FILM & CINEMA Total of 306 films A remarkable collection of Australian independent films produced / directed by Paul Cox, Peter Tammer, Nigel Buesst, Tom Cowan, John Hughes. It also includes interviews with film makers, award winning festival short films, lessons and seminars from Australian Film, Radio and Television School and rare films such as the experimental films of Garry Shead and UBU Sydney Underground Movies.
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FILM & CINEMA Experimental Film UBU - (1965-1970) Sydney Underground Movies
Garry Shead Experimental Films
Black Symphony Genet on Film
Triptych
Experiments Dirk de Bruyn
237 mins | AT-Ubu | A$450 / 1 yr
200 mins | GS-Exp | A$410 / 1 yr
29 mins | AP-Black | A$180 / 1 yr
57 mins | PT-Trip | A$180 / 1 yr
55 mins | DDB-Experiments | A$250 / 1yr
This digital collection of selected 16mm films made by the Ubu Films group presents a unique opportunity to reconsider the wealth of invention that signifies one of the most important cultural periods in Australia.
Garry Shead is one of Australia’s most famous and acclaimed lyrical figurative artists. The films represent a journey through his life, one which reflects a serene beauty, a profound lyricism and the ability to celebrate the joy of life and of love.
This unique experimental film is a rare example of avantgarde – underground film culture in the 1960-70 in Eastern Europe. It also contains invaluable archival footage of a ritualistic physical performance style.
Three experimental, impressionist films by Peter Tammer. Includes: MY BELLE, HEY MARCEL..., QUEEN OF THE NIGHT
Projected on two screens, with two separate soundtracks, the always exceptional, and occasionally brilliant, photographic images are enhanced by de Bruyn’s rigorous control over a wide variety of experimental techniques.
The Quest of Carmen d’Avino
Experimental Films by David Perry
Penelope
Bastian Clevé: Journeys
Paul Winkler Australian Icons
30 mins | CG-Ques | A$240 / 1 yr
mins | DP-Exp | A$330 / 1 yr
100 mins | RA-Bastian | A$250 / 1 yr
94 mins | RA-Paul | A$250 / 1 yr
It chronicles the life and work of Carmen d’Avino - filmmaker, painter, sculptor and photographer. Using interviews, archival footage and excerpts from d’Avino’s films, the video traces his early experiments with film animation.
David Perry is unique among Australian artists in that he is equally competent in making paintings, drawings, prints, posters, photographs, films and videotapes.
80 mins | APR-Penelope | A$220 / 1 yr
Schau ins Land (1976)Nachtwache (1976) Lichtblick (1976) Die Reise (1977) Empor (1977) Nach Bluff (1978) Fatehpur Sikri (1980) The Art of Personal Filmmaking (1983)
Sydney Harbour Bridge (1977) Bondi (1979) Ayers Rock (1981) Time out for Sport (1996) Rotation (1998) Bonus: © Paul Winkler (2005)
The film is a lyrical treatment of Homer’s tale of Penelope, depicting her psychological struggle as she waits twenty years for her husband to return from the Trojan War.
TAKAHIKO IIMURA
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Experimental Film TAKAHIKO IIMURA Since the 1960s, Takahiko iimura’s explorations of the moving image have probed the relationship between media, time and language and have strived to redefine the exhibition of cinema as a mode of performance. He has worked closely with the giants of experimental film such as members of the Hi-Red Centre and Fluxus, Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, John Cage, Stan Brakhage and Stan Vanderbeek. His uncompromising work, here presented on DVD, bridges boundaries between film and performance art.
29 mins | TI-Air | A$250 / 1 yr
23 mins | TI-Early | A$300 / 1 yr
33 mins | TI-Cinedance | A$480 / 1 yr
31 mins | TI-Exp | A$250 / 1 yr
Air’s Rock
Early Conceptual Videos
Cine Dance
Experiments in New York
49 mins | TI-Experiment | A$480 / 1 yr
28 mins | TI-Film | A$310/ 1 yr
30 mins | TI-Fluxus| A$380 / 1 yr
15 mins | TI-John | A$380 / 1 yr
60s Experiments
Filmmakers
Fluxus Replayed
John Cage performs James Joyce
46 mins | TI-Ma| A$480 / 1 yr
56 mins | TI-New| A$300 / 1 yr
22 mins | TI-Observer | A$300 / 1 yr
44 mins | TI-Poem | A$380 / 1 yr
MA, A Japanese Concept
New York Day and Night
OBSERVER/OBSERVED
Early Film Poems
23 mins | TI-Talking| A$380 / 1 yr
18 mins | TI-Yoko| A$380 / 1 yr
Talking Picture and Shadowman
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
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Experimental Film
A$220 - 240 / 1 yr each
RV-Jonwal Jonas Mekas - Walden
RV-Dada Dada Cinema
RV-Jonlos Jonas Mekas - Lost Lost Lost
RV-Flux Fluxusfilm Anthology
RV-Jonpar Jonas Mekas - The Sixties Quartet
RV-Cin1 Cinexpérimenteaux # 1 Martine Rousset
RV-JonLet Jonas Mekas: A Letter from Greenpoint
RV-Conrad Conrad/Losier: The Flickers & DreaMinimalist
RV-Cin2 Cinexpérimenteaux # 2 Nicolas Rey
RV-MekAs Jonas Mekas: As I was Moving...
