My Blessings

My Blessings 1997

1

A diary film, chronicling six days in the life of a woman in her early 30's. A portrait of isolation, striving, rejection and hope.

1997

A Nocturne: Night of the Vampire

A Nocturne: Night of the Vampire 2007

2.50

From the Australian underground comes a dynamic gothic original. Z and X are vampires bound by love and driven by their lust for blood. Together they stalk their unsuspecting prey in the dark streets and back alleys of Melbourne, but tonight they aren't the only killers lurking in the shadows. A moody and atmospheric thriller, A NOCTURNE: NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE is a sophisticated reworking of the vampire genre with film noir stylistics.

2007

Blue Notes

Blue Notes 2006

1

A multi-layered narrative drama about ordinary people and their struggles and joys with life. Blue Notes is composed of five tales about people who are "blue": a married man struggles by with depression; his son spends his days drifting; a young woman reacts to being abused by her partner; a heroin addict attempts to start a career in music; and a lonely man, bereft of family, looks for a way to connect with others.

2006

Daddy-Long-Legs

Daddy-Long-Legs 2014

1

A dance of impressions, of humans and animals and nature. Light and movement, music and silence, melancholy and laughter, Daddy-Long-Legs takes delight in cinematic and musical play ...

2014

Back to Nature

Back to Nature 1985

1

A day in the life of an unemployed youth.

1985

Desire

Desire 1999

1

Several interconnecting stories of love, loss, desire and despair, among both gay and straight characters. The main story concerns Anna, a successful but lonely novelist, who falls for Finola, a vivacious young writing student, who is involved with the troubled Cindy. Paul, keen on Anna, is pursued by Martin; and Evan and Skye, a young couple, experience problems.

1999

Drive

Drive 1985

1

A university student decides he has had enough of university and so breaks away - or does he?

1985

Wild and Precious

Wild and Precious 2012

1

An Italian cinematographer finds himself in the midst of the Greek socio-political crisis. He returns home to Milano to his ex-wife and daughter, only to be drawn back to Athens, where an Australian TV producer hires his services as a maverick cinematographer.

2012

Songs of Revolution

Songs of Revolution 2017

1

A hybrid film, part-documentary, part-fiction, on the history of Greek radical music.

2017

Winter

Winter 1998

1

The Writer prepares to shut off from the world; The Lover accepts the rejection of his love; The Cynic espouses the virtues of distance. Winter is here.

1998

Between Us

Between Us 1989

1

The story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.

1989

Pretty Naive

Pretty Naive 1984

1

A diary film. A university student reflects on his time at uni, longing for the days when he was "pretty naive".

1984

Ladykiller

Ladykiller 1994

1

A portrait of a serial killer.

1994

Open City

Open City 1993

1

A newspaper journalist in Bosnia returns home to find that things are and are not as they seem.

1993

After School

After School 1988

1

A 13-year-old boy comes home from school and goes out. He meets up with a friend and they go to various places together, interacting with various people. An unassuming and meditative, observational film exploring that dead time between "schools out" and evening. A film of small moments but big meanings.

1988

A Sufi Valentine

A Sufi Valentine 2004

1

Ali Alizadeh reads English translations of Rumi and Hafiz, as well as his own contemporary Sufi poems. Accompanying the poems, the film follows six characters on their individual journeys of disenchantment, awakening and bliss: a poet and dancer who are struggling with their art, and four lovesick individuals, engulfed in solitude and yearning.

2004

How to Use Your Camera

How to Use Your Camera 1996

1

A cheeky instructional film on the uses and abuses of the cinematographic apparatus, with the ensuing results enlivened by the music of David Dangerfield.

1996

Love

Love 1991

6.50

The light of love: a science fiction film set in Alphaville, 2015. Shot in Melbourne, 1991.

1991

Frozen Stars

Frozen Stars 2018

1

Impressionistic documentary-cum-music clip of the residents of Kallithea, Athens, Greece.

2018

Spring Rhapsody

Spring Rhapsody 2005

1

A portrait of Melbourne in Spring '04 (September/October), a mosaic of different stories: an angel desires to be human; a young couple cope with long-distance relating; a novelist unexpectedly falls pregnant; a woman from London discovers Melbourne; and a disenfranchised man, with a gambling debt, becomes involved with an underworld gang.

2005