Our projects
These are some of the many films which hartflicker's enfant terrible, Phoebe Hart, has directed, produced, edited and/or written. Don't forget to also check out hartflicker's pages for Bloody Sun, Mudskipping, Downunder Grads and Roller Derby Dolls. Many projects are available to view on Vimeo.
ORCHIDS: MY INTERSEX ADVENTURE
Documentary filmmaker, Phoebe Hart, comes clean on a journey of self-discovery around her hidden intersex variation. Official Website.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 56/60 minutes Format: 16:9 PAL Language: English
2010 Winner, Showtime Top Ten, Brisbane International Film Festival Australia
2010 Best Documentary (General), ATOM Film and Multimedia Awards
2011 Nominee, Best Documentary Under One Hour, AACTA Awards Australia
2011 Nominee, Best Documentary, IF Awards Australia
2011 Winner, John Deen Memorial Award, Spokane LGBT Film Festival USA
2011 Winner, Most Outstanding Documentary Award, Queer Fruits Film Festival Australia
2011 Winner, Best Documentary, Mix Copenhagen Denmark
2012 Winner, Best Stand Alone Documentary, Australian Directors Guild Awards Australia
2012 Winner, Gold Kahuna Award, Honolulu Film Awards USA
2012 Winner, Prix Spécial du Jury du Film Documentaire, Chéries-Chéris Film Festival France
2013 Winner, Best Documentary, MUJERdoc International Festival of Documentary Cinema on Gender Spain
Duncan Norris is the last friend of the dead. In this probing, insightful and humourous documentary, hartflicker and Fury Productions find out why Duncan chooses to work as an embalmer and prepare the deceased for their final public appearance. Broadcast nationally in 2004 on George Negus Tonight, ABC TV.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 5 minutes Format: 16:9 PAL Language: English
2004 George Negus Tonight, ABC TV, Australia
2004 Into the Light, QPix Project Screenings, Dendy Cinema, Australia
What do you get when you put five twenty-somethings in a kombi van and send them to prowl the highways and back lanes of Tasmania? You get a Kombi full of stories and seething emotions. You get stress, parties, ‘colourful’ locals, pubs, ferals, bickering, romance, fabulous scenery, hangovers, animals, and much more, but no steak-knives or miracle lint removers.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 54 minutes Format: 4:3 PAL Language: English
Our Place examines the concepts of family, place and space as experienced by Aboriginal children living in Brisbane, Australia. Our Place follows kids from three different families all with links to 'country' but now all living in an urban setting. Fun, thought-provoking and at times philosophical, Our Place is a portrait of Indigenous children living, loving and learning. Produced with the support of the Ceridwen Greenfield Scholarship.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 14 minutes Format: 4:3 PAL Language: English
At the 2005/06 Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland, Australia, AUSLAN deaf teachers and communicators impart an understanding of their world to members of the general public through a series of workshops, culminating in a New Years Day performance of the Dancing Hands Deaf Choir.
Genre: Community Duration: 12 & 41 minutes Format: 4:3 PAL Language: English
A collaboration with art collective kuuki's kid-friendly interactive installation (featuring disco-mad mutts DJ Foxie, Pup Daddy and Miss Kitty) designed for galleries and festivals. The Disco Puppies have entertained thousands of children and parents since their debut at the Ipswich Gallery in November 2005, with over 14 000 visitors to the exhibition at Ipswich Art Gallery, and 34 000 visitors at the Warrnambool Fun 4 Kids Children's Festival.
Genre: Interactive Installation Duration: 2 minutes Format: 4:3 PAL Language: English
2008-9 Ipswich Art Gallery, Australia
2007 Warrnambool Fun 4 Kids Children's Festival, Australia
2006 Kick Arts in Cairns, Australia
2006 Townsville City Library, Australia
2005-6 Ipswich Art Gallery, Australia
MEMOIRS OF A TRAVELLING ARCHITECT.
