This archival treasure trove chronicles the rise and role of Melbourne and Sydney filmmaking cooperatives in the 1960s and 1970s.
As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking to challenge the mainstream. Some aspired to push form to its limit; others worked to destabilise what they saw as a homogenous industry, or to provoke questions around gender, sexuality, migration and race.
Tom Zubrycki
Director
John Hughes
Writer, Director

Gillian Armstrong
Self
Jan Chapman
Self

Phillip Noyce
Self
Gary Foley
Self
Ivan Gaal
Self
Digby Duncan
Self

Albie Thoms
Self
Gillian Leahy
Self
Jane Oehr
Self
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Corman's World70%
The Walking Dead: The Return73%
42 Up75%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
Room 23761%
Maria by Callas73%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
These Amazing Shadows73%
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!60%
Cameraperson67%
Night Will Fall76%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Seduced and Abandoned61%
Fuck64%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Directed by John Ford70%
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies64%
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story75%