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Ode to a shoebox

Australia, 2004
film

The outside walls of the housing commission flats were as grey as a winter’s day and as cold as charity. But inside was a warm world of fun, love an adventure..

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Life at the top

1990
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Life at the top

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Your house and mine

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Farewell Oak Street

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Ordinary streets

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A Place to live [Italian version]

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A Place to live [Greek version]

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Roofs and power

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A Place to live

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Within these walls

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A Place to belong

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Living with the city

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Home of the homeless

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In the city

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The City as man's home

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Behind the skyscrapers

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An old box

Canada, 1975
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