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.

The story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.

Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality and security is. After losing his job, he checks his bank balance and finds he has only 'three dollars' to his name.

The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock market. When he joins O'Reilly's fold, he must first prove his loyalty to the "greed is good" ethos. Which way will he go? What does he have to hide?

A lesbian private detective falls in love with a suspect in the disappearance of a young woman. The film is based on the verse novel of the same name by Australian poet Dorothy Porter.

Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his brothers, Stevie and Glenn, for the next 24 hours, it becomes clear this day will not end well.

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.

뉴질랜드의 한적한 시골, 1남 4녀 중 둘째딸로 태어남 자넷(Janet Frame as a child: 카렌 페구슨 분)은 잔뜩 부풀려진 빨간 머리와 뚱뚱한 몸매 그리고 못생긴 얼굴로 친구들에게조차 소외당하는 천덕꾸러기다. 친구들의 관심을 끌고자 아버지의 돈을 훔쳐 눈깔사탕을 한웅큼 사서 친구들에게 나눠주지만 무서운 선생님에게 들켜 자넷(Janet Frame as adolescent: 알렉시아 케이 분)의 작전은 물거품으로 돌아가는데...

초월적인 힘에 의해 삶이 결정된다고 믿고 있던 케이(Kay: 카렌 콜스톤 분)는 내성적인 성격에도 불구하고, 이마에 물음표가 있는 남자를 만나게 되리라는 점장이의 말을 듣고는 앞머리가 그 모양을 한 동료의 약혼자 루이스(Louis: 톰 라이콘스 분)를 유혹해 자신의 남자로 만든다. 동거를 시작한지 1년이 되자 루이스는 그것을 기몃하기 위해 들에 묘목 한 그루를 심는다. 그러나 나무에 대해 까닭모를 공포감을 지니고 있는 케이는 강박관념에 시달린 나머지 루이스 몰래 그 묘목을 뽑아버린다. 그로 인해 두 사람의 관계는 다소 어색해지고 만다. 그 무렵 제멋대로이고 자아 도취에 빠져있는 케이의 언니 스위티가 밥이라는 남자를 데리고 나타남으로써 순식간에 케이의 삶은 혼란스러워진다. 게다가 무조건적으로 스위티만을 편애함으로써 어린 시절 케이를 외롭게 만들었던 아버지 고든의 연이은 방문은 더욱 스위티의 어리광을 부채질하게 되는데 고든에게 스위티는 그저 사랑스럽고 천진난만한 어린아이일 뿐이다. 마침내 온가족이 모였지만 자신의 뜻대로 되지 않자 흥분한 스위티는 온몸에 진흙을 칠하고 통나무집에 올라가 난동을 피우는데 그녀의 몸무게를 견디지 못한 집이 무너지는 바람에 숨을 거두고 만다. 그녀의 죽음으로 남은 가족들은 실로 오랜만에 평화를 되찾는다.

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 lives on a sheep farm with her father in New Zealand. When Toss's father dies in an accident, Ethan, an itinerant hunter, wanders onto the family farm and is given a job by her grandfather. Toss's fairly innocent relationship with Ethan is severed when he forms a relationship with her mother.

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.