Australia Movies

Traditional music of the Trobriand Islands is played on a variety of flutes, from simple curving stems to panpipes. Songs (wosi) are also an important...

Amateur film makers venture to make an 80s horror film in the forest until they become part of the horror, themselves.

The unprecedented bushfire crisis that struck Australia during the 2019-2020 summer sparked numerous controversies and its abnormality revealed underl...

Playing with the idea of self – and selfishness – acclaimed visual artist Joan Ross’ latest interactive experience is knowingly superficial, exploring...

This 1998 documentary traces the early nineteenth century American sealing history through the Australian occupation in the 1950's, and finally to the...

This black-and-white newsreel segment shows a team of scientists making their way to Heard Island in 1949 to relieve the previous year's team. The seg...

In 1918 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife, son and four daughters were summarily assassinated. In 1992 the bodies were unearthed only to discover t...

A groundbreaking short documentary that shines the torch on Melbourne, a city regularly alive with activity and fervour, that has since been felled by...

Short animation by Wendy Chandler.

A meditation upon the redemptive power of Christ's crucifixion. The film employs a variety of styles including animation, newsreel footage, hand paint...

This film makes clear for the layperson the whole pattern of building construction for a brick home, from the moment that the architect prepares worki...

How do you tame the falling rain? This film is about giving meaning to the intangible idea, we all love to call ‘creativity’.

On the eve of bicentennial celebrations, Strangers in Paradise looks at Australian culture through the eyes of tourists on a ‘Dreamtime’ tour.

This astonishing documentary investigates how an advertising slogan invented by Madison Avenue executives in 1948 has come to define our most intimate...

A process of gradual revelation - while it is not a measured and sequential revelation, the viewer must collect and correlate fragments of visual info...

A short animation of Charles Lloyd’s dry points. Sound composition by Arthur Cantrill.

“In Robert Klippel – Junk Sculpture No. 3, 1963 (1965),a spiky Klippel creation resonates almost visibly with the high, piercing tones of Larry Sitsk...

In the Brisbane Creative Leisure Centre, conducted by the Cantrills, children are shown reproductions of stained glass windows and then make large tra...

A movie shot in India

A widow struggles to reconcile with her past, as a mysterious threat wages misfortune on the family farm.