RV-Ball Films by Gordon Ball
RV-Cin6 Cinexpérimenteaux # 6 Marcel Hanoun
RV-MekSleep Jonas Mekas: Sleepless Nights Stories
RV-Garrel Garrel: Le Lit de La Vierge
RV-Cin7 CinCinexpérimenteaux # 7 Stéphane Marti RV-Cin8 Cinexpérimentaux #8 Light Cone Cooperative RV-Cin9 Cinexpérimentaux #9 Stephen Dwoskin RV-Dyn Stephen Dwoskin - Dyn Amo RV-Docpat Patrick Bokanowski - Documentaries RV-Ber Berthold Bartosch - L’Idée RV-Maya2 Maya Deren - Dance Films RV-Maya3 Maya Deren - Experimental Films RV-Maya4 Maya Deren - Divine Horsemen RV-Bor1 Boris Lehman Looking for my Birthplace
RV-MekRem Jonas Mekas: Reminiscences of... RV-MekScen Jonas Mekas: Scenes from Allen’s... RV-MekShort Jonas Mekas: Short Film Works RV-Guns Jonas Mekas: Guns of the trees RV-Brig Jonas & Adolfas Mekas - The Brig RV-Lebel Lebel: Les Avatars de Venus RV-Han Hans Richter - Early Works RV-Ana Peter Rose - Analogies RV-Mau2 Maurice Lemaître - Films d’amour RV-Pau Paul Sharits - Mandala films
RV-Zanzi2 Serge Bard Fun and Games for Everyone RV-Brown Brown: Air Cries “Empty Water”
RV-GreenCin Greenfield: Cinema of the Body RV-GreenClub Greenfield: Club Midnight RV-Isou Isou: Traite de Bave RV-Shoot Shoot Shoot Shoot RV-Steichen Steichen RV-Maclaine Christopher Maclaine - Beat Films RV-Jim1 Jim Davis - Horizons of Light RV-Abbott Abbott: A View of the 20th Century RV-Cecile Cecile Deroudille - L’Affaire Dubuffet RV-Gunvor Gunvor Nelson - Departures
RV-Perlov Perlov: Diary
RV-Adolpho Adolpho Arrietta La Imitacion del Angel
RV-Bor2 Boris Lehman - Life Lesson
RV-Snopres Michael Snow - Presents
RV-Ace Acéphale by Patrick Deval
RV-LehBab Boris Lehman - Babel
RV-Snoram Michael Snow - Rameau’s Nephew
RV-Dis Dissolution - 6 solutions
RV-Story Boris Lehman - The Story of My Hair
RV-Stan Stan Vanderbeek - Visibles
RV-Jur Jürgen Reble - Passion
RV-Rose Rose Lowder - Bouquet d’images
RV-Zan Philippe Garrel - Le Révélateur
RV-Jef Jeff Scher - Reasons to be Glad
RV-Len Len Lye - Rhythms
RV-Zanjac Jackie Raynal - Deux Fois
RV-Ado Adolfas Mekas - Hallelujah the Hills
RV-Zanzi1 Serge Bard - Détruisez-Vous
INDEX FILMS
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Experimental Film artfilms exclusive for academic libraries includes educational license
an exceptional collection of newly remastered experimental film on DVD. The 35 DVDs collection features historical Austrian and International film, video and media art, born out of the European Avant-garde Each INDEX film: Uni A$180 / 1 year
1 MARTIN ARNOLD -
THE CINESEIZURE (CINEMNESIS) 2 PETER TSCHERKASSKY FILMS FROM A DARK ROOM 3 FERRY RADAX: THOMAS BERNHARD - THREE DAYS 4 VISIONARY 5 MARIA LASSNIG - ANIMATION FILMS 6 DARIUSZ KOWALSKI - OPTICAL VACUUM 7 FLAMING EARS 8 MARTINA KUDLÁCEK NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN 9 HANS SCHEUGL THE SECONDS STRIKE REALITY 10 IVAN LADISLAV GALETA OBSESSION: STRUCTURING TIME AND SPACE 11 MICHAEL PILZ - FACTS FOR FICTION / PARCO DELLE RIMEMBRANZE 12 PÜRRER/SCHEIRL - SUPER-8-GIRL GAMES 13 LINDA CHRISTANELL THE NATURE OF EXPRESSION 14 AS SHE LIKES IT
15 PETER WEIBEL - DEPICTION IS A
CRIME - VIDEO WORKS 1969 - 1975 16 JÓZEF ROBAKOWSKI THE ENERGY MANIFESTO! 17 VALIE EXPORT - INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES 18 KURT KREN - WHICH WAY TO CA? 19 JAN PETERS - ...BUT I STILL HAVEN´T FIGURED OUT THE MEANING OF LIFE 20 LEO SCHATZL - FARRAGO 21 DIETMAR BREHM - BLACK GARDEN 22 OLIVER RESSLER - THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE! / DISOBBEDIENTI 23 SONIC FICTION 24 GERTRUDE MOSER-WAGNER CONCEPT & COINCIDENCE 25 GUSTAV DEUTSCH - FILM IST. (1-12) 26 MANFRED NEUWIRTH - [MA] TRILOGY 27 LISL PONGER - TRAVELLING LIGHT 28 CONSTANZE RUHM VIDEO WORKS FROM 1999-2004 29 VOLKS STÖHNENDE KNOCHENSCHAU 30 MARA MATTUSCHKA - IRIS SCAN 31 GRZINIC/ŠMID - A SELECTION OF VIDEO WORKS FROM 1990-2003 32 VALIE EXPORT 3 EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS 33 GRANULAR SYNTHESIS REMIXES FOR SINGLE SCREEN 34 KURT KREN - STRUCTURAL FILMS 35 KURT KREN - ACTION FILMS
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Paul Winkler Experimental Film Collection Paul Winkler is a German-born Australian filmmaker who lives and works in Sydney. He was associated with Corinne and Arthur Cantrill, Albie Thoms and David Perry in pioneering local experimental film production in the 1960s. His artwork was purchased by MOMA in New York and frequesntly screened in the USA and around the world. Winkler characterises his films as “a synthesis of intellect and emotion, filtered through the plastic material of film”. “I try to let ‘imagines’ flow freely to the surface”.
