Andrew Garton

Filmmaker, Musician, Lecturer in Media & Communications

New work

Know Me screenshot

KNOW ME

Completed in January 2025. See KNOW ME for trailer, media kit, screening updates and more info.

 AUTOCHTHONOUS

In production.

 LIKE WATER

Bruce Lee and Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Movement

PEER TO PEER

What can we learn from poets, dreamers and coders who engineered a parallel Internet in Australia and Southeast Asia?

Independent journalism finds its moment

Independent journalism finds its moment With extreme views populating mainstream media and increased use of generative AI within once respected news media outlets and platforms, how do we make sense of the world? Who is left to hold power to account, where do we find...

Cinereel archive

The footage that inspired my film, KNOW ME, was originally shot in Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, between 1954 to 1963 by Ian Urquhart. This footage is now available for non-commercial and educational use.

Nazar Nebozhenskyi

Homeland, portraiture, the curated self and war

Homeland, portraiture, the curated self and war Family photos led my family and I to discover our father's Ukraine homeland and stories of resilience in the face of impending crisis, war and occupied territory I won't be able to visit any time soon. Oleg Garton...

There was nowhere else to go but inside

On 16 October 2024 musician, composer, visionary and collaborator extraordinaire, Ollie Olsen returned to star dust. Ollie had been a tremendous support and influence to countless.

Details Blacksmiths' Tree

The wonder of the Blacksmiths’ Tree

My story with the Blacksmiths’ Tree began in 2011. Its own story began in 2009, but if truth be told it began much earlier than that.

I am not an alien

For decades I believed I had come from the stars. For many of them I would recount my adventures as Zandor, Master Explorer, first to my younger sister and brother, then to my daughter. But what I truly am is far more astonishing than the fancy of a lonely boy with an eye to the stars.

Artistic licence

Unlike countries with a fair use exemption, copyright laws in Australia require artists to secure prohibitively expensive licences for even the smallest quotation of others’ work.

Sarawak’s Kleptocracy Strikes Again

In the Borneo Highlands of Sarawak, warriors from Kalimantan would enter the ancestral homelands of the Bidayuh Tibiya, and raid the densely forested jungle for their heads. That was a long time ago. Their descendants no longer fear for their heads, but they do fear for their lands.

Select releases

AUDIBLE LINES

Melbourne 2030 Derive

D3 Derive

RAT KANGAROO EP 02

RAT KANGAROO EP 01

ALONE IN SPACE

    The Light Show

      Son of Science