Michael

Join us in the cinema for a free screening of Peter Weir's early short film.

Michael has to make decisions in the complex but permissive world of 1969.

His friends have followed a relatively straight and narrow path of conformity. Michael has more or less taken this course, but knows that other ways exist. He is prepared to listen to the prophets of change and revolution and is taken on an excursion into the world of the young radical.

Curator's note

Peter Weir's early short film is a dynamically shot and edited work that harnesses style and technique to visually reflect the countercultural world that presents itself to Michael.

Originally released as part of an anthology film called Three to Go, Michael's story sat beside two others - each character faced with a fork in the road as they grapple with burgeoning adulthood.

Michael won the Australian Film Institute Award (now known as the AACTA Awards) for Best Film in 1970. This was only the second year that the prize had been awarded reflecting the huge turning point in the film industry at the time and Peter Weir's place in that shift.

– Reece Goodwin, Curator (Film & TV)