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Federation Square
Federation Square is a civic centre and cultural precinct in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....
, in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, across four levels of the Alfred Deakin Building. ACMI is a state-of-the-art facility purpose-built for the preservation, exhibition and promotion of Victorian, Australian and International screen content.
Cinemas
ACMI has two main cinemas that are equipped to play every film, video and digital video format, with the most extensive projection facilities in the southern hemisphere. THX certified sound systems allow high quality attention to acoustics.Programs
ACMI Cinemas present regular weekly and monthly programs:- Australian Perspectives Contemporary Australian filmmaking framed against a backdrop of archival classics and special guest presentations. Every Saturday at 4pm.
- Seniors’ Cinema Ongoing program of quality films for discerning audiences
- Kids Flicks Regular Sunday Club & School holiday program of budget movies for kids
- First Look Exclusive monthly screenings of superb new films and restored classics.
- Cinémathèque Double feature every Wednesday night of rare and imported prints.
- Live in the Studio The last Thursday of every month there is a discussion, talk or presentation about television.
- Desert Island Flicks A regular monthly event where celebrities reveal the top five films they would pack if they were banished to a desert island.
ACMI also regularly profiles highly acclaimed actors, directors, writers, cinematographers, and film genres through its ‘Focus On’ seasons. Highlights have included seasons on Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...
, Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch
James R. "Jim" Jarmusch is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer. Jarmusch has been a major proponent of independent cinema, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...
, Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro, Jr. is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973...
and David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
. Genres have included Focus on Gypsies and for the release of King Kong
King Kong
King Kong is a fictional character, a giant movie monster resembling a gorilla, that has appeared in several movies since 1933. These include the groundbreaking 1933 movie, the film remakes of 1976 and 2005, as well as various sequels of the first two films...
, Focus on Monsters.
ACMI undertakes partnerships with a variety of film festivals; Melbourne International Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
The Melbourne International Film Festival is an acclaimed annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1951, making it one of the oldest in the World....
, Melbourne Queer Film Festival
Melbourne Queer Film Festival
The Melbourne Queer Film Festival, or MQFF, has been running continuously since 1991 . It is the oldest queer film festival in Australia and one of the oldest queer film festivals in the world...
, Festival of German Films, Little Big Shots, Melbourne International Animation Festival
Melbourne International Animation Festival
The Melbourne International Animation Festival or MIAF is an annual animation festival held in Melbourne. Supported by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the Australian Film Commission and the Melbourne City Council, it is Australia's largest animation event. Over the course of the...
, Resfest and more.
Screen Worlds
Open from 18 September 2009, Screen Worlds is a permanent exhibition exploring all aspects of the moving image using objects, footage and artistic installations. It contains the Kids Space and Games Lab.Gallery 1
The screen gallery, re-named Gallery 1 when Gallery 2 was introduced in 2009, was built along the entire length of what was previously Princes Bridge railway stationPrinces Bridge railway station, Melbourne
Princes Bridge was a Melbourne railway station built in 1859 and was the terminus for all Epping line and Hurstbridge line trains. The station was named after the adjacent Princes Bridge, which crosses the Yarra River. Originally Princes Bridge station was isolated from Flinders Street Station,...
. It is a subterranean gallery for experimentation with the moving image. Video art, installations, interactives, sound art, net art and screen related objects are all regularly exhibited in this space.
Gallery 1 Exhibitions
ACMI's next major exhibitions are "Shaun Gladwell: Stereo Sequences", opening 1 June 2011followed by "Star Voyager: Exploring Space on Screen" in September 2011.
