Tom Cowan

The Office Picnic

Tom Cowan

John Wood, Kate Fitzpatrick

Clyde is a typical junior clerk in a public service office. He watches the budding friendship between two co-workers and he turns it into the permanent office joke. At the same time he plays out his own neurotic relationship with a bored and frustrated secretary. The cruel mass victimisation of the young lovers is carried to the annual office picnic. Office tensions are changed by the unfamiliar surroundings where the disappearance of the two lovers forces Clyde to re-examine his own shallow emotional development.

Journey Among Women

Tom Cowan

June Pritchard, Martin Phelan

Nine women convicts escape from a prison hell-hole and dare to create a savage world free of man.

Promised Woman

Tom Cowan

Yelena Zigon, Takis Emmanuel

Antigone arrives in Sydney from Greece to have an arranged marriage with Telis, but is rejected by him as he expected a younger woman. Telis's older brother, Manolis, sympathizes with Antigone.

Nimmo Street

Tom Cowan

A neo-realist drama set near the crumbling Arrow Theatre. Two street bodgies hang around near the station and try to terrorise an Italian girl. A boy tries to fight for her and is beaten up. The dry streets of Middle Park reflect the crabbed lives of the star-crossed lovers.

The Dancing Class

Tom Cowan

A self-assured, chain-smoking ballet teacher gives macho instruction to a small group of tender young ballerinas.

Revisiting Samskara

Ashwathi Rajakrishnan

Girish Karnad, U. R. Ananthamurthy

Samskara, the film by Pattabhi Rama Reddy, created a revolution in Indian cinema 50 years ago. Winning National and International awards. It broke barriers of caste and other social taboos, both in the process of production and on its release. 50 years later it still remains relevant and raises political and social questions that need our reflection. 'Revisiting Samskara’ is a journey back in time, in an attempt to piece together the motivation, circumstances and process. It recounts the experience of the cast and crew revisiting the same locations and recounting anecdotes of ‘Predestined Synchronicity’.