Dir. Mika Kaurismäki  Finland/Switzerland  2007  80mins  35mm
Dive into the world of rhythm in three different places, spaces and beats: from jazz drum legend, Bill Cobham, to sufferers of autism in Switzerland and the kids in a Brazilian favela.

Dir. Dr. Hart Cohen  Australia  26mins  Digital
Follows the Ntaria Ladies’ Choir from Hermannsburg, central Australia, to the Sydney Opera House where they perform Journey to Horseshoe Bend Cantata, with the Sydney Symphony, Gordon Williams and Andrew Schultz.

Dir. Dr Hart Cohen  Australia  2001  52mins  Digital
The late TGH Strehlow was Australia’s most controversial anthropologist. This documentary examines Strehlow’s extraordinary legacy.

Dir. Marcos Zurinaga  US/Spain/France  1997  142mins  35mm
A young Puerto Rican journalist risks everything to discover if the poet Federico Garcia Lorca “really” was assassinated by the Fascists for his passionate revolutionary poetry. Starring Andy Garcia, Edward James Olmos & Jeroen Krabbé.

Dir. Marcia Urbin, Raymond & Joyce Zylberberg  US  2004  57mins  Digital
A documentary profiling nine maverick women art dealers in New York.

Dir. David Bromley  Australia  2005  5mins  Digital
A series of 5 minute short films directed by artist David Bromley. “This film tells a story using a camera instead of paint & canvas… I think I’ve just filmed a few pages of a sketch book.” Also screens MARCH 4 & 5.

Bick Productions & New Museum of Contemporary Art   US  2004  Digital
FREE SCREENING. An innovative commissioning and publishing project containing 11 new video and film art works by 11 contemporary international artists. Screens with I COULD BE ME.

Dir. Peter Rosen  US  2005  78mins  Digital
A look at the New York City art scene in the 1960s, through the eyes of Henry Geldzahler, who championed the careers of Andy Warhol and his contemporaries.
A fascinating look at the birth of modern American art. Screens with I COULD BE ME.

Dir. Harry Moses  US  2006  74mins  Digital
When a long haul truck driver bought a $5 painting at a thrift shop, she didn’t know that it would lift the veil on how art is bought and sold in America. Screens with I COULD BE ME.

Dir. David Batty  Australia  1998  26mins  Digital
Seventy Aboriginal artists in the Great Sandy Desert produce a painting that becomes the conduit for explaining the local people’s attachment to their country in the Ngururra title claim. May contain scenes of deceased persons.

Dir. Nicole Ma & Michelle Mahrer  Australia  2002  28mins  Digital
A rare documentary of a journey undertaken by members of an Aboriginal community going back to country to perform an ancient ceremony. Celebrating the strong tradition and culture through the spirit of the next generation. May contain scenes of deceased persons.

Dir. Penny Woolcock  Canada/UK  2003  120mins  Digital
A cinematic realisation of the John Adams opera about the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro by the Palestinian Liberation Front and the subsequent murder of a passenger, Leon Klinghoffer.

Dir. Lloyd Newson  UK  2004  35mins  Digital
FREE SCREENING. Directed by Australian, Newson, this award winning film centres on two street performers: the tough, confrontational Eddie and David, a legless dancer.

Dir. Bathsheba Ratzkoff & Sut Jhally  US  2004  80mins  Digital
An exposé of how US political elites influence news reporting about the Middle East conflict and how their distortions have affected public opinion.

Dir. Godfrey Reggio  US  1982  87mins  35mm
The title literally meaning “life out of balance” this extraordinarily prescient cult film is uniquely wordless and hypnotically scored by celebrated composer Philip Glass.

Dir. Godfrey Reggio  US  1988  99mins  35mm
The Quatsi Trilogy continues, this time exploring “life in transformation”. A visual celebration of traditional ways of living that are passing, as technology threatens our humanity. Score by Philip Glass.

Dir. Sut Jhally  US  2006  50mins  Digital
A fascinating cinematic voyage through the distorted representation of Arab people in Hollywood films.

Dir. Godfrey Reggio  US  2002  89mins  35mm
The Quatsi Trilogy concludes with “life as war”. A cinematic concert to experience the allurement, seduction and sanctioned terror of everyday living. Score by Philip Glass.

Dir. Lian Lunson  Australia  2005  98mins 35mm
Witness impassioned and thrilling performances from Sydney’s Leonard Cohen tribute concert and hear intimate interviews with the very private man himself.