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Time, the enemy (1987)
Vince Lovegrove speaks of the onrush of time, and how it robs him of moments with his wife Suzi and young son Troy. Over photographs, he describes the 'real Suzi’: her career as a dancer, their meeting in America, the ... [read more]
‘How’s your day been sweetheart?’ (1987)
It is nearly two years since Suzi Lovegrove learned she had contracted HIV/AIDS. Her husband Vince asks how her day has been. In voice-over, Vince explodes some of the myths about read more]
Fairy story comes true (c1935)
This black-and-white Rinso soap powder cinema advertisement from 1935 shows two young girls dressed in fairy costumes dancing in a lounge room. When they finish, one asks her mother to tell them a story. The mother tells a story about ... [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]
Cheryl descends into hell (1997)
Back on the streets and while under the influence of heroin, Cheryl tells us her story. She was raped by her father at 10 years of age, had a child and her mother threw her out of home at aged ... [read more]
Creation story (1991)
An aerial view of Arnhem Land where artist David Malangi lives. Narrator Ernie Dingo introduces the cosmology encapsulated within Aboriginal creation stories before introducing us to Malangi and his family. [read more]
Creation story (2005)
Agnes Palmer, or Lyaakiye as she is also known, sits facing camera. Agnes is an Arrernte and Kngwarraye woman. Agnes talks about being raised in the mission. Agnes is struck by the bareness of the white walls of the church ... [read more]
Someone else’s story (2005)
Gordon Syron walks off by himself. Elaine talks to camera about the feeling that she is trespassing in someone else’s story. [read more]
A Sydney story (1985)
Sydney, Australia, is established as the location of the film and the narration introduces the film’s premise and establishes the filmmaker as the story-teller. [read more]
A very old story (1993)
The story of the Snake and Emu Dreaming recorded on canvas is placed on the ground. An elder tells us the meaning of the Dreaming story. His body is animated in the re-telling of the story. The elder has an ... [read more]
Re-enacting the story (2007)
Anmatjere elders Patsy and Jane Briscoe tell the story of Bungalung around the campfire at night. Two young men act out the story. They travel through the bush and come across a fireplace. [read more]
Fitzpatrick incident at Mrs Kelly’s homestead (1906)
This fragment from The Story of the Kelly Gang shows Constable Fitzpatrick visiting the homestead of Kate Kelly. Fitzpatrick attempts to kiss Kate Kelly and in the scuffle Ned Kelly shoots Fitzpatrick in the wrist. As the Kelly gang escape ... [read more]
Cheryl’s beat (1997)
Cheryl is a street prostitute in Kings Cross. We clandestinely observe her as she gets into a car with a ‘john’ while her boyfriend and pimp Con pulls out in another car to follow them. Cheryl earns money to support ... [read more]
Cheryl tries to shake the ‘monkey’ (1997)
Cheryl wants to give up her addiction to drugs (the monkey on her back) and prostitution. She agrees to dry out with the help of Samaritans ex-prostitute Rachel and her husband. Cheryl invites her boyfriend and pimp, Con, to visit. ... [read more]
Excluded from the school excursion (2006)
Primary school teacher Mrs Armstrong (Renee Newman-Storen) is preparing her class for an excursion to the fire station. Without explanation, she takes Frankie (Antionne Forrest-Yarran) out of class to be minded by another teacher (Geoff Kelso). Excluded from the excursion, ... [read more]
The fire (2006)
At the end of the day, Frankie’s teacher (Renee Newman-Storen) apologises for not taking him on the excursion. Frankie (Antionne Forrest-Yarran) picks up the box of matches she leaves behind. On the way home from school, he sets fire to ... [read more]
A rude introduction (2003)
Mr Tachibana (Gotaro Tsunashima) waits outside the Port Hedland airport. Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette) arrives late, and with no idea of the proper way to greet a visitor from Japan. Mr Tachibana also has no idea of Australian manners – ... [read more]
‘People die out in this country’ (2003)
Bogged and stranded a long way from help, Sandy (Toni Collette) asks Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima) if she can borrow his phone, because she has no signal. He is reluctant to let anyone know they are lost. She explains how bad ... [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]
True story (2006)
Rupert Kathner (Ben Mendelsohn) announces his filmmaking vision: a projector atop the tallest city building screening his movies on white clouds in the sky, the entire world his audience. [read more]
