FILMS

EARLY VIDEO WORKS

Tom Zubrycki became involved with the community video movement that developed in Sydney and Melbourne during the 1970s. He got his first chance to experiment with new portable video technology and its social and political application through the Paddington Video Access Centre (which became Metro Screen) in Sydney.

The Centre was one of many such centres set up across the country in the early 1970s under the Whitlam Government. Modelled on the Canadian Film Board’s Challenge for Change Program, they recognised portable videotape camera-recorders as a powerful tool to engage with social issues and enable social change. Most of the videos were made quickly to be shown back to participants and targeted audiences.

FILMS

PORT BOTANY: A PLANNING DILEMMA

A documentary that examines the environmental and community impacts of the Botany Bay port development and the conflicts between the different parties involved.

ADDISON ROAD DROP-IN

A ‘process video’ by Tom Zubrycki that looks at some of the marginalised young people who come to the Addison Road Drop-In Centre in Marrickville.

THE PAINTERS & DOCKERS STRIKE

A video made by Tom Zubrycki and Russ Hermann, in collaboration with members of the Federated Ship Painters And Dockers Union of Australia, covering the strike over the principle of flow-ons from parent awards.

COLLINGWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL

A profile of an independent community school in Melbourne pioneering innovative educational practises.

THE INNER CITY TAPE

A collaborative community video made in conjunction with the Inner Sydney Resident Action Group. Through the eyes of it’s residents it tells the story of the threat to the survival of inner-city Sydney in the face of development.

WE HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT

A 'process video' made in conjunction with a residents-led campaign to close down a container terminal in the Sydney suburb of Balmain.

FIG ST FIASCO

A 'process video' used in conjunction with a residents-led campaign to stop a freeway decimating inner-Sydney suburbs of Glebe and Ultimo.