The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Personal and Poetic: Australian Women’s Animation After 1990
1990-2016
When
Wed 26 Nov 2025
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This collection of six short animations showcases the diversity of styles and approaches across this 25-year period. On a Full Moon (1997) and Ada (2002) demonstrate Lee Whitmore’s evolving style and interest in childhood memory. Susan Kim Danta’s Mother Tongue (2002) is a meditation on language and forgetting. Marieka Walsh’s The Crossing (2016) uses salt and sand to tell the haunting story of a sea captain who risks the lives of his crew.
Finally, this program pays tribute to Sarah Watt. Her student film Catch of the Day (1990) is a wry look at the casual sexism experienced by a fish-shop worker. Watt’s later film, Small Treasures (1995), is a tender, diary-like reflection on pregnancy and loss.
Prints of several titles courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive, Australia.
To be introduced by season co-curator Dr Ruth Richards.
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Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.
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