"Rowland was Australia's most unique, gifted and uncompromising guitarist." - Nick Cave Guitarist, songwriter and artist Rowland S. Howard was an instrumental figure in the Australian rock scene, particularly renowned for his role in seminal post-punk outfit The Birthday Party. In a…
Althea Althea Gibson, a truant from the rough streets of Harlem, emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world of the 1950's. Althea’s life and achievements transcend Sports. Her roots as a sharecropper’s daughter, her family’s migration north…
21 trigger films on the problems with patients entering or leaving care. A series of twenty-one short trigger films designed for use in professional training programmes to help initiate role play and promote discussion. Portrays individuals entering or leaving care, shot from the viewpoint of a member…
Six mothers talk about their children's sleeping and crying patterns. Mothers express their views and talk about the experiences of sleeping and crying in young children. The main part of the video consists of interviews with six mothers, both single and married from different backgrounds. It…
Animated film about women's housing experiences. Four women fall into conversation in a launderette. As the machines whirl and the powder flows, they talk about their housing experiences, hopes and expectations. None of them would describe themselves as homeless -- after all they've never…
MI5' surveillance of CND, National Council for Civil Liberties and others. The television programme that was banned from transmission on March 1, 1985 by the IBA, but subsequently shown. Following on the Sarah Tisdall and Clive Ponting revelations about dirty tricks in government, this programme…
The complexities inherent in foster care. "This programme confronts the viewer with many of the complexities inherent in foster care. It gives no cause for complacency, but a great deal for thought and is to be recommended." - Adoption and Fostering. This film is of historical interest…
Ethical questions raised by 'test tube babies'. Developments have made it possible for previously infertile women to bear children by the extraction of ova which are then implanted - the so-called test tube babies. This raises many ethical questions. Several of the women explain how much…
Danila Vassilieff was a pivotal figure in the emergence of Modernism in Australian art. He was also a Russian - a bold cossack from South Russia, and a defender of the czar. His fascinating life and profound humanity are the subject of this compelling and wide-ranging documentary. When individualism…
A film by Margot Nash about family secrets and the ties of love, loss and kinship between a mother and daughter. The Silences is a personal essay documentary about the tangled bonds, secret histories and unspoken traumas of family life that stretches from New Zealand to the Australian suburbs. It…
“No one from any government has ever known our language. … How can they know us?” - David Gulpilil Another Country is a documentary which considers, from the inside, the ramifications of one culture being dominated by another. At the beginning of last century the Australian Government,…
Domestic abuse is a dark shadow that lives in the heart of Australian society, affecting individuals, families and neighbourhoods. In regional, rural and remote Australia, whole communities can be affected. In this powerful short film, this often hidden subject is brought to light by people willing to…