As globalisation increases and urban sprawl spreads, cities are gradually becoming more and more homogenised, losing any sense of character and cultural difference. This highly experimental film explores the relationship between place and memory as experienced by architect James Davidson, for whom the memory of the many metropolises he has visited around the globe merge as one in his mind's eye.
Genre: Experimental Duration: 12 minutes Format: 4:3 PAL Language: English
TEAM PLASTIQUE VS UGGMAN AND SHAZZA
When saucy art-trash band members of Team Plastique, Legs Akimbo, Miss Dish and Psy-Cat, discover Monsieur Peacock (AKA Axel Dankeschon) has been kidnapped by bogans Ugg-Man and Shazza, they go into overdrive to rescue their hero.
Genre: Mockumentary Duration: 7 minutes Format: 16:9 PAL Language: English
Nat and John are activists that bypass the food on supermarket shelves and wait for nightfall to raid the bins out the back of the stores. Dumpsters are full of "just past the use-by date" produce - food that is a day or two too old but still perfectly edible. Dumpster Divers reveals an inventive way to find a meal and deal with the serious problem of waste. This mini-doc is a useful 'how to' with instant audience appeal.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 5 minutes Format: 16:9 PAL Language: English
2006 Other Worlds are Breathing (Australian leg)
2004 Other Worlds are Breathing, World Social Forum, India
2004 Green Film Festival, Korea
2004 Green Lens, Woodford Folk Festival, Australia
2003 Wild Spaces Film Festival,
Australia (Finalist for ProCam Award)
A profile on an emerging fashion designer for an ABC Fly TV segment called Crave produced in about 2003 with the wunderkind behind a Brisbane-based brand.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 5 minutes Format: 16:9 PAL Language: English
This is Deet’s story – a portrait of an eccentric and outspoken Jewish grandmother from Chicago now living on her own and far away from her family as an ex-pat in Antigua, Guatemala. Although it's cheaper living in Central America than the States, Deet is struggling to make ends meet. She brazenly approaches travelers and backpackers in the town square and offers her services as a masseuse. However, it's lonely only mixing with people who are 'passing through' and Deet yearns for somebody special in her life.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 5 minutes Format: 4:3 PAL Language: English & Spanish
2003 Suck, Straight Out of Brisbane, Australia
True to the mockumentary format, Melvin's Disbability follows the story of a man with fictitious disability... Melvin has 'pipes' for arms. The film focuses on the small and big things that make his life unique... whether it's the differences in the daily routine or the difficulties of relating to family and friends. Using black humour, Melvin (played by Robert Mullins) shows us all that, when it comes down to it, everyone just wants to belong and be loved.
Genre: Mockumentary Duration: 2 minutes Format: 4:3 PAL Language: English
2005 Fake Film Festival, Adelaide International Film Festival, Australia
This frenetic and fun mini-doc explores the culture of pitching a tent and spending the night 'outdoors' in one of the world's most built-up and heavily populated cities. There are many parks and open spaces in and around Tokyo... the perfect place to pitch camp. The economic downturn throughout Asia in the 90s has seen these public areas become makeshift townships made of canvas and debris - a very unusual sight in Japan where homelessness is a taboo subject. However, the question remains: can a cheeky Aussie backpacker save the money he'd normally spend on expensive hostels, and cash in on the authorities reluctance to confront squatters camping in the park?
