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Boy riding horse underwater - still from Magic Beach
Spencer Gilder-Smith

Magic Beach and the films that rewrote the animation playbook

Robert Connolly's Magic Beach joins a canon of films that stretch the medium of animation – technically, artistically and emotionally.
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Opening scene from The Dry (2020) Eric Bana
Field Carr

The Cinematic Landscapes of Regional Victoria

Discover how regional Victoria has set the scene for iconic screen stories.
web - 2 frames - The Darkness Between the Stars - Serwah Attafuah copy
ACMI

Making The Darkness Between the Stars with Serwah Attafuah

Learn about the characters and construction of Serwah Attafuah's screen-based Afrofuturist artwork.

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