ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Wallace & Gromit and friends: The magic of Aardman

Journey into the magical world of acclaimed British animation studio, Aardman. From Wallace & Gromit to Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run plus many more, Aardman’s claymation creations have been enchanting audiences for over four decades. In our latest exhibition, take an extraordinary trip from sketches and models through to elaborate sets as these beloved characters take shape on screen.

Wednesday 29 June 2016 to Sunday 29 October 2017
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Bombay Talkies

For the very first time, our free Bombay Talkies exhibition will showcase the treasure-trove that is the Dietze Family Trust archive, a Melbourne-based collection of more than 3,000 cultural artefacts gathered from the legendary Indian film studio, Bombay Talkies.

Himansu Rai Devika Rani Ashok Kumar Leela Chitnis

Thursday 09 February 2017 to Sunday 02 July 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Philippe Parreno: Thenabouts

For his first solo exhibition in Australia, Philippe Parreno activates a singular retrospective of his filmic works as an evolving cinematic experience within the gallery.

Philippe Parreno

Tuesday 06 December 2016 to Monday 13 March 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Ex Nilalang

Ex Nilalang is a cumulative moving image project by Australian-Filipino collective Club Ate, founded by multidisciplinary video and performance artists, Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra. Three episodes were created in 2015 and ACMI is proud to have commissioned the fourth for Asia TOPA.

Justin Shoulder Bhenji Ra

Thursday 09 February 2017 to Sunday 05 March 2017
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Club Ate

Club Ate celebrates the contemporary voices of the queer Filipina diaspora and its surrounding island sissies. Hosted by Sydney-based artists Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra, Club Ate is a hybrid party event featuring live performances, video art, music, food and drinks.

Justin Shoulder Bhenji Ra

Thursday 02 March 2017 to Thursday 02 March 2017
Art special_event in Victoria, Australia.

Climax of the Next Scene 다음 신의 클라이막스

Created by South Korean artist Jisun Kim, Climax of the Next Scene is a bold video triptych that opens a portal onto a world of online games.

Jisun Kim

Thursday 02 February 2017 to Sunday 05 February 2017
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Boy and the World

Nominated for Best Animated Film at this year’s Academy Awards, Boy and the World is a gorgeously inventive animation from Brazil, and unlike anything you have even seen.

Saturday 05 November 2016 to Sunday 27 November 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Roman: 10 X Polanski

Lauded by the Museum of Modern Art in New York as “one of the great modern masters of the cinema” Roman Polanski has over the course of five decades refined a formal film language and expressed a mordantly ironic worldview in genre-defining films that are provocative, compelling and inventive.

Roman Polanski

Saturday 05 November 2016 to Sunday 20 November 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Collisions: Lynette Wallworth

Acclaimed filmmaker and artist Lynette Wallworth’s Collisions invites audiences on a journey to the land of indigenous elder, Nyarri Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the remote Western Australian desert. In a thought-provoking, immersive cinematic experience, Nyarri shares his story of the dramatic collision between his traditional world view and his experience of nuclear testing in the South

Lynette Wallworth

Thursday 06 October 2016 to Tuesday 15 November 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Ghosts, Toast and the Things Unsaid

Our latest VR Commission, Ghosts, Toast and the Things Unsaid is an intimate virtual reality experience that invites audiences to become the ghosts of couple, Steve and Maude, and revisit the kitchen where they fell in love, grew old and apart. The work provokes a meditation on our propensity to keep secrets, the words that go unheard, and what this means for our relationships.

Sam Haren Robin Moyer Dan Koerner

Saturday 29 October 2016 to Sunday 13 November 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

When we sing…

For Brisbane-based teacher Dr James Cuskelly, discovering Zoltán Kodály’s philosophy was life-changing and for the last 30 years he has been living, working with and spreading the word about the Kodály process of teaching and learning music.

Dr James Cuskelly

Saturday 15 October 2016 to Saturday 05 November 2016
Art performance in Victoria, Australia.

Lies and Secrets

These four revelatory documentaries take us beyond the white noise of newsfeeds and tabloid headlines, distinctly and fearlessly chronicling - even humanising - the flashpoints of our times.

Friday 14 October 2016 to Tuesday 25 October 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

The Echo of the Shadow

From its home in Barcelona, Teatro de los Sentidos (Theatre of the Senses) has been weaving works of extraordinary intimacy and immersiveness for 25 years. Now, in an Australian exclusive, Melbourne can witness an astonishing work for one person at a time in The Echo of the Shadow - a depth charge plumbing the most inner recesses of our being.

Thursday 06 October 2016 to Sunday 23 October 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Heart of a Dog

Musician and artist Laurie Anderson’s award-winning documentary Heart of a Dog is a wry, moving and inventive meditation on life, love and loss. A beautiful dreamscape of a film that weaves together childhood memories, video diaries, philosophical musings, heartfelt tributes to the people who inspire her and the humanity that connects us all.

Laurie Anderson

Thursday 20 October 2016 to Thursday 20 October 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Having screened both at Sundance and the Berlin Film Festivals, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s (Inside Deep Throat, The Eyes of Tammy Faye) compelling and candid documentary examines the career of one of America’s greatest and most controversial photographers.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Thursday 22 September 2016 to Tuesday 11 October 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Disneynature Festival

Bears, butterflies and monkeys are just some of the stars in our first ever Disneynature Festival these September school holidays. Travel deep into the jungle, across the plains of Africa and the tropical forests of Asia, in this exclusive season screening five of Disney’s greatest documentaries for all ages.

