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The SETI project (1994)
Mike (Zbych Trofimiuk) is dismayed to find that Nikki (Petra Jared) is more interested in listening to Shane (Che Broadbent) explain his SETI project, than listen to his new Jimi Hendrix CD. [read more]
‘We really got the short straw, didn’t we?’ (1988)
Johnno (Damien Walters) releases crabs from their traps which angers the fishers. His sister Julie (Rebecca Sykes) tries to protect Johnno but his father (John Waters) is furious. [read more]
‘Money matters’ (1992)
Gina Hard-Faced Bitch (Marg Downey) presents economics talk show Money Matters. Here she poses the question of whether Australia should trade with countries who are known to breach human rights. Gina is joined by guests Nigel Lillywhite (Geoff Brooks) and ... [read more]
‘Oh, the pain!’ (1972)
Bev (Abigail) is none too happy to discover her mother Claire Houghton (Thelma Scott) waiting inside her apartment. Claire is demanding some answers about her daughter’s present lifestyle. [read more]
Nirvana (1997)
Zemka is the mother of twelve year-old Nirvana who has been killed by a shell in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. She looks at the footage of her now-deceased daughter dancing that filmmakers Tahir Cambis and Alma Sahbaz had only ... [read more]
Griffin’s vision (1988)
Cumbria, 1348. It’s night, during a full moon. The boy Griffin (Hamish McFarlane) collapses onto the snow and experiences one of his visions. His brother Connor (Bruce Lyons) sees this as a sign they must embark on a quest to ... [read more]
‘I have a wife’ (2003)
Sandy (Toni Collette) touches Hiromitsu’s face as he’s sleeping. They are in bed together. In the morning, at a petrol station, she sees a picture of his family in his wallet. He tells her that he’s married, with two children. ... [read more]
‘This is number 96?’ (1975)
A mystery man (Curt Jansen) arrives at the delicatessen looking for Herb Evans (Ron Shand). Arnold Feather (Jeff Kevin) sends him upstairs where the residents of Flat 3 are enjoying their evening meal. Dorrie Evans (Pat McDonald) is scheming to ... [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]
Forgetting about the past (1985)
Stuart Wilkins (David Kennedy) goes to a Sydney boarding school to find his son Tommy (Jamie Agius). The Catholic principal (Rhys McConnochie) tells him to come back when he has arranged it with the child’s mother. The boy’s grandfather (Ray ... [read more]
Married to the prison system (1993)
Partners of prisoners discuss their relationships. Contact is limited to a ten-minute phone call a day, letters, and a forty-minute visit twice a week. [read more]
I have seen it all (2004)
A teenage band put together by Sammy Butcher performs for an audience. Sammy talks about the kind of songs he and the children write together, and one song ‘Ngayulu Nyangu’ which means I have seen it all, is about the ... [read more]
‘I’m still in love with you’ (2001)
The night after they slept together without having sex, Eddie (Ben Mendelsohn) talks to barmaid Kay (Belinda McClory) in the pub. He did not want to complicate his relationship with the woman who serves him drinks; she took it as ... [read more]
Relaxing by the pool (c1932)
This clip shows the Archibald family enjoying themselves in a backyard swimming pool in the early 1930s. [read more]
A tense opening (1976)
Helen (Jenny Lee), alone and very pregnant, has slipped and fallen while in the garden at Freda’s place. The trauma precipitates her labour and things look grim until Barry (Brian Wenzel) arrives to pick up his things. Even then it ... [read more]
‘You’re going home’ (2003)
Jim Connor was one of those POWs who survived the war and wondered whether he could survive the peace. An Anzac nurse helped him with compassion and kindness to find his way home. [read more]
Mr G (2007)
Mr G (Chris Lilley) rehearses Annabel Dickson – The Musical, an original work inspired by a real incident, the death of one of the school’s students from a drug overdose. [read more]
What about this boy? (2009)
In China’s Shandong province in 1972 three Beijing Communist Party officials (Zhi Xue Chai, Chang Suo Zhang and Jie Cheng) visit a rural school where the young pupils sing a song of praise to national leader Mao Zedong. They are ... [read more]
Judge not, lest ye be judged (1988)
Bea (Victoria Longley) visits Marcus (Philip Sayer) hoping for a quiet, congenial evening but finds him ensconced with a woman called Muffet (Pat Bishop), whom she perceives to be an empty-headed socialite and drunk to boot. She tries to disconcert ... [read more]
