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Art and artists in Australia and internationally, including studies of the work of artists including Ainslie Roberts, John Perceval, Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, Yosl Bergner, Shen Jiawei, John Russell, and photographers Tracey Moffatt and Olive Cotton. Special emphasis on Indigenous art, its commercial exploitation, its history and the work of individual artists including Gordon Bennett, Albert Namatjira and Jimmy Pike.
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ART FROM THE HEART »1999 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 56 min A direct and confronting examination of the contemporary Indigenous painting business today - 25 years on from its beginnings at Papunya Tula. more » |
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ARTISTS IN CYBERCULTURE »1993 (G) 55 min ARTISTS IN CYBERCULTURE records Australian and International artists and their work at the Third International Symposium on Electronic Art [TISEA] held in Sydney, Australia in November 1992. The documentary presents a fascinating overview of the artists manipulating new technologies to create a wide variety of new and extraordinary works. more » |
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ARTISTS OF ALI CURUNG [from the CAAMA Collection] »2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 21 min The Arlpwe Arts Centre and Gallery, in the town of Ali Curung, 350 km north of Alice Springs, provides a focus for the work of a diverse group of Indigenous artists. more » |
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ART OF HEALING, THE [from the CAAMA Collection] »2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min A story of inspiration and community spirit from central Australia. more » |
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ART OF REGRET, THE »2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 59 min Photography is known in China as the “art of regret.” In the rapidly changing city of Kunming, people are ambivalent about whether they want photography to be a medium of preservation and evidence, or of transformation and fantasy. more » |
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BEACH, THE »2000 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 52 min An examination of what the beach means both to Australians and to those who come from other countries to enjoy it. more » |
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BEYOND THE DREAMTIME »1994 (G) 54 min BEYOND THE DREAMTIME is a film of visual beauty, bringing to life the haunting imagery of dozens of Ainslie Roberts' major works, weaving them into the artist's personal life and illuminating his love of the land. more » |
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BLACK ANGELS: A Widening Vision »1994 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 60 min BLACK ANGELS centres on the life and work of young Brisbane artist, Gordon Bennett, who is one of this country's leading Indigenous artists. more » |
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CAMERA NATURA »1984 (G) 32 min How has cinema shaped our relationship to the Australian landscape? What vision of the natural world and our place in it have filmmakers created? From Walkabout to Sunday Too Far Away to Mad Max, the camera moves restlessly across the landscape, creating a vision of a country more hostile than grand. more » |
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CANTO A LA VIDA: Song to Life »1991 (G) 48 min A compelling exploration of life in exile through the music, poetry, art, politics and culture of Chile set against the personal stories of seven Chilean women. more » |
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CASTANET CLUB, THE »1990 (PG) 85 min A movie you can dance to! more » |
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CRACKS IN THE MASK »1997 (G) 56 min A century ago the Torres Strait Island were the subjects of the famous Cambridge Anthropological Expedition - the resulting depletion of their cultural artifacts left them with nothing but a history of remembered loss. The only people in the Pacific to make elaborate turtleshell masks have none left - they are all in foreign museums. more » |
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DELINQUENT ANGEL »2001 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 48 min A documentary about the famous Australian master painter, the late John Perceval. Tender and beautiful moments in the film reveal details about John's life, his loves and his relationships - with his minder/business manager, and other internationally renowned painters like Joy Hester, Sir Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd. more » |
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DIYA »2001 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 55 min DIYA examines the lively social life surrounding one object, a small terra cotta oil lamp called a "diya" used in India in religious ceremonies. It is central to the Hindu festival of Diwali, "the festival of lights" and the film begins in the increasingly frantic days before this major celebration. more » |
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EFFACEMENT »1980 (G) 14 min EFFACEMENT shows a Japanese Noh maskmaker, Taniguchi Akiko, at work on her masks in her Tokyo studio. She carves the mask, paints it and moves it in the pace of an actor's movements on the traditional Noh stage. more » |
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EMILY IN JAPAN - The Making of An Exhibition »2009 (PG) 82 min Behind the scenes of the blockbuster exhibition of paintings by the Indigenous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye which toured Japan attracting record crowds. more » |
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FIGURES IN THE LANDSCAPE »1985 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 50 min A film about the internationally acclaimed Australian painter, Arthur Boyd. Arguably Australia's finest painter. more » |
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FIRST CITIZEN: ALBERT NAMITJIRA »1989 (G) 54 min Albert Namatjira was the first Aboriginal artist to be recognised by white Australians. He was torn between two worlds simply because he had the wisdom to recognise both. Two cultures, two laws. The feting and fawning of the city glitterati, ultimately led to his tragic decline and death. more » |
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FRAMED »2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 55 min FRAMED is about our fascination with faces. It’s about portraits. But what is a portrait? Of course it’s the famous painting on the gallery wall and the notorious candidate for the Archibald Prize. But isn’t it also the cherished photograph you have in your wallet, at your place of work, by your bed? In FRAMED we talk to some of Australia’s leading portrait artists and photographers as well as everyday people. more » |
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GOLDEN CORD, THE »1996 (G) 55 min THE GOLDEN CORD looks beyond the fascinating detail of the refined technical skills required by the art of batik, to aspects of the vivid spiritual and social traditions of Java and Aboriginal Australia: two distinct but strangely parallel contemporary cultures resting on timeless foundations. more » |
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