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A series of short mockumentaries which play with and subvert the documentary and drama genres. (S)TRUTH aims to blur the distinction between what is 'truth' and what is stranger than truth. (Duration varies between 10-15 minutes).
In 24 HOURS, ten emerging directors spend a 24 hour period with an under 30-year-old Queenslander, filming everything that goes on in their life during that period.
ANATOMIES covers work by the Australian philosopher/writer Robyn Ferrell, on the body. It explores relations between the body and ideas of self.
A performance poet and his partner go to the Bass Hill drive-in and are watched by Brian Henderson on the big screen.
In a culture where visual thinking predominates, these architects and designers of the future are investigating sound design as a primary mode of construction.
Examines the synthesis of one medium - drawing - into another. It focuses on the work of tattoo artist Ex De Medici, whose adornments of living canvasses stems from a perplexity with the transcience and impermanence in other mediums. She discusses the collaborative nature of her art - the notion of a live canvas as opposed to a passive one - and reveals the one word a tattoo artist must never say!
A filmmaker makes a documentary about a photographer. David Edwards has been taking photographs of naked men for the past 11 years. But in this case, who is the voyeur and who is the exhibitionist? An examination of the nature of looking.
Jack is dying from a rare form of cancer. All he wants is a good death. This is a record of his final months.
A short look at the distinction between reality and soap opera in the world of two junkies and a cache of stolen video equipment.
Young untrained modernist architect Simon Laws discovers that there are no laws which govern his extraordinary buildings.
An exploration into the different types of families, be it queer, straight or whatever takes your fancy.
This story begins in Vietnam in April 1975 three weeks before the fall of Saigon when Leigh Bancroft was adopted by an Australian couple. MISSING VIETNAM traces Leigh's journey from Grafton back to Vietnam in search of her other family and her cultural identity.
Details the kaleidoscope of emotions felt by a desperate mother in her desire to get her too bookish daughter involved with boys.
A response to the work of visual artists Noelle Janaczewska and Narelle Jubelin as featured in the Dissonance Exhibition.
A walk through the supermarket with Linda Burney and her two children reflecting upon her childhood, Aboriginality and notions of family and connectedness.
A short examination of the work of Australian performance artist Stelarc.
The sexual label - gay, lesbian, bi, straight - has become a political tool which can either empower or dispossess its user. This film examines the complex tensions associated with these issues. It sets out to map the valid principles of empowerment underlying the use of sexual labels both past and present and charts the shifting relationship between the mainstream and non-straight communities.
Amongst the suburban sprawl of Western Sydney lies a small garage. Inside, the bodies of deceased pets and other animals are given new life. This is the work of Sammy Furnari – taxidermist.
The harsh realities of the plight of homeless youth pervade this film literally and stylistically. The film describes various individuals' journeys which have led them to a new type of family in group house youth refuges.
A creative documentation and interpretation of the IHOS opera, 'To Traverse Water' composed by Constantine Koukias and performed in Greek in Hobart, 1992. The IHOS opera and the experimental video/documentary is an exploration of Greek culture in an Australian context. An original and experimental soundtrack accompanies the narrative.
An Iranian-Australian woman talks about her decision to divorce her husband against cultural and personal odds and her experience of living as a single mother.
Eight women politicians were gathered in Townsville, Queensland, for a forum on women in politics, focusing on access particularly for women of non-English speaking background (includes two Indigenous women).
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