Compo is a comedy set in a government unemployment-compensation office.

Kevin leaves a job in insurance to start his own magazine. As his debts mount, Kevin’s prospects begin to look brighter in the criminal world.

A film about Darwin, exploring the events that led to the establishment of Australia’s main northern city. Images from the past and present reveal...

Aboriginal boxer Al Dawson is torn by the demands of fight promoters and aboriginal protestors. He eventually decides to reject them all and gives...

In December 1965 there was a jazz convention in Sydney. This attempt to record the event has lain unseen ever since, but the passing of the decades...

Several interconnecting stories of love, loss, desire and despair, among both gay and straight characters. The main story concerns Anna, a...

Documentary about the First World War hero and later St. Kilda Mayor. Today Albert Jacka is almost forgotten, yet his heroic feats captured the...

The only doco to record the early years of Australian jazz. This lovingly compiled celluloid history of the Melbourne jazz scene is a fascinating...

A study of the short films made in Carlton during the Sixties, when film makers like Graeme Cutts, Peter Fisher, Geoff Gardner, Antony I. Ginnane...

A student of criminology is completing a thesis on Melbourne mass murderers. With the aid of a German professor he visits the scenes of the crimes...

Arf Arf is a sound poetry (voice and gesticulation) group. They describe their first film together as 'songs nailed together in a film'. The film...

The life and times of a legendary Melbourne musician who lived life with the brakes off. Arguably the first notable Australian jazz improvisor, he...

A couple, Steve and Louise, quit their respective office jobs, deciding to follow their inner desires and their aspirations to be artistic.

About the life of the notorious 1920s Melbourne Australian gangster Squizzy Taylor including interviews and re-enactments.

When singer and clarinetist Gerry Humphrys moved from Britain to Australia in 1957, he quickly became one of the most popular and influential...

This 1963 kaleidoscope of our culture, both its energy and its tawdriness, rolls out in a never ending babble from radio station 3UZ, and in...

Sympathy in Summer tells the story of young student Lenny's (Vincent Griffith's) first affairs of the heart, starting out with a weekend at the...

A girl recalls three generations of the family history, how mother was conceived in the year of the Yarra floods and how life in the 1920's was no...

As the wreckers ball lays waste to a fine set of old building in East Melbourne a visiting professor considers the value of our national identity.