Movies: Nigel Buesst

  • 1993
    Thread of Voice

    Thread of Voice (1993)

    Thread of Voice

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    Arf Arf is a sound poetry (voice and gesticulation) group. They describe their first film together as 'songs nailed together in a film'. The film is not given over to simply recording a performance of sound poetry but is worked out as a filmic combin...

    Thread of Voice
  • 1971
    Bonjour Balwyn

    Bonjour Balwyn (1971)

    Bonjour Balwyn

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    Kevin leaves a job in insurance to start his own magazine. As his debts mount, Kevin’s prospects begin to look brighter in the criminal world....

    Bonjour Balwyn
  • 1999
    Desire

    Desire (1999)

    Desire

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    Several interconnecting stories of love, loss, desire and despair, among both gay and straight characters. The main story concerns Anna, a successful but lonely novelist, who falls for Finola, a vivacious young writing student, who is involved with t...

    Desire
  • 1988
    Compo

    Compo (1988)

    Compo

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    Compo is a comedy set in a government unemployment-compensation office....

    Compo
  • 1973
    Come Out Fighting

    Come Out Fighting (1973)

    Come Out Fighting

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    Aboriginal boxer Al Dawson is torn by the demands of fight promoters and aboriginal protestors. He eventually decides to reject them all and gives away his chance at a world title....

    Come Out Fighting
  • 1978
    Jacka V.C.

    Jacka V.C. (1978)

    Jacka V.C.

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    Documentary about the First World War hero and later St. Kilda Mayor. Today Albert Jacka is almost forgotten, yet his heroic feats captured the imagination of a generation. In the early decades of the century he personified the archetypal Australian....

    Jacka V.C.
  • 1969
    The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor

    The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor (1969)

    The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor

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    About the life of the notorious 1920s Melbourne Australian gangster Squizzy Taylor including interviews and re-enactments....

    The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor
  • 1966
    The Twentieth

    The Twentieth (1966)

    The Twentieth

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    In December 1965 there was a jazz convention in Sydney. This attempt to record the event has lain unseen ever since, but the passing of the decades reveals the significance of change....

    The Twentieth
  • 1987
    With Time to Kill

    With Time to Kill (1987)

    With Time to Kill

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    Filmed on location in Melbourne this is a tale of justice and revenge when two cops decide that the court system has failed and it is now up to them to take the law into their own hands. Cast includes Ian Scott, Elizabeth Huntley, Jan Friedl, James C...

    With Time to Kill
  • 1971
    Sympathy in Summer

    Sympathy in Summer (1971)

    Sympathy in Summer

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    Sympathy in Summer tells the story of young student Lenny's (Vincent Griffith's) first affairs of the heart, starting out with a weekend at the beach, but then ending in betrayal and tears....

    Sympathy in Summer
  • 1970
    Dead Easy

    Dead Easy (1970)

    Dead Easy

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    A student of criminology is completing a thesis on Melbourne mass murderers. With the aid of a German professor he visits the scenes of the crimes of Frederick Deeming, Norman List, Arnold Sodeman and Edward Leonski and reconstructs them....

    Dead Easy
  • 2010
    Darwin Harbour

    Darwin Harbour (2010)

    Darwin Harbour

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    A film about Darwin, exploring the events that led to the establishment of Australia’s main northern city. Images from the past and present reveal the early struggles to establish a permanent settlement. Culminating in the untold story of the epic vo...

    Darwin Harbour
  • 1996
    Benny Featherstone: Prince of Good Fellows

    Benny Featherstone: Prince of Good Fellows (1996)

    Benny Featherstone: Prince of Good Fellows

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    The life and times of a legendary Melbourne musician who lived life with the brakes off. Arguably the first notable Australian jazz improvisor, he mastered many instruments - trumpet, trombone, clarinet and piano. But most of all he was and excellent...

    Benny Featherstone: Prince of Good Fellows
  • 2003
    Lovesick

    Lovesick (2003)

    Lovesick

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    A couple, Steve and Louise, quit their respective office jobs, deciding to follow their inner desires and their aspirations to be artistic....

    Lovesick
  • 2000
    Gerry Humphrys: The Loved One

    Gerry Humphrys: The Loved One (2000)

    Gerry Humphrys: The Loved One

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    When singer and clarinetist Gerry Humphrys moved from Britain to Australia in 1957, he quickly became one of the most popular and influential musicians in his adopted homeland. Humphrys' jazz combo, the Red Onion Jazz Band, was widely regarded as Aus...

    Gerry Humphrys: The Loved One
  • 1978
    Astral Projections

    Astral Projections (1978)

    Astral Projections

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    Ken, a dithering aspirant to the counter culture, returns from an abortive trip to Bali only to find things worse in Melbourne. A tragi-comedy detailing a young man's humiliation and inability to communicate....

    Astral Projections
  • 1983
    Jazz Scrapbook

    Jazz Scrapbook (1983)

    Jazz Scrapbook

    01983HD

    The only doco to record the early years of Australian jazz. This lovingly compiled celluloid history of the Melbourne jazz scene is a fascinating study of an era and a social milieu, as well as a music documentary. Revisit Melbourne's early years wit...

    Jazz Scrapbook
  • 2003
    Carlton + Godard = Cinema

    Carlton + Godard = Cinema (2003)

    Carlton + Godard = Cinema

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    A study of the short films made in Carlton during the Sixties, when film makers like Graeme Cutts, Peter Fisher, Geoff Gardner, Antony I. Ginnane contributed to a kind of Australian New Wave to match the revolution in theatre at La Mama. The influenc...

    Carlton + Godard = Cinema
  • 1997
    Black Sheep Gathers No Moss

    Black Sheep Gathers No Moss (1997)

    Black Sheep Gathers No Moss

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    A girl recalls three generations of the family history, how mother was conceived in the year of the Yarra floods and how life in the 1920's was no less a soap opera that it is today. Unique footage of early Melbourne....

    Black Sheep Gathers No Moss
  • 1971
    The Destruction of St. Patrick's College 1971

    The Destruction of St. Patrick's College 1971 (1971)

    The Destruction of St. Patrick's College 1971

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    As the wreckers ball lays waste to a fine set of old building in East Melbourne a visiting professor considers the value of our national identity....

    The Destruction of St. Patrick's College 1971