
Ray Argall
Directing
Biography
Raymond Charles Argall AM is an Australian cinematographer, director, and editor. His feature film Return Home is regarded by many critics as an Australian cinema classic.
Known For

SeaChange is a popular Australian television show that ran for 39 episodes from 1998 to 2000 on the ABC. It was created by Andrew Knight and Deborah Cox and starred Sigrid Thornton, David Wenham, William McInnes, John Howard, Tom Long and Kerry Armstrong. The director was Michael Carson. Filming was based at Barwon Heads, Victoria and St Leonards, Victoria, both locations being on the Bellarine Peninsula. A number of streets in the St Leonards Sea Change Estate have since been named to acknowledge some of the characters of the series. Many scenes were also filmed in Williamstown, including the exterior of the Williamstown Life Saving Club, which became the court house of Pearl Bay.
SeaChange
Series revolving around community youth radio station 99.9 Raw FM and the young people who run it.
Raw FM

Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death.
Body Melt

During one unusually hot weekend, four friends struggle after hearing some life-changing news.
Look Both Ways

Mitchell leaves the comfort of suburban bliss convinced that no-one can assess life who has not experienced it first-hand. Clear about what is not appropriate for her, she is searching for what is: a choice. She takes a job at an inner-city hair salon and a room in a nearby boarding house. Here she meets Gaye, who lives on love and spurts on her asthma inhaler. Through a quirk of fate she meets Rex in the hall with not much on but the imprint of a boot on his behind. She takes him in, captivated by his smile. They warm to one another at once. Rex appreciates Mitchell's style and is impossible to ignore. The drawback is he comes fully loaded: Mitchell discovers that where Rex is trouble follows close behind.
Tender Hooks

A young Russian man arrives in Berlin in search of a woman, but becomes entangled with two others one of whom falls in love with him and another who represents a classic Russian heroine like out of a novel from one of his countrymen idols.
The Prisoner of St. Petersburg

A man and his wife are partners in a small business, a service station, that is struggling to survive financially. They are visited by his brother, a divorced middle-aged man, who has taken a break from his stressful career in a big business corporation.
Return Home

An intimate film portrait of Joan Armatrading and her music. Includes concert performances of Show Some Emotion, Willow, Drop The Pilot, Me Myself I, Heaven, Call Me Names, Love and Affection, Rosie, I'm Lucky, Frustration, Bottom To The Top and more plus two videos: Kind Words and Temptation. Video is part documentary, part travelog, part clip compilation and part concert performance.
Joan Armatrading - Track Record

Australian Made: The Movie is a 1987 live concert film of the Australian Made tour from December 1986 to January 1987. The tour featured internationally performing Australian acts, INXS, Divinyls, Models, The Triffids, The Saints, I'm Talking, and Jimmy Barnes. Concert segments were linked by Troy Davies interviewing audience members and musicians.
Australian Made: The Movie

David Trueman is a young doctor who dreams of going to South America to practice medicine among the disenfranchised. Arriving in Bolivia, he encounters enough corruption and oppression to drive him away from his dreams and into the drug scene. Disillusioned and escaping to the U.S., he meets Mary, a young heroin addict who shares his angst. As the two commiserate, their bleak outlook lightens, promising a glimmer of hope for the both of them.
Wrong World

Two technicians manning a tracking station on the Victorian High Plains pursue opposite ways of coping with isolation. The ageing Cunningham seems to be rejuvenated by and obsessed with the landscape, while the younger Barker withdraws into the interior and technical world of the station.
The Plains of Heaven

An architect and a prisoner work on the same construction project.
Eight Ball

A story of transition: from lust to compassion, compassion to escape and escape to Sydney. Truth plays a very small part.
Gary's Story

In 1984, Midnight Oil released their iconic record Red Sails in the Sunset. They embarked on a relentless tour around the nation performing raw and electrifying music that reignited the imagination of young Australians. That same year, their lead singer Peter Garrett committed to run for a Senate seat for the Nuclear Disarmament Party. With the mounting pressure of balancing the demands of music and politics this is the year that would make, but nearly break, Australia's most important rock and roll band. Thirty years in the making and featuring never seen before seen footage of the band on and off the stage, Midnight Oil: 1984 is the untold story of the year Australia’s most iconic rock band inspired the nation to believe in the power of music to change the world.
Midnight Oil: 1984

A mother has to go to help her child grow up, even if it means coming back from the dead.
Ashputtle or the Mother's Ghost
Short, student film directed by Ray Argall (Return Home), who is better known as a cinematographer (Look Both Ways). Watching TV. Driving Around. Eating peanut butter. Trying to get a job. Dogfood is a film about the sort of people that live in the suburbs.
Dogfood
An intimate film portrait of Joan Armatrading and her music.
Track Record
Early feature film by Ian Pringle
Wronsky

An experimental documentary on dancing and its part in subcultures from punk to electro.
No Dance

The film starts with voice over by Julie (Jill Delaney) which sets the minimalist plot running as she rides on her Ducati 750 into Melbourne.