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ACMI Presents Spectacle: The Music Video Exhibition
0 Comments. 222 Views. Posted 17 Jun 2013 @ 11:35am.
This September, ACMI will host its next major exhibition, Spectacle: The Music Video Exhibition. Featuring over 300 works presented across nine thematic sections, Spectacle is a historical exhibition of the music video industry. The exhibition will delve into the fundamentalism of video clips and how they define artists to the public, including the multiple reinventions of Madonna, Björk's... Read More
The We And The I
0 Comments. 134 Views. Posted 11 Jun 2013 @ 12:11pm.
In Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture, English music critic Jon Savage explores the cultural history of the teenager from the latter part of the 19th century through to the end of the Second World War. While Savage focuses on the commoditisation of youth culture, it’s the perils and pitfalls of adolescence – with all its attendant sexual, domestic, chemical and platonic dramas –... Read More
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
0 Comments. 350 Views. Posted 23 May 2013 @ 6:26pm.
At the heart of the story of Big Star – the Memphis band formed by Chris Bell and Alex Chilton in the early ‘70s now regarded as the progenitor of the power pop and independent rock sound – is a contradiction: how was it that a band that created music regarded now as ‘timeless’ could have been largely ignored in the early ‘70s? It’s a question that Drew DeNicola, director of the documentary Big... Read More
Reykjavik Calling At ACMI
0 Comments. 188 Views. Posted 16 May 2013 @ 1:46pm.
This July, ACMI will present a Focus On season profiling two of Iceland's most distinctive filmmakers, Fridrik Thór Fridriksson and Baltasar Kormákur. The season is curated by Roberta Ciabarra and will feature ten films screened over two weeks. Fridriksson was nominated for an Oscar for his film Children OF Nature (1991), which helped to put Iceland on the cinematic map, he is memorable for... Read More
ACMI Presents Gowns By Adrian
0 Comments. 197 Views. Posted 8 May 2013 @ 4:52pm.
ACMI will be hosting a collection of films in honour of Adrian entitled Gowns by Adrian: Dressing MGM's Leading Ladies. Adrian was a prestigious costume designer of the Golden Age of Hollywood (late 1920s – late 1950s) and produced some of the most iconic costumes remembered today, including MGM's The Wizard of Oz.   In tribute to his illustrious career, ACMI will be screening a selection... Read More
Hollywood Costume
0 Comments. 360 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2013 @ 2:29pm.
When you have Academy Award-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming on the phone – whose work on the Batsuit from The Dark Knight trilogy and Daniel Craig’s bespoke suit in Casino Royale is soon to be displayed as part of ACMI’s upcoming Hollywood Costume exhibition – it’s important to ask her the hard-hitting questions. So who is sexier, Batman or James Bond? “... Read More
ACMI Presents Like Someone in Love
0 Comments. 236 Views. Posted 19 Apr 2013 @ 4:22pm.
ACMI will present the latest film from acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, Like Someone in Love, as a Long Play season from May. The film follows three characters; protagonist and part time escort Akiko, her client Takashi and her boyfriend Noriaki. It premiered in official competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and follows the success of Certified Copy (2010). Kiarostami is known... Read More
Directed By Marco Bellochio At ACMI
0 Comments. 177 Views. Posted 25 Mar 2013 @ 11:52am.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image has announced a six day program to celebrate the achievements of Director Marco Bellochio this April. Bellochio is a thrice-time nominee for the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion and has been nominated six times for a Palme d'Or. After almost five decades of film making he was awarded a Gold Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2011. The season will open... Read More
ACMI Presents Directed by Asghar Farhadi
0 Comments. 291 Views. Posted 5 Mar 2013 @ 9:06am.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ACMI, will be hosting a special season screening of Asghar Farhadi’s oeuvre. Entitled Directed by Asghar Farhadi, the season will showcase the five films that made the legendary Iranian director. The season will begin with Farhadi’s 2009 work About Elly, a film that delves into masculine honour and identity. The film was named the fourth greatest... Read More
ACMI Celebrates The British
0 Comments. 364 Views. Posted 22 Jan 2013 @ 2:25pm.
ACMI has announced its upcoming program as part of GREAT Britain Arts 13, a year long celebration of British arts and culture comprised of 13 major events across Melbourne and Sydney.   ACMI will make its contribution by celebrating the best of British film making, as it showcases classic restorations alongside innovative film making talents. The Australian premiere of Julien Temple's... Read More
ACMI Focuses On Jeanne Moreau
0 Comments. 521 Views. Posted 9 Jan 2013 @ 12:52pm.
As part of their Focus on... series, ACMI will be hosting its first season of the year with a focus on French actress Jeanne Moreau. Jeanne Moreau is known for her involvement in avant-garde, French New Wave films that excite, titillate and invoke thought. In ACMI's fist Focus on... for 2013 the cinema will show a series of eight films that launched the star to stardom.   Kicking off the... Read More
Wonder Women!
