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The Physical TV Company is a critically acclaimed international film production company based on unceded Gadigal and Dharug lands in Sydney, Australia.  Physical TV creates drama, documentary, and dance films informed, in a scholarly but playful way, by research into the history and the future potential of the cinematic medium.  Its works have been commissioned or purchased for multiple broadcasts by ABC and SBS-TV in Australia, and picked up for broadcast in China, Europe and on cable TV in the USA.  Physical TV screen productions have travelled to over 500 film festivals on six continents; garnered well over 100 awards or nominations; many have attracted grant funding or support through government, philanthropic, arts or educational funding bodies; and been added to the collections of major film archives around the world.  A recent work readily available for purchase, download and streaming is the multi-award-winning trilogy An Editors Anthology (Ronin Films).

Founding Director of the Physical TV Company Richard James Allen is also a celebrated Australian poet.  His most recent publications include the poetry book, Text Messages from the Universe (Flying Island Books), and the novel, More Lies (Interactive Press).  Founding director Karen Pearlman is a leading international theorist on film editing and feminist film histories.  Her most recent books include Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement (Edinburgh University Press) and Cutting Rhythms: Intuitive Film Editing (Focal Press).  Her work has reached audiences of over one million people through collaboratively made research YouTube videos called The Science of Editing.  A number of Physical TV works include poetry by Allen and are informed by research by Pearlman.