| Exhibition | Opened | Closed | Origin | Content Partner |
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| Deep Space: Sensation & Immersion | 26 October 2002 | 27 January 2003 | Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of New South Wales The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia... as Space Odysseys: Sensation & Immersion |
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| Ngarinyin Pathways Dulwan | 26 October 2002 | 31 August 2003 | ACMI | Pathway Project of the Ngarinyin Ngarinyin language Ngarinyin, Ungarinjin, is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia.-Classification:Ngarinyin is usually classified as a Worrorran language. R. M. W. Dixon , however, regards the Worrorran family as simply an areal group.... elders |
| Remembrance + the Moving Image Persistence of Vision | 21 March 2003 | 25 May 2003 | ACMI | |
| Remembrance + the Moving Image Reverberation | 27 June 2003 | 31 August 2003 | ACMI | |
| Transfigure | 8 December 2003 | 9 May 2004 | ACMI | |
| 2004 Australian Culture Now | 8 June 2004 | 12 September 2004 | ACMI & National Gallery of Victoria National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites... |
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| SenseSurround | 7 October 2004 | 7 November 2004 | ACMI | |
| Proof | 9 December 2004 | 13 February 2005 | ACMI | |
| World Without End | 14 April 2005 | 17 July 2005 | ACMI | |
| White Noise | 18 August 2005 | 23 October 2005 | ACMI | |
| Stanley Kubrick: Inside the Mind of a Visionary Filmmaker | 25 November 2005 | 29 January 2006 | Deutsches Filmmuseum | Christiane Kubrick / Stanley Kubrick Estate |
| 2006 Contemporary Commonwealth | 24 February 2006 | 21 May 2006 | ACMI & National Gallery of Victoria National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites... |
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| TV50 | 22 June 2006 | 1 October 2006 | ACMI | |
| Eyes, Lies and Illusions | 2 November 2006 | 11 February 2007 | Hayward Gallery | Werner Nekes Collection |
| Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965-2005 | 22 March 2007 | 27 May 2007 | Centre Pompidou Centre Georges Pompidou Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais... |
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| Pixar: 20 Years of Animation | 28 June 2007 | 14 October 2007 | Museum of Modern Art Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world... |
Barbican Gallery |
| Replay Christian Marclay | 15 November 2007 | 3 February 2008 | Cité de la musique Cité de la Musique The Cité de la Musique is a group of institutions dedicated to music and situated in the La Villette quarter, 19th arrondissement, Paris, France. It was designed by the architect Christian de Portzamparc and opened in 1995... |
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| Game On | 6 March 2008 | 13 July 2008 | Barbican Gallery | |
| Correspondences: Victor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami | 21 August 2008 | 2 November 2008 | Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona | |
| Setting the Scene: Film Design from Metropolis to Australia | 4 December 2008 | 19 April 2009 | Deutsche Kinemathek as Moving Spaces | |
| Len Lye | 16 July 2009 | 11 October 2009 | ACMI | Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Govett-Brewster Art Gallery The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery is a contemporary art museum at New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand. The gallery receives core funding from the New Plymouth District Council.... |
| Dennis Hopper & The New Hollywood | 12 November 2009 | 25 April 2010 | Cinematheque francaise Cinémathèque Française The Cinémathèque Française holds one of the largest archives of films, movie documents and film-related objects in the world. Located in Paris, the Cinémathèque holds daily screenings of films from around the world.-History:... |
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| Tim Burton: The Exhibition | 24 June 2010 | 10 October 2010 | Museum of Modern Art Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world... |
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| Dreams Come True: The Art of Disney's Classic Fairy Tales | 18 November 2010 | 26 April 2011 | Walt Disney Animation Research Library | |
| Shaun Gladwell: Stereo Sequences | 1 June 2011 | 14 August 2011 | ACMI | |
| Star Voyager: Exploring Space on Screen | 22 September 2011 | 29 January 2012 | ACMI | |
| William Kentridge: Five Themes | 8 March 2012 | 27 May 2012 | ACMI | |
| Game Masters | 28 June 2012 | 28 October 2012 | ACMI |
Gallery 2
Open from 18 September 2009, Gallery 2 is a smaller, more flexible gallery than Gallery 1.| Exhibition | Opened | Closed | Origin | Content Partner |
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| Hollywood Remix | 18 September 2009 | 22 November 2009 | ACMI | |
