
Directing
Bill Mousoulis
Born 1963-07-14 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Bill Mousoulis is an Australian film director, with approximately 100 films to his name. He is also the founder of the online film journal Senses of Cinema in 1999, and the founder of the film co-operative Melbourne Super 8 Film Group in 1985.
Acting credits
A personal, diary film, about love, the cinema, faith, desire, affirmation.
Richmond Girl
1990
NRWhatever happened to Valerie Solanas?
Scum '87
2026
In the winter of 1998, the earth was overrun by many millennium prophets, whilst the suburbanites lived their suburban lives. Underground, artists and other vagabonds flourished, their activities illuminated by a dark and pure underground sky.
Underground Sky
1998
A portrait of a serial killer.
Ladykiller
1994
A personal film, a diary, an essay, of Bill Mousoulis in December 1989.
Honey
1989
A love letter is written and then sent off. There are two worlds - the one we have and the one we dream about. This film is all about the attempt to bridge the gap between the two.
Love Letter
1985
NRA day in the mundane for two lonesome moviegoers. One an old veteran, the other a young devotee, both live in the ghosts of days gone by, observing small rituals of comfort against Adelaide's uncaring sprawl. They eventually converge on an aged cinema, in search of that certain feeling.
The Fishermen
2026
NRVarious tableaux of Melbourne in 1989, as experienced by the film-maker.
Melbourne '89
1989
A document of various '45's, various 'singles'. Bill, Eléni, and George. Diary film? Documentary film? Fiction film? All this and more, in the film-maker's 45th film.
Document 45
1994
A film about Michelangelo's dream of the connection of the fingertips.
Michelangelo's Dream
1991
A film made for the Melbourne Super-8 Film Group's "Postcode" series. In this case, images of 3066 (Collingwood), set to Patti Smith's "Spell" - holy, holy, all is holy.
Holy Land
1998
A day in the life of an unemployed youth.
Back to Nature
1985
A teenager living in suburbia finds a jewellery-case and it changes his life. A tribute to Spielberg and "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial".
J.C.: The Jewellery-Case
1984
The film shows two Melbourne youths and their summer activities. One makes films and the other holidays at Phillip Island. But, despite their differences, they both, in their own ways, aspire to infinity.
Aspire to Infinity
1984
Jarman was blue. Mousoulis is green.
Green
1996
A short fiction in the mode of a 'diary', a film-maker's thoughts and feelings regarding his failure to obtain funding for his films.
Makes Me Stronger
1996
An essay film about the failure of post-modernism.
Knowing Me, Knowing You
1988
Various shots taken inside and outside a house.
In a Lonely Place
1982
A life veiled, by a very old tree. Rock solid. One shot. From darkness to light, the aperture opens. Only one thing can be said: vale Karen Carpenter.
Vale
1994
Various tableaux of home life.
The Green Door
1986
NRA diary film, chronicling six days in the life of a woman in her early 30's. A portrait of isolation, striving, rejection and hope.
My Blessings
1997
Richmond = rich world, rich woods. 1990 to 1995. The sites which resonate with meaning and feeling for the film-maker, now leaving Richmond, heading north by northwest.
Rich Woods '90 - '95
1995
An essay film about the cinema.
A Question of Faith
1987
The second film of "The Place Trilogy". Doco images collide with a fictional text.
Abbot's Ford '95
1995
Behind the camera
NRA multi-layered narrative drama about ordinary people and their struggles and joys with life. Blue Notes is composed of five tales about people who are "blue": a married man struggles by with depression; his son spends his days drifting; a young woman reacts to being abused by her partner; a heroin addict attempts to start a career in music; and a lonely man, bereft of family, looks for a way to connect with others.
Blue Notes
2006
NRA multi-layered narrative drama about ordinary people and their struggles and joys with life. Blue Notes is composed of five tales about people who are "blue": a married man struggles by with depression; his son spends his days drifting; a young woman reacts to being abused by her partner; a heroin addict attempts to start a career in music; and a lonely man, bereft of family, looks for a way to connect with others.
