Documentary
140 articles
A Race to the Goal: Adam Goodes’ Story in The Final Quarter and The Australian Dream
History Is Never Finished: Trauma, Revolution and Reconciliation in Peter Hegedus’ Lili
Sexual Healing: Feminism, Porn and Self-acceptance in Morgana
Ghost in the Algorithm: Justin Krook’s Machine and Advancing AI
Everybody’s Still Kung-fu Fighting: Serge Ou’s Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Mother Tongue: She Who Must Be Obeyed Loved and Aboriginal Women’s Stories
Soaring with Her Own Wings: Em Baker on Marriage, Movie-making and I Am No Bird
Into the Void: Stop the Boats and Refugee Activism on Screen
The Winding Road Home: Kaye Harrison on Displacement, Detention andd Sanctuary
Same Old Tune: Mythologisation and the Music Documentary
Seeds of Change: Damon Gameau’s 2040 and Sustainable Futures
Destructive Pasts, Hopeful Possibilities: The Simulated Environment in Awavena and Did You Ask the River?
Dying a Woman With Dignity: Becoming Colleen and Late-life Gender Transition
Hitting the Right Note: Janine Hosking’s The Eulogy and the Perils of Praise
Setting the Record Straight: Greg Carey and Wade Jackson’s Waiting: The Van Duren Story
The Cost of Country: Capital and Ownership in Undermined: Tales from the Kimberley
Home on the Rocks: Blue Lucine on Displacement and The Eviction
Age of Acceptance: Community and Inclusion in Sue Thomson’s The Coming Back Out Ball Movie
Rhetoric and Reminiscence: Graham Freudenberg, Political Memory and The Scribe
Greener Pastures: Tradition and Modernity in Grace McKenzie’s In the Land of the Wolves
Heading for Deep Water: Interrogating Detention in Gabrielle Brady’s Island of the Hungry Ghosts
In Search of Sanctuary: Refugee Realities in Robyn Hughan’s Journey Beyond Fear
Howls from the Underground: Persecution, Protest Music and Travis Beard’s RocKabul
Stirring Up Spectres: Ben Lawrence’s Ghosthunter and the Documentarian’s Duty of Care
Giving Time: Richard Todd’s Dying to Live and Organ Donation
Lives Adrift: Julian Burnside and Judy Rymer on Border Politics
Jumping Hurdles: Rehabilitation, Reconnection and Catherine Scott’s BackTrack Boys
For Richer or Poorer: Marriage, Market Economics and Olivia Martin-McGuire’s China Love
Power and the Personality: Ray Argall’s Midnight Oil: 1984
As Long as You Love Me: Jessica Leski’s I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story
Obstructed Progress: Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow and the Global Refugee Crisis
Echoes of Tradition: Paul Williams’ Elegy for Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Creation in the Cutting Room: Jill Bilcock on the Art of Film Editing
Portrait of a Man Condemned: Matthew Sleeth’s Guilty
Colonial Inquest: Les McLaren and Annie Stiven’s Life Is a Very Strange Thing
Singing One’s Story: Keeping Custom and Country in Westwind: Djalu’s Legacy
‘Don’t Do It Again’: Hearing, Seeing and Deep Listening in After the Apology
Changing Tides: Karina Holden’s Blue, the Enviro-doc and Conservationism
