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OVER 352 TITLES - 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 filmmakers, 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. FILMMAKERS| LESSONS & SEMINARS | EXPERIMENTAL FILMS | DOCUMENTARY WORLD CINEMA | ARTHOUSE MOVIES | SHORT FILMS | DANCE ON FILM |AUSTRALIAN
FILMMAKERS Lindsay Anderson: Is That All There Is?
Susan Seidelman: Confessions of a Suburban Girl
Bertrand Tavernier: Lyon, Insdie Out
DIRECTOR’S PLACE SERIES BBC Arts Documentaries
50‘ |BAC-DirLindsay| DVD & Streaming
50‘ |BAC-DirSusan| DVD & Streaming
50‘ |BAC-DirBertrand| DVD & Streaming
Award winning Anderson’s last film. An autobiographical “mockumentary” on Anderson’s daily routine, social and professional life. He also discusses his passions, inspirations, his time as a film critic and stage director...
Seidelman takes a detour from Hollywood — back to the old neighbourhood — to conjure up this delightful doco-drama, which mixes slick reportage, interviews with school friends and 60’s memorabilia, with black and white recreations of teen memories.
An autobiographical documentary by Bertrand Tavernier, French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer.
Dušan Makavejev: A Hole in the Soul
John Boorman: I Dreamt I Woke Up
Nagisa Oshima: Kyoto, My Mother’s Place
50‘ |BAC-DirDusan| DVD & Streaming
50‘ |BAC-DirJohn| DVD & Streaming
50‘ |BAC-DirNagisa| DVD & Streaming
Makavejev’s last film, a rarely seen, hard to obtain selfportrait by the Serbian AvantGarde. Part autobiography, part meditation on a his struggle of national identity, this triptych documentary illustrates how his homeland’s violent demise has left him feeling robbed of his soul.
The director talks about his life and work while wondering around his neighbourhood and the Wicklow Mountains linking the places to the films they inspired. The documentary features scenes from Excalibur (1981) and other Boorman films. With John Hurt and Janet McTeer.
An autobiographical documentary by Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director and screenwriter. Oshima’s work includes titles such as In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983).
A nugget for film buffs: six original autobiographical features by top international film directors, revealing the events, locations and impressions that influenced them. Visual essays about a locale that has some private significance for the filmmakers featured. Available as a Set of 6 DVDs with 20% collection discount.
FILMMAKERS Bob Weis Australian Filmmakers
Lindsay Anderson -
John Seale and Peter Weir
Richard Lowenstein Australian Filmmakers
Jane Campion - Australian Filmmaker
34 ‘ | AFT-Weis | DVD & Streaming
40‘ | AFT-Lin | DVD & Streaming
27 ‘ | AFT-Pete | DVD & Streaming
33 ‘ | AFT-Low | DVD & Streaming
23 ‘ | AFT-Jane | DVD & Streaming
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 ‘ | AFT-Lex | DVD & Streaming
20 ‘ | AFT-Jill | DVD & Streaming
27 ‘ | AFT-John | DVD & Streaming
40 ‘ |AFT-Fred | DVD & Streaming
26 ‘ | AFT-Bob | DVD & Streaming
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 award-winning Black Harvest.
FILMMAKERS Oliver Stone: Inside Out
Karl Brown’s Adventures with D.W. Griffith
Working With Jane
Nicolas Roeg
70 ‘ | CG-Oli | DVD & Streaming
30 ‘ | CG-Karl | DVD & Streaming
30 ‘ | AB-Work | DVD & Streaming
34 ‘ | AFT-Nic | DVD & Streaming
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 ‘ | AB-Two | DVD & Streaming
75 ‘ | MAD-This | DVD & Streaming
91 ‘ | MAD-Two | DVD & Streaming
68 ‘ | MAD-Man | DVD & Streaming
55 ‘ | AB-Mach | DVD & Streaming
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. Australia only.
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. Australia only.
An extraordinary piece of filmmaking by Soviet avantgarde, 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. Australia only.
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.
