ACMI & (MAV) Multicultural Arts Victoria present
Monisme
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When
Tue 27 Oct 2026
Join us in ACMI Cinemas for a post-screening conversation with director Riar Rizaldi, moderated by Dogmilk Films and presented by MAV's emerging artists SE Asia engagement program.
Several professional actors and non-actor professionals portray a dynamic of human- nature relationship in one of the most active stratovolcano in the world, Mount Merapi. In the shadows of recent eruptions, these actors play a story that is written together with volcanologist, sand miner, and a mystic—people who have a close bond with the mountain, potentially illustrating fiction and nonfiction situations that could and would have happened in Merapi.
Formed in a spirit of collective filmmaking and between factual and fictional, future and past, material and incorporeal, scientific and magic, Monisme trips to the place where actuality is intertwined with myth and legend.
Riar Rizaldi will also be hosting Asian Futurisms & The Fluid Lens: An Essayistic Filmmaking Workshop. Learn more here.
Riar Rizaldi
Riar Rizaldi is an artist and filmmaker, based in Indonesia. His artistic practice focuses mostly on worldviews and the possibility of theoretical fiction. His works have been shown at various international film festivals (including Locarno, IFFR, FID Marseille, Viennale, BFI London, Cinema du Reel, etc.) as well as Centre Pompidou Paris, NTT InterCommunication Center Tokyo, Taipei Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Venice Architecture Biennale, Biennale Jogja, National Gallery of Indonesia, and other venues and institutions. In addition, solo exhibitions and focus program of his works had been held at Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto and Centre de la photographie Genève.
Multicultural Arts Victoria
Established in 1983 on Wurundjeri land, Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is Victoria's key not-for-profit arts organisation dedicated to supporting culturally diverse artists and communities across all art forms music, dance, theatre, film, visual arts and contemporary media technology.
For over 50 years, MAV has evolved into one of Australia's most important arts organisations as a platform for discovery, development and promotion of culturally and linguistically diverse contemporary art, heritage and cultural expression.
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