Australian Film Commission Movies

An older woman relives the bitter memories of her past, through her friendship with a younger girl who is experiencing a very insecure relationship wi...

A young firebrand Aboriginal man is forced to confront his spirituality when he is beaten by the police.

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 day in the life of an unemployed youth.

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

Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett reported the Vietnam War from the perspective of the North Vietnamese. For this he was reviled as a traitor and...

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...

Maidens(1978) is an autobiographical essay film, using personal archives, still and moving image, from both domestic and other sources, lyrical narrat...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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...