LESSONS & SEMINARS Fiction into Films
Lessons in Visual Language Series
Film Continuity
Scriptwriting - A Seminar with Sandra Levy
Script to Screen
33 ‘ | GA-Fic | DVD & Streaming
106 ‘ | AFT-Les | DVD & Streaming
28 ‘ | AFT-Con | DVD & Streaming
34 ‘ | AFT-Scr2 | DVD & Streaming
30 ‘ | AFT-Scr | DVD & Streaming
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 Low-Budget SFX Makeup
The Industrial Landscape The working environment of the film
Design: An Introduction - for film and television
Video Dance - Relation-ship b/w dance & screen
95 ‘ | MRG-How | DVD & Streaming
23 ‘ | AFT-Ind | DVD & Streaming
18 ‘ | AFT-Des | DVD & Streaming
80 ‘ | AFT-Danlec | DVD & Streaming
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, Non-Broadcast.
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.
LESSONS & SEMINARS 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 ‘ | AFT-Filsc | DVD & Streaming
36 ‘ | AFT-Bru | DVD & Streaming
30 ‘ | AFT-Recf | DVD & Streaming
52 ‘ | AFT-Jam | DVD & Streaming
18 ‘ | AFT-Dub | DVD & Streaming
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 soundtrack for feature films. It uses The Fringe Dwellers (by 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 ‘ | AFT-Mic | DVD & Streaming
56 ‘ | AFT-Feat | DVD & Streaming
30 ‘ | AFT-Mult | DVD & Streaming
64 ‘ | AFT-Nonli | DVD & Streaming
28 ‘ |AFT-Post | DVD & Streaming
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.
LESSONS & SEMINARS KODAK Cinematography Master Class Series Great value to both students and working cinematographers. (The series contains 8 films.) “An invaluable source of information and insight!”
Lighting of ‘Dead Poets Society’ with John Seale
Location Lighting With Geoff Burton
Shooting For Black & White
Shooting For Drama
28 ‘ | AFT-Dea | DVD & Streaming
29 ‘ | AFT-Locli | DVD & Streaming
55 ‘ |AFT-Shobl | DVD & Streaming
55 ‘ | AFT-Shodr | DVD & Streaming
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 ‘ | AFT-Shofan | DVD & Streaming
55 ‘ | AFT-Shorea | DVD & Streaming
59 ‘ | AFT-Stud | DVD & Streaming
29 ‘ | AFT-Wol | DVD & Streaming
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-byside 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.
EXPERIMENTAL FILM
DVD & Streaming
RV-Ado Adolfas Mekas - Hallelujah the Hills
RV-Zanjac Jackie Raynal - Deux Fois
RV-Dada Dada Cinema
RV-Jonwal Jonas Mekas - Walden
RV-Zanzi1 Serge Bard - Détruisez-Vous
RV-Flux Fluxusfilm Anthology
RV-Jonlos Jonas Mekas - Lost Lost Lost
RV-Cin1 Cinexpérimenteaux # 1 Martine Rousset
RV-Jonpar Jonas Mekas - The Sixties Quartet
RV-Zanzi2 Serge Bard Fun and Games for Everyone
RV-Cin2 Cinexpérimenteaux # 2 Nicolas Rey
RV-JonLet Jonas Mekas: A Letter from Greenpoint
RV-Cin6 Cinexpérimenteaux # 6 Marcel Hanoun
RV-MekAs Jonas Mekas: As I was Moving...
RV-Conrad Conrad/Losier: The Flickers & DreaMinimalist
RV-Cin7 CinCinexpérimenteaux # 7 Stéphane Marti
RV-MekSleep Jonas Mekas: Sleepless Nights Stories
RV-Ball Films by Gordon Ball
RV-Cin8 Cinexpérimentaux #8 Light Cone Cooperative
RV-MekRem Jonas Mekas: Reminiscences of...
