Andrew Garton
@andrewgarton.bsky.social
Filmmaker, musician, producer and media comms educator of Ukraine/Austrian descent. Member of Association for Progressive Communications.
https://linktr.ee/andrewgarton
https://linktr.ee/andrewgarton
Screenshots from This Choirs Sings Carols produced in collab with First Impressions Youth Theatre, screening at Hildebrand Organic Vineyard, Sat 6 December, Cottles Bridge, Victoria. Details in 🔗tree!
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Screenshots from This Choirs Sings Carols produced in collab with First Impressions Youth Theatre, screening at Hildebrand Organic Vineyard, Sat 6 December, Cottles Bridge, Victoria. Details in 🔗tree!
The graph reminds me of soap molecules. So many bubbles!
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The graph reminds me of soap molecules. So many bubbles!
A new recording studio has emerged from the rubble of a once derelict warehouse in Ascot Vale, Melbourne where I'll be collaborating with sound engineer and pianist, Rob Rolfe, as producer on various in-house projects. Much of the studio he built himself, his mother's drop-jaw paintings everywhere.
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
A new recording studio has emerged from the rubble of a once derelict warehouse in Ascot Vale, Melbourne where I'll be collaborating with sound engineer and pianist, Rob Rolfe, as producer on various in-house projects. Much of the studio he built himself, his mother's drop-jaw paintings everywhere.
Join me at Hildebrand Organic Vineyard in Cottles Bridge, Victoria, for a free, dinner screening of KNOW ME and my unexpectedly controversial 2015 film, This Choir Sings Carols, on Saturday 6 December. RSVP essential. Let me know below, or visit the FB event page from the LinkTree in bio.
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Join me at Hildebrand Organic Vineyard in Cottles Bridge, Victoria, for a free, dinner screening of KNOW ME and my unexpectedly controversial 2015 film, This Choir Sings Carols, on Saturday 6 December. RSVP essential. Let me know below, or visit the FB event page from the LinkTree in bio.
It was quite the day out the front of St Mary's.
November 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It was quite the day out the front of St Mary's.
"Freedom is not just an absence of evil but a presence of good." @timothysnyder.bsky.social, On Freedom, 2025
October 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"Freedom is not just an absence of evil but a presence of good." @timothysnyder.bsky.social, On Freedom, 2025
I had my bag checked by security at Melbourne Airport. This came up in the scan. No one but an older security officer knew what it was.
October 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I had my bag checked by security at Melbourne Airport. This came up in the scan. No one but an older security officer knew what it was.
Against all odds, my first website, coded in 1994, is still online and much of it still works. Unfortunately, the RealAudio streams do not.
toysatellite.org/bh/
toysatellite.org/bh/
October 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Against all odds, my first website, coded in 1994, is still online and much of it still works. Unfortunately, the RealAudio streams do not.
toysatellite.org/bh/
toysatellite.org/bh/
Never ever dreamed I'd end up in an Insta Frame, but Meera from Eltham Bookshop is marvellously persuasive. Diwali celebrations in Eltham were joyous & a welcome break from the worlds I inhabit in my work. I was hanging out with author, Neil Grant & members of the Diamond Creek Tough Guys Book Club.
October 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Never ever dreamed I'd end up in an Insta Frame, but Meera from Eltham Bookshop is marvellously persuasive. Diwali celebrations in Eltham were joyous & a welcome break from the worlds I inhabit in my work. I was hanging out with author, Neil Grant & members of the Diamond Creek Tough Guys Book Club.
They are so on the ball this lot! I was born here!
October 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
They are so on the ball this lot! I was born here!
KNOW ME - a semi-finalist in this years Australia Independent Film Festival. Missed out on a screening, but at the very least it was acknowledged alongside many impressive films.
October 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
KNOW ME - a semi-finalist in this years Australia Independent Film Festival. Missed out on a screening, but at the very least it was acknowledged alongside many impressive films.
"My message to the world is simple:
if we are left to burn in this hell alone,
then humanity itself has already died.
This world is no longer human.
And the silence that allowed all of this
will haunt you forever."
@ali.gazandoctor, 17 September 2025
if we are left to burn in this hell alone,
then humanity itself has already died.
This world is no longer human.
And the silence that allowed all of this
will haunt you forever."
@ali.gazandoctor, 17 September 2025
September 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"My message to the world is simple:
if we are left to burn in this hell alone,
then humanity itself has already died.
This world is no longer human.
And the silence that allowed all of this
will haunt you forever."
@ali.gazandoctor, 17 September 2025
if we are left to burn in this hell alone,
then humanity itself has already died.
This world is no longer human.
And the silence that allowed all of this
will haunt you forever."