Tim Allen Meryl Streep John C. Reilly Samuel L. Jackson Tina Fey

Saturday 17 September 2016 to Sunday 02 October 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Wings of LifeUnclassified All Ages Suitable For Children 4+

From Disneynature, the studio that brought you Earth, Oceans, African Cats and Chimpanzee, comes Wings of Life – a stunning adventure full of intrigue, drama and mesmerising beauty.

Meryl Streep

Saturday 17 September 2016 to Friday 30 September 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Wanda

Winner of the International Critics Award at the 1970 Venice Film Festival, Wanda remains one of the most essential (and rarely-seen) works of the American Independent Cinema. Hollywood star Barbara Loden wrote, directed and also starred as Wanda; a beguiling woman who abandons her family and hits the road.

Barbara Loden

Saturday 10 September 2016 to Sunday 25 September 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Louis Theroux: My Scientology Movie

For his cinematic debut, Louis Theroux, director John Dower and two-time Academy Award-winning producer, Simon Chinn (Searching for Sugar Man, Man on Wire) venture inside the famously mysterious Church of Scientology.

Louis Theroux John Dower Simon Chinn

Thursday 08 September 2016 to Wednesday 21 September 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Screen ItThe 2016 Competition

What is Screen It? Fancy yourself a filmmaker? Think you can match Shaun Tan in the animation stakes? Want to show off your skills as a videogame developer? Then get ready to enter this year's Screen It competition for your chance to create something amazing and win some awesome prizes!

Monday 01 August 2016 to Monday 19 September 2016
Art opportunity in Victoria, Australia.

Del Kathryn Barton: The Nightingale and the Rose

Showcasing the hauntingly beautiful collaboration between two-time Archibald Prize winner Del Kathryn Barton and acclaimed filmmaker Brendan Fletcher, this milestone exhibition traces the compelling interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s 19th century classic through a sophisticated and nuanced artistic lens.

Del Kathryn Barton

Tuesday 21 June 2016 to Sunday 18 September 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

ACMI presents SCORSESE

From Taxi Driver and Goodfellas to The Age of Innocence and The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese’s intense and exhilarating films define him as one of the world’s greatest directors.

Martin Scorsese

Thursday 26 May 2016 to Sunday 18 September 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Scorsese: Friday Night Cinema

Catch the exhibition and one of Scorsese's acclaimed films in Scorsese: Friday Night Cinema. From the gritty underbelly of Boston and the high-flying excess of Wall Street to a cult classic and groundbreaking music documentaries, Scorsese's cinematic skill is celebrated on screen selected Fridays at 7pm from June 17.

Friday 17 June 2016 to Friday 16 September 2016
Art screening in Australia.

Hugo 3D

Legendary director Martin Scorsese brings Brian Selznick's illustrated novel to life, fulfilling a lifelong dream. This mesmerising film paradoxically celebrates a golden era of cinema at the same time as the director embraces the fantastical possibilities of new technologies. TICKETS: $7. MEMBERS $5.

Martin Scorsese Brian Selznick Brian Selznick

Monday 06 June 2016 to Sunday 11 September 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

They’re a Weird Mob

The first of two features made in Australia by great British auteur, Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, Peeping Tom), They’re a Weird Mob features Italian star Walter Chiari as a visiting sports reporter culturally in over his head when he arrives in Sydney expecting to work for a bilingual magazine but discovers his contact has skipped town.

Michael Powell Walter Chiari

Saturday 20 August 2016 to Monday 29 August 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Le Amiche (The Girlfriends)

Based on a novella by Cesare Pavese, this early work from the legendary Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni chronicles the lives and loves of a group of woman defining their place in post war Italy. The film follows Clelia (Eleonora Rossi Drago), who has returned to Turin to work for a high end fashion house.

Eleonora Rossi Drago

Saturday 27 August 2016 to Sunday 28 August 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

PawnoSTRONG COARSE LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE

Director Paul Ireland’s audacious debut celebrates the microcosm of suburban life in this disarmingly charming film starring an impressive cast of new and veteran Australian actors. Though filmed in the heart of Footscray, this could be almost any city or town in Australia, filled with the minutiae of daily life – from a mother in search of her son to a budding romance.

Daniel Frederiksen John Orcsik Tony Rickards Kerry Armstrong

Saturday 23 July 2016 to Saturday 27 August 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

My Voyage to Italy (Il Mio Viaggio In Italia)

In Martin Scorsese's documentary My Voyage to Italy (Il Mio Viaggio In Italia), the celebrated director shares his insights into Italian filmmaking as he hosts a personal journey through Italian cinema, profiling the country's most acclaimed directors including Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni.

Martin Scorsese

Sunday 21 August 2016 to Sunday 21 August 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Mr. Holmes

Ian McKellen takes on the iconic role of one of British literature’s most revered characters. In 1947, Sherlock Holmes (McKellen), long-retired, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse, tending to his bees, with a housekeeper, Mrs Munro (Laura Linney) and her amateur-sleuthing son, Roger (Milo Parker). Based on the novel by Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick Of The Mind.

Ian Mc Kellen Laura Linney Milo Parker

Saturday 06 August 2016 to Monday 15 August 2016
Art screening in Australia.

ACMI X Co-workers Revealed ACMI’s hub for creative industriesRound 2 Applications Now Open

ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) is delighted to welcome the foundation members of ACMI X, the first co-workers to join Australia’s first collaborative working space for the creative industries set up by a major cultural institution.

Tuesday 26 July 2016 to Monday 15 August 2016
Art opportunity in Victoria, Australia.