Magic Miles

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.

Two girls far from home pass through an empty urban landscape in this gentle, moving tale of companionship and solitude.

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.