Stories

A Q&A with David Bridie, one of the most distinctive voices and songwriters in Australian music.

One of Australia’s best-rating soap operas, The Box (1974-1977), premiered on ATV O in Melbourne on 11 February 1974.

In celebration of 40 years of independent film production, the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) and the NFSA recently collaborated to mark this milestone with an exhibition of production photographs.

How do you keep old audiovisual equipment working when you have no instructions and no spare parts? Engineering student and NFSA cadet Jacqui Jackson finds out.

Andrew Plain - sound designer, sound editor and supervising sound editor - died on 13 December. Jennifer Balcomb and the NFSA's Imelda Cooney pay tribute.

Sound archivist Tess Elieff shares some of her favourite Bandcamp discoveries and explains why this platform is a digital archivist's best friend.

Christmas drivers taking the coast road out of Canberra in 1974 had to face the rapidly deteriorating 'horror highway'.

Filmmaker and writer Natasha Pincus discusses her rise to world prominence with her concept, direction, production, and editing of the ARIA award-winning video for Gotye’s, 'Somebody That I Used To Know'.

We talk with Warwick Thornton about his film The Darkside, which includes a sequence exploring the history of the NFSA building as the former Australian Institute of Anatomy where Indigenous remains were once kept and studied.

Binny Lum was known for her friendly, conversational style, and her programs were popular for their interviews with Australian and international personalities.