Victorian College of the Arts

Ruby has nothing in Melbourne: no home, no job, no friends, no contacts.

Doug and Phil are mates from way back growing up on the edge of a knife in rural Australia. Doug is the local up and coming football hero, Phil is the different one, who doesn't fit in. One very drunken evening in front of the TV something happens and the code is broken and inevitable crash must happen.

A porn addict's life falls apart.

A distant boy and a disturbed girl discover a blue tongue nest, but not all is as it appears.

A nephew recalls the sometimes-lonely and often-eccentric life of his beloved uncle.

The theatre company of a forgotten town puts on one last performance to escape the reality of their home fading away into nothingness.

Following the disappearance of her girlfriend a trans filmmaker discovers EmileCam, a 24-hour livestream which had been devoted to spying on her.

No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, who for the past 10 years has been going out into public spaces and covering over for-profit advertising in various ways. The film is a snapshot of his latest approach, which is to black-out advertising panels in protest of the way the media system, which is funded by advertising, is dominated by for-profit interests that have taken over public spaces and discourse. Kyle’s view is that real democracy requires a democratic media system, not one funded and controlled by the rich. As this film follows Kyle on a regular day of action, he reflects on fatherhood, democracy, what drives the protest, and his struggle with depression, as we learn that “it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

A hitman encounters opposition from the organisation he works for when he decides to leave his job for the woman he loves. Fists, feet and bullets fly in the explosive finale.

A middle-aged drug dealer and her teenage partner-in-crime raise hell in the suburbs.

An illicit affair, a mysterious illness, a birth, a death and a reunion. Tony narrates from beyond the grave the strange tragedy of his life.

A young Chinese celebrity is called into an emergency meeting after a fan of his commits suicide.

Traffic is delayed on the edge of a roadwork site, but what are the council workers doing? A privileged encounter with a secret somber ritual of working men. This is the second in Andrew Kavanagh’s trilogy (after the successful "At The Formal’) exploring tribalism and ritual in contemporary society.

Unable to overcome her sister's death or compete with her legacy, Lyssa risks sabotaging her own boxing career and personal life.

Amira, an avid gardener living in a company town controlled by the powerful EdenCorp, is shattered by the sudden and mysterious death of her husband. EdenCorp’s Acquisition Manager, Alex, arrives at her front doorstep demanding that she vacate her cherished home, accompanied by unassuming employee, Jordan, hinting at foul play by the company. Pushed to her breaking point, Amira is determined not to lose the one place that still holds the memory of her husband, and she hatches a meticulous plan for revenge.

In the wake of World War Two Ukrainian Olesya, living in a migrant camp in the Australian bush with her husband, struggles to come to terms with her pregnancy as she relives the trauma of losing her first child.

A short film about yearning, and wanting to act on a love you know you can't.

The Surrogate.

Vic finds a room to rent in a metal band’s decrepit Brunswick share house. Her relief at finding shelter during a housing crisis, however, crumbles away faster than the lead paint peeling off the walls. The house, which doesn’t seem to show up on maps, features a shower that either burns or freezes, a ceiling with holes that have holes of their own, strange plant life that spills forth from every crack in the walls – and Terry, a housemate who seems aggressively unbothered by any of it. All of this would be fine with Vic if it weren’t for two problems: her sleep deprivation from being woken by a horrible, foundation-shaking screaming noise from behind a mysterious locked door; and her unshakeable impression that something inside the house is getting very hungry.

Cinema clerks Silva and Felix work the final night before their beloved cinema is demolished by private investors. An empty final screening allows them to reflect on the meaning of cinema in an age wherein art no longer occupies physical space.