When
Sat 26 Jul - Sun 27 Jul 2025
Various times
Get exclusive access to the Blackmagic Design Media Preservation Lab at ACMI and view short films from the Collection.
As part of Open House Melbourne, we're inviting you on a tour of our Media Preservation Lab – a rare opportunity to hear from ACMI’s expert conservators. Learn about our Collection and preservation activities, and get up close to a range of preservation stations inside the space and see how they safeguard our precious screen stories.
Screening
Discover local stories on screen with Moments in Time: Home Movies from the ACMI Collection and Loop (1973).
Captured across decades of home filmmaking. Moments in Time is a compilation of home movies from the ACMI Collection – glimpses of birthdays, beach days, backyard antics and quiet rituals. This evocative reel invites you to imagine the personal stories behind the frames, and reflects on how we record, remember and revisit the past.
Loop is a documentary about Melbourne’s Underground Rail Loop, its effect on the entire metropolitan railway system, and on the future of public transport in Melbourne.
About the Lab
The Blackmagic Design Media Preservation Lab is a purpose-built, glass fronted laboratory where the ACMI Registration and Collections team undertake preservation activities for analogue, time-based media, digital and complex software-based games and artefacts.
Major Partner
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The Blackmagic Design Media Preservation Lab
We are dedicated to preserving Australia’s analogue past while ensuring its digital present is accessible for generations to come.
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