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-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-Brown Brown: Air Cries “Empty Water”
RV-Garrel Garrel: Le Lit de La Vierge 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-Bor2 Boris Lehman - Life Lesson
RV-Perlov Perlov: Diary
RV-LehBab Boris Lehman - Babel
RV-Snopres Michael Snow - Presents
RV-Adolpho Adolpho Arrietta La Imitacion del Angel
RV-Story Boris Lehman - The Story of My Hair
RV-Snoram Michael Snow - Rameau’s Nephew
RV-Ace Acéphale by Patrick Deval
RV-Rose Rose Lowder - Bouquet d’images
RV-Stan Stan Vanderbeek - Visibles
RV-Dis Dissolution - 6 solutions
RV-Len Len Lye - Rhythms
RV-Zan Philippe Garrel - Le Révélateur
RV-Jur Jürgen Reble - Passion RV-Jef Jeff Scher - Reasons to be Glad
EXPERIMENTAL FILM Includes educational license
VALIE EXPORT: Invisible Adversaries
an exceptional collection of newly re-mastered experimental film on DVD & Streaming. The Collection features historical Austrian and International film, video and media art, born out of the European Avantgarde.
Kurt Kren: Which Way To Ca?
INDEX FILMS
Jan Peters: ...But I Still Haven’t Figured Out The Meaning of Life Leo Schatzl: Farrago Dietmar Brehm: Black Garden Oliver Ressler: This is what democracy looks like! / Disobbedienti Sonic Fiction
Tscherkassky: Films from a Dark Room
Gertrude Moser-Wagner: Concept & Coincidence
Ferry Radax: T. Bernhard - Three Days
Gustav Deutsch: Film ist. (1-12)
VISIONARY
Lisl Ponger: Travelling Light
Maria Lassnig: Animation Films Dariusz Kowalski: Optical Vacuum
Constanze Ruhm: Video Works From 1999-2004
Flaming Ears
Volks Stohnende Knochenschau
Martina Kudlacek: Notes On Marie Menken
Mara Mattuschka: Iris Scan
Hans Scheugl: The Seconds Strike Reality I. L. Galeta - Obsession: Structuring Time and Space Michael Pilz: Facts For Fiction / Parco Delle Rimembranze
Manfred Neuwirth: [ma] Trilogy
Grzinic/Smid: A Selection of Video Works VALIE EXPORT: 3 Experimental Short Films Granular Synthesis: Remixes for Single Screen Kurt Kren: Structural Films
Purrer/Scheirl: Super-8-Girl Games
Kurt Kren: Action Films
Linda Christanell: The Nature Of Expression
Siegfried A. Fruhauf: Exposed
Peter Weibel: Depiction Is A Crime (Video Works)
MARA MATTUSCHKA / CHRIS HARING: Burning Down the Palace Peter
As She Likes It
Tscherkassky: Attractions, Instructions and Other Romances
Jozef Robakowski: The Energy Manifesto!
Norbert Pfaffenbichler: Notes on Notes on Film
EXPERIMENTAL FILM Paul Winkler Experimental Film Collection 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 ‘ | PW-Vol1 | DVD & Streaming
114 ‘ | PW-Vol2 | DVD & Streaming
139 ‘ | PW-Vol3 | DVD & Streaming
111 ‘ | PW-Vol4 | DVD & Streaming
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 ‘ | PW-Vol5 | DVD & Streaming
75 ‘ | PW-Vol6 | DVD & Streaming
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)
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 ‘ | TI-Air | DVD & Streaming
23 ‘ | TI-Early | DVD & Streaming
33 ‘ | TI-Cinedance |DVD & Streaming
31 ‘ | TI-Exp | DVD & Streaming
Air’s Rock
Early Conceptual Videos
Cine Dance
Experiments in New York
49 ‘ | TI-Experiment | DVD & Streaming
28 ‘ | TI-Film | DVD & Streaming
30 ‘ | TI-Fluxus| DVD & Streaming
15 ‘ | TI-John | DVD & Streaming
60s Experiments
Filmmakers
Fluxus Replayed
John Cage performs James Joyce
46 ‘ | TI-Ma| DVD & Streaming
56 ‘ | TI-New| DVD & Streaming
22 ‘ | TI-Observer | DVD & Streaming
44 ‘ | TI-Poem | DVD & Streaming
MA, A Japanese Concept
New York Day and Night
OBSERVER/OBSERVED
Early Film Poems
23 ‘ | TI-Talking| DVD & Streaming
18 ‘ | TI-Yoko| DVD & Streaming
Talking Picture and Shadowman
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
EXPERIMENTAL FILM UBU (1965-1970) Sydney Underground Movies
Garry Shead Experimental Films
Black Symphony Genet on Film
Triptych
Experiments Dirk de Bruyn
237’ | AT-Ubu | DVD & Streaming
200’ | GS-Exp | DVD & Streaming
29‘ | AP-Black | DVD & Streaming
57‘ | PT-Trip | DVD & Streaming
55 ‘ | DDB-Experiments | DVD & Streaming
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‘ | CG-Ques | DVD & Streaming
171‘ | DP-Exp | DVD & Streaming
80 ‘ | APR-Penelope |DVD & Streaming
100‘ | RA-Bastian | DVD & Streaming
94‘ | RA-Paul | DVD & Streaming
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.
