Nigel Buesst Movies

Aboriginal boxer Al Dawson is torn by the demands of fight promoters and aboriginal protestors. He eventually decides to reject them all and gives...

A student of criminology is completing a thesis on Melbourne mass murderers. With the aid of a German professor he visits the scenes of the crimes of...

Filmed on location in Melbourne this is a tale of justice and revenge when two cops decide that the court system has failed and it is now up to them...

Compo is a comedy set in a government unemployment-compensation office.

A couple, Steve and Louise, quit their respective office jobs, deciding to follow their inner desires and their aspirations to be artistic.

The life and times of a legendary Melbourne musician who lived life with the brakes off. Arguably the first notable Australian jazz improvisor, he...

Several interconnecting stories of love, loss, desire and despair, among both gay and straight characters. The main story concerns Anna, a successful...

Arf Arf is a sound poetry (voice and gesticulation) group. They describe their first film together as 'songs nailed together in a film'. The film is...

In December 1965 there was a jazz convention in Sydney. This attempt to record the event has lain unseen ever since, but the passing of the decades...

Sympathy in Summer tells the story of young student Lenny's (Vincent Griffith's) first affairs of the heart, starting out with a weekend at the...

Kevin leaves a job in insurance to start his own magazine. As his debts mount, Kevin’s prospects begin to look brighter in the criminal world.

The only doco to record the early years of Australian jazz. This lovingly compiled celluloid history of the Melbourne jazz scene is a fascinating...

Documentary about the First World War hero and later St. Kilda Mayor. Today Albert Jacka is almost forgotten, yet his heroic feats captured the...

This 1963 kaleidoscope of our culture, both its energy and its tawdriness, rolls out in a never ending babble from radio station 3UZ, and in...

When singer and clarinetist Gerry Humphrys moved from Britain to Australia in 1957, he quickly became one of the most popular and influential...

A girl recalls three generations of the family history, how mother was conceived in the year of the Yarra floods and how life in the 1920's was no...

A study of the short films made in Carlton during the Sixties, when film makers like Graeme Cutts, Peter Fisher, Geoff Gardner, Antony I. Ginnane...

A film about Darwin, exploring the events that led to the establishment of Australia’s main northern city. Images from the past and present...

Ken, a dithering aspirant to the counter culture, returns from an abortive trip to Bali only to find things worse in Melbourne. A tragi-comedy...

As the wreckers ball lays waste to a fine set of old building in East Melbourne a visiting professor considers the value of our national identity.