Blue Notes
2006
NRA multi-layered narrative drama about ordinary people and their struggles and joys with life. Blue Notes is composed of five tales about people who are "blue": a married man struggles by with depression; his son spends his days drifting; a young woman reacts to being abused by her partner; a heroin addict attempts to start a career in music; and a lonely man, bereft of family, looks for a way to connect with others.
Blue Notes
2006
NRA documentrary portrait of some of Greece’s underground music artists, and their songs of resistance and anger.
Songs of the Underground
2017
NRA documentrary portrait of some of Greece’s underground music artists, and their songs of resistance and anger.
Songs of the Underground
2017
NRSeveral interconnecting stories of love, loss, desire and despair, among both gay and straight characters. The main story concerns Anna, a successful but lonely novelist, who falls for Finola, a vivacious young writing student, who is involved with the troubled Cindy. Paul, keen on Anna, is pursued by Martin; and Evan and Skye, a young couple, experience problems.
Desire
1999
NRSeveral interconnecting stories of love, loss, desire and despair, among both gay and straight characters. The main story concerns Anna, a successful but lonely novelist, who falls for Finola, a vivacious young writing student, who is involved with the troubled Cindy. Paul, keen on Anna, is pursued by Martin; and Evan and Skye, a young couple, experience problems.
Desire
1999
NRSeveral interconnecting stories of love, loss, desire and despair, among both gay and straight characters. The main story concerns Anna, a successful but lonely novelist, who falls for Finola, a vivacious young writing student, who is involved with the troubled Cindy. Paul, keen on Anna, is pursued by Martin; and Evan and Skye, a young couple, experience problems.
Desire
1999
NRA couple, Steve and Louise, quit their respective office jobs, deciding to follow their inner desires and their aspirations to be artistic.
Lovesick
2003
NRA couple, Steve and Louise, quit their respective office jobs, deciding to follow their inner desires and their aspirations to be artistic.
Lovesick
2003
NRA couple, Steve and Louise, quit their respective office jobs, deciding to follow their inner desires and their aspirations to be artistic.
Lovesick
2003
A personal, diary film, about love, the cinema, faith, desire, affirmation.
Richmond Girl
1990
A low-key naturalistic drama set in contemporary Melbourne. It charts the story of a man, Robert, who returns home and tries to resume a relationship with a woman, Angela, after a period of 18 months apart from each other.
Passage
2003
A low-key naturalistic drama set in contemporary Melbourne. It charts the story of a man, Robert, who returns home and tries to resume a relationship with a woman, Angela, after a period of 18 months apart from each other.
Passage
2003
A low-key naturalistic drama set in contemporary Melbourne. It charts the story of a man, Robert, who returns home and tries to resume a relationship with a woman, Angela, after a period of 18 months apart from each other.
Passage
2003
A portrait of Melbourne in Spring '04 (September/October), a mosaic of different stories: an angel desires to be human; a young couple cope with long-distance relating; a novelist unexpectedly falls pregnant; a woman from London discovers Melbourne; and a disenfranchised man, with a gambling debt, becomes involved with an underworld gang.
Spring Rhapsody
2005
A portrait of Melbourne in Spring '04 (September/October), a mosaic of different stories: an angel desires to be human; a young couple cope with long-distance relating; a novelist unexpectedly falls pregnant; a woman from London discovers Melbourne; and a disenfranchised man, with a gambling debt, becomes involved with an underworld gang.
Spring Rhapsody
2005
NRThe story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.
Between Us
1989
NRThe story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.
Between Us
1989
NRThe story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.
Between Us
1989
A lonely man, bereft of family, looks for a way to connect with others.
Kosta
2006
A newspaper journalist in Bosnia returns home to find that things are and are not as they seem.
Open City
1993
A newspaper journalist in Bosnia returns home to find that things are and are not as they seem.
Open City
1993
A newspaper journalist in Bosnia returns home to find that things are and are not as they seem.
Open City
1993