Vol. 1 Paul Winkler Films 1964-1974
Vol. 2 Paul Winkler Films 1976-1979
Vol. 3 Paul Winkler Films 1980-1983
Vol. 4 Paul Winkler Films 1984-1991
106 mins | PW-Vol1 | A$600 / 1 yr
114 mins | PW-Vol2 | A$600 / 1 yr
139 mins | PW-Vol3 | A$600 / 1 yr
111 mins | PW-Vol4 | A$600 / 1 yr
Mood (1964, 8:00), Isolated (1967,17:00), Red & Green (1968, 15:00), Requiem No.1 (1969, 8:30), Neurosis (1970, 9:00), Scars (1971, 15:00), Dark (1973/74, 19:00), Chants (1974/75, 15:00), Brick Wall (1975, 22:00)
Brick Wall (1975, 22:00), Backyard (1976, 14:00), Red Church (1976, 17:00), Bark-Rind (1977, 30:00), Sydney Harbour Bridge (1977, 13:00), Window (1978/79, 3:00), Bondi (1979, 15:00)
Cars (1979, 15:00), Taylor Square (1980, 19:00), Sydney-Bush (1980, 14:00), Urban Spaces (1980, 27:00), Ayers Rock (1981, 21:00), Brick & Tile (1983, 14:00), Traces (1983, 29:00)
Incongruous (1984, 19:00), Australian Bush (1986, 24:00), Facades (1987, 9:30), Faint Echoes (1988, 17:00), Glitter (1990, 24:00), Long Shadows (1991, 17:00)
Vol. 5 Paul Winkler Films 1993-2000
Vol. 5 Paul Winkler Films 2004-2011
114 mins | PW-Vol5 | A$600 / 1 yr
75 mins | PW-Vol6 | A$600 / 1 yr
Elevated Shores (1993, 20:48), Green Canopy (1994, 22:43), Time Out For Sport (1996, 18:52), Capillary Action (1997, 16:00), Rotation (1998, 17:26), Turmoil (2000, 17:39)
Fishtank (2004, 12:30), Pop kitsch (2006, 17:00), Many Buddhas (2008, 18:00), Drums + Trains (2009, 12:00), Shooting Arrows (2011, 15:00)
PAUL COX / PETER TAMMER
FILM & CINEMA Australian Cinema Innocence
Kalaupapa Heaven
Kostas
Man of Flowers
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
91 mins | PCO-Innocence | A$180 / 1 yr
90 mins | PCO-Kalau | A$180 / 1 yr
100 mins | PCO-Kostas | A$180 / 1 yr
91 mins | PCO-Man | A$180 / 1 yr
120 mins | PCO-Molokai | A$180 / 1 yr
After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as intense as when they were young lovers. The connection they shared is still there so they soon involve in a rekindled love affair.
Kalaupapa, a peninsula on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, with its swaying palms, unspoiled beaches and stunning mountains, is a paradise on earth - but with a dark and dramatic history. Kalaupapa is a leprosy colony.
A love story about a Greek and an Australian struggle with the barriers of their cultural differences. It is set against a background of Melbourne’s Greek community and the lifestyle of an Anglo-Saxon divorcee.
Man of Flowers is both erotic and richly amusing, with a tragic after-glow. The essence of the story is the confrontation between modern art and traditional art; or between modern love and traditional love; or even between modern life and traditional life.
Paul Cox’s ambitious portrait, the true story of a 19th century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
A Woman’s Tale
Fear of the Dark
Mallacoota Stampede
Flausfilm
Journey to the End of Night
93 mins | PCO-Woman | A$180 / 1 yr
59 mins | PT-Fear | A$180 / 1 yr
60 mins | PT-Mallacoota | A$180 / 1 yr
70 mins | PT-Journey | A$180 / 1 yr
Martha is a modern, spirited woman trapped in an old and decrepit body. At almost 80 years of age, she has seen the good and the bad, and now offers her love and wisdom to all who are willing to listen to her.
Peter Tammer explores the this film through the person of the actor Robert Ratti, holding toge-ther the hopes and fears of the performer who is facing survival on a day-to-day basis for the opportunity to work in the future.
A slice of life, summer in Australia.The quiet seaside resort of Mallacoota is flooded by tourists seeking their holiday paradise. How can they know that their very search destroys everything they yearn for?
99 mins (Complimentary for research only) A portrait of the actor, film teacher, critic, and legendary cinephile, John Flaus, in a unique film mosaic structured around cryptic crossword clues and solutions suggesting the content of the twelve sequences.
It is the diary of a soldier. Although it was filmed forty years after the event, it is a timeless universal testimony because of its power and emotion. It is the voice of an individual raised against the violence, the horror and the futility of war.
NIGEL BUESST
FILM & CINEMA Australian Cinema Carlton + Godard = Cinema (2 parts)
Darwin Harbour
The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor
Jacka V.C.
Come Out Fighting
145 mins | SUP-Carlton | A$290 / 1 yr
60 mins | SUP-Darwin | A$180 / 1 yr
50 mins | SUP-Rise | A$180 / 1 yr
45 mins | SUP-Jacka | A$180 / 1 yr
50 mins | SUP-Come | A$180 / 1 yr
Buesst’s leisurely, intimate and at times quite personal documentary on the ‘60s & early ‘70s independent Melbourne filmmaking scene centred in Carlton is one of the most significant cinematic contri-butions to Australian film history.
Explore the events that led to the establishment of Australia’s main northern city. Images from the past and present reveal the struggles to establish a permanent settlement. Culminating in the untold story of the epic voyage of the Forlorn Hope.
Melbourne’s first celebrity criminal, set the pace in the early days. It is about the life of the notorious 1920’s Melbourne Australian gangster Squizzy Taylor including interviews and re-enactments.
Documentary about the First World War hero and later St. Kilda Mayor. Jacka was a soldier, decorated for his service at Gallipoli, and this documentary about his life tells not only his story but much about Australian identity and history.
A young Aboriginal fighter, played by trained boxer Michael Karpaney, is torn between his career, his mates & the demands of a group of students campaigning for Aboriginal rights. A gaze on the difficulties a blackfella must face in Australian society.