@ali.gazandoctor, 17 September 2025
Quite the page turner!
August 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Quite the page turner!
The footage that inspired my film, KNOW ME, was originally shot by Ian Urquhart. This footage is now available for non-commercial and educational use. A list of the entire collection, some additional notes, an FAQ and some of Ian's amazing photos available here:
www.andrewgarton.com/2025/07/30/t...
www.andrewgarton.com/2025/07/30/t...
July 30, 2025 at 6:22 AM
The footage that inspired my film, KNOW ME, was originally shot by Ian Urquhart. This footage is now available for non-commercial and educational use. A list of the entire collection, some additional notes, an FAQ and some of Ian's amazing photos available here:
www.andrewgarton.com/2025/07/30/t...
www.andrewgarton.com/2025/07/30/t...
Thanks everyone who came to the premier of KNOW ME at the @mdff.bsky.social (Melbourne Documentary Film Festival) last Sunday afternoon. There were tears, heart warming embraces, reunions too and discussion that flowed from Cinema Nova's foyer onto a nearby pub and into the evening back home.
July 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Thanks everyone who came to the premier of KNOW ME at the @mdff.bsky.social (Melbourne Documentary Film Festival) last Sunday afternoon. There were tears, heart warming embraces, reunions too and discussion that flowed from Cinema Nova's foyer onto a nearby pub and into the evening back home.
It's up to us to motivate our politicians to act and do a whole lot more than acquiesce with meaningless words and debate. Here's one way, bombard our local members with emails and letters.
www.getup.org.au/campaigns/pa...
www.getup.org.au/campaigns/pa...
July 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
It's up to us to motivate our politicians to act and do a whole lot more than acquiesce with meaningless words and debate. Here's one way, bombard our local members with emails and letters.
www.getup.org.au/campaigns/pa...
www.getup.org.au/campaigns/pa...
It's black! And practical :)
July 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
It's black! And practical :)
Join me on Sunday 27 July at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival for the first public screening of KNOW ME at Cinema Nova, 12:20 PM, Carlton, Melbourne. Booking details in bio link. KNOW ME is one of several incredible short films being screened at that session. It's going to be great!
July 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Join me on Sunday 27 July at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival for the first public screening of KNOW ME at Cinema Nova, 12:20 PM, Carlton, Melbourne. Booking details in bio link. KNOW ME is one of several incredible short films being screened at that session. It's going to be great!
Playing again. Solo. At times like these, an echo of the fascism my family fought against and eventually fled, unprecedented in my lifetime, one cannot stay quiet.
Photo by Mirranda Burton.
Photo by Mirranda Burton.
![Performing at Winter Ho[a]rse, a Ho[a]rse from Barking under the radar event.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4dub4kpesbx74g35ukmgyuk2/bafkreib5lld5prbjl6362jyl47ghey3fgyplitsfs7lbv2dphfvgshulzu@jpeg)
June 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Playing again. Solo. At times like these, an echo of the fascism my family fought against and eventually fled, unprecedented in my lifetime, one cannot stay quiet.
Photo by Mirranda Burton.
Photo by Mirranda Burton.
Soon to be announced, the entire collection of source footage I had access to for my film, KNOW ME, will be available on archive.org. All 23 standard 8mm reels, restored and digitised by r3storestudios, London. The archive includes Ian Urquhart's original annotations.
June 26, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Soon to be announced, the entire collection of source footage I had access to for my film, KNOW ME, will be available on archive.org. All 23 standard 8mm reels, restored and digitised by r3storestudios, London. The archive includes Ian Urquhart's original annotations.
Announcing the Australian premiere of KNOW ME at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, @mdff.bsky.social , Sunday 27 July, Cinema Nova. Exact time to be confirmed. With special screenings at IMAX the festival is looking to the future, providing platforms for all manner of documentary making.
June 2, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Announcing the Australian premiere of KNOW ME at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, @mdff.bsky.social , Sunday 27 July, Cinema Nova. Exact time to be confirmed. With special screenings at IMAX the festival is looking to the future, providing platforms for all manner of documentary making.
Working on a video essay about my non-fiction short film, KNOW ME. The text on my chest reads Fuck Off Russian Warship in Ukrainian.
May 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Working on a video essay about my non-fiction short film, KNOW ME. The text on my chest reads Fuck Off Russian Warship in Ukrainian.
Via @pkirn.bsky.social ... Every hour counts.
May 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Via @pkirn.bsky.social ... Every hour counts.
My heart breaks for children who are unable to live life as children, as in these two from a painting by my sister, Grace.
May 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
My heart breaks for children who are unable to live life as children, as in these two from a painting by my sister, Grace.