ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Argentine identity in the films of Lucrecia Martel

Lucrecia Martel's latest film Zama shares the same concerns with her earlier trilogy

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Forgotten Rebels: From Book to Screen

Watch Outlander writer Anne Kenney talk adaptation with historian and award-winning writer Dr Clare Wright

Top five TV dystopias

Prepare for the end without leaving the couch

Five life lessons from Alice in Wonderland

Let Alice guide your kids through some of life's most important lessons

A networked daydream

Takashi Murakami uses the idea of Alice to expose contemporary art's commercialism

Grown-up stories in games

An interview with game designer and advocate Ally McLean

15 mins

Screen It to Steam: interview with Bradley Hennessey

The Screen It 2017 Senior Video Game winner talks about his game, An Aspie Life

Beyond the lady-washed reboot

Six female stories to stream instead

Forgotten dreams

The Tumultuous Life of Lou Bunin’s Alice in Wonderland

Looping on repeat

Assistant curator Jim Fishwick looks back at the golden age that was Vine

Alice on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Film critic Joanna Di Mattia explores frustration and identity in Norman Z McLeod’s Alice in Wonderland

Making Florence: a craft game studio at work

An interview with programmer Sam Crisp from Mountains

20 mins

Women’s work: Spiritualism, Satan, and Hereditary

Film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas examines the occult's relationship with female empowerment and horror cinema

Godard's contempt for commerce

Nick Bugeja grapples with the tension of art and commerce in Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt

Rebellious Alice

Bringing down the House of Cards

Imperfect reflections: a defence of bad queer representation

Is bad representation worse than any representation at all?

Why Homecoming Queens' nuanced portrayal of chronic illness is vital

Writer Alistair Baldwin reflects on the importance of finally having a show that represents the experience of illness

6 mins

Narrative prosthesis: how disability as metaphor is shaping on-screen casting diversity

Writer and comedian Alistair Baldwin interrogates representations of disability on screen

The curious tale of psychedelic Alice

Kate Ellinger takes a trip through the cinematic Wonderlands of the sixties and seventies

Who is Alice?

In this visual essay, Michelle J. Smith traces the influence and impact of Alice through pop culture

6 mins

Where has the zoom gone?

Film critic Nick Bugeja explores the artistic power of the zoom in cinema

Ecological magic in My Neighbour Totoro

Writer Jessica Cockerill explores the enchanting forests and intoxicating greenery of Studio Ghibli cinema

The future is behind you: the new life of retrogaming

Is there more to the rise of retrogaming than the simple joy of nostalgia?

Abandoned Alice

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas investigates what happened to Marilyn Manson’s unmade Lewis Carroll film

The evolution of Alice

Meet the most fascinating cinematic incarnations of the 153 year old Wonderland heroine

Recorded Talks: Mainstreaming Disability and Appearance Diversity on Screen

Did you know that twenty percent of Australians live with disability?

107 mins

Recorded Talks: The Decolonising of Aboriginal Representation on our Screens

For Reconciliation week, we ask how Aboriginal people can take back control of their stories and identity

90 mins

Recorded Talks: The Pleasure of Pixels

Indulge in the aesthetic pleasures of experimental and art game

80 mins

Recorded Talks:Electric Girlhoods and Alices Past and Future

Academics and cultural critics delve into different conceptions of femininity and meaning throughout Alice's history

90 mins

Recorded Talks: Art, Politics and Protest

Three exceptional artists discuss their provocations in film and video art

90 mins

Recorded talks: Preserving the Artefacts of the Future

How can museums preserve digital objects?

90 mins

ACMI Conversations

Catch up on talks about the moving image in politics, society, culture and art

Prehistoric VR

Go back in time and deep below the surface with some of the world’s most amazing prehistoric marine reptiles

22 Sep – 7 Oct 2018 10.30am–4.30pm $10 Recommended for families with children 7+

School Holiday Program

Workshops for kids and families who love to get creative

22 Sep – 7 Oct

Tim Ross: And The Little People Fly

A comedian and a beloved AFL Renaissance Man take a tour through Australian footy nostalgia

20 Sep 2018 6.30pm Full $45 Concession $35 Member $30

Ladies in Black Festival

Three exciting events destined to transport you back to the glamorous 1950s

3 - 16 Sep 2018 Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12 and Seniors $8

Wonderland High Tea

We're having a tea party, and you're invited

14 Apr – 5 Oct 2018 various times

Wonderland Late Nights

Tumble down the rabbit hole after dark with DJs, bands and live art performances

Last Friday of the month from Apr – Sept 6pm–12am Full $30 Concession $26 Member $24

Vampyr: Chiara Kickdrum

Melbourne-based DJ Chiara Kickdrum premieres a new contemporary score for Carl Theodor Dreyer's classic horror film, Vampyr

21 Sep 2018 75 mins Full $25 ACMI Members $20

Women & Non-Binary Gamers Club

Meet like-minded gamers in a free monthly meet up

Second Friday of the month from May 2018 6pm–8pm Free

ACMI Conversations

Bold ideas and discussions about the moving image and its connections to our world, politics, society, culture and art

Every Tuesday in September and October 6.30pm