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- A dying writer bases his last book on his own perception of his family.
- A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.
- Aboriginal woman Manganinnie survives a Black Line raid which claims the life of her husband, Meenopeekameena.
- A personal and nostalgic film about an apartment building in Bayswater where Ken Russell once lived, and about the other residents who inhabited it; a lovely send-off as the building is demolished to make way for an unattractive and bland office.
- Mindbender is the story of Uri Geller, probably the world's most famous psychic. The film shows his rise to fame from small shows in the middle east where he amazed audiences with his parapsychological feats of spoon-bending and clock-fixing. Terence Stamp plays a scientist who brings him to America.
- Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.
- Guests arrive at an expensive private guest house on a remote island near Sydney. The guest house and weird activities, like theatre sports and orienteering, are run by a leery eccentric. One of the guests is a loner and the only way to fit in with the crowd is to participate in the questionable events. Some of the games border between comedy and horror - like the murder mystery.
- Arrigo Boito's Il Mefestefele, his best-known work, was first performed in 1868. Ken Russell's modern interpretation presented by the Genoese Opera has Faust as an ageing hippie, smoking marijuana and being tormented by his lost youth. Mephisto makes a bet with God that he can turn anyone to pagan life, even someone as innocent as Faust. Thus ensues a battle of good against evil in a flamboyant, surreal display of primary colours, PVC costumes, nurses with swastikas, rocket trips, love, and even characters dressed as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. Ken Russell explained the contemporary setting by claiming that the devil is always with us.
- A man and his wife are partners in a small business, a service station, that is stuggling to survive financially. They are visited by his brother, a divorced middle-aged man, who has taken a break from his stressful career in a big business corporation.
- A violent man (Bryan Brown), who ostensibly has a slight mental illness due to fillings in his teeth, continues to write letters to his estranged girlfriend, Kris McQuade. She sees that he expresses himself more dearly in his letters and he is still quick tempered when they try to rekindle their relationship.
- A series of humorous vignettes set in a clinic for venereal diseases. Although the film concentrates on relationships, it is also a source of instruction on safe sexual practices and STD (the script-writer worked at a clinic for three years!).
- A short film which has its emphasis on back street walls with peeling posters and the constant pedestrian traffic in the foreground. It has a static camera positioned in front of the walls; experimental editing techniques, no dialogue-just background music, and quick edits of blackness throughout.
- This docu-drama highlights the complexities of compensation through the legal system for medical malpractice. For when the mother attempts to investigate the hospital procedure of using forceps to deliver her now retarded child, her husband frowns upon this and would rather ignore the whole thing.
- Tells of the conflicts facing Al 'The Bomb' Dawson, a rising Aboriginal boxer preparing to make a challenge for the championship.
- Young Amelia is feeling distressed and guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. She notices an angel and follows it into a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, bathed in heavenly light, is an artist's model: The Angel. The painter ascends a ladder until he is out of shot, supposedly climbing to heaven, because when he reappears he restores Amelia's joy with a pair of wings.
- A young white city lawyer arrives in a small Queensland country town to represent an Aboriginal lady in court. She faces minor charges of assault and thinks she will get off lightly if she, 'Plead guilty, Get a bond'. The young lawyer is amazed she is not asserting her rights.
- An elderly woman who is treated as a simple-minded invalid, periodically escapes to sit by the river and listen to the races on her radio. There she befriends Charlie, a woman who has come to seek a new life in the country.
- This is a documentary tribute with the widows of four British composers: William Walton, Bernard George Stevens, Benjamin Frankel, and Humphrey Searle; and with performances of each composer's work played by THE BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
- When a Filipino mail order bride arrives in a small town outside of Sydney she becomes aware of cultural differences by way of the inherent sexism and racism of her husband and his mates. She sees the Aboriginal living conditions in the country town as being not too far removed from the country she has left.
- Arguably the most famous of all underground films in Australia. The non-narrative short features quick edits of numerous naked breasts accompanied by a rock song. The title song has the singer express his infatuation and 'why' he likes "Boobs A Lot". The film was banned for eighteen months by the censors.
- A young nature photographer hesitantly accepts an assignment to shoot for a fashion magazine which takes him to a ski resort. He leaves his loved ones behind and further distances himself by obsessively following a falcon around the snow fields, apparently in a quest for self-fulfilment.
- A short film about female sexuality, making the viewer aware of body image and attitudes towards it by frequent images of two naked females and close-up shots of areas that make them female. The two women discuss what makes them paranoid; fearful, doubtful and also joyful and erotic, in relation to their own bodies.
- A partly dramatised account of the life of Sir Edward Elgar classical composer. Huw Wheldon narrates the life story over backdrops of beautiful mountain scenery, especially memorable is the image of young Elgar riding his horse around Malvern Hills.
- A documentary on French film composer Georges Delerue who composed scores for 'Ken Russell' films _French Dressing (1963)_ and _Women In Love (1970)_ as well as films for Alain Resnais and other French directors. The film title is a play on Shoot the Pianist a film he scored in 1960.