The Story of the Moving Image Australian Film

Australian Film Spectacle and the Outback
Australian Film A new approach to light and colour
John Harvey’s Canopy, 2020
Throughout the history of screen culture, First Peoples have been portrayed as both an exotic curiosity and stereotypically deficient due to the ‘white gaze’ wielded by non-Indigenous Australians, who often defined First Peoples representation on-screen.
Australian Film A groundbreaking eclecticism
Australian Film Ozploitation
Soda_Jerk’s TERROR NULLIUS (2018)
In 2017, video duo Soda_Jerk marched into the Australian cinema archives, armed only with their unshakeable faith in the power of the edit to create transformative encounters between disparate pieces of film. Twelve months later they emerged triumphant, bearing TERROR NULLIUS, an adrenaline shot to the heart of Australian screen culture and national mythology.
Australian Film First Peoples perspective
Julie Gough’s The Silenced (2020)
Julie Gough is a Trawlwoolway artist, writer and curator who lives in Hobart, Tasmania. Gough works across many mediums including video, sound and installation. Her work interrogates colonialism and its impact on Tasmania’s First Peoples.
Australian Film Australia’s most influential film franchise
Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Rear view (2018)
From the Mad Max trilogy to Pricilla Queen of the Desert and Tracks, road movies have fascinated Australian audiences and filmmakers alike.
Australian Film A new glittering style
Australian Film Becoming global with VFX