Tom Zubrycki Movies

  • 1981
    Waterloo

    Waterloo

    Waterloo

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    The film outlines the history of the redevelopment of the Sydney suburb of Waterloo. Residents are interviewed and archival footage is used to...

    Waterloo
  • 2024
    Aquarius

    Aquarius

    Aquarius

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    The dawning of the Aquarius Festival in Nimbin 1973 – an alternative gathering embraced by activists, hippies, and radicals that changed a town...

    Aquarius
  • 1993
    Homelands: View from the Edge

    Homelands: View from the Edge

    Homelands: View from the Edge

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    In his first exploration of the migration experience, Zubrycki poses the question ‘When the fighting stops, how do you make choices about where...

    Homelands: View from the Edge
  • 1984
    Kemira: Diary of a Strike

    Kemira: Diary of a Strike

    Kemira: Diary of a Strike

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    Weeks before the closure of a Wollongong coal mine, a group of 31 miners occupied the pit and established themselves 5 kilometres underground. The...

    Kemira: Diary of a Strike
  • 1987
    Friends & Enemies

    Friends & Enemies

    Friends & Enemies

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    One thousand power workers went on strike against the South East Queensland Electrical Board (SEQEB)in February 1985 in protest against the...

    Friends & Enemies
  • 1977
    The Addison Road Drop-In

    The Addison Road Drop-In

    The Addison Road Drop-In

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    The Sydney suburb of Marrickville has Australia’s ‘first, largest and longest-surviving community centre’; it is shown here in the...

    The Addison Road Drop-In
  • 1977
    Addison Road Drop-In

    Addison Road Drop-In

    Addison Road Drop-In

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    A video that looks at some of the marginalised young people who come to the Addison Road Drop-In Centre in Marrickville. Interviews with both the...

    Addison Road Drop-In
  • 1976
    The Painters and Dockers Strike

    The Painters and Dockers Strike

    The Painters and Dockers Strike

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    A video made by filmmakers Tom Zubrycki and Russ Hermann, in collaboration with members of the Federated Ship Painters And Dockers Union of...

    The Painters and Dockers Strike
  • 1974
    We Have To Live With It

    We Have To Live With It

    We Have To Live With It

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    A community video made by Tom Zubrycki and the residents of Balmain and Rozelle that documents concerns held by residents and local businesses about...

    We Have To Live With It
  • 1974
    Fig Street Fiasco

    Fig Street Fiasco

    Fig Street Fiasco

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    Residents take on the bulldozers and the police in Tom Zubrycki’s look at urban redevelopment in Sydney in the 1970s. It is a 'process video'...

    Fig Street Fiasco
  • 1989
    Strangers in Paradise

    Strangers in Paradise

    Strangers in Paradise

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    On the eve of bicentennial celebrations, Strangers in Paradise looks at Australian culture through the eyes of tourists on a ‘Dreamtime’...

    Strangers in Paradise
  • 1990
    Lord of the Bush

    Lord of the Bush

    Lord of the Bush

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    Eccentric British developer Lord McAlpine has a dream – an urge to create a whole new civilisation in Australia’s North based around the...

    Lord of the Bush
  • 1991
    Bran Nue Dae

    Bran Nue Dae

    Bran Nue Dae

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    Goes behind the scenes of the original stage production of Bran Nue Dae, which was eventually adapted into the box-office hit musical.

    Bran Nue Dae