A host of leading creative talents, including writers Les Murray and Tim Winton, artist Ken Done, choreographer Graeme Murphy, and composer Peter Sculthorpe contribute to this examination of the beach as an expression of the Australian psyche. Australians are the most beach-conscious people on earth.…
Three films by John Darling. Episode 1: BETWEEN THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SEA Covering an enormous scope of history, this film explores the geological and cultural influences which have contributed to the evolution of Balinese cosmology. Linked to religions in ancient China and India, Balinese religious…
A film by Michel Daeron. The Auschwitz Orchestra had over 40 members, all Jewish women, all escaping death in the gas chambers because of their musical ability. All were deeply traumatised, and five decades later recall their experiences. The leader of the orchestra was Alma Rosé, the niece…
A film by David and Judith MacDougall. Filmed in South India at the progressive Rishi Valley School, founded by the 20th Century Indian thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti, Awareness explores the sensibilities of two groups of young Indian teenagers - a group of girls in their dormitory, and a group of boys…
AT EDGE was filmed by Solrun Hoaas in 1978 just after Judith Wright moved to the property 'Edge' in south-eastern New South Wales. As a film poem of a poet and conservationist, AT EDGE communicates a relationship between the poet and her bush environment. As a visual re-interpretation of…
ART FROM THE HEART is a confronting examination of the contemporary Indigenous painting business today - asking whether Indigenous painting is still being painted from the heart, or if market forces have altered its spirit irrevocably. The film asks whether Indigenous painting is still being painted…
The apology to the Stolen Generations by the Australian Parliament on 13 February 2008 was a powerful and memorable moment in the nation’s history, for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike. Saying sorry cleared the air, inspiring Australians to believe we really can build the kind of respectful…
NOW RE-MASTERED FROM ORIGINAL FILM NEGATIVES! ANGELS OF WAR captures the experiences of villagers who lived through the Papua New Guinea campaign. Caught up in a war they could not understand or influence, they had no choice but to obey whoever held the gun. Their homes were bombed. They starved…
ALLIES is a landmark documentary from 1983, made at the time of Bob Hawke’s unequivocal embrace of the American alliance. The film explores Australia-US relations during the Cold War: the setting up of ASIO to appease American agencies worried about Communist influence; the Petrov Affair and disunity…
A film by Mike Rubbo. Olive's family name was Dangerfield and her hair was red. Coming home from school together, this Katie Raven would sing out; "Red for danger! Danger on the field!" "I'll show you danger," Olive grunted one day, winding up her arm. "I gave…
Campaign film supporting squatters in various London boroughs resisting eviction by private landlords and the GLC. Footage of housing conditions of a single mother, squatting in Camden; squatters barricading themselves in, in Camden, Kensington and Ilford; account with stills of illegal evictions initiated…
Kai Greene is one of bodybuilding's top athletes, labeled by the fans as - "The People's Champ.” After placing 2nd at the biggest bodybuilding competition in the world, Mr. Olympia, for 3 years in a row; a shocking announcement was made... Kai Greene would not compete at the…