Bonjour Balwyn
Jazz Scrapbook
Gerry Humphrys: The Loved One
Benny Featherstone Prince of Good Fellows
Talking With Ade
55 mins | SUP-Bon | A$180 / 1 yr
70 mins | SUP-Jazz | A$180 / 1 yr
66 mins | SUP-Gerry | A$180 / 1 yr
66 mins | SUP-Benny | A$180 / 1 yr
46 mins | SUP-Ade | A$180 / 1 yr
Kevin Agar has left a job in insurance to start his own magazine, called Bolo. His middle class parents dont understand it, and very few people buy it. As his debts mount, Kevin loses his girlfriend, his friends and his secretary.
The only doco to record the early years of Australian jazz. This lovingly compiled celluloid history of the Melbourne jazz scene is a fascinating study of an era and a social milieu, as well as a music documentary.
Features interviews with Humphrys’ bandmates and performance footage of the man in his prime, both testifying to his talent and influence; Nigel Buesst also tracked down Humphrys at his home in suburban England to find out the truth behind his vanishing act.
The life and times of a legendary Melbourne musician who lived life with the brakes off. Arguably the first notable Australian jazz improvisor, he mastered many instruments, but most of all he was and excellent drummer.
A rare interview with one of Australia’s most revered jazz practitioners. Looking back over the early years, reminiscing on a lifetime spent playing a multitude of instruments with undiminished excellence.
JOHN HUGHES / TOM COWAN
FILM & CINEMA Australian Cinema What I Have Written
Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens In Australia
Film-Work / Menace (2 parts)
The Archive Box / Archive Project (3 parts)
All That is Solid
98 mins | JH-What | A$180 / 1 yr
90 mins | JH-Indonesia | A$240 / 1 yr
111 mins | JH-Filmwork | A$290 / 1 yr
178 mins | JH-Archive | A$410 / 1 yr
54 mins | JH-Allthat | A$210 / 1 yr
The story of a man at the end of a loveless marriage. His intensely erotic association with another woman. Includes a number of extras, such as writer and director commentary, cast commentary, stills gallery, etc.
Recalls the birth of Indonesia, and the impact of a small film, made at a moment of crisis, on Australia’s relations with its northern neighbor and its legacy for Australian documentary film culture.
1. Film-Work: Examines and discusses scenes from four films about their cultural and historical significance. 2. Menace: We see the experience from the perspective of those who defended democratic freedoms.
It provides an in-depth encounter with the stories, sources and contexts of Melbourne’s Realist film movement, including the feature documentary The Archive Project.
It was made in the context of Australia’s contested Bi-Centennial celebrations and financed through the Documentary Fellowship program. This film initiates a new category, ‘the speculative documentary’.
One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin
Traps
River of Dreams
Orange Love Story
The Office Picnic
54 mins | JH-One | A$180 / 1 yr
86 mins | JH-Traps | A$180 / 1 yr
52 mins | JH-River | A$180 / 1 yr
83 mins | TC-Orange | A$180 / 1 yr
74 mins | TC-Office | A$180 / 1 yr
Scholars discuss the impact of Benjamin’s work, and the combination of interviews, stylized reconstruction and archival film results in a dynamic portrait of one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers.
Carolyn Howard plays a fictional journalist pursuing investigative political stories through actual tally rooms and newsrooms, meeting journalists, politicians and artists. A provocative blend of fact and fiction, news and disinformation.
River of Dreams explores the radically divergent approaches to ‘country’ between indigenous and nonindigenous people, conservationists and developers at Fitzroy River, in the ‘remote’ Kimberley region of northwest Australia.
A tale of a town called Orange and the people who live there. A story too, of longing and courage, which unveils some of the different faces of love. All brave love and loss, together weaving a story - a country love story.
A group of tormented public service wageslaves decide that they are not clockwork monsters, so the steamy Australian nights and raucous party games and brief belligerent punch-ups and beery romps on the Holden bonnet all ensue.
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BILL MOUSOULIS / DAVID PERRY / ALBIE THOMS / CZECH REPUBLIC / LATIN AMERICA
Australian Cinema Palm Beach
Sunshine City
Kit Guyatt Films
An Interview with David Perry
An Interview with Albie Thoms
88 mins | AT-Palm | A$180 / 1 yr
118 mins | AT-Sunshine | A$220 / 1 yr
67 mins | KG-Forest | A$240 / 1 yr
57 mins | KD-Perry | A$280 / 1 yr
63 mins | KD-Albie | A$350 / 1 yr
It’s an innovative and underrated film - a low-budget feature with a complex structure, but a very open feel. It combines various elements with the kind of experimental risk-taking that has rarely been possible in Australian cinema.
Features interviews with influential members of the Yellow House scene and other significant characters of the Australian Avant-Garde, including Mick Glasheen, Martin Sharp, Aggy Read, Brett Whiteley and Germaine Greer.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S VISIT (1966), BALMAIN: An enquiry into the reality of the inner Sydney suburb. THE PHALLIC FOREST: The story of Oliver and Julia and their relationship falling apart. He starts an affair with somebody else and she retreats further into a fantasy world.
David Perry is unique among Australian artists in that he is equally competent in making paintings, drawings, prints, posters, photographs, films and videotapes. This rich illustrated interview is about his artv and ventures in life.
A conversation about Thoms` early theatre experiments with absurd plays, becoming a film maker, the UBU experimental film group’s work, government politics, rebellion, and the emerging of Sydney’s counterculture amongst others. Richly illustrated.
Blue Notes
Lovesick
Between Us
When Evil Reigns
The Refracting Glasses
93 mins | BM-Blue | A$180 / 1 yr
70 mins | BM-Lovesick | A$180 / 1 yr
37 mins | BM-Between | A$180 / 1 yr
93 mins | MRG-When | A$85 / 1 yr
94 mins | DP-Refract | A$220 / 1 yr
A multi-layered narrative drama about ordinary people and their struggles and joys with life. Blue Notes is composed of five tales about people who are “blue”:
A couple, Steve and Louise, quit their respective office jobs, deciding to follow their inner desires and their aspirations to be artistic. They shut themselves off from the world, but eventually begin to re-connect with it.
