Two friends try to make their way to the water but the surrounding space seems to become increasingly abstracted.
After completing a silent meditation retreat, Ro returns to the city to meet up with a friend.
Summer is invited to a sleepover with a new group of friends, but when their makeover starts to take a dark turn, Summer is tested just how far she will go to fit in.
A woman visits a personal stretcher, only to have unexpected objects pulled out of her body. A near silent witness statement to the reopening of invisible wounds in an abstract pursuit of healing.
In this silent tableau, an eclectic bunch of dusty cowboys take care of domestic duties, putting a spin on traditional Western iconography.
Overwhelmed by society, a young man drifts from the bustle of the city streets to an urban bushland, where he encounters a fellow outlier.
When her mother takes ill, a young woman abroad returns to Darwin. Is she ready to think differently about the place she calls home?
Debil Debil is a film inspired by Jason Tamiru, the Melbourne School of Design’s Indigenous Cultural Advisor, and his profound experience upon first entering the Walter Baldwin Spencer Lecture Theatre, located on the University of Melbourne’s grounds
Humanity approaches in an ineluctable wave of uncertainty, hope and inevitability. A ferry crossing in Mumbai stands here for all such places and times of human expansion and human vulnerability.
After locking themselves in the bathroom, a young boy discovers his half-sister Elsie has a unique talent.
A tween's childhood comes to a premature end in light of her non-English mother's sacking, upending their parent-child relationship.
An uber driver finds himself helping a private school kid with a paper route while trying to get a refund for a washing machine that he says never arrived.
Moral-abiding feminist comedian Rach receives a massive blow after a show when she is rejected by the agent she was so hungry for. Rach's brother Benny takes her out to his work Christmas drinks to cheer her up. But in his world of sales bros Rach is pushed to see if she's got the "tenacity" to survive in their world. Will she flip on her morals and throw her integrity to the wind to step up to their plate?
A stunning exploration of Bourke Shire’s landscape, First Nations history and folklore that brings to our attention the resilience of the natural environment and the land’s inhabitants.
A blinding beam of light. The piercing sound of ships. Everything - the land, plants, the sky - shouts for attention. Perceptions assail us with their demands to be noticed.
Martin rides his bike to work and attempts vicarious pleasure in the fantasy of strangers and the memories and dreams of his mother's past.
Loneliness and longing collide in this haunted nocturnal vision of a desolate Melbourne.
The separation and distance of the Cambodian diaspora is embodied in two generations of a mother and daughter living apart from each other.
Shot on Bidayǔh lands in Malaysian Borneo, mouthbreather is a reflection on the tension between orality and the written word, and the relationship between naming, knowing and seeing.
Animated digitally and lovingly transferred to 16mm film stock, this short doc explores filmmakers' enduring passion for shooting on film.
Sandy Bay, Tasmania. Imogen and Audrey navigate their lives in isolation. On Plains of Larger River & Woodlands explores the natural and arcade landscape they occupy as foreboding clouds roll in on a brink of a post-apocalyptic existence.
Kupungarri, a remote community in the North-West of Australia is one of the most natural places left in the world. This small community fosters confidence in their young people through their relationship with Country. Watch the excitement grow as they prepare for one of the biggest events of the year, the annual Mowanjum Festival.
Encountering restlessness the night after her abortion, a young woman kills time in her apartment in the dead of night.
An imagined future where a rediscovered archive of photographs, sound and film captures the beauty of extinct ecosystems in South Australia on an extinct film stock.
A team of night workers arrive at the factory for another night of labour, and wait for their shift to begin.
Romance blooms between a dim sum shop assistant and a street performer in Chinatown, who carries them in the safety of his balloon on a rainy night.
Two best friends embark on a high-stakes game of imagination, which takes an unforeseeable turn and threatens to jeopardise their relationship.
A melancholic, erotic, ironic journey through the Peruvian Amazon, made with the guidance of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Two children are caught up in their parents' immature relationship dramas in this short musing on the nature of love.
Granite tors scattered over 20 square kilometers around Tooborac in central Victoria dance in energetic celebration of their own endurance.
Chronicling a walk to the end of the line on Super 8 film - from the heart of the inner city to the outer suburban station of Upfield in Melbourne’s North.
Violet lives in the upstairs apartment owned by an Italian landlord and his crippled teenage son.
After evading and attempting to conceal her separation from a long-term partner for two weeks, a young woman finally visits her Grandma who is grappling with age.
A young artist in one town shares a letter correspondence with an older artist in another.
Chinese international student Yao Yao heads to Little Bay Beach on a rainy day to finish off an assignment for film school. She runs into Sun Joo, a Korean international student, who is trying to complete the same assignment. They decide to spend the day together at the beach.
A young woman is forced to care for her mentally unstable mother. An intimate and challenging portrait of intergenerational trauma in immigrant families.
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