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.
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)
DOCUMENTARY / WORLD CINEMA Conversations with my Mother
The Dinner Party
Fencing: The art, science, and the passion
Get Together Girls
Cinema in Senegal
100 ‘ | DDB-Convers | DVD & Streaming
55 ‘ | PCO-Dinner | DVD & Streaming
30 ‘ | PE-Fenc | DVD & Streaming
75‘ | VC-Girls | DVD & Streaming
27 ‘ | CAT-Sen | DVD & Streaming
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”.
Takes audiences inside the lives and everyday struggles of the members of Get Together Girls (GtoG), a community project helping former street girls to become fashion designers.
Senegalese film director Ousmane Sembene discusses filmmaking in Senegal, and by extension filmmaking in subSaharan Africa with Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and Larry Kardish.
Detroit: Ruin of a City
Dreams on Spec
The Passion: Films, Faith and Fury
Velvet Hangover Czech New Wave
New Cinema Latin
92 ‘ | MCH-Detroit | DVD & Streaming
117 ‘ | NM-Dreams | DVD & Streaming
45 ‘ | AB-Passion | DVD & Streaming
144 ‘ | CG-Vel |DVD & Streaming
100 ‘ | MCH-New |DVD & Streaming
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 postFordist 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.
ARTHOUSE MOVIES RSH-Bright Bright Star - Jane Champion RSH-Artist The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius AN-Tabloid Tabloid - Errol Morris MAD-Step The 39 Steps (1935) - Alfred Hitchcock BFC-Mad Mad Bastards - Brendan Fletcher BU-Beneath
Beneath Clouds - Ivan Sen
MAD-Hidden
Hidden - Agnès Varda
MAD-POT-Don
I, Don Giovanni - Carlos Saura
MAD-POT-Happy
Happy Together - Wong Kar-Wai
MAD-POT-Hell
Anatomy of Hell - Catherine Breillat
MAD-POT-Human
The Human Resources Manager
MAD-POT-Kanda
Kandahar (Safar-e Ghandehar) - Mohsen Makmalbaf
MAD-POT-Lemon
Lemon Tree - Michelangelo Frammartino
MAD-POT-Metro
Metropolis – Reconstructed & Restored!
MAD-POT-Mistres
An Old Mistress - Catherine Breillat
MAD-POT-Peace
Peaceful Times - Neele Leana Vollmar
MAD-POT-Romance
Romance - Catherine Breillat
MAD-POT-Russian
Russian Ark - Alexander Sokurov
MAD-POT-Volte
Le Quattro Volte - Michelangelo Frammartino
MAD-POT-Wendy
Wendy and Lucy - Kelly Reichardt
MAD-POT-Yes
Yes - Sally Potter
MAD-POT-You
You, the Living - Roy Andersson
MAD-Safe Safe MAD-Samson
Samson & Delilah - Warwick Thornton
MAD-Ten Ten Canoes - Rolf de Heer MAD-Waltz
Waltz with Bashir - Ari Folman
POT-Darwin Darwin’s Nightmare - Hubert Sauper POT-Glean The Gleaners and I - Agnès Varda POT-Soeur A Ma Soeur! (For My Sister! a.k.a. Fat Girl) TF-Fish
Fish Tank - Andrea Arnold
MAD-Rules Australian Rules - Paul Goldman MAD-Howl Howl - Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman Available in Australia only.
