University of Technology Sydney

A goat with an appetite for life realises that time is dangerously delicious.

‘memory film: a filmmaker’s diary’ is an immersive poetic documentary based on Jeni Thornley’s Super8 archive (1974-2003) filmed during the decades of her political and personal filmmaking, while producing ‘Maidens’, ‘To the Other Shore’, ‘Island Home Country’ and the collaborative feature ‘For Love or Money’. Documenting the activism of three decades amidst the intense sexual politics of radical feminism and social change, ‘memory film’ tells the inner story of a journey of liberation – gender fluidity, utopian feminism, love and its tribulations, the pleasure and pain of motherhood, violence against women, the desire for a world free of war and colonizing, and ultimately mortality and impermanence.

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.

An experimental documentary about the perils of wearing high heel shoes.

‘Space Cadets’ are the biggest band in Australia. This film follows them as they make the most difficult decision of their career, following the mysterious death of their frontman.

"Pretend I existed" is a memoir about the filmmaker's relationship with his mother when she had her cancer treatment in Japan.

When Thomas Turpin takes on a house-sitting gig for some unusual owners, he learns the terrible price of honesty as he is asked increasingly invasive questions.

An experimental performance piece that looks at issues of sexual stereotyping.

A comedy about a dinner that goes wrong, when one of the host’s ex-girlfriends arrives and decides to ‘rekindle an old flame’.

A man finds that his boyfriend has been turned into something unrecognisable.