The story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women, a teenage working-class girl, and a singer in a band.
When Evil Reigns is the debut feature film for Australian brothers Luke and Alix Jackson. With a budget of only $5000, Luke and Alix fought for more than six years to develop the film from an ambitious dream into a finished product.
In Russia, artist and filmmaker Malernik films his partner’s first meeting with her family. He also unearths some little-known facts about Tatlin’s flying machine, the Letatlin.
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BREILLAT / FLETCHER / FRAMMARTINO / LANG / FOLMAN / ANDERSSON
Arthouse Movies
feature length films | from A$350 / 1 yr each - Available in Australia only. POT-Soeur
A Ma Soeur! (For My Sister! a.k.a. Fat Girl) - Catherine Breillat, France
POT-Mistress
An Old Mistress - Catherine Breillat, France
POT-Hell
Anatomy of Hell - Catherine Breillat, France
POT-Darwin
Darwin’s Nightmare - Hubert Sauper, France/Austria/Belgium
TF-Fish
Fish Tank - Andrea Arnold, England
POT-Happy
Happy Together - Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong
MAD-Hidden
Hidden - Michael Haneke, Austria
POT-Don
I, Don Giovanni - Carlos Saura, Italy/Spain
POT-Kanda
Kandahar (Safar-e Ghandehar) - Mohsen Makmalbaf, Iran
POT-Volte
Le Quattro Volte - Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy/Germany
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Lemon Tree - Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy/Germany/Switzerland
BFC-Mad
Mad Bastards - Brendan Fletcher, Canada
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Metropolis (Reconstructed & Restored) - Fritz Lang, Germany
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Peaceful Times - Neele Leana Vollmar, Germany
POT-Romance
Romance - Catherine Breillat, France
POT-Russian
Russian Ark - Alexander Sokurov, Russia
MAD-Safe
Safe - Todd Haynes, USA
MAD-Samson
Samson & Delilah - Warwick Thornton, Australia
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The Gleaners and I - Agnes Varda, France
POT-Human
The Human Resources Manager - Eran Riklis, Israel/Germany/France
MAD-Waltz
Waltz with Bashir - Ari Folman, Israel
POT-Wendy
Wendy and Lucy - Kelly Reichardt, USA
POT-Yes
Yes - Sally Potter, UK/USA
POT-You
You, the Living - Roy Andersson, Sweden/Germany/France
RUSSIA / CZECH REPUBLIC / LATIN AMERICA
FILM & CINEMA
Documentary | World Cinema Conversations with my Mother
The Dinner Party
Fencing: The art, science, and the passion
100 mins | DDB-Convers | A$250 / 1 yr
55 mins | PCO-Dinner | A$220 / 1 yr
30 mins | PE-Fenc | A$180 / 1 yr
An intense and sometimes disturbing series of encounters between the filmmaker Dirk de Bruyn and his mother as they relive the traumatic years of his childhood and adolescence.
This powerful documentary by Paul Cox provides a unique insight into the lives of organ recipients, their time spent on waiting lists, their operations and the everyday realities of living with an organ from a deceased person.
Through exiting close-ups, the fast moving action of duelling weapons are captured with a clarity rarely seen on TV or in movies. Slow motion segments let you see that magic moment of a “hit” or a “near miss”.
Detroit: Ruin of a City
Dreams on Spec
The Passion: Films, Faith and Fury
Velvet Hangover Czech New Wave
New Cinema Latin
92 mins | MCH-Detroit | A$290 / 1 yr
117 mins | NM-Dreams | A$238 / 1 yr
45 mins | AB-Passion | A$185 / 1 yr
144 mins | CG-Vel | A$240 / 1 yr
100 mins | MCH-New | A$290 / 1 yr
The film looks back over the history of the city in the XX century: over the rise and fall of the social system identified by social theorists as ‘Fordism’; the way the city was shaped by the automobile; and its decline following the deindustrialisation, leaving it ill-adapted to the post-Fordist society of the epoch of globalisation.
This feature-length documentary delves into the lives of three aspiring Hollywood screenwriters as they pour their hearts into their spec scripts, pitch their ideas to anyone who will listen, go to meetings, hold table reads, and work at low-level day-jobs - all in the hopes of one day seeing one of their beloved creations made into a movie.
British theologian, Robert Beckford traces the rollercoaster relationship between faith and film, from the first Bible movies, made more than a century ago, to the present day. Australia only.
It features candid interviews with the filmmakers - including Vera Chytilova, Jiri Menzel, Jan Nemec, etc. - who created the Czech New Wave. Their comments reflect the moral and spiritual crisis that pervades the Czech Republic today.
Michael Chanan’s documentary on ‘New Cinema of Latin America’, made for the UK’s Channel 4 in 1983, is now an historic document of the first twenty-five years of a continental movement which revolutionised cinema.
JOHN HUGHES / PAUL COX/ NIGEL BUESST / TOM COWAN
FILM & CINEMA Short Films John Hughes Short Films (2 parts)
Paul Cox - Early Work 1965 - 1980 (3 parts)
Five Short Films of Nigel Buesst
The Dancing Class & Other Short Stories (2 p)
Hand & Eye
119 mins | JH-Short | A$240 / 1 yr
211 mins | PCO-Shorts | A$330 / 1 yr
70 mins | SUP-Five | A$180 / 1 yr
99 mins | TC-Short | A$240 / 1 yr
25 mins | PE-Hand | A$180 / 1 yr
Nowhere Game / Cybernetik Synergy: The Kinetic Art of John Hansen / November Eleven / Is It Working? George Seelaf for the Record / Howard’s History / Howard’s Blemish
Matuta / Time Past / Skin Deep / Marcel / Calcutta / The Journey / The Island / We Are All Alone My Dear / Ritual / The Kingdom of Nek Chand
All of these films were made with minimal resources so it’s no surprise that they look fairly basic. THE
Part 1: 1962 – 1970 - Nimmo Street / The Dancing Class / Signature / Helena of Sydney / Australia Felix Part2: 2000 – 2010 - Jenny Kee – Waratah Artist / School Photo / Wind Section / Support Me Not / Tippisandra Road
It’s is a series of award winning short-form documentaries focused on skills that could disappear in the high-tech 21st century. 1/ THE NOODLE
The Soapboxers,The Ringers and Auction Day
One Country, One People - Ngurra Kuju Walyja
urbanandsuburban
Award Winning Shorts: Volume 1
Award Winning Shorts: Volume 2
46 mins | PE-Soap | A$180 / 1 yr
74 mins | FO-One | A$240 / 1 yr
mins | NY-Urban | A$250 / 1 yr
51 mins | AFT-Awa1 | A$180 / 1 yr
59 mins | AFT-Awa1 | A$180 / 1 yr
This film is a tour of serious odd-ball characters jumping up and down on their soap-boxes with their unique Londoner’s humor as they threaten, cajole and entreat us to mend our ways.