ARTHOUSE MOVIES
THEO VAN GOGH COLLECTION Dutch director/producer/screenwriter Theo Van Gogh was planning an English language remake of his renowned film Interview when he was violently murdered by an Islam extremist in 2004. He had dared to criticize Islam fundamentalism in his short film Submission Part 1. Sadly, proving a point has cost him his life. Following Van Gogh’s tragic death his producers accomplished to adapt not one but three of his films in English with American actors. Artfilms is pleased to present the “TRIPLE THEO” collection, all the originals alongside their remakes in sets of 2 DVDs.
Interview (Original + Remake)
Blind Date (Original + Remake)
06 / Somewhere Tonight (Original + Remake)
90 ‘ | CF-Interview | DVD & Streaming
90 ‘ | CF-Blind | DVD & Streaming
90 ‘ | CF-06| DVD & Streaming
By drawing parallels between fiction and reality this is film is about fakery. (In the original version the actors share a name with their characters creating a subtextual essay on the nature of celebrities and how we can never know for sure who is really behind the million dollar smiles.)
Contradiction, scheming, prejudice, fear, love and hate. These are all emotions bubbling under the unglamorous surface of Interview, a film whose title is even something of a lie, seeing as Pierre never completes his assignment. Interview (Original) by Theo Van Gogh is also available for streaming.
Unlike Interview, Blind Date has no political concerns, it is an intimate examination of the painful grief of two parents, in some sense it is an appropriate choice of film to adapt in Van Gogh’s memory. Both the original and the remake of the film is a unique experience, a one of a kind cinematic investigation of genuine emotions, love, grief and the our sometimes limited capacity to cope with pain. Blind Date (Remake) by Stanley Tucci is also available for streaming.
Characters of humour and sadness emerge, the woman is happy with what the relationship is providing her - a once a week fullfillment of fantasy and retreat from who she is in real life. The man wants more, wishing and pressuring her to realize their odd bond. The film is themed around this conflicting tension, truth and lies, depth over distance, intimacy between two complete strangers. The US remake is titled Somewhere Tonight and is set in New York City. 06 (Original) by Theo Van Gogh is also available for streaming.
SHORT FILM 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 ‘ | JH-Short | DVD & Streaming
211 ‘ | PCO-Shorts | DVD & Streaming
70 ‘ | SUP-Five | DVD & Streaming
99 ‘ | TC-Short | DVD & Streaming
25 ‘ | PE-Hand | DVD & Streaming
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 Destruction of St.Patrick’s College 1971 / Fun Radio / Global Village / Black Sheep gather No Moss / The Twentieth
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 Man, 2/ Oysters, 3/ Hand Rolled on 29th Street, 4/ An Appointment with Mr. Robert
The Soapboxers,The Ringers and Auction Day
Showreel 2003
urbanandsuburban
Award Winning Shorts: Volume 1
Award Winning Shorts: Volume 2
46 ‘ | PE-Soap | DVD & Streaming
338 ‘ | AFT-Show | DVD & Streaming
‘ | NY-Urban | DVD & Streaming
51 ‘ | AFT-Awa1 | DVD & Streaming
59 ‘ | AFT-Awa1 | DVD & Streaming
This film is a tour of serious oddball 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.
Australian short films: Ash Wednesday - Tolsher /Car Park - Yuille / Dojo - Price / Evicton Dolman / Ex - Kalceff & Soo / The Hit - Mulholland / Love’s Labourer - Grierson / Painless - Glasson / The Passion of Her Schneider / A Simple Song - Wills / Smith - Schneider / Time of Death - Chadd... and a lot more.
