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Film Resources

Essays and Interviews

Film Essays Here you will find a wide range of essays, q&a and filmmaker notes from ACMI's exhibition and film seasons.

Australian Perspectives Essays As part of the Australian Perspectives program at ACMI, industry guests and cinema academics discuss Australian films, and directors provide us with some exclusive insights into their work.

Animators A series of essays and interviews exploring different styles of animation and the craft.

ACMI Retrospectives

Focus On The popular Focus On series at ACMI is both a celebration of film genres and a showcase of cinematic accomplishments by some of the world's finest directors, writers, cinematographers and actors.

Australian Film From early iconic works to the 'First Wave' of the Seventies to contemporary classics, here you can access film details and synopses of key Australian films to have screened at ACMI.

Past Exhibitions

Tim Burton: The Exhibition The Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition that explored the creative genius behind Edward Scissorhands, Batman and Alice in Wonderland.

Mary and Max: The Exhibition Go behind-the-scenes of the marvellous miniature world of Adam Elliot's Mary and Max.

Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood An icon of American counter-culture. The art and film that defined a generation.

Len Lye Discover the art of Len Lye, one of the most radical creative minds of the modern age and a seminal figure in the history of the moving image.

Setting the Scene Explore the sets of Baz Luhrmann's Australia, plus over 300 works revealing the inspired design behind cinema classics from Metropolis to The Matrix.

Pixar: 20 Years of Animation The international exhibition that took you behind the scenes of the studio that created Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story, Cars and The Incredibles.

Correspondences: Víctor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami Correspondences brings together the work of two visionaries of independent cinema - Spain's Víctor Erice's and Iran's Abbas Kiarostami.

Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces An exhibition of photographic portraits of the iconic French actress by leading international photographers.

On Location Johnnie To's series of intimate black-and-white photographs that capture stolen moments on location.

Stanley Kubrick  A landmark international exhibition featuring over 1,000 objects from Kubrick's archives, including props, costumes and models from 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining.

Links

Film Links Useful links to Australian and International film related resources.