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THESE HEATHEN DREAMS: Journey of a Cultural Bolshevik - Christopher Barnett
2014 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 53 min
Once described by the press as "one of the most controversial figures on the Australian art scene", avant-garde poet and playwright Christopher Barnett achieved a level of notoriety in the Melbourne underground theatre scene during the 70s and 80s, before self-exiling to France. more
ACROSS THE PLATEAU
2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 95 min
China used to be called "the Bicycle Kingdom". This is a bicycle story from China, about a group of friends in southern China who share cycling treks of epic scale. Their adventures are an expression of their sense of personal freedom in the new China, after a lifetime of political turmoil and personal struggle. more
AFTERSHOCKS
1998 (M) 86 min
AFTERSHOCKS dramatises the 1989 Newcastle earthquake and tells the story of the survivors. Writer Paul Brown and a team of researchers interviewed 32 people who experienced the collapse of the Newcastle Workers' Club during the earthquake and uses these interviews as the words of the real characters. more
AGE OF REASON, THE
2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 87 min
In this fifth and final film in his Doon School Quintet, filmmaker David MacDougall focuses on the life of one student at Doon school, an all-boys academically selective boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. more
AGENT ORANGE
2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 71 min
AGENT ORANGE is one woman's personal journey through Vietnam to try to understand the ravages caused by chemicals in the Vietnam War, and to come to terms with her husband's premature death. Her observation of the way in which Vietnamese families and health organisations are coping with ongoing deformities in children,... more
ALLIES
1983 (PG) 95 min
Made at the time of Bob Hawke's unequivocal embrace of the American alliance, this film explores Australia-US relations during the Cold War: the setting up of ASIO to appease American agencies worried about Communist influence; the Petrov Affair; and the determination of Sir Robert Menzies to follow the US into Vietnam. more
ANIMATING AEROPLANE JELLY
2020 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 24 min
An episode in the life of pioneer Australian animator, Eric Porter, and his creation of one of the most iconic and enduring of Australian advertising images. An award-winning film by Michael Kraaz. more
ANOTHER COUNTRY
2015 (G) 75 min
Legendary Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil tells the story of what happened when his people's way of life was interrupted. This film speaks eloquently of the havoc caused by the superimposition of a new culture over an old culture. more
ARLI (from the CAAMA Collection)
2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 30 min
A moving story of rehabilitation and re-connection with family and community. Arlun McCormack, a young Arrernte man from Alice Springs, tells us the story of his fight with substance abuse, and his rehabilitation through writing and performing rap music. An award-winning film by Christopher Fitzpatrick. more
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... 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
ASPECTS OF A LIFE: Working with Indigenous Australians
1972 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 216 min
Four films by Michael Edols - Collector's edition with accompanying book and a 40-minute interview with Edols recorded in Canberra in 2011. more
AYA
1990 (PG) 95 min
Aya arrives in Australia with her husband, an Australian soldier who was with the occupation forces in Japan. Aya forms a close bond with Mac, a close friend of Frank's, whose wartime experiences left him with a deep regard for Japanese culture. But Frank wants Aya to forget her Japanese past. Suffering cultural shock and... more
BACKS TO THE BLAST
1981 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 50 min
Re-release of a landmark documentary about the history of uranium mining in Australia and the two decades of British Atomic Bomb tests in outback South Australia. more
BAULKHAM HILLS AFRICAN LADIES TROUPE, THE
2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: M) 81 min
The story of four charismatic and inspirational African women, now living in Australia, who, with the help of acclaimed theatre director Ros Horin, turned their harrowing stories of survival into a joyous theatre of humanity that has filled theatres from across their new country to the other side of the world. more
BAXTER AND ME
2016 (PG) 83 min
One woman's life, with and without men, but always with dogs. This personal and inventive film by Gillian Leahy raises questions about how we relate to the 'wild' in dogs, and how we relate to other animals (and humans) in the world at large. more
BEYOND EL ROCCO
1990 (PG) 100 min
The story of the Australian modern jazz movement since the 1950s. Includes rare performance footage of Brian Brown, Stewie Peers and others, and interviews with today's jazz greats like Don Burrows and Paul Grabowsky. more
BEYOND THE ROYAL VEIL
2003 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min
BEYOND THE ROYAL VEIL takes us on a surprising often humorous journey behind the lavish facade of Indian aristocracy into the lives of two men who have opened up their palaces to tourism, selling the 'royal experience'. But can they save their inheritances without sacrificing their dignity? more
BIG ALL AT ONCE
2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min
What is it like to be leaving school and suddenly having to make crucial choices about your life? This documentary intimately follows three different 18-year-olds, as they are spat out of high school and struggle to piece together their adult identities in their own way. more