There are over 1,000 Australian animated short films in the NFSA collection, with the earliest here dating back to the 1920s. 

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.

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 short animation The Luminary can be viewed here in its entirety.

Lucky is a music video created for the band All lndia Radio. It won Best Animated Music Video at the St Kilda Film Festival in 2010.

This is a clip from The Gallant Captain, which was written and developed by Graeme Base in collaboration with Katrina Mathers and animation studio The Lampshade Collective who had pre

The combination of live action and puppetry in The Detectives of Noir Town, which you can watch here in full, offers a playful take with the tropes of film noir.

Little Kevin (voiced by Philip Joseph) is busy licking his snotty face at the supermarket. He hides from his mother, opens a packet of lollies off the shelf and gobbles them greedily.

You can view the short film Mother Tongue here in its entirety.

You can watch Love Song here in its entirety.