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Fashion on Film

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) proudly presents the 2014 season of Fashion on Film in conjunction with Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW) from Saturday 30 August to Sunday 7 September 2014. From the inner sanctum of Gucci’s mastermind, to the runways of Paris and the Old World craft of men’s tailoring, this year’s festival celebrates the many incarnations of style.

Saturday 30 August 2014 to Sunday 07 September 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Watermark

Spanning great waterways alongside man-made interventions, Watermark begs the question, how does water shape us and how do we shape water? With stunning big-screen imagery, the film pays witness to spiritual gatherings on the mighty Ganges, the untouched majesty of Northern British Columbia and the incomprehensible industrial might of the Xiluodu Dam in China.

Edward Burtynsky Nicholas De Pencier

Saturday 05 July 2014 to Sunday 13 July 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Joyous Curiosity: The Cinema of Agnès Varda

The remarkable and endlessly intriguing cinema of French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda is set to take over the screens at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) from Thursday 19 June to Sunday 13 July. The season will encompass half a century of the directors work, showcasing newly restored and rarely seen documentaries, fiction, shorts, and television.

Agnès Varda

Thursday 19 June 2014 to Sunday 13 July 2014
Art exhibition in Australia.

Angelica Mesiti: The Calling

The Ian Potter Moving Image Commission proudly announces the world premiere exhibition The Calling, by acclaimed Australian artist Angelica Mesiti. Angelica’s work The Calling is an evocative exploration of traditional whistling languages.

Angelica Mesiti

Tuesday 04 February 2014 to Sunday 13 July 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Palo Alto

Based on a book of short stories by James Franco, Gia Coppola's impressive directorial debut is a nuanced character study of a group of Californian teens navigating the peaks and troughs of adolescence.

Monday 02 June 2014 to Sunday 22 June 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

IAN POTTER MOVING IMAGE COMMISSION APPLICATIONS OPENExpressions of interest sought until Tuesday 17 June 2014

Artists are invited to apply for the $100,000 Ian Potter Moving Image Commission, Australia’s most significant commission for moving image art.

Tuesday 06 May 2014 to Tuesday 17 June 2014
Art opportunity in Australia.

Desert Island Flicks: Castaway with Kitty Flanagan

After making a name for herself in Australia doing stand up comedy and appearing on sketch comedy show Full Frontal, Kitty Flanagan moved to London and did more stand up. She has performed at major comedy festivals all around the world including Edinburgh, Melbourne, Montreal, Kilkenny and even Cape Town.

Thursday 22 May 2014 to Thursday 22 May 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Designing Dreams Studio

Whether you're an aspiring or established animator - we want to hear from you! ACMI and DreamWorks Animation will select a small group of talented animators to go behind the screen in a once-in-a-lifetime hands-on journey of animation, from sketch to screen.

Wednesday 05 March 2014 to Friday 28 March 2014
Art opportunity in Victoria, Australia.

Desert Island Flicks: Castaway with Kaz Cooke

As part of its Desert Island Flicks program, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) hosts cultural commentator Kaz Cooke. Stranded at ACMI for the evening on Thursday 13 March, the writer, cartoonist and broadcaster will count down her top five favourite films.

Thursday 13 March 2014 to Thursday 13 March 2014
Opening: Thursday 13 March 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Vive La Mode! Fashion on Film

From the traditions of fine tailoring to the latest runway shows in Paris, this season we're right on trend with the world's freshest fashion documentaries.

Wednesday 05 March 2014 to Wednesday 12 March 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Jia Zhangke: A Touch Of Sin

From 1 to 28 February, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) presents a month long season of Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin. In competition for the converted Palme d’Or and winning Best Screenplay at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, his latest release is a portrait of contemporary China, told through the true stories of four individuals.

Jia Zhangke

Saturday 01 February 2014 to Friday 28 February 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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ACMI MAKES A SPECTACLE OF MUSIC VIDEO

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) today announced its next major exhibition, Spectacle: The Music Video Exhibition, opening Thursday 26 September 2013.

