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Foot in the Door: Nikki Tran

We talk to the writer and producer behind the award-winning web series FRESH!

Foot in the Door: Hannah Samuel

We chat with writer Hannah Samuel about her journey from producer's assistant to script coordinator

Gemma Pepper on starting out in creative tech

An interview with a graduate from our ACMI Xcel business accelerator

The uncompromising works of Carlos Reygadas

Jason Wood dives into the physical, spiritual and existential in the films of Mexico's foremost cinematic poet, Carlos Reygadas

Christian Petzold's cinema of haunted figures

Film historian and filmmaker Dr Claudia Sandberg explores the work of Christian Petzold, the most exciting auteur to emerge from the '90s Berlin School

Living in an oppressive system

Joanna Di Mattia examines the work of Christian Petzold

Making it in Melbourne's film industry: A student's guide

Previous Top Screen participants share what they've been up to since high school

"You want to talk about boards? I want to talk about how some women can't get a job." and other provocations from #IWD2019

Things we learned this International Women's Day

What to watch if you loved The Clock

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

How to see the most of The Clock

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

"What's the time?"

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

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

An introduction to Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma

Seen the film of the year but need some context?

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

Editor's note: Nayuka Gorrie on Cleverman

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

“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

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

Imperfect reflections: a defence of bad queer representation

Is bad representation worse than any representation at all?

Screen It to Steam: interview with Bradley Hennessey

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

Looping on repeat

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

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

Writer and comedian Alistair Baldwin interrogates representations of disability on screen

Recorded talks: Dystopia on Screen

Catch up on our conversation exploring screen dystopias

Forgotten Rebels: From Book to Screen

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

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

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