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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

 
     
 
 
 
         
   

The Sound of Music at Finniss Springs (excerpt) [3.9mb 1'40”]
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
     
             
   

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   Old Man Spirit coming Down [4.89mb 2'07"]
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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  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

     
             
   

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

     
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  click to view   Dispensing a Cure [7.55mb 3'20"]
Film created in 2003 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
   
             
  click to view   Miss Showgirl [9.25mb 3'55"]
One of six films commissioned by Regional Arts Australia for presentation at Ground Work, the national regional arts conference staged in Horsham, Victoria in October 2004. These films were produced in collaboration with the Horsham Agricultural Society.
© Malcolm McKinnon, 2004
     
             
   

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

   
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  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
     
             
  click to view   Snowing on the Moon [6.31mb 1'21"]
Film created in 2002 for Jamestown & District Historical Society as part of an artist-initiated project called Triggered Stories, engaging several community museums in regional Victoria and South Australia.
© Malcolm McKinnon, 2002
     
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