| Best of the Independent Games Festival 2009 | 8 December 2009 | 14 February 2010 | ACMI | Independent Games Festival Independent Games Festival The Independent Games Festival is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry. It was founded in 1998 to assist and inspire innovation in video game development and to recognize the best independent video game developers... |
| Mary and Max: The Exhibition | 2 March 2010 | 6 June 2010 | ACMI | Adam Elliot |
| Bill Viola: The Raft | 7 October 2010 | 20 February 2011 | ACMI | Kaldor Public Arts Projects and Melbourne International Arts Fesitval |
| Arthur and Corinne Cantrill: Light Years | 8 march 2010 | 5 June 2011 | ACMI | |
| Margaret and David: 25 Years Talking Movies | 17 August 2011 | 4 December 2011 | ACMI | A collaboration with ABC. Supported by SBS. |
| Best of the Independent Games Festival 2011 | 20 December 2011 | 25 March 2012 | ACMI | Independent Games Festival Independent Games Festival The Independent Games Festival is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry. It was founded in 1998 to assist and inspire innovation in video game development and to recognize the best independent video game developers... |
| Best of the Independent Games Festival 2012 | 27 March 2012 | 8 July 2012 | ACMI | Independent Games Festival Independent Games Festival The Independent Games Festival is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry. It was founded in 1998 to assist and inspire innovation in video game development and to recognize the best independent video game developers... |
Australian Mediatheque
Australian Mediatheque is a space with multiple screening stations with access to works from ACMI and the National Film and Sound ArchiveNational Film and Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of audiovisual materials and related items...
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Studio 1
Studio 1 is a production and educational amphitheatre which can accommodate everything from multimedia performances to television broadcasts, and is equipped with video projection, video conferencing, web casting and online facilities.Studio 2
ACMI also houses a digital studio for hands-on workshops and production programs. Participants can access the technology, and develop the skills, to produce their own moving image work.Video Garden
Open from 18 September 2009, the Video Garden is an outdoor gallery that leads people from the Flinders Street side of the building to the main entrance. Previous exhibitions have included Random Encounters, Gooey by the Lycette Bros, I Fell Off My Bike and Blast Off.ACMI Store
The ACMI Store, located on the entry level next to the Tickets & Information Desk, stocks exhibition catalogues, books, DVDs, toys, cards and gifts.
Memory Grid
The Memory Grid was a display allowing access to over 100 hours of film that were been recorded by ordinary Australians, independent filmmakers, students, community-based practitioners and participants in ACMI hands-on production workshops. Much of the content in the Memory Grid had either never been displayed outside, or had been displayed only once on community television. Further, the Memory Grid contained a large collection of animated and interactive works, and actively accepted work from the public for display.Games Lab
The Games Lab was ACMI's display area for interactive computerComputer Games
"Computer Games" is a single by New Zealand group, Mi-Sex released in 1979 in Australia and New Zealand and in 1981 throughout Europe. It was the single that launched the band, and was hugely popular, particularly in Australia and New Zealand...
and video games. It celebrated the past, present and future of games, looking deeper to promote this popular form of the moving image as a fascinating reflection of our culture.
In 2003, ACMI commissioned Selectparks to produce an interactive game-based, site specific installation called AcmiPark, which was exhibited in the Games Lab. AcmiPark replicates and abstracts the real world architecture of Federation Square. It also houses highly innovative mechanisms for interactive, multiplayer sound and musical composition.
The Games Lab exhibited the Best of the Independent Games Festival
Independent Games Festival
The Independent Games Festival is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry. It was founded in 1998 to assist and inspire innovation in video game development and to recognize the best independent video game developers...
for 2005, 2006 & 2007. In early 2007 Hits of the 80s profiled Melbourne's Beam Software and the secret history of Australia's place in the rise and rise of the videogame. In 2005 an exhibition was dedicated to Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog (character)
, trademarked Sonic The Hedgehog, is a video game character and the main protagonist of the Sonic video game series released by Sega, as well as in numerous spin-off comics, cartoons, and a feature film. The first game was released on June 23, 1991, to provide Sega with a mascot to rival Nintendo's...
called Sonic the Hedgehog: Icon of our Times.
The Games Lab has now been incorporated into the Screen Worlds exhibition space.