Australian Film Commission Movies

Three women appear connected in this short experimental drama about internal and external states of emergency, about personal and collective shadows,...

The 1981 murder trial of Alwyn Peter made Australian legal history when his defence lawyer successfully argued that charges of murder and manslaughter...

A 13-year-old boy comes home from school and goes out. He meets up with a friend and they go to various places together, interacting with various peop...

Australian Short Film directed by Sonia Hofmann

The Aboriginal people of Stradbroke Island call the local dolphins by rhythmically hitting the water surface, so that the dolphins drive smaller fishe...

A businessman in white shirt and tie drives alone on an isolated country road. He swerves for a passing truck and the result is a blowout. As he's cha...

A woman goes out, boards a tram, and looks at things.

An experimental narrative film - shots of inner-city landscapes, followed by a brief story, of a man who wakes up, gets dressed, goes outside and ...

A day in the life of an unemployed youth.

A drug artist designs a new piece that is triggered by exposure to audio visual static.

A moving documentation of the life of a small boy about to face his sixth major operation in six years. Raises questions of care for the hospitalised,...

Young Sally Shambles is a naive young lady whose readiness for love leads her into a number of predicaments with men, all unsuccessful. She daydreams...

A documentary about a feminist run abortion clinic. Counselling is shown to be an important part of the procedure, which is carried out using local an...

“Bilderbuch für Ernst Will” is an electronic rendering of a form of proto-televisual iconomania: the creation of haphazardly sourced private pictorial...

Sydney, a city turning itself upside down to get ready for the year 2000. The Olympic Year.

The movement of water via capillary action - the phenonema of water flowing uphill is made visible through the artificially induced osmosis of push an...

Partly funded as a Bicentennial commission through the University of Queensland Art Museum and the ABC, Hughes’ speculative, essayistic documentary is...

“In a wry exploration of women’s sexuality, the character Pussy demonstrates the play between the masculine and the feminine, the strong and the passi...

An unknown, tucked-away, medieval island is threatened by the advent of big business. A wealthy business man wants to develop the untouched island, wh...

A documentary of a young couple and their two children living in a squatter settlement in the Philippine capital, Manila. Rather than just a report on...