liley was a promising 18-year-old drama student when she sustained brain damage in a near fatal car accident. The documentary traces her recovery and her determination to live a full life. Her response to her disability was to start ... [read more]
Aya meets a man (1990)
At work in the Japanese restaurant, Aya (Eri Ishida) talks to the man with whom she will later have an affair. She tells him she has been in Australia for eight years and that it is good for her son ... [read more]
Cine Safari (c1977)
This silent home movie footage was filmed by amateur filmmaker Alan Bresnahan during a tour of the United States of America and Canada in 1977. It includes eight short travelogues: Hello Hawaii, Looking at Los Angeles, Canyon Capers, Seeing ... [read more]
Drawing a positive character (1992)
Andrea Stretton is talking to Peter Carey. He is visiting Australia from his home in New York where his latest book, The Tax Inspector (1991), has just been published to rave reviews. The interview discusses whether getting some distance is ... [read more]
Bush Toys (2008)
Bush Toys documents the continuity of the bush toy-making tradition in the Titjikala community, 100 kilometres south of Alice Springs. It follows a group of boys finding the materials, creating toy cars and exhibiting their works. The bush toys achieve ... [read more]
Two Hands (1999)
Jimmy (Heath Ledger), a small-time wannabe criminal, loses $10,000 on Bondi Beach. The money belongs to Pando (Bryan Brown), the toughest criminal in Kings Cross, who sends his killer deputy Acko (David Field) to find him. Jimmy’s sister-in-law Deirdre (Susie ... [read more]
A caring mother (1988)
A female freshwater crocodile returns to the riverbank where she’d laid her eggs. Now she’s drawn back by the sounds of her young trying to escape from their eggs. She’ll provide protection for each of them as they make their ... [read more]
Tnorala: Baby Falling (2007)
Tnorala records an ancient central Australian Dreaming story about the formation of a large meteorite crater at Gosses Bluff or ‘Tnorala’, 175 kilometres west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. [read more]
The Instructional Guide to Dating (2005)
A smiling air hostess (Lara Cox) informs us as though giving in-flight safety instructions that we are ready to commence our dating adventure. She directs our attention to a departure board with ten exciting destinations, including: ‘How to Flirt with ... [read more]
Nobody is listening (2007)
Newspaper editor Rami Khouri argues that modern political history has generated terrorism and that the situation will worsen if this is not recognised. Journalist Robert Fisk notes that when new footage of Osama Bin Laden surfaces the focus is always ... [read more]
Catalyst – The Antarctic Peninsula (2006)
Fossils of southern beech trees have been found in Antarctica, which proves that this desolate area was once a huge forest and that Antarctica was once joined to Australia and South America. [read more]
A rogue crocodile (2007)
Allen (Geoff Morrell) is crawling from the river, apologising for his role in an escape attempt that ended in debacle, when the crocodile sneaks up behind him at lightning speed. [read more]
The Last True Action Hero (1995)
The fire and rescue service has always attracted recruits. The film follows young trainee fire fighters as they experience the dangers and challenges of their chosen profession. We learn that team thinking and reliance on others are key characteristics of ... [read more]
Red Cross Cinema Advertisement: The Prisoner of War Street Adoption Scheme (c1941)
A community announcement promoting the Red Cross’s Prisoner of War Street Adoption Scheme. The advertisement consists of a three-minute address to camera by the Governor of Queensland, Sir Leslie Wilson. [read more]
Value of gold (2007)
The village ‘griot’ plays his instrument at night near the fire and sings about gold and inequality. A farmer bends over, working his stony fields, then speaks frankly in front of his home about how everyone in the village – ... [read more]
A black rose (2005)
Animated sequence of a funeral. The interview subject tells of the death of the father of her first child as a consequence of the loss of a role in society. [read more]
‘Where you going?’ (1957)
Macauley (Peter Finch) tries to sneak away from the Sweeney’s guesthouse, after Buster (Dana Wilson) has gone to sleep, but she’s too wise for that. She demands to go with him. He tells her to stay with Bella and Luke ... [read more]
Road to Kokoda (1942)
This Movietone News special edition features Australian troops fighting on the Kokoda track in the Owen Stanley Ranges of Papua New Guinea during the Second World War. It uses footage taken by cinematographer Damien Parer for the Commonwealth Department of ... [read more]
Magic realism in South America (2004)
Rolf de Heer was the director of a troubled co-production with a French producer for the film The Old Man Who Read Love Stories with fine performances from Richard Dreyfuss and Hugo Weaving. In the studio, David Stratton and Margaret ... [read more]
2000 Weeks (1969)
Will Gardener (Mark McManus) is a Melbourne journalist at a crossroads. He wants to be a novelist, but he has a wife (Eileen Chapman) and two kids to support. His father (Michael Duffield) is dying in hospital and his mistress ... [read more]
