AblazeThe true story of the first Aboriginal filmmaker William 'Bill' Onus.
Ablaze tells the story of Bill Onus, a Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri man from Victoria, a truly heroic cultural and political figure who revived his people's culture in the 1940s and ignited a civil rights movement that would, against enormous odds, change the course of history.
Through rare archival footage, state-of-the-art animation, vividly created digital motion graphics and eye-witness accounts, Ablaze is the compelling tale – part detective story, part contemporary opera – of how Bill and his supporters brilliantly orchestrated their campaign for equality through performance, entertainment, film and sheer audacity outsmarted mighty forces seeking to destroy Indigenous cultures, languages, and communities.
CamerapersonA boxing match in Brooklyn; life in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into CAMERAPERSON, a tapestry of footage captured over the twenty-five-year career of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson.
Through a series of episodic juxtapositions, Johnson explores the relationships between image makers and their subjects, the tension between the objectivity and intervention of the camera, and the complex interaction of unfiltered reality and crafted narrative. A work that combines documentary, autobiography, and ethical inquiry, Cameraperson is both a moving glimpse into one filmmaker’s personal journey and a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world.
Charles Chauvel CollectionRespected pioneer of Australian cinema, filmmaker Charles Chauvel established a name and reputation for quintessential Aussie storytelling in an era where Hollywood films abound. His distinguished output is represented here in the most comprehensive collection of his work ever put together, featuring The Moth of Moonbi (1926), Greenhide (1926), In The Wake of The Bounty (1933), Heritage (1935), Uncivilised (1936), Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940), The Rats of Tobruk (1944) Sons of Matthew (1949) and Jedda (1955) which is arguably his most famous film as it was screened and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.
Picture StoriesHOW ONE MAGAZINE TRANSFORMED BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY
Picture Post was Britain's best-selling weekly magazine during the 1940s and early 50s. Through its picture stories, Picture Post pioneered a completely new approach to the portrayal of British life, and in doing so helped to shape modern British photography.
PICTURE STORIES, a feature-length documentary, explores that revolution through the eyes of some of Britain’s leading documentary and street photographers, and through archive interviews with Picture Post photographers, writers and editors.
When the Camera Stopped RollingEight years in the making, Jane Castle’s poignant documentary about her filmmaker mother Lilias Fraser is an intimate mother-daughter story and eye-opening chronicle of women’s roles in the film industry.
NMT Screen & Media Graduate Films Digital Collection