0 Comments. 847 Views. Posted 13 Dec 2012 @ 7:55am.
Like most children of the ‘70s, director Kirsty Guevara-Flanagan came to Wonder Woman through the television show starring Linda Carter. “I was just a little kid at the time, and she made a great impression on me,” Guevara-Flanagan says. “It left an indelible impression on me. I remember being with my girlfriends, and spinning around, pretending we were turning into Wonder Woman,” Guevara-... Read More
ACMI Examines The Walking Dead
0 Comments. 619 Views. Posted 14 Dec 2012 @ 9:28am.
Attention The Walking Dead fans. Yes, that's you. ACMI have compiled a series of guests — Paul Verhoeven, Luke Ryan and Angela Ndalianis — to discuss the evolution of The Walking Dead, its popularity and why The Walking Dead is so engrossing.   Of course, no actual zombies will be present, regardless, the panel discussion will surely be riveting. Paul Verhoeven is a veteran of the screen... Read More
Candice Breitz: The Character
0 Comments. 1,372 Views. Posted 12 Dec 2012 @ 12:31pm.
Humans are malleable, speculative and easily influenced. We are exposed to thousands of messages everyday, whether these are advertisements on our radio, televisions, or mobile phones, or simply the newest James Bond movie. Our perception of what is beautiful, what is ugly, and of the world, is impressed from these messages subconsciously, regardless of our opinions. This concept of identity... Read More
Berberian Sound Studio
0 Comments. 826 Views. Posted 6 Dec 2012 @ 9:31am.
A middle-aged Englishman sits in a darkened room, eyes wide in a mixture of bemusement and horror as he watches action – unseen to us – being projected on a movie screen. “What’s he doing to her?” he stammers to a colleague. Nearby two men begin methodically hacking up watermelons under studio microphones, each splattering slice lovingly committed to rotating reels of audiotape. Welcome to the... Read More
White Night Melbourne Debuts
0 Comments. 983 Views. Posted 11 Dec 2012 @ 2:31pm.
Nuit Blanche, which translates to 'White Night' from French, is a festival immersion of arts, culture, and performance over one whole night. Started in 1984, it's celebrated in several cities, including Paris, Barcelona and Cairo. Now, 28 years later Melbourne is jumping on the bandwagon. In what will be a night of epic proportions, Melbourne will host its first White Night Melbourne. The night... Read More
ACMI Presents Laurence Anyways
0 Comments. 804 Views. Posted 4 Dec 2012 @ 10:12am.
On his 30th birthday, a man turned to his partner and said that he was a woman trapped in a man's body. This is the pretense of Laurence Anyways, a new film by prodigy director Xavier Dolan. Screening at the ACMI theatre this summer, the film illustrates the precarious relationship between Laurence (Melvil Poupaud) and Fred (Suzanne Clément) after Laurence expresses his gender crisis. Enter... Read More
ACMI Is Looking For Budding Filmmakers
0 Comments. 771 Views. Posted 30 Nov 2012 @ 9:09am.
The Australia Centre for the Moving Image is offering places in its program Hothouse: Tall Poppies Grow Here, an intensive one-week program to nurture ten of Victoria's best young filmmakers. Hothouse will grant students from years 10 – 12 the opportunity to experience a fast-paced studio environment, while receiving hands on experience with industry specialists and ACMI staff. Keynote speakers... Read More
Extra Goblin Melbourne Music Week Performance Announced
0 Comments. 930 Views. Posted 20 Nov 2012 @ 3:11pm.
Due to popular demand, Goblin will play a second and final live score to Dario Argento’s masterwork Suspiria this Friday 23 November as part of Melbourne Music Week and ACMI's Cinemix program. Audiences have one final chance to see one of the great horror classics spectacularly brought to life on the big screen and live in concert when Goblin play Suspiria in a special... Read More
La Mirada Film Festival
0 Comments. 769 Views. Posted 13 Nov 2012 @ 9:16am.
The La Mirada Film Festival has carved an enviable niche for itself in Melbourne’s film festival calendar. Encompassing an array of Spanish-language films from Spain and Latin America, it crosses geographic boundaries in a way that makes it much more than simply another national film showcase. Combined also with the highly individual programming approach taken by its ebullient director Rocio... Read More
