An Australian narrator reflects on a year spent living in Amsterdam. An essay style film shot in Super 8 and digitally animated in After Effects, Buiten is a story about being an outsider looking into one of the world's great citites. Buiten was a finalist in the Portable/Lonely Planet Worldwide Encounters Film Festival. Buiten screened at the Falls Creek Film festival and The Cambridge Super 8 festival.
Melbourne's Punjabi taxi drivers meet after their shifts at the Red Pepper Indian restaurant. Outsiders in a foreign land, they find solidarity and companionship by sharing the cuisine of their homeland. An observational documentary, Night Fare follows one driver as he steps out of the cold night and into the bustle of this early morning scene. What emerges is an impression of a lively and unknown pocket of a culture establishing itself in the heart of a sleeping metropolis.
Winner of the Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) Award for Best Tertiary Documentary and a finalist in the 2010 F4 Film Festival at the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC).
The film is part of a larger online project about Melbourne Indian taxi drivers found at http://www.nightfare.com.au
Suburbs can be a violent place for teenage boys. Four men recount stories of experiencing an attack during their adolescence. From the mildly threatening through to the utterly tragic, masculine aggression is an unpredictable companion in the Australian urban sprawl.
Works by the Don't You Have Docs? crew in Melbourne, Australia. James Arneman, William Head, Katie Mitchell and Vessal Safaei studied documentary filmmaking together at the Victorian College of the Arts and Music. Since then they have collaborated on a variety of personal and commissioned projects. Here they present some of their non-fiction work.
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