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Houdini escapes (2007)
Showman Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) quietens the enthusiastic audience with a gesture before talking about the stunt he is about to perform. He is handcuffed and, feet held fast in stocks, lowered upside down into water. Once out of sight ... [read more]
Flowing with milk and honey (1940)
A delegation of local farmers asks Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey) to stand for the local seat, after the death of the sitting member. Dad is reluctant, until he learns that Henry Webster, a big landowner, wants to limit the size ... [read more]
Leaving Island homes (2006)
The bright tropical colours of the coastline of Darnley Island, Torres Strait. Island men bid their families and community farewell. Voice-over narration tells of the choice to go to Western Australia to provide for their families. Historical footage of railway ... [read more]
Belonging to Australia (2004)
Eric Bana insists that he doesn’t feel obliged to return to make films in Australia, he simply follows good projects, like the Australian gem The Nugget which he returned for after filming The Hulk in Hollywood in 2003. [read more]
Persian cultural heritage (1944)
Traditional Persian arts and crafts are preserved by modern craftsmen in Iran who pass on this cultural heritage to the next generation. These include: intricate lacquerwork, the pictorial portrayal of ancient stories and legends, the making and decoration of pottery, ... [read more]
Waiting for a miracle (2004)
Former Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Fraser, and former Liberal Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Ian MacPhee, talk to camera about the impact of mandatory detention on a child’s future and what a country’s immigration policy says about the ... [read more]
‘I came to apologise’ (2006)
Stewart (Gabriel Byrne), Carl (John Howard) and Rocco (Stelios Yiakmis) come to a traditional ceremony, where the dead girl’s family and friends are gathered to mourn. Stewart apologises to the girl’s father, who throws dirt on him and spits on ... [read more]
A bull in a house (1932)
Dave (Fred MacDonald) and his new wife Lily (Lilias Adeson) have moved into a newly built shack over the hill from the main house. Mrs White (Dorothy Dunkley) comes to visit as a bull walks into the back of the ... [read more]
Tea’s up (1968)
Musgrave Station is a busy crossroads in the far north of Queensland. Every day, planes come into the station airfield to refuel. Both passengers and pilots find a ready cup of tea from the station owner’s wife, Mary Hales. She ... [read more]
Two of Max’s life goals come true (2009)
In his New York high-rise, Max (voiced by Philip Seymour Hoffman) is cutting and saving his toenails, aiming for order and stability. On the footpath below, a mime artist in the guise of Marcel Marceau goes through his silent paces. ... [read more]
‘I sit next to Toby!’ (2003)
Mr Tesslar (Robert van Mackelenberg) introduces his science class to his newest piece of equipment, the MFE machine. Garth (Brook Sykes), the school bully, is totally bored by the whole thing until new girl Dina (Saskia Burmeister) upsets Elizabeth ... [read more]
‘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]
Warren Blair (1994)
Warren Blair, son of Aboriginal tenor Harold Blair, recalls being taunted about his Aboriginality at school. Harold advised Warren to fight the taunter, which he did, resulting in the school calling in his parents. Harold sings to his son and ... [read more]
Lawyers confer (2004)
David Hicks’s lawyer, Stephen Kenny, meets up with David’s father, Terry, and Michael Ratner, a lawyer from the Centre for Constitutional Rights in New York. Terry is trying to get a trial for his son. Both lawyers agree that the ... [read more]
View from ferry (1932)
A ferry ride in 1932 is captured by Leslie Francis Farey’s 16mm home movie camera. The Sydney Harbour Bridge can be seen from the bow of a ferry leaving Circular Quay and from directly underneath. [read more]
Parisian bohemians (2002)
The Australian opera is on tour with La Boheme. Part of act one is set on a very cold evening in the garret of two starving young bohemians. [read more]
‘I’m your little girl, Amy’ (1970)
Bob Randall packs the car to take his wife Amy back to central Australia to see her mother. Amy talks about the first time she met her mother after being removed from her care as a child. [read more]
‘I saw a movie once’ (2007)
Niaz (Niaz Khan Shinwari) looks on as locals discuss seeing a movie set in nearby Afghanistan in which the heroes were the mujahideen. It turns out to have been Rambo III (1988). [read more]
Speeding Matilda (1993)
Matilda (Amy Terelinck) rescues a lamb in distress beside an almost dry waterhole, then realises she’s late for the school bus. She drives at high speed to the bus stop, on a flat, dusty road. The driver, Mrs Palmer (Fiona ... [read more]
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]
