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Tagged: short film
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Film Curator Heather Gill looks at the legacy of short-film festival Tropfest.
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Leisure, directed by Australian master animator Bruce Petty in 1976, won the Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated). It is one of the more unusual films to have come out of Film Australia and...
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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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Charlie (Wayne Munro) is in the shop. His head is turned by a stranger from the city. Charlie is getting served when he notices the stranger has dropped her wallet. Charlie rings the stranger with...
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Catherine (Sophie Lee) is terrified by a Mimi sculpture that has come to life in her apartment. She surveys the blood-like tracks that have appeared on the walls. Clearly frightened, she grabs a...
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Catherine (Sophie Lee) is telling her friend about her investments. She goes to get the pieces from out of the cupboard. The painting of the barramundi is now a merely skeleton of its former self....
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An art auction. A woman is purchasing two pieces of art – a Mimi statue and a painting of a barramundi fish.
Summary by Romaine Moreton
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Tim (Rhimi Johnson Page) and Leesa (Tameka Ingram) embrace at a bus stop. Tim boards the bus while his two cousins watch on.
Summary by Romaine Moreton
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The two cousins Tim (Russell Page) and Scott (Laurence Clifford) are sitting on a bench and catching up after having not seen each other for quite a while. Tim begins to tell the story of when his...
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Charlie and Glenni are driving when something begins to go wrong with Glenni’s car. Glenni says she knows where they can get water. The natural water pool is too inviting, and the two end up taking a...