31 August & 4 September (Wednesday 2pm only, Gallery closed evening)
Puberty blues
Dir: Bruce Beresford 1981 83 min. 35mm Colour Rated M Nell Schofield, Jad Capelja

Two teenage girls must endure the sexual and social rites of the Greenhills' gang, an elite surfie group which occupies a particular stretch of Cronulla Beach, or be consigned to the margins of their teen society. Based on the book by Cathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey.

Images: Puberty Blues courtesy Limelight Productions

7 & 11 September
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Dir: Paul Winkler 1977 13 min. 16mm Colour

Experimental film utilising an array of intricate visual cross-rhythms in its depiction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

My life without Steve
Dir: Gillian Leahy 1986 58 min. 35mm Colour Rated PG

This striking meditation on love and loss is an intimate study of one woman's year in a room with a view. Features "still life" interiors and industrial landscapes of Pyrmont shot by cinematographer Erica Addis.

Image: My Life Without Steve courtesy Ronin Films

14 & 18 September
Winter of our dreams
Dir: John Duigan 1981 89 min. 35mm Colour Rated M Judy Davis, Bryan Brown

A trendy Balmain suburbanite, who runs an inner-city bookshop, and an uneducated Kings Cross prostitute, who longs for a better life, are drawn together following the death of a mutual friend.

Image: Winter of our Dreams courtesy Gaby Mason

21 & 25 September
100 a day
Dir: Gillian Armstrong 1973 8 min. 16mm B&W Rated M

Armstrong's first short film, set in 1930s Balmain, focuses on women working in a shoe factory.

Rui
Dir: Jason Ollivier 1976 14 min. 16mm Colour

Documentary depicting the lives of kids from Alexandria - these bicycle riding adventurers have developed their own mechanisms for coping with the inner-city environment.

Nice coloured girls
Dir: Tracey Moffatt 1987 17 min. 16mm Colour

Moffatt's early experimental short, set in Kings Cross, suggests connections and differences in the relationship between Aboriginal women and European men in the early years of settlement and in contemporary Sydney. Tran the man Dir: Rowan Woods 1994 18 min. 16mm Colour Rated M David Wenham, Rowan Woods, Skye Wansey Ray Moss, nicknamed Tran by his Asian workmates, has a job as a security guard at a Cabramatta shopping centre. But the heat is on when his brother, Donny, and Uncle Jack have had their heroin business undercut.

Tran the man
Dir: Rowan Woods 1994 18 min. 16mm Colour Rated M

David Wenham, Rowan Woods, Skye Wansey Ray Moss, nicknamed Tran by his Asian workmates, has a job as a security guard at a Cabramatta shopping centre. But the heat is on when his brother, Donny, and Uncle Jack have had their heroin business undercut.

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IImages: 100 a Day courtesy Australian Film, Television and Radio School. Nice Coloured Girls courtesy National Film and Sound Archive