Movies

In this film, David Perry scratched onto celluloid the numbers of a poem by Kurt Schwitters, which were projected beside the actor reciting it.

“The film was made spontaneously one afternoon in 1966. When a few friends got together... We were all in love with the film medium...”...

1967 David E. Perry short

A young boy creates a world of puppet friends using pieces of rubbish found in the street.

A minimalist exercise described by Thoms as ‘observing the effect of movement on perception within the framework of Ravel’s music’.

Photographer and filmmaker Perry’s concise film-poem uses graphic matches (grapefruits, balloons and bubbles) to convey anxieties about...

In this kinetic tribute to his Ubu Films collaborator Perry, Thoms combined tests and offcuts from early films with film fragments found on...

Constant Malernik, artist and filmmaker, is obsessed by the history of the Russian revolution. He makes images in homage to artists of the twentieth...

An experimental film by David Perry.

In this short self-portrait, Ubu Films co-founder Perry mines his archive of family photographs, home videos and exhibited 16mm film to fast-forward,...

An experimental film by David E. Perry

Made for inclusion in a student theatrical production at the University of Sydney, this film was based on an allegorical play by Antonin Artaud.

An experimental film by David Perry.

Records the backwaters and docklands of Sydney Harbour accompanying a young woman with a red umbrella.

An animated film using simplified and abstract forms, symbolising nuclear warfare.

An intimate portrait of a son by a mother set to the boisterously pop Batman theme song.