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.
DANCE ON FILM Dance with Me - 1
Dance with Me - 2
Niche - Dance Films
In Time - Dance Films
Dance on Screen
145 ‘ | MP-Dance1 | DVD & Streaming
144 ‘ | MP-Dance2 | DVD & Streaming
28 ‘ | SH-Nichefilms | DVD & Streaming
38‘ | SH-Intimefilms |DVD & Streaming
20‘ | LM-Dance |DVD & CD-Rom
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), DanseCite / 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.
The DVD consists of the PhD thesis of Lila Moore including a link to her YouTube channel listing films and artists mentioned and discussed in the thesis. Also on the DVD: a dance on film, Gaia – Mysterious Rhythms.
Screendance 3
The Curiosities Dance Films
Video Dance Lectures: Parts 1 & 2
20 ‘ | CL-Screen | DVD & Streaming
26‘ | SH-Curiosfilms | DVD & Streaming
80 ‘ | AFT-Danlec | DVD & Streaming
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.
AUSTRALIAN CINEMA Innocence
Kalaupapa Heaven
Kostas
Man of Flowers
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
91‘ | PCO-Innocence | DVD & Streaming
90‘ | PCO-Kalau | DVD & Streaming
100‘ | PCO-Kostas |DVD & Streaming
91‘ | PCO-Man | DVD & Streaming
120‘ | PCO-Molokai |DVD & Streaming
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 afterglow. 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‘ | PCO-Woman | DVD & Streaming
59‘ | PT-Fear | DVD & Streaming
60‘ | PT-Mallacoota | DVD & Streaming
99‘ (Complimentary for research only)
70‘ | PT-Journey | DVD & Streaming
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 together 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?
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.
AUSTRALIAN CINEMA Carlton + Godard = Cinema (2 parts)
Darwin Harbour
The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor
Jacka V.C.
Come Out Fighting
145 ‘ | SUP-Carlton | DVD & Streaming
60‘ | SUP-Darwin | DVD & Streaming
50‘ | SUP-Rise | DVD & Streaming
45‘ | SUP-Jacka | DVD & Streaming
50‘ | SUP-Come | DVD & Streaming
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 contributions 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‘ | SUP-Bon | DVD & Streaming
70‘ | SUP-Jazz | DVD & Streaming
66‘ | SUP-Gerry | DVD & Streaming
66‘ | SUP-Benny | DVD & Streaming
46‘ | SUP-Ade | DVD & Streaming
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.
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 ‘ | JH-What | DVD & Streaming
90 ‘ | JH-Indonesia | DVD & Streaming
111 ‘ | JH-Filmwork |DVD & Streaming
178 ‘ | JH-Archive |DVD & Streaming
54 ‘ | JH-Allthat | DVD & Streaming
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 BiCentennial 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 ‘ | JH-One | DVD & Streaming
86 ‘ | JH-Traps | DVD & Streaming
52‘ | JH-River | DVD & Streaming
83 ‘ | TC-Orange | DVD & Streaming
74 ‘ | TC-Office | DVD & Streaming
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 non-indigenous 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 wage-slaves 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.
AUSTRALIAN CINEMA Palm Beach
Sunshine City
Kit Guyatt Films
An Interview with David Perry
An Interview with Albie Thoms
88 ‘ | AT-Palm | DVD & Streaming
118 ‘ | AT-Sunshine |DVD & Streaming
67 ‘ | KG-Forest | DVD & Streaming
57 ‘ | KD-Perry | DVD & Streaming
63 ‘ | KD-Albie | DVD & Streaming
It’s an innovative and underrated film. A lowbudget 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 ‘ | BM-Blue | DVD & Streaming
70 ‘ | BM-Lovesick | DVD & Streaming
37 ‘ | BM-Between | DVD & Streaming
93 ‘ | MRG-When | DVD & Streaming
94 ‘ | DP-Refract | DVD & Streaming
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 washingmachine 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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