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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.
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01 January 1985
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
01 January 1967
In Moon virility, Thoms drew on clear stock and added a ‘found’ soundtrack.
01 January 1968
An intimate portrait of a son by a mother set to the boisterously pop Batman theme song.
28 December 1967
A minimalist exercise described by Thoms as ‘observing the effect of movement on perception within the framework of Ravel’s music’.
02 July 1965
Made for inclusion in a student theatrical production at the University of Sydney, this film was based on an allegorical play by Antonin Artaud.
01 January 1967
Thoms dedicated three months and a toolkit of pins, razor blades and scalpels to create the rich, abstract surface texture in Bluto.
31 December 1995
A compilation of video footage from the Yellow House, Potts Point, Sydney, July 1971.
26 February 1967
“The film was made spontaneously one afternoon in 1966. When a few friends got together... We were all in love with the film medium.
02 July 1965
In this film, David Perry scratched onto celluloid the numbers of a poem by Kurt Schwitters, which were projected beside the actor reciting it.
01 January 1968
In this kinetic tribute to his Ubu Films collaborator Perry, Thoms combined tests and offcuts from early films with film fragments found on Perry’s editing room at ABC-TV.
12 September 1973
SUNSHINE CITY is Albie Thom’s sprawling, protoplasmic experimental portrait of his hometown of Sydney.
15 April 1966
A spoof of the early James Bond films and Ian Fleming universe from Australia. Bumbling overweight Aussie secret service agent Jim Bond alias Agent Minus 007 blunders his way against arch rival villains Ernest Stavro Blowfly and Dr.
17 November 2022
As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking to challenge the mainstream.
01 January 1963
Short film is based on the ballet 'Les Fausses Sceptiques' by the French film scenarist and surrealit
19 June 1969
Albie Thoms' Marinetti was the culmination of the synthetic environments that the UBU group had pioneered in Australia; festive public 'happenings' that combined the energy and volume of creative rock and jazz with the mesmeric effect of multi-dimensional lightshows.
07 July 1968
A young man named Phillip finds himself in a purgatory reality that's littered with clues of his past life.
06 March 1980
The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days.
01 January 1966
This experimental documentary about two young Paddington dress-makers was banned for nudity, but was screened widely in Australia without complaint.
01 January 1966
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 superimposition of a modernising Sydney: skyscrapers, cranes, trains and planes.
