Australia Movies

An intense and sometimes disturbing series of encounters between the filmmaker and his mother as they relive the traumatic years of his childhood and...

This short documentary produced by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO in 1979 traces the introduction of the European rabbit to Australia and s...

A 16mm film dual projection film by → ↑ → assembled and edited from 16mm reels of advertisements produced for Australian television in the early 70s....

A portrait of the only remaining priestess who lives permanently on Hatoma. She also runs the only remaining shop, thus providing for the islanders in...

A mini film from Hatoma showing a 76-year-old woman weaving a basket for the fishing. During the task, which takes from morning till late afternoon, s...

A documentary on daily life on a small depopulated island using a combination of diary narration and English subtitles. The film uses an ebb-and-flow...

"In making Ada I was attracted to the idea of creating an animation about stillness and silence: two qualities we normally don't think of when it com...

"On a Full Moon could be described as a poem to my mother who had died not long before. I wanted it to be as beautiful and contemplative as I could po...

The 1988 Australian bicentenary prompted many artistic events and contemporary expressions of Australia's living cultures. One of the most remarkable...

The Laugh on Dad is a 1918 comedy Australian silent film. It follows John Forrest, a.k.a. Dad, who is an ostrich farmer. His daughter Jean wants to ma...

Should a Girl Propose? is a 1925 Australian silent film directed by P.J. Ramster set in the high society world of Sydney. The film featured several pl...

A man wakes up alone with a mysterious briefcase in front of him. A voice tells him to cut wires to survive!

16mm. 5 minutes. Colour.

A profile of one of the most commercially successful white blues bands of the 1960s. Fronted by the man-mountain that was Bob Hite, they enjoyed inter...

Ilyas, an expatriate writer who lived most of his adult life in Australia, returns to Turkey in the hope of finding inspiration for his new book. Inst...

Jadai, the 'Broome Brawler' promised his family to no longer fight. But the local cops have other plans.

This account of the cattle industry in northern Australia includes such aspects as mustering, dipping and droving, together with some description of a...

A man discovers what the meaning of life is as he experiences severe hallucinations day by day.