The films featured in this collection were produced specifically for Yiwarra Kuju: the Canning Stock Route exhibition, co-produced by FORM, a not for profit organization which advocates for and develops creativity in Western Australia.
Urbunsuburban features a selection of works on video and film by David Pledger made in five instal-ments from 2001 to 2010: The edition looks at the influence and relation-ship of the Australian Landscape on the psyche of its inhabitants.
Features short films which won several prestigious international and national awards. PALACE CAFE / RESTORATION / THE DRIP / UNIVERSAL APPLIANCE CO. / WEEPING WILLOW / ZIPPER.
Features short films which won several prestigious international and national awards. CLOWN DOCTORS / BEHIND THE MASK / RUBBERMAN ACCEPTS THE NOBEL PRIZE / THE GREAT SASCHA.
DESTRUCTION OF ST PATRICK’S COLLEGE 1971 / FUN RADIO / GLOBAL VILLAGE / BLACK SHEEP GATHER NO MOSS / THE TWENTIETH
MAN, 2/ OYSTERS, 3/ HAND ROLLED ON 29th STREET, 4/ AN APPOINTMENT WITH MR. ROBERT
AFTRS
FILM & CINEMA Filmmakers Bob Weis Australian Filmmakers
Lindsay Anderson -
John Seale and Peter Weir
Richard Lowenstein Australian Filmmakers
Jane Campion Australian Filmmaker
34 mins | AFT-Weis | A$180 / 1 yr
40 mins | AFT-Lin | A$180 / 1 yr
27 mins | AFT-Pete | A$180 / 1 yr
33 mins | AFT-Low | A$180 / 1 yr
23 mins | AFT-Jane | A$180 / 1 yr
Bob Weis is the producer of many successful films and television programs. In this interview he discusses the workings of Open Channel in Melbourne, and the film and television industry as a whole. Interviewer Karin Altmann.
British director, actor, producer discusses his approach to Ghandi, with particular reference to Ghandi.
These filmmakers talk about their individual roles while filming Dead Poets Society. Weir expands on the philosophy of the film. Seale talks about the crew.
Director of Strikebound. He talks about the background to making his first feature film and comments on the reactions to it from around the world. Interviewed by Peter Thompson.
Jane Campion reflects on her film school experience and talks about her feature film Sweetie.
Lex Marinos Australian Filmmakers
Jill Robb Australian Filmmakers
John Seale Australian Filmmakers
Fred Schepisi Australian Filmmakers
Bob Connelly/ Robin Anderson
35 mins | AFT-Lex | A$180 / 1 yr
20 mins | AFT-Jill | A$180 / 1 yr
27 mins | AFT-John | A$180 / 1 yr
40 mins |AFT-Fred | A$180 / 1 yr
26 mins | AFT-Bob | A$180 / 1 yr
Actor/Director - his credits as a director include An Indecent Obsession, Bodyline, Remember Me, and Perhaps Love. Interviewed by George Danikian.
A discussion of the role of the producer, the skills necessary to initiate a film project and the relationship between producer, scriptwriter and director. Interviewed by Sally Semmens.
World renowned Australian cinematographer discusses his work on Gorillas in the Mist and Rainman and compares the working methods of American and Australian crews.
A fascinating insight into the work and phylosophies of this major Australian director. The interview covers his career from his first work in Melbourne making advertisements to the present day.
Bob Connelly and Robin Anderson discuss their approach to documentary production and their award-winning film Joe Leahy’s Neighbours, prequel to the awardwinning Black Harvest.
FILM & CINEMA Filmmakers
Oliver Stone: Inside Out
Karl Brown’s Adventures with D.W. Griffith
Working With Jane
Nicolas Roeg
70 mins | CG-Oli | A$180 / 1 yr
30 mins | CG-Karl | A$240 / 1 yr
30 mins | AB-Work | A$140 / 1 yr
34 mins | AFT-Nic | A$180 / 1 yr
This video profiles the life and work of the controversial, Academy Award-winning filmmaker through comments by friends, associates and family members, as well as in-depth interviews with Stone himself, on the set of JFK.
At the age of 90, cinematographer Karl Brown discusses his early work with D.W. Griffith, in particular the making of ‘The Birth of a Nation’ and ‘Intolerance’.
An entertaining portrait of Jane Campion and her special qualities as a film director. It is also a poignant recording of the truly unique process that created her latest film Bright Star. Australia only.
The director of “Performance”, “Walkabout”, and “The Man Who Fell to Earth” talks about his role as a visionary filmmaker, discussing his pre-occupation with fame as a theme and his experience of the border between tragedy and farce.
Two Friends
This is Not a Film
Two in the Wave
Man With a Movie Camera
Machete Maidens Unleashed
75 mins | AB-Two | A$195/ 1 yr
75 mins | MAD-This | A$380 / 1 yr
91 mins | MAD-Two | A$380 / 1 yr
68 mins | MAD-Man | A$400 / 1 yr
55 mins | AB-Mach | A$175/ 1 yr
The Friendship that Defined French Cinema. Comprised of rarely-seen archival footage and interviews with Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, Two in the Wave is the story of a unique and ultimately destructive friendship.
