Faraways

Night after night, two travellers cross paths at a university library. The library's symmetry, rhythms and recurrences form a fantastic geography for their stories and adventures.

An idealistic film student is drawn into a shadowy and intoxicating world when she befriends an enigmatic performance artist.

Let's go to the edge of town to catch our breaths.

A photo cut-out film in which a young woman awakes in a train station and finds herself swept into the scrum of its commuters, all hurrying to catch their impending trains.

Melbourne-based filmmaker Audrey Lam, a member of the highly regarded Artists’ Film Workshop, presents a diary portrait following the seven-year-old child, Yoki, in a multilingual Japanese-German-Australian family in the months following the birth of his brother. This instinctive piece of personal storytelling captures a child’s way of seeing the world through rhythm, feeling and vivid images of childhood growth and familial connection.

A father and his daughter spend a day planning a trip with a sailboat. Time passes gently as the father remembers their past days together. As the boat makes its way along the river, the past, the present, and the future become a gentle stream of consciousness. Memories of childhood overlap with the bittersweet autumnal taste of a life that mirrors itself on the shiny and glittering water of a river on a lazy afternoon.

A bustling market street chimes with the gentle chaos of a lone, decades-old collectable coin and stamp shop in its midst. The elderly shop owner shares stories of the stamps and the world passing by.