Genre: Documentary Duration: 5 minutes Format: 4:3 PAL Language: English & Japanese
2003 Suck, Straight Out of Brisbane, Australia
Shangri-La tells the stories of two volunteer masseurs at the Shangri-La Massage and Rest Area. Nick and Harmony work with their hands and hearts to heal the aches and pains, cares and troubles of exhausted festival-goers at the 2005/06 Woodford Folk Festival. As they work, they recount their life stories, which are funny, poignant, and magical. For more information... click here.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 10 minutes Format: 16:9 PAL Language: English
2006/07 Finalist, Spirit of Woodford Competition
David Clayton is a young animator who has had some success with his short CGI film, Cane Toads, which he made with his mate Andrew Silke.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 3 minutes Format: 16:9 PAL Language: English
Elsje Downs is creating a name for herself by painting on the traffic signal boxes you find on every street corner of Brisbane, Australia.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 3 minutes Format: 16:9 PAL Language: English
The weaving traditions of Mayan women and the threats to the survival of this ancient craft are explored in this documentary shot entirely in Central America. For more information... click here.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 10 minutes 30 seconds Format: 4:3 PAL Language: Spanish with English subtitles
2006 India Social Forum, New Dehli, India
2006 Other Worlds are Breathing Australia, Brisbane, Australia
2006 TRI Continental Film Festival, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata, India
2005 Other Worlds are Breathing, Porto Allegre, Brazil and Travelling Package
2005 Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
For the first-year screen production units at QUT Creative Industries in Semester 1, 2020, students were asked to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. Their main project involved working in isolation to make a 1-2 minute, edited non-fiction video in the style of a factual insert. They also needed to include a pitch, script, and risk plan. So, we put together some examples. One of these was filmed on an iPhone 6 (no apps, no tripod) by Phoebe Hart and is called Business as Unusual. It’s about 50 clips in total, and Phoebe used pots, a glasses case, and a selfie stick as a makeshift tripod. She recorded the voice-over in the wardrobe using the iPhone earbuds. The whole thing was edited, mixed, and graded in Adobe Premiere Pro V14.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 2 minutes Format: 16:9 PAL Language: English
FILM ACADEMIC STRUGGLES WITH ZOOM BEFORE 9AM
Created in the thick of COVID-19 lockdowns, this short experimental video captures the chaos and comedy of trying to appear “lecture ready” before 9am - in a world mediated entirely by Zoom. Filmed using multiple virtual backgrounds and live webcam layering, Film Academic Struggles with Zoom before 9am transforms the banal rituals of online teaching into a kind of digital performance art. Against a backdrop of academic detritus, the work explores the dissonance between professionalism and exhaustion, sincerity and absurdity. Part satire, part survival diary, this micro-essay reflects on the strange intimacy of the pandemic classroom, where bodies, bandwidth, and boundaries all blurred. It documents a moment in time when higher education went fully online, and “turning on your camera” became both a technical act and a psychological one.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 30 seconds Format: 16:9 PAL Language: English
Goroka Taim is a reflective digital documentary that builds on the legacy of “change-making” stories created by DFAT Australia Award fellows from the University of Goroka during their 2015 visit to Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Those fellows crafted community-based screen narratives to share their experiences in Brisbane, aiming to promote women’s economic empowerment in Papua New Guinea (PNG). In a continuation of this dialogue, Goroka Taim follows Dr. Hart and Ms. Newsome on their first journey to Goroka in September 2016, supported by a QUT ECARD Travel Fellowship. Their mission: to reconnect with PNG filmmakers and strengthen local media production capacity. Through intimate encounters and cultural exchange, the film explores collaboration, resilience, and the transformative power of storytelling across borders.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 7 minutes Format: 16:9 PAL Language: English
THE HELEN YEATES AWARD FOR MEDIA EDUCATION EXCELLENCE
Helen Yeates, a distinguished media educator and film academic, co-founded ATOM Queensland and served as an early president during its formative years. She chaired National Media Education Conferences, advancing Media Education across Australia, and advocated for its curriculum development in Queensland. This video honours her legacy.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 11 minutes Format: 16:9 PAL Language: English
A funny take on the typical worries first-year university students face when they start at QUT, all from the perspective of a Gen Z influencer. The piece kicks off with a montage of the vibrant, lively Welcome Week Market Day, along with a fun clip with our presenter. It features an interview with a lecturer and a sitcom-style scene with two clueless students, capturing the excitement and nerves that new students often feel, while also helping to ease anyone watching who’s just starting or thinking about college. To wrap it up, our presenter shares a joke, showing that the “uni experience” doesn’t have to be all serious. Bright colours and contrasting musical styles are key elements throughout.
Genre: Documentary Duration: 5 minutes Format: 16:9 PAL Language: English
