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There are over 1,000 Australian animated short films in the NFSA collection, with the earliest here dating back to the 1920s.
Examples in this curated collection encompass analogue techniques like...
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Highlighting short films made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander filmmakers including Wayne Blair, Beck Cole, Ivan Sen, Catriona McKenzie and Warwick Thornton.
These films are from several...
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Enjoy a comprehensive selection of Australian animated short films in our new curated collection.
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Grant Scicluna wins the inaugural Orlando Short Film Award for his short film 'Neon Skin'. Grant tells us what he's been up to, and gives us an insight into the world of making short films on the...
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Film curator Itzell Tazzyman introduces her role as collector of short films for the NFSA and highlights some recent international successes.
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Curator of short films at the NFSA, Heather Gill, speaks with up-and-coming filmmaker Matt Bird who is charting his own course in the film industry.
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This clip is from The Lost Thing, which started as a picture book written and illustrated by Shaun Tan. The book was later adapted into a short film narrated by the multi-talented performer, Tim...
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Animal Beatbox, which you can watch here in full, doesn’t have a story. Instead, it’s a music video with voice and paper cut-outs that relies on repetition for its humour.
Animal Beatbox was a...
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This is a clip from the multi-award winning, hand-drawn animation The Orchestra, by Michael Hill.
The film explores a world where striking the wrong note is literal, not figurative. A band of tiny...
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Tegan the Vegan, which you can watch here in full, is a stop motion film that draws on the experiences of director Marisa Martin who became a vegetarian at 12 after visiting an abattoir.
The...
