Albie Thoms Movies
- 2022
Senses of Cinema
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As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking...
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 1980
Palm Beach
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The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days.
- 1967
The Film
The Film01967HD
“The film was made spontaneously one afternoon in 1966. When a few friends got together... We were all in love with the film medium...”...
- 1966
Blunderball, or from Dr. Nofinger with Hate
Blunderball, or from Dr. Nofinger with Hate01966HD
A spoof of the early James Bond films and Ian Fleming universe from Australia. Bumbling overweight Aussie secret service agent Jim Bond alias Agent...
- 1973
Sunshine City
Sunshine City01973HD
SUNSHINE CITY is Albie Thom’s sprawling, protoplasmic experimental portrait of his hometown of Sydney. The National Film and Sound Archive of...
- 1967
Bolero
Bolero01967HD
A minimalist exercise described by Thoms as ‘observing the effect of movement on perception within the framework of Ravel’s music’.
- 1967
Bluto
Bluto01967HD
Thoms dedicated three months and a toolkit of pins, razor blades and scalpels to create the rich, abstract surface texture in Bluto. The result,...
- 1968
David Perry
David Perry01968HD
In this kinetic tribute to his Ubu Films collaborator Perry, Thoms combined tests and offcuts from early films with film fragments found on...
- 1969
Marinetti
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Albie Thoms' Marinetti was the culmination of the synthetic environments that the UBU group had pioneered in Australia; festive public 'happenings'...
- 1965
The Spurt of Blood
The Spurt of Blood01965HD
Made for inclusion in a student theatrical production at the University of Sydney, this film was based on an allegorical play by Antonin Artaud.
- 1967
Moon Virility
Moon Virility01967HD
In Moon virility, Thoms drew on clear stock and added a ‘found’ soundtrack.
- 1965
Poem 25
Poem 2501965HD
In this film, David Perry scratched onto celluloid the numbers of a poem by Kurt Schwitters, which were projected beside the actor reciting it.
- 1966
Rita and Dundi
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This experimental documentary about two young Paddington dress-makers was banned for nudity, but was screened widely in Australia without complaint.
- 1995
Akai Ghost Poems
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A compilation of video footage from the Yellow House, Potts Point, Sydney, July 1971.
- 1968
Tobias Icarus Age Four
Tobias Icarus Age Four01968HD
An intimate portrait of a son by a mother set to the boisterously pop Batman theme song.
- 1966
Man and His World
Man and His World01966HD
A one-second explosion of a plastic head filled with milk is reversed, stretched to 50 seconds in length and overlaid with a split screen...