Thursday 26 September 2013 to Sunday 23 February 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Battle of the Sexes

One man. One woman. One hell of a tennis match.

Monday 13 January 2014 to Thursday 13 February 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Computer Chess

Screening as part of ACMI’s Long Play season, Computer Chess is an homage to the 80s where dreams of the future, computer geeks and technology are combined to create Bujalski’s most bonkers proposition to date.

Friday 27 December 2013 to Sunday 19 January 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing: From book to film

Set in a city overrun by bureaucracy, Shaun Tan's picture book The Lost Thing tells the story of a boy who befriends a strange creature that doesn't appear to fit in any of the available pigeon holes. Melbourne-based production company Passion Pictures Australia invited Shaun to direct an animated version of The Lost Thing. Several years later, the Oscar®-winning short film emerged.

Shaun Tan

Tuesday 16 July 2013 to Sunday 19 January 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Judy Dalton Joins Acmi To Discuss Battle Of The Sexes

This Friday, 17 January, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in conjunction with the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) will host a panel discussion with champion tennis player Judy Dalton and special guests to talk about the seminal tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in 1973.

Friday 17 January 2014 to Friday 17 January 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

KIM KI-DUK: PIETA MA15+A First Look film screening from Thursday 14 through to Tues

In November, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) screens the 2012 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner Pieta, the 18th film by acclaimed Korean director, Kim Ki-duk. Pieta screens as part of ACMI’s First Look program, opening the summer season with sessions from Thursday 14 through to Tuesday 26 November, 2013.

Kim Ki Duk

Thursday 14 November 2013 to Tuesday 26 November 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Gotye & His Collaborators

As part of Spectacle: The Music Video Exhibition, and in collaboration with Melbourne Music Week, renowned musician, songwriter and producer, Gotye, will come together with some of his collaborators to discuss the creative process behind his music videos for one night only on Monday 18 November 2013 at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).

Monday 18 November 2013 to Monday 18 November 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Castaway with Brendan Maclean

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) presents one-night-only with critically acclaimed musician, Brendan Maclean, who will give audiences an insight into his top five films and how they have shaped him.

Thursday 14 November 2013 to Thursday 14 November 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Focus On Uptown Girl: The Cinema of Shirley Clarke

“Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer – Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema. A woman working in a predominately male world, she ran away to bohemia, hung out with the Beats and held to her own vision in triumph and defeat.” - Manohla Dargis - New York Times

Thursday 24 October 2013 to Tuesday 05 November 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Great British Film at ACMI

Announcing the film programme as part of Great British Arts 13, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) unveils twenty-one films that will screen over four months from August and November.

Tim Burton Julien Temple Ben Drew Alfred Hitchcock Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger Humphrey Jennings Stewart Mc Allister Jacqui Morris David Morris Scott Graham George Dunning John Schlesinger Fenton Bailey Randy Barbato Philip Priestly Stephane Carrel Anna Gravelle Mel Stuart Brian Cosgrove Gavin Miller Danny De Vito Henry Selick Wes Anderson

Thursday 22 August 2013 to Sunday 27 October 2013
Opening: Thursday 22 August 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Portrait of Jason

Shirley Clarke's portrait of 'Jason', a gay, black, self-described hustler, is widely considered her masterpiece. A unique documentary hybrid, the film was shot in one continuous 12-hour sitting in Clarke's apartment at the Chelsea Hotel. After filming The Cool World, Clarke spent many years trying to get scripts produced through traditional channels.

Shirley Clarke

Monday 23 September 2013 to Tuesday 24 September 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Great British Fashion on Film

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) proudly presents the September edition of the Fashion on Film series; Great British Fashion on Film. As part of Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW) and Great Britain Arts 13, this season will focus on British fashion makers and icons and their influence on the international stage, from Twiggy to Westwood.

Anna Gravelle Philip Priestley Paul Smith Stéphane Carrel

Saturday 31 August 2013 to Tuesday 17 September 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Paul Smith, Gentleman Designer

"Paul Smith, Gentelman" is a 2011 documentary by Stéphane Carrel which celebrates Smith's 40 years in business. The film follows Smith as he creates classic clothes with a twist for men and women from his London headquarters.

