Australia Movies

A meditation upon the redemptive power of Christ's crucifixion. The film employs a variety of styles including animation, newsreel footage, hand paint...

“I wanted to make grass grow...to show the life force of a tree. Bark-Rind was shot totally single-frame...each shot exposed three times...close-up, m...

This film makes clear for the layperson the whole pattern of building construction for a brick home, from the moment that the architect prepares worki...

How do you tame the falling rain? This film is about giving meaning to the intangible idea, we all love to call ‘creativity’.

On the eve of bicentennial celebrations, Strangers in Paradise looks at Australian culture through the eyes of tourists on a ‘Dreamtime’ tour.

This astonishing documentary investigates how an advertising slogan invented by Madison Avenue executives in 1948 has come to define our most intimate...

A process of gradual revelation - while it is not a measured and sequential revelation, the viewer must collect and correlate fragments of visual info...

A short animation of Charles Lloyd’s dry points. Sound composition by Arthur Cantrill.

“In Robert Klippel – Junk Sculpture No. 3, 1963 (1965),a spiky Klippel creation resonates almost visibly with the high, piercing tones of Larry Sitsk...

In the Brisbane Creative Leisure Centre, conducted by the Cantrills, children are shown reproductions of stained glass windows and then make large tra...

A movie shot in India

A visual odyssey of sixteen men with their own unique features and diversity who are transformed in the most extraordinary ways!

A widow struggles to reconcile with her past, as a mysterious threat wages misfortune on the family farm.

This film looks at Nauru in 1962 when it had the highest per-capita income in the world but when the depletion of the country's phosphate resources wa...

A group of die-hard Australian Elvis fans on a pilgrimage to Memphis in the 20th year of the 'King's' death. A film about journeys, relationships and...

“Sydney. Another symphony of the city...inspired by the hectic, rollercoaster times. Buildings were going up left right and centre...‘Money Makes the...

In her suburban home, 12-year-old Clara tries to come to terms with a life-changing event.

This cute little short was made for the Australian Broadcasting commission, with animation by the small Rowl Greenhalgh productions.

Competitive ballroom dancing in Melbourne in the 1980s.