Tom Zubrycki Movies

Cousins Jason and Julian are both 25. And bored. Armed with $100,000, a three-minute film idea, and an award-winning short film director, they decide...

Zubrycki’s controversial, provocative and rarely screened documentary about the Australian trade-union movement was originally commissioned by...

Eccentric British developer Lord McAlpine has a dream – an urge to create a whole new civilisation in Australia’s North based around the...

‘memory film: a filmmaker’s diary’ is an immersive poetic documentary based on Jeni Thornley’s Super8 archive (1974-2003)...

A video that looks at some of the marginalised young people who come to the Addison Road Drop-In Centre in Marrickville. Interviews with both the...

Residents take on the bulldozers and the police in Tom Zubrycki’s look at urban redevelopment in Sydney in the 1970s. It is a 'process video'...

In May 1973, 10,000 artists, activists, hippies, radical students, gurus and visionaries descended on a small dairy town for 10 days of social and...

A film about the Australian government's practice of removing Aboriginal children from their families.

Looks at the history and cultural diversity of the Sydney, Australia suburb of Marrickville. The video features interviews with those who live in...

Only metres above sea level, the nation of Kiribati is on the front line of climate change. Maria Tiimon, a Kiribati woman living in Sydney, is...

One thousand power workers went on strike against the South East Queensland Electrical Board (SEQEB)in February 1985 in protest against the...

The Carnival captures the intimate moments of the sixth-generation carnival family, the Bells, as they haul their convoy of trucks, rides and workers...

In his first exploration of the migration experience, Zubrycki poses the question ‘When the fighting stops, how do you make choices about where...

The film outlines the history of the redevelopment of the Sydney suburb of Waterloo. Residents are interviewed and archival footage is used to...

Weeks before the closure of a Wollongong coal mine, a group of 31 miners occupied the pit and established themselves 5 kilometres underground. The...

Molly & Mobarak is a 2003 Australian documentary directed by Tom Zubrycki. It follows a Hazara asylum seeker, 22-year-old Mobarak Tahiri, as he falls...

A community video made by Tom Zubrycki and the residents of Balmain and Rozelle that documents concerns held by residents and local businesses about...

The Sydney suburb of Marrickville has Australia’s ‘first, largest and longest-surviving community centre’; it is shown here in the...