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The McDonagh Sisters: Australian filmmaking pioneers
For International Women's Day, we present a portrait of the pioneering Australian filmmakers, the McDonagh Sisters – Isabel, Paulette and Phyllis.
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Christmas Lights
Ever wondered what drives people to spend up to 11 months of the year and thousands of dollars on Christmas lights? Meet the Watsons, the Greenways and the Overtons, some of Australia’s most...
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Patricia Moore
After fleeing their community, teenager Patricia Moore (Marlo Kelly) hunts to feed her cannibal family. Meeting Toby (Joe Klocek) ignites her desire to live a normal teenage life. However this...
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Head On: Toula wants to dance
Ari (Alex Dimitriades) dances a males-only traditional Greek dance in the ‘Steki’, admired by the man he has gone there to meet, Sean (Julian Garner) and Sean’s date, Ariadne (Katerina Kotsonis). The...
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General Motors Holden: To Suit all Family Needs (1956)
This television advertisement for General Motors Holden emphasises the Holden sedan’s suitability to the needs of the family. A family of six walk out of their house to the car. One of the sons helps...
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Narbalek: A trip to Kundjabe
The family travel to Kundjabe to fish. The women bait the hooks with worms, while they talk about the different types of food available to them. There is a great familiarity with how the family...
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Lore: 'Where's Mutti?'
Cate Shortland's second feature film Lore is a historical drama set in Germany after the Second World War. In this clip Saskia Rosendahl as Hannelore 'Lore' Dressler confronts her Mutti (mother),...
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Flowergirl: Recordings
Tensions emerge between housemates Daisuke (Toshiyuki Chiba) and Hana (Mikiko Ooka) as he prepares to leave Australia. Shortland and her production team bathe the screen with washes of colour that...
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Flowergirl: ‘The colour of bricks’
Cate Shortland brings her distinctive visual sensibility and mood-oriented storytelling to a tale of cross-cultural experience, departure and unrequited love. Surfer Daisuke (Toshiyuki Chiba) is...
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Dreaming in Motion - Shit Skin: 'You always were dark'
Luke (Kirk Page) and Grandma Nina (Freda Glynn) walk into the old mission house. Here, Grandma Nina encounters ghosts of yesteryear. They find out that Grandma Nina’s mother has long passed away....
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