An extraordinary piece of filmmaking by Soviet avant-garde, Vertov. An exuberant montage of urban Russia, it represents the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going with energetic lyricism.
Interviews with cult movie icons Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Sid Haig, Eddie Romero, crew and critics, each with a story to tell about filmmaking with no budget, no scruples, no boundaries and - more often than not - no clothes. Australia only.
From acclaimed New Zealand director Jane Campion, this is the story of two friends Louise and Kelly, told in five separate periods over one year. Australia only.
A day-in-the-life documentary of Jafar Panahi’s (internationally acclaimed Iranian writer/director) experience of being under house arrest as he creatively expresses his frustration of not being allowed to do what comes so naturally to a filmmaker: make films.
AUSTRALIAN FILM TELEVISON AND RADIO SCHOOL
FILM & CINEMA Lessons/Film Making Fiction into Films
Lessons in Visual Language Series
Film Continuity
Scriptwriting - A Seminar with Sandra Levy
Script to Screen
33 mins | GA-Fic | A$170 / 1 yr
106 mins | AFT-Les | A$180 / 1 yr
28 mins | AFT-Con | A$180 / 1 yr
34 mins | AFT-Scr2 | A$180 / 1 yr
30 mins | AFT-Scr | A$180 / 1 yr
Classic cinematic works help illustrate how the elements of a novel, short story or play are retained, altered or deleted in the translation to film. Starting with the very beginnings of the moving images. Stills from many early films.
This award-winning series of 10 short programs made by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School is an excellent introduction to film grammar. It deals with the language of moving pictures.
Film continuity errors, such as inconsistencies in hairstyles and clothing, can distract the viewer. It explains and illustrates the importance of correct continuity and will provide anyone undertaking this role with the skills they need.
The head of drama at the ABC, Sandra Levy, outlines the stages to be followed in writing a script, the relationship between writer, script editor, director and producer, and the way in which each scene should be evaluated.
This program follows television director Brian Bell as he adapts a stage play for television. Discover how information and emotions communicated on the stage through lengthy dialogue can be communicated on the screen through visual means.
How to Create LowBudget SFX Makeup
The Industrial Landscape - The working environment of the film
Design: An Introduction for film and television
Video Dance - Relationship b/w dance & screen
95 mins | MRG-How | A$180 / 1 yr
23 mins | AFT-Ind | A$180 / 1 yr
18 mins | AFT-Des | A$180 / 1 yr
80 mins | AFT-Danlec | A$240 / 1 yr
The film features real-time makeup application for a number of scenarios including cuts, bite marks, bullet holes and stitches. The aim to incorporate stunning SFX makeup with very little resources or finances.
A sharply realistic picture of the working environment of the film, TV and video industry from the actor’s point of view. Includes interviews with actors, casting directors, producers, agents and Actors Equity as well as visits to exterior locations and studio shots.
A lively introduction to the concepts of design for film and television with respected film designer Dennis Gentle. Awards: Television Society of Australia, Penguin Award 1982, Certificate of Commendation for Educational, NonBroadcast.
Video Dance Lectures Part 1: The relationship between dance and the screen. Video Dance Lectures Part 2: Explores in greater detail the practical craft of the dance/television director.
AUSTRALIAN FILM TELEVISON AND RADIO SCHOOL
FILM & CINEMA Lessons/Film Making The Film Score: Music for ‘The Delinquents’
Bruce Smeaton Film Scores
Recording Film Music with Gerry Nixon
James Horner Seminar
The Dub: Mixing Soundtracks for Motion Pictures
25 mins | AFT-Filsc | A$180 / 1 yr
36 mins | AFT-Bru | A$180 / 1 yr
30 mins | AFT-Recf | A$180 / 1 yr
52 mins | AFT-Jam | A$180 / 1 yr
18 mins | AFT-Dub | A$180 / 1 yr
The program follows the process of recording the music score of The Delinquents and looks at the people who make it happen.
The composer discusses working with directors and his philosophy of using music to counterpoint or highlight the emotional and dramatic development of the storyline.
Recording engineer, Gerry Nixon discusses methods of recording musical soundtracks for films. He details the microphone placements and mixing for an orchestral recording, he also discusses the role of the engineer.
James Horner talks about how he goes about composing a score for a film, his relationship with the film director, film politics, and the use of songs and other pre-written music within a film score.
The techniques involved in creating the soundtrack for a feature film. It uses The Fringe Dwellers (director Bruce Beresford) to illustrate various stages of the sound dubbing process and the complexities of creating a rich, full stereo sound which adds atmosphere and mood to the film.
Microphones and Their Uses: Location Sound Recording
Feature Film Lighting
Multicam Direction Planning
Non-Linear Editing with Avid
Post Synchronisation: The Editor’s Role
37 mins | AFT-Mic | A$180 / 1 yr
56 mins | AFT-Feat | A$180 / 1 yr
30 mins | AFT-Mult | A$180 / 1 yr
64 mins | AFT-Nonli | A$220 / 1 yr
28 mins |AFT-Post | A$180 / 1 yr
Presented by Ross Linton, this is a detailed study of microphone types and their use in relation to film and television location recording.
Russell Boyd, director of photography on “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, “Tender Mercies” and “White Men Can’t Jump”, discusses the lighting of scenes from his work in technical terms, including such specific problems as rain scenes and the use of nets in interiors and exteriors.
We steps along the way include the first read through, the design meeting, setup of the rehearsal space, rehearsals, planning of camera coverage, final camera scripting, the production meeting, and the shoot day.
Takes viewers through basic Mac concepts, AVID system and file management, editing techniques, menus, project set up, logging, digitizing, synching, trim mode functions, audio tracks, picture and audio dissolves, EDL output, video mastering and file backup.
