Movies: Australian Film Institute

  • 1983
    The Plains of Heaven

    The Plains of Heaven (1983)

    The Plains of Heaven

    01983HD

    Two technicians manning a tracking station on the Victorian High Plains pursue opposite ways of coping with isolation. The ageing Cunningham seems to be rejuvenated by and obsessed with the landscape, while the younger Barker withdraws into the inter...

    The Plains of Heaven
  • 1987
    The Nights Belong to the Novelist

    The Nights Belong to the Novelist (1987)

    The Nights Belong to the Novelist

    01987HD

    This documentary explores the imaginative world of Australian novelist Elizabeth Jolley. It combines readings, dramatised segments, and witty and playful interviews in which Jolley talks about the craft and practical problems of writing, and her fict...

    The Nights Belong to the Novelist