Albie Thoms was an Australian film director, writer, and producer. He was nominated for at the 1979 AFI Awards for Best Original Screenplay for Palm Beach. He is best known for his work with Ubu Films, the Sydney Filmmakers’ Co-operative, and the Yellow House.
Movies1 1985 HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Movies1 2022 HD
As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking...
Movies1 1980 HD
The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days.
Movies6.8 1969 HD
Albie Thoms' Marinetti was the culmination of the synthetic environments that the UBU group had pioneered in Australia; festive public 'happenings'...
Movies1 1968 HD
In this kinetic tribute to his Ubu Films collaborator Perry, Thoms combined tests and offcuts from early films with film fragments found on...
Movies1 1966 HD
A one-second explosion of a plastic head filled with milk is reversed, stretched to 50 seconds in length and overlaid with a split screen...
Movies1 1967 HD
In Moon virility, Thoms drew on clear stock and added a ‘found’ soundtrack.
Movies1 1967 HD
A minimalist exercise described by Thoms as ‘observing the effect of movement on perception within the framework of Ravel’s music’.
Movies1 1980 HD
The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days.
Movies1 1980 HD
The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days.
Movies1 1967 HD
Thoms dedicated three months and a toolkit of pins, razor blades and scalpels to create the rich, abstract surface texture in Bluto. The result,...
Movies5 1966 HD
This experimental documentary about two young Paddington dress-makers was banned for nudity, but was screened widely in Australia without complaint.
Movies5 1966 HD
This experimental documentary about two young Paddington dress-makers was banned for nudity, but was screened widely in Australia without complaint.
Movies1 1966 HD
A spoof of the early James Bond films and Ian Fleming universe from Australia. Bumbling overweight Aussie secret service agent Jim Bond alias Agent...
Movies1 1967 HD
“The film was made spontaneously one afternoon in 1966. When a few friends got together... We were all in love with the film medium...”...
Movies1 1995 HD
A compilation of video footage from the Yellow House, Potts Point, Sydney, July 1971.
Movies1 1973 HD
SUNSHINE CITY is Albie Thom’s sprawling, protoplasmic experimental portrait of his hometown of Sydney. The National Film and Sound Archive of...
Movies1 1968 HD
An intimate portrait of a son by a mother set to the boisterously pop Batman theme song.
Movies1 1968 HD
An intimate portrait of a son by a mother set to the boisterously pop Batman theme song.
Movies1 1965 HD
Made for inclusion in a student theatrical production at the University of Sydney, this film was based on an allegorical play by Antonin Artaud.
Movies1 1965 HD
In this film, David Perry scratched onto celluloid the numbers of a poem by Kurt Schwitters, which were projected beside the actor reciting it.
Movies1 1967 HD
A minimalist exercise described by Thoms as ‘observing the effect of movement on perception within the framework of Ravel’s music’.
S3 E105.529 1970 HD
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various...