Follow three possible dialogue replacement procedures including the original method in which the film and guide track are cut into short loops, the “rock and roll” procedure using synchronous rollback, and the modern Automatic Dialogue Replacement or ADR method.
FILM & CINEMA
AUSTRALIAN FILM TELEVISON AND RADIO SCHOOL / KODAK
Lessons/Film Making KODAK Cinematography Master Class Series
Lighting of ‘Dead Poets Society’ with John Seale
Location Lighting With Geoff Burton
Shooting For Black & White
Shooting For Drama
28 mins | AFT-Dea | A$180 / 1 yr
29 mins | AFT-Locli | A$180 / 1 yr
55 mins |AFT-Shobl | A$180 / 1 yr
55 mins | AFT-Shodr | A$180 / 1 yr
Even more important than the technical knowledge it contains is the insight this program gives into Seale’s working philosophy.
Geoff shows how to work with the limitations of location space and design rather than against them. He demonstrates how fast stocks and fast work can be critical to success.
Allen Daviau painstakingly recreates the shooting style by employing the filtration, vignetting, aspect ratios and shot coverage of the period. Denis Lenoir creates an comparison to the work of Daviau by using modern techniques.
Both Robby Muller and Peter James prove to be generous teachers, sharing many creative and technical insights that come from years behind the camera.
Shooting for Fantasy
Shooting For Realism
Studio Lighting: Comparative Workshop
Lighting ‘Dances with Wolves’ with Dean Semler
55 mins | AFT-Shofan | A$180 / 1 yr
55 mins | AFT-Shorea | A$180 / 1 yr
59 mins | AFT-Stud | A$180 / 1 yr
29 mins | AFT-Wol | A$180 / 1 yr
This program explores the techniques that make magic on the screen, but more importantly the cinematographer’s creative thought process behind the magic.
Computer graphics of the lighting setups as well as side-by-side comparisons of the finished scenes help you to better understand the techniques and appreciate the results.
With two internationally renowned cinematographers Don McAlpine and Denis Lenoir. This program is packed with technical information, demonstrations & insights into the role of the cinematographer.
This workshop recreates the lighting of an interior fireside scene from “Wolves”, using an exact replica of the teepee set.
is of great value to both students and working cinematographers. (The series contain 8 films) “An invaluable source of information and insight!”
FILM & CINEMA XX Century Archive
around 30 mins each | A$220 / 1 yr each SPECIAL DISCOUNT for the MODULE CAT-2001 2001: A Space Odyssey CAT-Cloc
‘A Clockwork Orange’ Examined
CAT-Act
Actors on Acting
CAT-Agn
Agnes Varda and Susan Sontag: Lions and Cannibals
CAT-Alf
Alfred Hitchcock
CAT-Bus
Buster Keaton: The Metaphysics of His Films
CAT-Sen
Cinema in Senegal
CAT-Styl
Cinema Stylist: Rene Clair
CAT-Norm Experimental Film Artist: Norman McLaren CAT-Fant
Film Reality and Film Fantasy
CAT-Fran
Francois Truffaut
CAT-Gold Golden Age of Warner Brothers Cartoons CAT-Hans Hans Richter: Give Chance A Chance CAT-Gab
Jean Gabin
CAT-Mek
Joseph Losey and Adolfus Mekas: The First NY Film Festival
CAT-Lye
Len Lye
CAT-Len
Leni Riefenstahl
CAT-Anim Master Animator: George Dunning CAT-Milo
Milos Forman: The Fourth NY Film Festival
CAT-Ors
Orson Welles
CAT-Osk
Oskar Fischinger
CAT-Scor
Scoring Films: Bernard Herrman
CAT-Ham Scoring Films: Marvin Hamlisch CAT-Mar
Scoring Films: Marvin Hamlisch
CAT-Comp The Computer Generation: Stan Vanderbeek CAT-Pin
The Pin Board Technique: Alexander Alexeieff
CAT-Vand Vanderbeekiana: Stan Vanderbeek’s Vision CG-Wom
Women of Vision: 18 Histories in Feminist Film and Video 80 mins | A$240 / 1 yr
FILM & CINEMA Dance on Film Dance with Me - 1
Dance with Me - 2
Niche - Dance Films
In Time - Dance Films
145 mins | MP-Dance1 | A$240 / 1 yr
144 mins | MP-Dance2 | A$240 / 1 yr
28 mins | SH-Nichefilms | A$180 / 1 yr
38 mins | SH-Intimefilms | A$180 / 1 yr
A hip, two volume exploration of dance, choreography and space. Consists of six episodes: DANSE CARPE DIEM, LOUISE BEDARD DANSE, DANCE CITE, SYSTEME D, MANITOWAPAN, LES SORTILEGES.
A hip, two volume exploration of dance, choreography and space. Consists of six episodes: SINHA DANCE, CREATION CAFEINE, LUCIE GREGOIRE DANSE, MONTREAL DANCE, LINA CRUZ (ADULT THEMES), DANSE-CITE / MANON (ADULT THEMES).
The Niche series is devoted to the choreographed body and its intricate occupation of space. Fantasies on habit, habitat and habitation, this work has traversed film, video, live performance, gallery installation and international collaboration.
The IN TIME series is dance about time and timing. How we sense time; how we move through it, how it inevitably slips past us. 6 works have been created in this series; comprising film, video, live performance, gallery installation and international collaboration in Japan.
Screendance 3
The Curiosities Dance Films
Video Dance Lectures: Parts 1 & 2
20 mins | CL-Screen | A$180 / 1 yr
26 mins | SH-Curiosfilms | A$180 / 1 yr
80 mins | AFT-Danlec | A$240 / 1 yr
MIRRORLAND (2010), BODMIN WHALE (2009), WATERGATE BAY (2007)
At the heart of this series is a curiosity for form. As a collection of works The Curiosities looks at the architecture of the human body - its intricate structure and evolution, and physical and emotional complexities.
The relationship between dance and the screen. Choreographers, dancers and directors come to terms with the formidable aspects of video technology and the process of creating dance for the camera.