2004 public imaging

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image has been designed with a number of arcades that thread through the building, from Federation Square to Flinders Street. As part of the visitor's experience of screen-based works at ACMI, these arcades boast over 30 plasmas and LCDs that display a changing array of content.

Public Imaging at ACMI allows a gradual accumulation of screen experiences as the visitor strolls the ACMI public arcades, with the sequences of works chosen to reflect and complement the themes that ACMI explores. Many established and emerging filmmakers have been commissioned to create content especially for these silent screens.

A mixture of plasmas, LCDs and projections, the Public Imaging screens aim to take the visitor on new, unexpected journeys through the lenses of both historical and contemporary filmmaking.

Cordelia Beresford
The Eye Inside (Part 1) 2004

The political implications of documenting hysteria are unravelled in a sensual study of emotional excess.

 

Chris Caines
Go This Way 2004

A GPRS hypertext journey where stories and characters intersect over time and across the city geography as one link leads you on foot to another.

Amiel Courtin-Wilson
The Effects of Fire, Spin the Bottle, Tag 2003-2004

From a teenage spin-the-bottle party to a middle-aged swingers party, domestic space is unravelled in these three works.

Daniel Crooks
On Perspective and Motion 2004

Tracing the ebbs and flows of the city, Crook's uses self-devised technologies to 'slice' time in order to create a new perception of urban space.

Sascha Ettinger-Epstein
Musclebound 2004

A landscape of physical extremity unfurls across the screen in this vivid study of muscle culture.

Marcus Lyall
Slow Service 2003

Using a military camera that captures up to 1000 frames per second, these slow-motion vignettes engage the viewer in a dynamic series of 'food fight' portraits.