John Maynard

50 years ago, Sydneysiders were shocked and the art world astonished by Christo's wrapping of the Little Bay coastline. Hungarian migrant and entrepreneur John Kaldor, who initiated this monumental work, has said “it all started with a stale sandwich, in Christo's studio in 1968 New York.” Now, Project 34 (by Asad Raza) is about to be unveiled, and UK artist Michael Landy is designing the exhibition to celebrate 50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects.

In 1968, John Weiley shot 'Autopsy on a Dream' - a film about the Sydney Opera House detailing its construction process and the politics of Jorn Utzon's dismissal. Weiley's film was controversial; it was screened once and then he was told it had been destroyed. Forty five years later a copy was discovered in the BBC vaults by an ABC producer looking for archive footage of the Opera House. Weiley was contacted and told about a film that had no sound track. Weiley was overjoyed; for years he had kept the original sound. So began the painstaking process of restoring this record of a unique moment in Australian culture to its former glory, complete with updated voice-over from the original narrator, Bob Ellis. It is set in context by a 30 minute prologue entitled 'The Dream of Perfection'. Made by the same filmmaker, John Weiley, forty-five years on, 'Dream of Perfection' tells the story of the 1968 film - from commission to destruction, to surprise resurrection.

A tender story from Australia highlights the realistic ups and downs of an Australian family in the year following a parent's emergency medical procedure.

Basada en las memorias de Raimond Gaita, Romulus my father nos cuenta la historia de cómo Gaita se escapó de su casa en su Rumanía natal a la edad de 13 años, llegando a Australia con su joven esposa Christine y su hijo de 4 años poco después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Es una película sobre un hombre compasivo y honesto, que enseñó a su hijo el significado de llevar una vida decente.

Eddie es un hombre de principios, con una esposa, una hija y una hipoteca y lleva una vida aparentemente estable y feliz como asesor de tierras del gobierno. Sin embargo, cuando las fuerzas del cambio económico y social amenazan esto, se da cuenta de cuán frágil es su realidad y seguridad. Después de perder su trabajo, revisa su saldo bancario y descubre que solo tiene 'tres dólares' a su nombre.

Jim, un genio de las matemáticas, busca una fórmula que le permita predecir los vaivenes de la Bolsa. Por su parte, O'Reilly, presidente de un banco a quien los directivos del establecimiento planean despedir por su mala gestión, supone que contratando una inteligencia como la de Jim podrá recuperar el aprecio de sus superiores. (FILMAFFINITY)

Jill Fitzpatrick es una detective privado sin empleo. Ansiosa de adrenalina, acepta un trabajo investigando la desaparición de una joven estudiante llamada Mikie. Le sigue la pista gracias a su seductora profesora Diana. Pero no pasa mucho tiempo antes de que Mikie sea hallada estrangulada. Jill se adentrará en una apasionada relación con Diana y juntas buscarán al culpable...

Brett Sprague es un hombre violento y psicópata, que está en libertad condicional después de cumplir una condena por agresión. Cuando regresa a la casa de su familia y lo observamos a él y sus hermanos, Stevie y Glenn, durante las próximas 24 horas, queda claro que este día no terminará bien.

Mick's father, Barry, sells the family piano, causing Mick's mother, Irene to leave. In order to raise enough money to buy the piano back, Mick dresses in his mother's clothes and becomes Michelle to join an all-girl band that has come into town for the annual harvest festival. Angela, the leader of the band, starts to question her sexuality when she begins to fall in love with Mick/Michelle.

A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them collapsing, and tragedy subsequently striking.

Sam is a sound technician, who must literally walk in the footsteps of the characters on the screen. A "film within a film" that connects the world of modern film-making to the Paris of painter Toulouse-Lautrec and his model/lover Mireille.

Adaptación de la autobiografía de la escritora Janet Frame. Nacida en una familia pobre y muy numerosa, desde muy pequeña se sintió diferente a los demás niños. Aunque estudió para maestra, fue considerada una persona anormal y, por tanto, fue encerrada en una institución para enfermos mentales durante ocho años. Alcanzó el éxito cuando empezó a escribir libros

Film sobre las relaciones humanas y familiares, la superstición, el miedo y los esfuerzos para conservar el amor en un mundo que no se puede controlar. El debut de Campion constituye un estudio de caracteres femeninos más bien desequilibrados.

14-year old Steve is caught between creatures he does not fully understand: two parents with very different ideas about the suit he should wear to his first school dance. Meanwhile everywhere he seems to look, images of men are taking control of his imagination. In Stewart Main's comical coming of age story Steve escapes his parents' good wishes, to discover his true desires. They aren't quite what his no-nonsense father had in mind.

Toss vive en una granja de ovejas con su padre en Nueva Zelanda. Cuando el padre de Toss muere en un accidente, Ethan, un cazador itinerante, vaga a la granja familiar y su abuelo le da un trabajo. La relación bastante inocente de Toss con Ethan se rompe cuando él establece una relación con su madre.

The story means to develop through an uncovering of layers - strata. As writer Krumbachova stated: "With nature as a prison, an impassable barrier ... where every action is physically and psychically limited by the environment ... people are reduced to fragments of basic instinct and intelligence." Promoted as a psychological thriller, Strata provides little tension nor any real climax. The characters are ideas - not believably real.

Expat Kiwi Rewi Alley became one of the best known foreigners in 20th Century China and advocate for the Communist Revolution. When China was under siege from Japan in the late 1930s, Alley instigated an industrial co-op movement he termed ‘gung ho' (work together). Its success led to the phrase entering the global idiom. For this documentary a Geoff Steven-led crew travelled 15,000km in China in 1979, filming Alley as he gave his account of an engrossing, complex life story. Co-writer Geoff Chapple later wrote a biography of Alley.

In small town Carlton Bob, the head of the Progressive Association, the local accountant and the boxing coach at the men-only gym, hires a masseuse from Auckland. Sandra is quite happy to give straight massage, but Bob pressures her to give "city massages". The wives are disturbed by her presence - perhaps with some justification. The climax occurs when accountant Phil, wants to leave his wife for Sandra; but when she rejects him, he smashes up the gym. The boys rally round to hush up Phil's indiscretion.