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Series
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
HOMELAND STORY is an intimate portrait of Donydji, a small Indigenous community in North East Arnhem Land in the far north of Australia. Homelands are situated on the land of the people who live there. They are of central importance to their identity and culture. The film charts the Donydji community's transition from nomadic life to the digital age, from the 1960s to the present day. One family is featured, across three generations, from the traditional...
Series
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
This is an archival record film of a circumcision ceremony at Yirrkala in 1972. On many occasions over the three weeks prior to the main ceremony the boys to be circumcised are sung over and beautifully painted with clan designs. As the final day approaches the paintings become ever more elaborate. No translation or documentation is included in this archival record.
Series
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
In 1971 Wandjuk Marika organised a Djang'kawu ceremony at Yirrkala. It was to be a memorial for his father, Mawalan, who died in 1967. Mawalan had been the highly respected head of the Rirratjingu clan, for whom the Djang'kawu are primary Creator Ancestors. The two Djang'kawu Sisters came from across the sea and travelled through northeast Arnhem Land, shaping the landscape and giving birth to the first children of the Dhuwa moiety. The Djang'kawu...
Series
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With no way to live a traditional lifestyle in his Aboriginal community, aging Charlie (David Gulpilil) struggles to make his own way in life. Winner of Un Certain Regard for Best Actor at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Winner of Best Actor at the **Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.** *"Australia offers few sights as sublime as that of David Gulpilil." - Peter Keough, **Boston Globe*** *"Using a combination of bleak realism,...
5) Heritage
Series
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1935.
Language
English
Description
An epic scale narrative of Australian history from master filmmaker Charles Chauvel (Jedda), HERITAGE spans the earliest days of white settlement in 1788 across some fifty years to the 1930s. The story follows the life experiences of the Morrison and Parry families as they establish themselves within a new and challenging colony in Sydney. Facing the many trials and tribulations of settlement life, their actions would go toward shaping the nation....
6) After Hours
Series
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
A sensitive portrayal of a young office worker who alleges sexual abuse by her employer. She loses her job as a result of her claims. This dramatised situation looks at the ways in which an employee can be victimised in an office environment without those around being aware of the situation. It pursues notions of truth such as legal truth, truth of experience and who possesses truth. It also studies sex and desire, not as an expression of love, but...
7) The Club
Series
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
It's tough enough on the Australian Rules Football field, but in the boardroom it's a battle ground! In this club nobody plays by the rules. Outside the fans are cheering the high marks and the low tackles as their team battles towards the premiership. Inside, the executives are wheeling and dealing, back slapping and back stabbing. The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money and, not surprisingly, the team members do not...
Series
Publisher
Smart Street Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy to the creation of the Black Panther Party of Australia Sam Watson has been one of the leading voices in the struggle for justice for black Australians. In this posthumous and exclusive record Sam looks back on the street fighting years under the iron grip of the right wing Government of Jo Bjelke-Petersen in Queensland. He and colleagues like Dennis Walker were watched 24/7 by the Queensland Police...
10) Journey West
Series
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Growing concern among young Aboriginal community leaders, particularly those in the Borroloola Men's Group, drew them to the idea of re-enacting a walk that hadn't occurred for almost thirty years. The Buwarrala-Journey is a traditional walk for the Garrwa, Yanyuwa, Mara and Gurdanji peoples of the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia. Practiced for generations as part of the initiation of young boys, the walk was re-enacted in 1988 and documented...
11) Desert People
Series
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
Desert People was shot in 1965 in the Gibson Desert of the Australian Western Desert. There was still a handful of family groups perhaps three or four, living a nomadic hunter-food gatherer life, somewhere in the heart of the desert. Desert People tells simply of a day in the life of two families of the Western Desert. Djagamara and his family were filmed where they were found. They were camped by an unusually plentiful supply of water, a pool in...
13) Bitter and Sweet
Series
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
How does the startling beauty - and humour - of Aboriginal art intertwine with reverberations of the past and our present?
Series
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
In 1965 and 1967, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies sponsored film trips by the then Commonwealth Film Unit to the Western Desert region of Australia. The object of these trips was to film the daily life of nomadic Aboriginal people living in the Gibson Desert of Central Australia. Although this land is one of the most arid regions of Australia, the people who lived there regarded it as rich in resources. This longform film series is...
15) Home and Away
Series
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to be 'at home' for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people? Is it where you live, or the 'country' you are exiled from?
16) Don's Party
Series
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
When you mix a left-wing teacher, a loud-mouthed sex maniac, a mild-mannered accountant, a failed philosopher, a promiscuous 19-year-old, a frustrated wife, a drunken pornographer, a sexy temperamental artist and an arrogant dentist with a lot of booze...anything can happen! Adapted by David Williamson from his own hit stage play and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Bruce Beresford (*Breaker Morant, The Club*). Nominated for a Golden Bear at the **Berlin...
Series
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The removal of Indigenous children from their families has increased at an exponential rate since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the apology to the 'stolen generations' in 2008. In this riveting documentary, a group of Aboriginal women challenge government policies to bring their grandchildren home. Their grassroots actions spearhead a national conversation to curb skyrocketing rates of child removal. Suellyn Tighe thought the NSW Department...
18) Blackbird
Series
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This short drama sheds light on a little known part of history - Australia's sugar slaves. Set in the late 1800s, it follows the story of Solomon Islander siblings, Kiko and Rosa, who were kidnapped from their Pacific island home and forced to work on a sugar cane plantation in Queensland in conditions akin to slavery. Shot entirely on location and in collaboration with communities in Mackay, Queensland - where these historical events took place -...
Series
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD is the wild, wonderful, untold story of "Ozploitation" films. It irreverently documents an era when Australian cinema showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the-floor action.
Series
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Australian-born PETER ALLEN had one of the all-time classic international showbusiness careers making a name for himself with songs such as I GO TO RIO, I STILL CALL AUSTRALIA HOME and the Academy Award winning BEST THAT YOU CAN DO (ARTHUR'S THEME). Always remembered for his exuberant and energetic style, his life also brings into focus some of the broader social issues of the age. Featuring footage covering thirty years of his life this DVD depicts...
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