Director
A young boy creates a world of puppet friends using pieces of rubbish found in the street.
Director of Photography
A young boy creates a world of puppet friends using pieces of rubbish found in the street.
Himself / Narrator
In this short self-portrait, Ubu Films co-founder Perry mines his archive of family photographs, home videos and exhibited 16mm film to fast-forward, reverse and freeze-frame narratives and reminiscences.
Director
In this short self-portrait, Ubu Films co-founder Perry mines his archive of family photographs, home videos and exhibited 16mm film to fast-forward, reverse and freeze-frame narratives and reminiscences.
Director
An experimental film by David E. Perry
Director of Photography
An intimate portrait of a son by a mother set to the boisterously pop Batman theme song.
Director
Photographer and filmmaker Perry’s concise film-poem uses graphic matches (grapefruits, balloons and bubbles) to convey anxieties about fatherhood.
Himself
In this kinetic tribute to his Ubu Films collaborator Perry, Thoms combined tests and offcuts from early films with film fragments found on Perry’s editing room at ABC-TV. The Textacolour marks were intended as homage to Perry’s pioneering handmade films.
Camera Operator
A minimalist exercise described by Thoms as ‘observing the effect of movement on perception within the framework of Ravel’s music’.
Director of Photography
A minimalist exercise described by Thoms as ‘observing the effect of movement on perception within the framework of Ravel’s music’.
Director
An experimental film by David Perry.
Director
An experimental film by David Perry.
Director
1967 David E. Perry short
Director
“The film was made spontaneously one afternoon in 1966. When a few friends got together... We were all in love with the film medium...” (Garry Shead)
Director
Records the backwaters and docklands of Sydney Harbour accompanying a young woman with a red umbrella.
Animation
In this film, David Perry scratched onto celluloid the numbers of a poem by Kurt Schwitters, which were projected beside the actor reciting it.
Animation
Made for inclusion in a student theatrical production at the University of Sydney, this film was based on an allegorical play by Antonin Artaud.
Editor
Made for inclusion in a student theatrical production at the University of Sydney, this film was based on an allegorical play by Antonin Artaud.
Cinematography
Made for inclusion in a student theatrical production at the University of Sydney, this film was based on an allegorical play by Antonin Artaud.
Director
An animated film using simplified and abstract forms, symbolising nuclear warfare.
