Hamish Newcombe

A documentary about death (in one way or another)

August gives her insight on why she chose to transition and what she hopes for the future.

David's mourning of the death of a previous partner is interrupted by a girl named Nadia. Much to his surprise, she's here to do the same thing.

On the one-year anniversary of their friend's death, three reckless hedonists visit his gravesite. Their dead friend, in ghost form, confronts them about their behaviour and how it led to his death.

A short film comprising of two disconnected scenes from a romantic drama. In "Amy", Georgia tries to talk Austin out of cheating on his girlfriend. In "Not the World's Safest Bet", Austin and Georgia sit at a cafe a few months later and discuss the current nature of their relatonship.

Watch drug-addled friends through the eyes of a kaleidoscope. See coloured shapes dance and flail around. Witness people clubbing, getting beaten up, dancing and being used as human guinea pigs – all these in segments held together by two French teenagers finding themselves waiting for Godot. Experiment Three is another trip into the disturbing and bizarre world of public service announcements, contorted into something confronting and colourful.

REPAIRS AND MALFUNCTIONS is an independent thriller, created by August MacDonald. Two young modem repairmen, Harvey and Isaac, arrive at the house of a new customer, a gruff yet charming middle-aged man. Once they arrive, the Man convinces the two to stay longer than they should with the promise of drugs and alcohol. Over the course of their ill-timed hangout, the Man's true nature begins to seep through his charming facade. But by the time they realize, it may be too late.

Derek, the simple-minded film student, wants to make his avant-garde masterpiece but he soon realises that something more nefarious is at foot.

Brothers John and Steven must navigate the hardships of life. Both what is in and out of their control.

In a small, isolated town, the disappearance of the murderer of a young boy challenges the friendship between the two officers whose task is to find him.

A shell-shocked man battles his war trauma and crumbling domestic issues.

A boy runs barefoot across a beach into a broken bottle. A woman suffers a panic attack on the street. The mundane life of a fireman is overlaid by the fragmented remnants of a burnt-out house. A deformed man's face fluctuates between broken and unbroken as a traffic accident occurs behind him. Electrical currents run through a boy's burnt legs. Something scurries through multi-coloured woods to the accompaniment of explosions. This is the world of British public information films, remixed and edited to create something new and experimental.