Film, TV, Videogames, Digital Culture & Art Museum

Museum

Film
TV
Videogames
Digital culture
& art

Fed Square, Melbourne
10am–5pm daily

Virtual reality

Joan Ross: Did you ask the river?

Discover vibrant, yet unsettling, colonial landscapes in this interactive VR experience

7–31 March 2019 10am–5pm Free, drop in

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Exhibition

Cleverman: The Exhibition

Go behind the scenes of the groundbreaking sci-fi series

6 Dec 2018 – 22 Apr 2019 10am–5pm daily Free

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Exhibition

Screen Worlds

The incredible story of the moving image in an interactive and immersive experience

Daily 10am–5pm Free

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Event

Screen Worlds: Relaxed Visits

Explore the exhibition at your own pace with reduced noise and light stimulation, and a dedicated quiet zone

10 & 19 Jan, 16 Feb, 16 Mar & 13 Apr 2019 9am–10am Free, Bookings Required

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Talk

Lynette Wallworth talks Awavena

Join the artist in a talk about the making of this ground-breaking VR work

4 Apr 6:00pm Free booking required

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Talk

Decolonising the Moving Image

With developments in technology, there’s more than one way to tell your story

31 Mar 2019 90 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12

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Coming up

Virtual reality

Christian Thompson: Bayi Gardiya (Singing Desert)

Take a walk with Christian through the landscape of his childhood, and hear him sing in the now-extinct Bidjara language

1 – 23 May 2019 10am–5pm Free, drop in

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Event

Women & Non-Binary Gamers Club

Ever wished you had a book club for videogames? Now you do!

Next meet up: 12 Apr 2019 6pm–8pm Free

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Virtual reality

Lynette Wallworth: Awavena

Awavena is an unmissable VR experience and a gift sent by the Yawanawa

4 – 28 April 2019 10am–5pm Free, booking required

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Workshop

Cleverman Comic Making Adult Workshop

Explore your own comic creation skills

6 Apr 10am Full $35 Concession $30 Member $28 Recommended for ages 18+

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Event

School Holiday Program

Workshops for kids and families who love to get creative

8–18 Apr 2019

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ACMI Cafe & Bar

Come grab a choc-top before the movie

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Shop

Looking for the best pop culture and film gifts?

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Cinemas

Contemporary
Independent
Classic
Australian

Fed Square, Melbourne
Open daily until late

We screen the best of contemporary and classic cinema from Australia and around the world. Explore our upcoming films, festivals and seasons, including the regular matinees program.

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Film

Rams

A tribute to Dieter Rams, the (grand) father of modern design, from the director of Helvetica

28 Mar - 9 Apr 74 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12

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Film

ROMA

The personal and political unite in Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuarón’s masterpiece

Opens 7 Dec 135 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

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Season

Matinees

Fine films for grown-up tastes

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Festival

Melbourne Queer Film Festival

Proudly different

14 – 25 March 2019

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Festival

Top Screen 2019

A VCE Season of Excellence event

Various dates, Mar - May School and general public tickets available

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Coming soon

Season

Melbourne Cinémathèque

Australia's largest and longest-running film society celebrating rare and significant works of international cinema

Every Wednesday 7pm Admission by Melbourne Cinémathèque membership: $27 - $295

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Screening

The Burnside Conversations + Q&A

In a world premiere screening, Julian Burnside continues the fight for truth with a series of insightful conversations

26 Mar 2019 90 mins Full $18 Concession $14 ACMI Members $12 Seniors $8

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Talk

Decolonising the Moving Image

With developments in technology, there’s more than one way to tell your story

31 Mar 2019 90 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12

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Festival

14th Indonesian Film Festival

An enchantment of authenticity

01 Apr - 10 Apr 2019

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Season

Melbourne Filmoteca

Monthly screenings of the best in Latin American and Spanish film.

Feb - Dec 2019

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Film season

Transit & the Films of Christian Petzold

A compelling season of existential thrillers, films noir and melodramas from the most exciting auteur to emerge from the '90s Berlin School

Opens 11 Apr Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12 Seniors $8. 3-session passes available

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Film

Sunday Too Far Away

A brand-new digital restoration of the Australian New Wave classic

7 Apr 2019 94 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Group (10+) $12

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Film

The Last Movie

As we bid a temporary farewell to our Fed Square site, we're saying goodbye with a last movie.

