Australia/New Zealand
Artist A film collaboration between Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg, 1999, 10 min., Color Internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt takes the viewer on a fast-paced journey through Hollywood's depiction of the arti...
The Audition A film by Anna Campion, 1990, 24 min., Color The filmmaker's sister, Jane Campion, journeys home to New Zealand to audition her onetime actress mother for a small role as a schoolteacher in her f...
Bedevil A film by Tracey Moffatt, 1993, 90 min., Color BEDEVIL is the stunning debut feature from Tracey Moffatt (NIGHT CRIES, NICE COLORED GIRLS) and the first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal...
Black and White A film by Kirsty MacDonald, 2006, 17 min., Color BLACK AND WHITE shines a sensitive light on a subject that is too often either shunned or sensationalized: the experiences of intersex people (sometim...
Black Sheep A film by Louise Glover and Chili Films, 1999, 26 min., Color Lou Glover grew up in New South Wales repeating the same homophobic and racist taunts she heard around her. Though she was raised in a white family, s...
Bloodlines A film by Cynthia Connop, 2008, 52 min., Color Bettina Goering, grandniece of Hermann Goering, has long tried to bury the dark legacy of her family history. Painter Ruth Rich, a daughter of Holocau...
Canto a la Vida A film by Lucia Salinas Briones, 1990, 48 min., Color CANTO A LA VIDA illuminates exile through the remarkable stories of Chilean women, including the assassinated president’s widow Hortensia de Allende, ...
Children of the Crocodile A film by Marsha Emerman, 2001, 52 min., Color This documentary tells the story of two young Timorese-Australian activists – one a high profile human rights worker, the other a performance artist a...
The Films of Jane Campion Films by Jane Campion, 49 min., Color/BW The internationally acclaimed director of THE PIANO, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE and SWEETIE first displayed her visual flair and dark humor in these award-w...
Georgie Girl A documentary by Annie Goldson and Peter Wells, 2001, 70 min., Color/BW Meet Georgina Beyer, the latest “it” girl of New Zealand politics. A one-time sex worker of Maori descent turned public official, Georgina stunned th...
A Girl's Own Story A film by Jane Campion, 1986, 27 min., BW Beatlemania, the sixties and growing up. Some stories about girlhood: where family is strange, adulthood lonely, and innocence perverse....
Heaven A film by Tracey Moffatt, 1997, 28 min., Color This playful video from famed director and photographer Tracey Moffatt turns the tables on traditional representations of desire to examine the power ...
Lip A film collaboration between Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg, 1999, 10 min., Color It is Hollywood’s favorite role for black women: the maid. Sassy or sweet, snickeringly attentive or flippantly dismissive, the performers who play t...
Love A film collaboration between Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg, 2003, 21 min., Color/BW “The clinch that signals the fade-out in so many movies is just the beginning of Love, as Moffatt and editor Hillberg turn their energetic montage tec...
Nice Colored Girls A film by Tracey Moffatt, 1987, 16 min., Color This stylistically daring film audaciously explores the history of exploitation between white men and Aboriginal women, juxtaposing the “first encount...
Night Cries A film by Tracey Moffatt, 1990, 19 min., Color On an isolated, surreal Australian homestead, a middle-aged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying white mother. The adopted daughter’s attentive gestures ...
Orchids: My Intersex Adventure A film by Phoebe Hart, 2010, 60 min., Color Gen X filmmaker Phoebe Hart always knew she was different growing up – but she didn’t know why. This award-winning documentary traces Phoebe’s voyage ...
Passionless Moments A film by Jane Campion, 13 min., BW A series of wry vignettes: SEAN AND ARNOLD NOT SPEAKING; SCOTTIES, PART OF THE GRAND DESIGN OF THE UNIVERSE; ANGELA EATS MEATS, IRONING ON SUNDAY, and...
Peel A film by Jane Campion, 9 min., Color On a hot Australian summer's day, a recalcitrant, freckled, red-headed family of three go on a Sunday drive in the country. Their outing results in an...
Scarlet Road A film by Catherine Scott, Produced by Pat Fiske, 2011, 70 min., Color Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton specializes in a long overlooked clientele— people with disabiliti...
Searching 4 Sandeep A film by Poppy Stockell, 2007, 56 min., Color Single, frustrated, and lonely in the middle of Sydney’s thriving gay community, director Poppy Stockell decides to “research” a light-hearted look at...
Snakes and Ladders A film by Trish Fitzsimmons and Mitzi Goldman, 1987, 59 min. Like our own children’s game, Chutes and Ladders, the story of women’s education has always been one step forward, two steps back. In this creative d...
A Song of Ceylon A film by Laleen Jayamanne, 1985, 51 min., Color A formally rigorous, visually stunning study of colonialism, gender and the body. The title echoes the classic British documentary and evokes a countr...
Up in the Sky: Tracey Moffatt in New York A film by Jane Cole, 1999, 26 min., Color "UP IN THE SKY scans the universe created by the provocative and talented photographer and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt, Australia's answer to Cindy Sherm...
Witches, Dykes, Faggots and Poofters A film by Digby Duncan, 1979, 45 min. In medieval times, nonconformists were labeled witches and burned at the stake. This important film makes links the social and political oppression o...
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