ACMI Works-in-Progress Night provides screen practitioners with an opportunity to present new and evolving projects and invites audiences to experience and playtest the works while meeting emerging makers working across videogames, interactive media, film and video art.
Below you will find a list of projects exhibited at our 2026 ACMI Works-in-Progress Nights.
Practitioners looking to present work at the ACMI Works-in-Progress Night can submit an application here.
2026
April Showcase
Some Kind of Record (Sabrina Phillips Brash & Vivian Dobbie Glazier)
Some Kind of Record is an arts, media, everything collective designed to bring creatives from all disciplines together into a community space to connect, develop and promote their work.
Created by artist and filmmaker Sabrina Phillips Brash and filmmaker Vivian Dobbie-Glazier, Some Kind of a Record curated the group exhibition Mémoire Trajectoire at Odeon Richmond in 2025, and founded the Society of Doing Something (SODS), while also creating personal film and art projects.
Globetrotting (Zeta H-D)
Zeta H-D, a graduate of a Bachelor of Film and TV (Honours) and now studying a Bachelor of Comedy, loves whimsy. With a penchant for group exhibition curation and ballet, she has a bouquet of passions whilst she aspires to build a strong skill set that will allow her to earn a living, and inspire laughter, change and connection in the process.
In Globetrotting, shot on Super 8 film in Paris and Spain, using paper-cut out animation and voiceover, Hamilton-Durkin transforms a feeling of loneliness into magic via a childhood story of a horse.
Paper Person Adventures (Josie Buden)
Josie Buden is a local queer producer, writer and intimacy coordinator. After working in theatre for the last two years, they have grown restless. They have re-focused their practice around the elements of scale spectacle and working with public spaces.
Paper Person Adventures is an ambitious undertaking of shooting ten short films in ten months. Designed as a project that encourages experimentation of styles and exploration of themes, it will lead to a full body of varied work in late 2026.
About 4 Minutes (Savannah Selimi)
About 4 Minutes is a fiction writing exercise created with the intention to strengthen the creative muscle. In this work, the writer aims to explore the magic in the mundane by playing with imagination and words.
Savannah Selimi is a writer who never writes. More seriously, she is a curious listener, avid memoir reader, notebook carrier and true friend.
Mitchie and Dot (Isabel Savenake)
Mitchie and Dot is the first installation of a claymation project-in-progress that encourages the playful and imaginative nature of this form of slow filmmaking. Mitchie and Dot are each other's twin flame, and the attic bedroom is their safe place. Isabel hopes that it will resonate with queer people as a small materialisation of queer love and safety.
Isabel Savenake is filmmaker, editor, aspiring cinematographer, and lover of all things digital and analogue media.