ACMI Stories & Ideas

Paul Dini Public Interview

Prof. Henry Jenkins Keynote (Live Via Skype) “What Else Can You Do With Them?” Superheroes and the Civic Imagination

Twenty First Century Dysfunctional Superheroes - AlvinRendell, RMIT University

Women in Comics Panel - Hope Larson, Nicola Scott, Tom Taylor, Sarah Richardson, Naja Later

Taking inspiration from cinema, science fiction, architecture, and cybernetics, acclaimed French artist Philippe Parreno merges reality and fiction to produce exhibitions that radically challenge our notions of memory and the passage of time. Parreno has become internationally renowned for producing exhibitions as durational experiences in which time is both subject matter and medium, as important...

Gender, Paratexts and Everyday Superheroes from #WheresRey to “the Chewbacca Mum” - Tama Leaver & Luke Webster, Curtin University

Contested Identities: the importance of continuity and adaptation in serialised superhero narratives - Jack Teiwes, University of Melbourne Was a talk held as part of Superhero Identities Symposium It is hard to imagine a time when superheroes have been more pervasive in popular culture. As one of our most beloved folkloric traditions these costume-clad adventurers have become a means to negotiate...

Delia Hou, NVIDIA VR Business Development & Sales, discusses NVIDIA‘s investment in developing NVIDIA VR Works to help the VR ecosystem grow, improve, and succeed. Delia will also share how NVIDIA is helping VR developers to create world class content, as well as providing opportunities to showcase their work at NVIDIA events and facilitate global business partnerships. Mike Chi, VR New Technology...

Whilst VR technology is still relativity in its infancy, it is the entrepreneurs, innovators and technical enthusiasts at the forefront of content creation as they test, trial and experiment with this rapidly emerging technology. In this session, VR specialists discuss VR technologies including 360 filming, interactive VR experiences (real time engines), spacial audio techniques and post productio...

How can traditional screen content creators utilise their skills in the contemporary screen form of VR? Moderator Christy Dena (Writer-Designer-Director at Universe Creation) and VR content creators including Oscar Raby and Katy Morrison VRTOV, Nathan Anderson StartVR, Dan Koerner Sandpit and Michael Beets PLaTO Reality share the creative possibilities and complexities of writing, shooting and edi...

What is the current state of play of VR both here and abroad and how is VR being applied to immersive and interactive filmmaking? Moderator Astrid Scott (Senior Producer and Strategist, ABC Research and Development) will be joined by Katy Morrison, VRTOV, Emre Can Deniz, Opaque Media Group, James Boyce, Grumpy Sailor and Scott Vandonkelaa, Zero Latency as they discuss the breadth of VR experimenta...

Presented as part of Hey Girl, this panel discussion, hosted by comedian Judith Lucy, will look at girls on screen in a special evening dedicated to dissecting some of the funniest and fetchest pop-culture favourites. Featuring Mel Campbell, Jessica Knight, Billie Tumarkin and Candy Bowers this conversation is suited to girls, anyone who was once a girl and anybody who knows a girl. It’s hard to k...

Lauded by the Museum of Modern Art in New York as “one of the great modern masters of the cinema” Roman Polanski has over the course of five decades refined a formal film language and expressed a mordantly ironic worldview in genre-defining films that are provocative, compelling and inventive. ROMAN: 10 x Polanski proposes ten key films drawn from Polanski’s filmography – from the director’s Polis...

Nyarri Nyarri Morgan is a Martu man from the Western Desert who lives in the remote Parnngurr Community of W.A. He lived his early life with no contact with western culture until he witnessed an atomic test held by the British government in the South Australian desert. It was an experience that had a profound impact on Morgan and, over half a century later, led to a collaboration with Sydney-based...

Our latest VR Commission, Ghosts, Toast and the Things Unsaid is an intimate virtual reality experience that invites audiences to become the ghosts of couple, Steve and Maude, and revisit the kitchen where they fell in love, grew old and apart. The work provokes a meditation on our propensity to keep secrets, the words that go unheard, and what this means for our relationships.

Theatre Director, Enrique Vargas and Artist and Filmmaker, Lynette Wallworth both create immersive works that explore bold new ways of telling and experiencing stories. In Echo of the Shadow, Vargas invites the audience to enter a sensorial labyrinth, a singular experience of looking, listening, smelling, tasting and touching. In Collisions, audiences are taken on a virtual journey to the remote W...

Warning: This podcast contains coarse language and adult themes and is not suitable for children under 18 years of age. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures screens at ACMI from the 22nd September. ACMI's Head of Film Programs, James Hewison shares his thoughts on the film and the man.

Winner of the Best Documentary prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, Weiner is a wonderfully stranger-than-fiction tale of political scandal and contemporary morality. Anthony Weiner was a democratic congressman on the rise when a ‘sexting’ scandal forced a humiliating resignation. Two years later, he ran for New York City mayor, betting that his ideas would trump his indiscretions. With unpre...

Celebrate the SCORSESE exhibition and join one of the master filmmaker’s long time collaborators, BAFTA and Oscar winning designer Sandy Powell OBE, as she delivers a masterclass on costume design and gives a fascinating insight into her extraordinary career. From working closely with Scorsese on films including The Aviator, Gangs of New York and Wolf of Wall Street, to the collaborative process o...

DOOM has long been one of the most innovative, and most loved, titles in video games. In celebration of the launch of the newest entry in the franchise, we're proud to present a chance for audiences to explore the development of the game with Marty Stratton, Executive Producer at id Software. Marty will be connected via live video conference from Dallas. In addition to following the development jo...

Renowned for his visual, kinetic style, his deeply informed passion for screen history and his tireless championing of film preservation, Scorsese’s innovative and multifaceted work has defined him as one of the world’s greatest filmmakers. In this talk, our experts are uncovering the range of influences that have helped shaped Scorsese’s own films, discussing the iconic collaborations that have d...

"Martin Scorsese's films, from Mean Streets to The Aviator, are explosive in their impact, crammed with information and detail. Scorsese is torn between the sacred and the profane. On the one hand, his Catholic upbringing leads him to tackle religious subjects, while the Saturday matinee kid in him revels in the trashy gore of his gangster films." - David Stratton Describing Scorsese as the most p...

Prison Songs is an award-winning documentary musical made by WA filmmakers Kelrick Martin and Harry Bardwell, working in association with Indigenous singer/songwriter Shellie Morris and acclaimed British documentary maker, and pioneer of the documentary musical form, Brian Hill. It is a real musical set in a very real situation, and like any musical it uses the expressive qualities of music, songs...

In 2015, a number of very high profile blockbuster documentaries or docbusters showed cinema managers and audiences that it is possible to lure patrons to the cinema in large numbers to experience non-fiction feature length films. The rise and rise of cinema on demand as a way to de-risk the decision to screen documentaries in the cinema has also meant that many more films have a shot at drawing a...

Screenrights is the not for profit collecting society for the Australian and New Zealand screen industry. It collects licence fees related to the use of broadcast programs and distributes the money to rights-holders. Screenrights licensees include Government, Educational institutions and Pay TV operators. 2015 marked an eventful year for Screenrights. In addition to relaunching its Disbursement Se...