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Short documentary films and multimedia installations for museums and other organisations and for community events

To view these 12 films you will require Quicktime 7

 
     
 
 
 
         
   
Sea of Faces (6.9mb 2'53”)
One of a large series of films created for Memory Bank, an ongoing project to record personal stories of changing places across Geelong and surrounding areas.
All of the Memory Bank stories can be viewed here: www.geelongaustralia.com.au/connectingidentities
© Malcolm McKinnon & City of Greater Geelong , 2008

 

       
             
    The Sound of Music at Finniss Springs [13mb 5'30"]
One of a series of films for the South Australian Museum and the Marree Arabunna Peoples' Committee, telling stories of life at Finniss Springs Aboriginal Mission.
© Malcolm McKinnon & Marree Arabunna Peoples' Committee, 2007

     
             
   

Made @ Tonsley Park (excerpt) (5.4mb 2'15”)
A film documenting the closure of the Mitsubishi car manufacturing plant in Adelaide, created for an exhibition at the National Motor Museum, South Australia.
For more information see: www.history.sa.gov.au
© Malcolm McKinnon & History Trust of South Australia , 2008

       
             
   

Listening to the birds (6.9mb 2'38”)
Short film produced for Hattah Storylines, a digital storytelling project by Environment Victoria and the Murray Darling Basin Commission to promote the social and cultural values attached to an iconic Murray River wetlands area. All of the Hattah Storylines films can be viewed here: www.envict.org.au/inform.php?menu=7&submenu=1821&item=1844
© Environment Victoria, 2008

       
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Grey Ghosts (excerpt) (4.9mb 2'01”)
A film created for the exhibition Walk, Talk & Chalk at City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall, concerned with the history and culture of parking enforcement in the city of Melbourne.
© Malcolm McKinnon & City of Melbourne, 2007

     
             
   

Blandowski's Specimens (excerpt) [8.5mb 3'25”]
A film about the legacies from an 1857 scientific expedition to the Murray and Darling Rivers, created for an exhibition by Mildura Arts Centre and Museum Victoria.
© Malcolm McKinnon & Mildura Arts Centre, 2007

     
             
  click to view   Jim Simpson's Knitted War Trophy [12.8mb 5'21"]
Film commissioned by Murray Arts Inc. [a cross-border arts organisation in Albury-Wodonga] as part of the project "Stories of the Upper Murray", 2006.
© Malcolm McKinnon & Murray Arts Inc, 2005
     
             
   

Mick Cleeland’s Ticket to Immortality [6.6mb 2’52”]
A film created for the Victorian Country Football League and the State Library of Victoria as part of the Country Football Living Memory project.
The complete set of these country football stories can be viewed here
© Malcolm McKinnon, 2006

     
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Defining Times (excerpt) [5.9mb 2'23”]
A film presenting personal stories of the Vietnam War and its aftermath, created for the exhibition “Blue Jeans & Jungle Greens” by the History Trust of South Australia, Adelaide.
© Malcolm McKinnon & History Trust of South Australia, 2008

     
             
   

Dust [8.8mb 3'39”]
A showreel created in the development of a community theatre work about asbestos and asbestos-related disease by Hubcap Productions, Victoria
2007–2009.
© Malcolm McKinnon, 2007

   
             
  click to view   Some Nukunu Words [7.52mb 3'12"]
One of nine films created for a permanent exhibition titled Nunkunu- stories of heritage & identity at Melrose Museum in South Australia. Created in collaboration with the Nukunu Peoples' Council and Melrose & Districts Historical Society, 2003 - 2006.
© Nukunu People's Council, 2005
     
             
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Disappeared racecourses of north west Victoria [9.27mb 3'51"]
Film created in 2002 for Warracknabeal Historical Society as part of an artist-initiated project called Triggered Stories, engaging several community museums in regional Victoria and South Australia.
© Malcolm McKinnon & Warracknabeal & District Historical Society, 2002
     
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