PRODUCTIONS
PROGRAMS AVAILABLE FOR SALE
Through The Wire
Put 1000 of Australia’s
most committed activists at the gates of the most notorious Australian refugee
prison and leave the cops in the pub and something is bound to happen. Through
The Wire proves
that razor wire is no match for the will to be free.
Duration - 9:40, DVD PAL / NTSC
Camera/editing
- Pip Starr
Technical/audio - Bill Runting
Voiceover - "Moopsie"
Original music - Mark Daniel
Fire & Water
Rockhopper's
first major production. We went to 'Roxstop', the first major anti-uranium protest
in the current era of protests. ROXSTOP was organised to protest the expansion
of what was already the world's largest uranium mine. Video contains information
on landrights, the Arabunna and Kokotha people, uranium mining, the Roxby Action
Collective, radioactive leaks and much more.
Duration - 30 mins, VHS PAL
Direction camera and Editing
- Pip Starr
Technical direction
and Audio - Bill Runting.
The CERES Return of the Sacred Kingfisher Festival
CERES,
community environment park in Brunswick, suburban Melbourne, has commissioned
Rockhopper to make 2 videos for them, the 1998 and the 2000 Return of the Sacred
Kingfisher Festivals. The Kingfisher Festival is a major community celebration
of how the Kingfisher came to return to the Merri Creek, following the revegetation
work of hundreds of volunteers. These stories tell the history of CERES, and
the role it plays in the community, including education schools, at the park
and much more.
Duration - 2 x 11 minute stories on one tape, VHS PAL
Direction,
camera and editing - Pip Starr
Technical direction
and Audio - Bill Runting
Fight For Country - the story of the Jabiluka Blockade
Rockhopper's
biggest production to date, Fight For Country took 4years and 4 weeks to complete.
It tells the story of one of Australia's largest ever land rights and environmental
campaigns, the fight to stop the building of a second uranium mine within Kakadu
National Park. Made with the cooperation of the Mirrar aboriginal clan, the
owners of the land on which Jabiluka is proposed to be built.
Includes a 12 minute animation of the nuclear fuel cycle with archival footage from Chernobyl, Chelyabinsk, Sellafield and others. Features some very funky animations made by Fishfeet Designs.
Duration - 62 mins, VHS PAL / NTSC
Writer/director/camera/editor
Pip Starr
Producer/Technical Direction/ Audio - Bill Runting
Animations - Dermot Egan, Fishfeet
Designs.
The
above videos may be purchased by direct request to RHP
Violence Is Violence
In
1998 a couple of thousand people swarmed onto one of Sydney's busiest roads,
the Eastern Distributor, to protest Sydney's ever expanding traffic nightmare.
Made with Radical Transmission Syndicate in Sydney, VisV is the story of one
of Sydney's largest and most militant Reclaim the Streets actions. A short version
of Violence is Violence was broadcast on the UK's Channel 4 in 2001, as part
of the Alt-World programme.
Duration - 17 mins
Produced by Michelle Thomas and Pip Starr
Camera and editing - Pip Starr
Violence is Violence is available on 'The Best Of Access News, Volume 1' compilation tape, available from SKA TV
Watch The Gap
Ten minute doco about a mob of aliens arriving at Pine Gap, a US spy base in central Australia, to demand the return of their stolen space ship.
Also looks at the history of Pine Gap and how it is used to spy on private citizens in Australians in other places.
Duration - 10 mins
Camera and editing - Pip
Starr and Sam Hoffman
Technical assistance - Bill Runting
Also available on 'The Best Of Access News, Volume 1' compilation tape, available from SKA TV