Australian Film Commission Movies

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

Based on Richard Frankland's experiences as a Field Officer during the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

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

With an off beat sense of humour, the film looks at the politics and glamour of lipstick and the dilemmas of the modern woman in a marketed world.

Australia, 1867. In the bleak high country, a young black tracker and his elderly sergeant follow the trail of a killer, a traditional Indigenous man.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paddy finds there are two separate laws, the white and the black.