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NFSA Restores: Eternity premieres at the Sydney Film Festival. The acclaimed 1994 documentary has been digitally restored 25 years after its release.
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Producer Joanna Buggy and highly acclaimed solo violinist Niki Vasilakis from Adelaide discussed the classical music documentary '4' with high school students in South Australia. Watch videos from...
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Courtesy of Storry Walton and Robin Hughes, we publish their eulogies for the late filmmaker Tom Manefield.
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This documentary follows the journey of filmmaker Craig Anderson trying to fulfil his ambition of making a (low-budget) horror film, Red Christmas (2016) – about an aborted foetus that seeks revenge...
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The acclaimed 1994 Australian documentary film Eternity has been digitally restored as part of the NFSA Restores program.
Eternity tells the story of Sydney personality Arthur Stace. He famously...
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Eternity tells the story of Sydney personality Arthur Stace, who famously wrote the word 'Eternity’, in perfect copperplate script, on the footpaths of the city more than half a million times over a...
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This excerpt from the opening of the live concert documentary Australian Made, (Richard Lowenstein, Australia, 1987) builds anticipation for the performances to come. The opening vision is edited to...
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This episode focuses on uranium mines located in the Northern Territory near Darwin. It follows the journey of Charles and Elsa Chauvel as they travel from the Katherine River to Katherine, then...
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The Queen in Australia documents the two-month official visit, in February and March 1954, of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. This was her first visit to...
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The Big Island is a documentary about life in Australia in 1970. There is little narration in the film, but many pictures of Australian life. This brief clip shows some of Australia's interesting...