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When his latest outburst goes viral, volatile celebrity chef Easton West flees back to his hometown in the Adelaide Hills and tries to reinvent himself through an unlikely partnership with his 19 year-old pastry wunderkind niece.
Season two picks up with Easton West living his life out of the public eye and concentrating on being a better man, until his new-found peace is shattered by the return of his niece Diana to Adelaide, flaunting her successful career and love life in London. But both must put their troubles aside when a secret from the past throws the West family into more chaos than ever.
ARE YOU ADDICTED TO TECHNOLOGY is a timely, radical and innovative interactive documentary, that will challenge everything we thought we knew about ourselves and our relationship with technology.
Art of the Game reveals two of Australia’s most innovative photographers – Trent Parke and Narelle Autio – as they bring together the worlds of art and sport in their first ever moving image work Summation of Force. What is it about the sport of cricket that has inspired the work of artistic giants such as Beckett, Francis Bacon and Eadward Muybridge? Art of the Game explores the parallel narratives of Trent and Narelle’s careers and the making of the new work, with an essay that looks at how the idiosyncratic sport of cricket is a metaphor for life and art.
Lynette Wallworth is a world renowned Australian media artist, whose work melds science and technology with intense human stories. Having recently been invited to show her work at the Sundance and Telluride film festivals, Wallworth is unique in that she is at the forefront of the evolving relationship between video art and cinema. CONNECTED BY LIGHT follows this cutting edge artist as she creates Duality of Light, a highly technical, immersive video installation that has been commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival, where it premieres in 2009.
The gripping true story of how a former Australian football captain and a ragtag team of social media warriors, challenged two monarchies, a military junta and the world’s richest and most influential sporting body FIFA, to rescue the life of a fellow player and save the soul of football.
Spanning 19 years, THE DREAMLIFE OF GEORGIE STONE is a 29-minute documentary that reveals the memories of Georgie Stone, an Australian transgender teen as she changes laws, affirms her gender, finds her voice and emerges into adulthood.
Invasive species are a leading threat to Australia’s delicate ecosystems, pushing many species of native flora and fauna to extinction, damaging natural resources and disrupting the balance that existed here for millions of years prior to colonisation. The question is, why don’t we just feed on the pests, eat the problem, and kill two Myna birds with one proverbial stone? As this series will show, ants, beetles, starfish and camels can (with the help of some of Australia's most inventive and future-thinking chefs) be baked, fried or pied turning them from environmental hazard to forward thinking, ecologically friendly culinary masterpieces. Now, crank the Vivaldi and imagine the Chef's Table cooking montage of a sweet and sour cane toad dish.
A Melohorrordrama (a psychological horror fantasy delving into the inner relationships of a family with a tangent of science and technology). ETERNITY NOW looks at the fallout of the nuclear family and how the way we see the world can alienate us from those closest to us.
A five-part online series in partnership with global soccer platform Copa90 about some of the true and bizarre stories from soccer’s untold history.
GENERAL HERCULES is an observational documentary film exploring the relationship between a local government and its residents in the wake of economic and political changes in the remote gold mining town of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.
The execution of Myuran Sukumaran, the Australian ‘Bali Nine’ drug smuggler who became an accomplished artist on death row under the tutorship of Archibald Prize winner Ben Quilty. Dramatic and archival material takes us into the last 72 hours of Myuran’s life and the creation of his final paintings before his death by Indonesian firing squan on Nusakambangan Island, April 2015.
Australian stand up comedian Hannah Gadsby is a closet art scholar. Armed with rapier wit and a desire to pick beneath the paint, she travels across the continent in search of Australia's national identity. From first settlement to federation to multiculturalism, Hannah will forge an irreverent new image of who we think we are by examining our identity through the history of our art.
In need of some form of human contact, a grieving man takes up Latin dance classes with a young instructor.
Paul is 30, single and his mentally ill mother is still the most important person in his life. But when he meets the woman of his dreams, Paul decides that if he's ever going to make a new life of his own, he must first find a cure for his mother's illness.
It's High Noon in the outback town of Wudinna. Under siege from the worst drought in Australian history, local farms are dropping like flies and many locals are fleeing to the big cities. But Wudinna has a lone hero. Third generation farmer and local Mayor Tim Scholz has a series of radical plans to repopulate and save his home town from extinction.
On the eve of the Apocalypse an embittered old couple anticipate 'the end' in diametrically opposite ways. One welcomes it with open arms, gleefully embracing the impending destruction of all humanity, while the other tries desperately to ensure their salvation. When they discover they have survived they are forced to come to terms with each other as well as themselves. In this film age is transcended and love is all that remains, even when everything (including your partner) falls apart.
Murder, sex, drugs, art and politics. A film exploring the mystery of why sneakers appear on telephone lines around the world.
After previously collaborating on the award-winning I Want to Dance Better at Parties, Matthew Bate and Gideon Obarzanek team up for Once Upon a Time in the Western Suburbs. This VR dance work puts viewers in the middle of a street dance battle featuring artists from the XO State festival, held as part of Arts Centre Melbourne's AsiaTOPA in February 2017.
RISKING IT ALL follows rookie entrepreneurs as they attempt to transform their lives by setting up their own dream businesses. Presenter and business expert Shivani Gupta has a passion to see people grow their businesses and she's here to help. Shivani brings her vast experience and practical business sense to help our entrepreneurs come face to face with the realities of being their own boss. RISKING IT ALL captures the highs and lows involved in trying to get a new business off the ground. It's a roller-coaster ride with lots at stake as people put friendships, family, secure salaries, houses and savings on the line in a bid to live their dream and make millions.
Sam Klemke has filmed and narrated his entire life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human.
The most important recording of the 1990s grunge era wasn't made by some alt rock star. It was a covert audio recording of two drunken men living in a small flat in San Francisco, who spent their available free time yelling, screaming, hitting and generally abusing each other. The tapes went on to inspire a cult following, spawning sell-out CDs, comic artworks by Dan Clowes (Ghostworld), stage-plays, music from the likes of Devo, and a Hollywood feeding frenzy.
Jointly directed by award-winning filmmaker Matthew Bate and internationally acclaimed director/choreographer Gideon Obarzanek, Stuck in the Middle With You is a virtual reality experience in which the viewer becomes part of the on-stage performance of a live dance work with the Sydney Dance Company ensemble. The project is the first VR work commissioned by The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).
An epic rollercoaster love story set against the backdrop of the birth of cinema in Hollywood, Railroad Man tells the story of Jack McGowan and Helen Holmes’s passion for one another and for making movies.
In a moonlit suburban back yard, two brothers battle one another in a mythic game of cricket. An immersive study of the motion, physics and psychology of elite sport, Summation of Force is a cosmic, dreamlike and darkly beautiful metaphor for life.
A six-part series for online from Closer Productions, that follows underground horror filmmaker Dick Dale on his quest to make his first low-budget feature film Ribspreader. Infamous for producing what he describes as ‘splatter-punk video nasties’ Dick has been a cult hero in Australia’s underground film scene for over 20 years.
From Dr Who to 'The Dark Side of the Moon' to modern day dance music, the pioneering members of the Electronic Music Studio, melody composer Tristram Cary, radically changed the sound-scape of the 20th Century. WHAT THE FUTURE SOUNDED LIKE tells this fascinating story of British electronic music.
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