Sunday 01 September 2013 to Thursday 05 September 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Hollywood Costume

The greatest movie characters of all time. Direct from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Hollywood Costume explores the central role costume design plays in cinema storytelling.

Walter Plunkett Hubert De Givenchy Consolata Boyle Lindy Hemming Deborah Nadoolman Landis Sir Christopher Frayling Keith Lodwick

Wednesday 24 April 2013 to Sunday 18 August 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Bellas Mariposas

If Mike Leigh and Pedro Almodóvar made a film it might look a little like Salvatore Mereu's award-winning Pretty Butterflies (Bellas Mariposas).

Thursday 11 July 2013 to Sunday 14 July 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Stemple Pass

James Benning is one of America's pre-eminent independent filmmakers. In a career which stretches across four decades, his work is characterised by its relationship to place, politics, memory and landscape.

James Benning

Friday 05 July 2013 to Sunday 07 July 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

American Dreams (lost and found)

Pop culture, baseball fandom and American history come together in this masterful restoration of one of James Benning's most complex and engrossing works. The first in a series of text/image films, American Dreams (lost and found) offers an alternate portrait of the USA in 23 yearly chapters spanning 1954-1976.

James Benning

Thursday 04 July 2013 to Saturday 06 July 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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The Human Scale

Based on the groundbreaking thinking of Danish architect Jan Gehl, this formally elegant film investigates how urban environments impact and enhance human life and happiness.

Andreas Dalsgaard

Friday 14 June 2013 to Thursday 04 July 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Warwick Thornton: Mother Courage

Mother Courage is an immersive film installation that offers a striking and poetic perspective of Indigenous life in Australia. Based upon Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children, it explores cultural displacement and the tensions between contemporary urban and traditional Indigenous lifestyles.

Tuesday 05 February 2013 to Sunday 23 June 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The We and the I

For _The We and The I_, Michel Gondry worked with a group of teens from a community centre called The Point to enact real stories within the confines of a New York City bus. The resulting film brims with humour and pathos as the multiple storylines play out over a vintage hip-hop soundtrack.

Michel Gondry

Thursday 06 June 2013 to Sunday 16 June 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is a documentary about a band that never broke through to the mainstream, but contributed in a meaningful way to the canon of music. They are revered not only by the few that knew of them in the 1970’s but to new audiences later in their career.

Sunday 26 May 2013 to Wednesday 12 June 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

KIAROSTAMI: LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE

“Every shot - everything you see, and everything you don't – imparts a disturbing and thrilling sense of discovery”- New York Times. Filmed in Japan with a Japanese cast, this is a story set between three characters; the beautiful protagonist Akiko, a part time escort, who encounters Takashi, her client and elderly scholar; and Akiko’s boyfriend Noriaki.

Abbas Kiarostami

Sunday 26 May 2013 to Wednesday 12 June 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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JAZZ ON FILM

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) presents as part of the 2013 Melbourne International Jazz Festival Jazz on Film from 1 to 8 June. Celebrating the unsung heroes of the jazz genre in four documentaries; The Girls in the Band, Michel Petrucciani, The Man with the Jazz Guitar and Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott.

Spiro Economopoulos Michel Petrucciani Marian Mc Partland Raymond Scott Ken Sykora Judy Chaikin Stanley Warnow

Saturday 01 June 2013 to Saturday 08 June 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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ACMI GOES BEHIND THE SEAMS WITH DEBORAH LANDIS

Distinguished Hollywood costume designer and curator of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, Hollywood Costume, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, will present a keynote lecture whilst in Melbourne to open the exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) on Wednesday 24 April 2013.

Wednesday 24 April 2013 to Wednesday 24 April 2013
Opening: Wednesday 24 April 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Candice Breitz

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) will become the first Australian cultural institution to present a major solo exhibition by leading South African artist Candice Breitz. The exhibition, will feature a new work co-commissioned by ACMI and the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, together with a selection of Breitz’s key video installation works.

Candice Breitz

Thursday 06 December 2012 to Sunday 31 March 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.