Friday on My Mind Presents Glendyn Ivin
0 Comments. 411 Views. Posted 7 Nov 2012 @ 2:02pm.
Friday on My Mind is known for delivering a host of artists, collaborators, directors, and many more, to discuss their career, industry and offer useful advice for aspiring artists. This Friday on My Mind with Glendyn Ivin sees the addtion of short-film maker Glendyn Ivin. Ivin is known for his acute direction in Offpspring, Beaconsfield, and current hit, Puberty Blues. He recently snatched the... Read More
ACMI Dives Into Feminism With Two Evocative Documentaries
0 Comments. 981 Views. Posted 1 Nov 2012 @ 3:37pm.
In an attempt to explore the presentation of women role models throughout history, ACMI will be presenting a Kristy Guevara-Flanagan's documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, quickly followed by raunchy number Sexy Baby. Guevara-Flangan sets the scene with her documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, an exploration of epic proportions... Read More
ACMI Bring Hollywood Costume To Melbourne
0 Comments. 3,602 Views. Posted 24 Oct 2012 @ 9:22am.
Ted Baillieu announced today that ACMI will present Hollywood Costume as part of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition series in 2013. The exhibition is coming to town direct from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London to showcase the finest in the art of costume design. It will unite classics of the golden age of cinema, such as Scarlett O'Hara's iconic green 'curtain' dress, with more... Read More
An Evening with Robin Hunicke At ACMI
0 Comments. 620 Views. Posted 23 Oct 2012 @ 8:54am.
Game Masters left you wanting more? The ACMI has announced acclaimed game designer Robin Hunicke will be heading into the studio for a live game playing event this October. An influential feminine figure on the US gaming scene, Hunicke will be playing and discussing the critically acclaimed Journey, one of the most anticipated video games to come out of thatgamingcompany. She will also be... Read More
Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries Comes To Friday On My Mind
0 Comments. 850 Views. Posted 17 Oct 2012 @ 3:19pm.
Friday on My Mind is known for collecting and coercing, or hosting if you wanted to be proper, some the creative industry's best minds to speak at the ACMI every Friday night. Therefore it's okay to assume Sandra Sdraulig must've employed some pretty mean coercion to get Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger on the show. Scratching you head, wonder who they are? Well, they're the creators of the glamourised... Read More
2012 La Mirada Film Festival
0 Comments. 1,180 Views. Posted 16 Oct 2012 @ 9:20am.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Cinema Nova will be screening a breathtaking selection of contemporary and classic Spanish films when La Mirada Film Festival returns to Melbourne this November. The ever charming Wes Anderson will be guest curating alongside acclaimed actor Gael García Bernal and The Hive's PelleAlmqvist. Festival director Rocio Garcia has secured a screening of... Read More
ACMI Presents Home
0 Comments. 589 Views. Posted 12 Oct 2012 @ 12:53pm.
ACMI will be presenting director Ursula Meier's film Home, an exploration of what it means to have a home and what constitutes as one. In this 90 minute drama, French actress Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher) portrays Marthe, a woman who lives with her family near the side of a disused road. When the road reopens, the family refuses to relocate despite pressure from authorities. In a way to... Read More
ACMI Presents The Fountainhead
0 Comments. 619 Views. Posted 11 Oct 2012 @ 11:10am.
It's not that often that you're privy to a black and white movies, but this month at the ACMI you 're invited to see 1949 classic The Fountainhead, a movie about an uncompromising architect. Considered one of director Kind Vidor's greatest, The Fountainhead sees acclaimed actor Gary Cooper slip into the role of Howard Roark. Cooper is known for his roles in High Noon, and drama classic The... Read More
ACMI Presents The Queen of Versailles
0 Comments. 777 Views. Posted 10 Oct 2012 @ 5:41pm.
What happened with you combine an affluent businessman, a trophy wide and the US economic and mortgage crisis? You get the The Queen of Versailles, as screened by ACMI. In this 100 minute documentary, we follow the Siegel family as they try to construct a mansion inspired by Versailles out of their billion dollar fortune. The 2008 economic downfall in America creates drama for the family as they... Read More
Candice Breitz At ACMI
0 Comments. 757 Views. Posted 8 Oct 2012 @ 7:23am.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image will be hosting presenting Candice Breitz: The Character this December, an exhibition of works celebrating renowned video and photographic artist Candice Breitz. Candice Breitz is best known for her 2005 production King (A Portrait of Michael Jackson) in which 16 ardent fans of Michael were invited to sing their way through Thriller. It was an expose of... Read More
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