Movies

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

A minimalist exercise described by Thoms as ‘observing the effect of movement on perception within the framework of Ravel’s music’.

A spoof of the early James Bond films and Ian Fleming universe from Australia. Bumbling overweight Aussie secret service agent Jim Bond alias Agent...

In this film, David Perry scratched onto celluloid the numbers of a poem by Kurt Schwitters, which were projected beside the actor reciting it.

“The film was made spontaneously one afternoon in 1966. When a few friends got together... We were all in love with the film medium...”...

A compilation of video footage from the Yellow House, Potts Point, Sydney, July 1971.

In Moon virility, Thoms drew on clear stock and added a ‘found’ soundtrack.

As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking...

Thoms dedicated three months and a toolkit of pins, razor blades and scalpels to create the rich, abstract surface texture in Bluto. The result,...

Albie Thoms' Marinetti was the culmination of the synthetic environments that the UBU group had pioneered in Australia; festive public 'happenings'...

This experimental documentary about two young Paddington dress-makers was banned for nudity, but was screened widely in Australia without complaint.

In this kinetic tribute to his Ubu Films collaborator Perry, Thoms combined tests and offcuts from early films with film fragments found on...

The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days.

SUNSHINE CITY is Albie Thom’s sprawling, protoplasmic experimental portrait of his hometown of Sydney. The National Film and Sound Archive of...

Made for inclusion in a student theatrical production at the University of Sydney, this film was based on an allegorical play by Antonin Artaud.

An intimate portrait of a son by a mother set to the boisterously pop Batman theme song.

A one-second explosion of a plastic head filled with milk is reversed, stretched to 50 seconds in length and overlaid with a split screen...