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Aug 2018
Actor Heath Ledger striking a dramatic pose with his arms out, one leg up in the air and his mouth open wide and eyes shut. He is in a yellow kitchen.

Heath Ledger exhibition

Audiences are about to discover the man behind the camera in the NFSA’s new exhibition Heath Ledger: A Life in Pictures.

By Miguel Gonzalez / 7 Aug 2018
Film
Jun 2018
The five band members of Cold Chisel standing in a row on a pier with water in front and behind them.

Celebrating Cold Chisel

Cold Chisel are the quintessential Aussie band who wrote the soundtrack for a generation.

By Mel Bondfield / 12 Jun 2018
Sound
May 2018
Singer Jimmy Barnes pictured from the chest up, in a black t-shirt and sitting in front of a mixing deck in a recording studio.

Barnesy: Rock Icon

We're shining a light on the phenomenal career of Australian rock legend Jimmy Barnes.

By Mel Bondfield / 28 May 2018
Sound
Mar 2018
Singer Jeff St John in a recording studio, seated in a wheelchair, wearing headphones and singing with eyes closed into a microphone.

Vale Jeff St John

We pay tribute to one of Australia’s greatest rock voices.

By Thorsten Kaeding / 9 Mar 2018
Sound
Feb 2018
A Sydney protest march in the late 1970s with young people walking under a banner that reads 'Stop police attacks on gays, women and blacks!'

The first Sydney Mardi Gras

On the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, a 2018 NFSA digital restoration of the documentary Witches and Faggots, Dykes and Poofters goes back to where it all started.

By Stephen Groenewegen / 26 Feb 2018
Film
Jan 2018
Mia Wasikowska leads a camel in the ocean in a scene from the film Tracks

Matt Nettheim

Matt Nettheim shares insights into his work as on-set stills photographer on films featured in the Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits exhibition.

By Jessica Bolton / 17 Jan 2018
Film
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