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Animations that explore the idea of time and how our perception can be altered by personal experiences, histories and desires.

A Photo of Me 2017 dir. Dennis Tupicoff (10:49 mins)

"I'm a baby in a 1950s backyard, facing a box camera. I'm a sleepy child at the Darra "pictures", waking up to a film noir, watching a doomed man. My mind flickers from past to present, in memories and dreams. The man dies. Click! The photo is taken. I walk home from the "pictures", fast asleep." Dennis Tupicoff

The Projectionist 2002 dir. Michael Bates (14 mins)

"A projectionist departs the old, empty cinema where he has worked for many years. He has just projected his last film. As he passes through darkened city laneways, we witness a gallery of ghostly visions: projections seemingly from his past life; spectres of loved ones and visions cast upon walls and empty windows. Dramatically set to the music of Sergei Rachmaninov, The Isle of the Dead, The Projectionist is about memory and personal suffering.

The Projectionist was shot using the live-action animation technique known as Pixilation, long before the age of digital media. The cinematic technique results in a greater intensity of colour and light in the on-screen image, that cannot be created shooting at traditional filming speeds. All of the projections and cinematic effects used in the film were created in-camera." Anna Messariti

Dad’s Clock 2001 dir. Dik Jarman (6:33 mins)

"Dad started to build a timber clock after he was diagnosed with cancer. Dad's Clock is a story about a distant relationship which is ultimately resolved with the realisation that the passing of time would draw to an end." National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra

Footnote 2004 dir. Pia Borg (7:19 mins)

"Two characters inhabit separate floors of a building and communicate through the walls." Pia Borg

Sleight of Hand 2013 dir. Michael Cusack (10 mins)

"A set of techniques used by someone to manipulate objects secretly to deceive. This is a stop-motion film about illusions. A man yearns to know his place in the world and how he fits in, when sometimes it's better not to know." The Screen Guide

The Luminary 2005 dir. Nicholas Kallincos (9:26)

"A reclusive nocturnal etymologist grieves a death and longs to complete his insect collection as the seasons pass outside his door." Nicholas Kallincos

Dance of the Dead 2018 dir. Scarlet Sykes-Hesterman (4:15)

"When Australia’s latest extinct species descends to the world of the dead, a curious collection of creatures are ready and waiting to greet and welcome them into oblivion, and into this growing museum cabinet of The Extinct." Scarlet Sykes-Hesterman