13 Apr – 23 May 2019 108 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12

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film

Here I Am

A hopeful story about the strength and resilience of women

14 Apr 2019 87 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12

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Film

All Is True

Join us for a special preview of the world’s greatest playwright ahead of its May release

24 Apr 2019 101 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12

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Event

Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis with live score by sonic.art

German saxophone quartet sonic.art perform a live score for one of the most well-known films in the city symphony genre

29 Apr 2019 65 mins Full $25 ACMI Members $20

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Film season

3 Faces & the Films of Jafar Panahi

A celebration of the clandestine cinema of Jafar Panahi, the irrepressible voice of the Iranian New Wave

Opens Thu 2 May Full $18 Concession $14 Members $12 Groups (10+) $12 Seniors $8

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Film

Mystery Road

Detective Jay Swan (a brilliant Aaron Pedersen) is barely back in town before a gruesome murder case lands on his lap

5 May 2019 121 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12

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Film

Radiance

Three sisters reunite to mark the passing of their mother among the sugar cane plantations of far North Queensland

19 May 2019 83 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12

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Past film screenings

Ideas

Inside the themes
behind the screens

Explore the moving image with articles, upcoming events and recorded talks

Looking to discover more about the big ideas behind your favourite moving image moments? Here you’ll find articles on all the things we love, from film and TV to videogames and art, as well as recorded talks and upcoming events.

Articles

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What to watch if you loved The Clock

The best mash-up works and artists to view online and in gallery

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How to see the most of The Clock

You don't need to stay 24 hours straight but you can still see a lot

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"What's the time?"

We explore how Christian Marclay experiments with cinematic temporality in The Clock

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AIDC's Alice Burgin on making a career in the world of non-fiction film

"It’s a way in for those who have a passion for social justice, but maybe aren’t going to become traditional producers or directors"

5 mins

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An introduction to Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma

Seen the film of the year but need some context?

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Xanthe Dobbie: Internet art to heal your queer heart

The Queertech.Io new media artist shares their favourite works that you can watch and play at home right now

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Editor's note: Nayuka Gorrie on Cleverman

"It is magic, it is real, it is history, it is future"

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“Well, nobody’s perfect”: Billy Wilder's cynical, classic cinema

We examine how Billy Wilder's oeuvre helped define genres, classic Hollywood and an American era

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Five tips for rising above the haters as a woman in games

Author Leena van Deventer gives us her top tips for surviving and thriving

8 mins

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Imperfect reflections: a defence of bad queer representation

Is bad representation worse than any representation at all?

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Screen It to Steam: interview with Bradley Hennessey

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

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Looping on repeat

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

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

Writer and comedian Alistair Baldwin interrogates representations of disability on screen

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Recorded talks

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Recorded talks: Dystopia on Screen

Catch up on our conversation exploring screen dystopias

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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

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Recorded Talks: Mainstreaming Disability and Appearance Diversity on Screen

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

107 mins

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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

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Recorded Talks: The Pleasure of Pixels

Indulge in the aesthetic pleasures of experimental and art game

80 mins

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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

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Recorded Talks: Art, Politics and Protest

Three exceptional artists discuss their provocations in film and video art

90 mins

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Recorded talks: Preserving the Artefacts of the Future

How can museums preserve digital objects?

90 mins

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ACMI Conversations

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

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Events

Event

Women & Non-Binary Gamers Club

Ever wished you had a book club for videogames? Now you do!

Next meet up: 12 Apr 2019 6pm–8pm Free

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Workshop

Cleverman Comic Making Adult Workshop

Explore your own comic creation skills

6 Apr 10am Full $35 Concession $30 Member $28 Recommended for ages 18+

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Talk

Decolonising the Moving Image

With developments in technology, there’s more than one way to tell your story

31 Mar 2019 90 mins Full $18 Concession $14 Member $12 Group (10+) $12

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Film & talk

OzFlix Independent Film Awards

The indie film networking event of the year

28 Mar 2019 6.00pm Full $49 Concession $39 Member $36

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