What's On at ACMI: August - September, 2017

 

Museum and Ideas

Exclusive limited cinema season & event series:

I Am Not Your Negro

From 14 Sep

acmi.net.au/ianyn

Filmmaker Raoul Peck (The Man by the Shore, Moloch Tropical, Murder in Pacot), returns with a transcendent documentary examining the life and work of literary iconoclast and queer icon James Baldwin.

 

Prehistoric VR

23 Sep – 8 Oct

acmi.net.au/prehistoric-vr

Drop onto the ocean floor in our latest commission Prehistoric VR, an immersive encounter by internationally renowned makers of large-scale puppetry experiences Erth Visual & Physical Inc, and award winning visual artist and filmmaker Samantha Lang.

 

Wallace & Gromit and Friends: The Magic of Aardman

acmi.net.au/aardman

In our latest exhibition, take an extraordinary trip from sketches and models through to elaborate sets as these beloved characters take shape on screen.

 

Code Breakers: Women in Games

25 Jul – 5 Nov

Free entry

acmi.net.au/code-breakers

Code Breakers is the first Australian exhibition celebrating the achievements of women working in the games industry. Visitors can play games made by emerging and established makers, from platformers, RPGs and digital board games to graphical adventures and puzzlers, there's something for everyone, at every skill level.

 

Fed Square Live

Every Thursday in August

acmi.net.au/fsqlive

Come and escape the winter chill as ACMI and Fed Square present a live winter music series with a diverse line-up of local and emerging artists.

 

ACMI's free, interactive Screen Worlds exhibition is open daily

Open every day except Christmas Day, 10am–5pm

Free entry

acmi.net.au/screen-worlds

Screen Worlds is ACMI's free, permanent and interactive exhibition that tells the remarkable story of the moving image; a vibrant biography that explores its past, past present and future.

 

ACMI Cinemas

Visit acmi.net.au/film for session times and ticket information (please note, films for kids and families are listed in the -families' section of this document)

Celebrate Studio Ghibli

24 Aug – 24 Sep

acmi.net.au/ghibli

Join us for a showcase of one of the most iconic animation studios in the world. Headed by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli has carved itself a name as one of the giants of animation alongside Disney, Pixar and Aardman Animations.

 

Fashion on Film

1 – 10 Sep

acmi.net.au/spring-fashion-on-film

Adorn your Melbourne Fashion Week schedule with this season of glittering and exclusive fashion documentaries and panel discussions. This season ACMI is highlighting fashion icon Yohji Yamamoto with the Australian premier of Yohji Yamamoto: Dressmaker.

 

Disneynature Festival

23 Sep – 8 Oct

acmi.net.au/disneynature

Pandas, butterflies and monkeys are just some of the stars in our second Disneynature Festival in the upcoming September school holidays.

 

All For One CTC

In Cinema 24 Aug

Featuring some of the biggest names in cycling including Phil Liggett and Esteban Chaves, All For One takes viewers into the world of professional cycling with a unique Aussie twist.

 

The Fencer PG

18 – 29 Aug

It's 1953 and Endel (Mart Avandi) is on the run. With his wartime affiliations catching up with him, he eludes the secret police in Leningrad and flees to a remote village in Soviet-occupied Estonia.

 

Oxidan Unclassified 15+

23 – 24 Aug

Negar (Linda Kiani) is about to get married to Aslan (Javad Ezzati). She is obsessed with the idea of moving overseas, but it isn't easy for an Iranian woman to obtain a visa.

 

Coming Soon: Their Finest M

15 – 26 Sep

Catrin Cole (Tamara Drewe's Gemma Arterton) is a resolutely can-do sort eking out a living as a copywriter during the London Blitz.

 

 

Coming Soon: Spookers M

In Cinema from 17 Sep

Just outside of Auckland on the site of a former psychiatric facility is Spookers, New Zealand's number one haunted attraction.

 

Coming Soon: Aquarius R18+

29 Sep – 7 Oct

Retired music critic, Clara (Sonia Braga) is the only remaining resident in one of the last -40s-built apartment blocks in the exclusive seaside district of Recife in Brazil.

 

Coming Soon: Neruda MA15+

1 – 12 Sep

A boldly conceived interweaving of history and fiction, Neruda is a lavishly mounted and grandly entertaining tale of the manhunt for exiled Chilean poet, politician and diplomat, Pablo Neruda.

 

2017 Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia

13 – 23 Sep

Programmed to the theme of 'Neighbours", this year's landmark edition of the festival allows for consideration of much more than merely how the Czechs and Slovaks relate to one another, (both now and previously.)

 

Korean Film Festival Melbourne

7 – 14 Sep

This year, Korean Film Festival Melbourne are proud to showcase 16 of the most innovative cinematic feats from -Hallyuwood's' top directors.

 

Melbourne Cinémathèque

7pm every Wed

Since 1948, the Melbourne Cinémathèque has been showing ground-breaking, rare and significant cinema from around the world. Curated by the Melbourne Cinémathèque, sessions screen at ACMI every Wednesday throughout the year.

 

Family Programs

Family Films, activities and workshops for various ages

Chicken Run G

In Cinema from 29 Jul

Ginger, Bunty, Babs and Fowler are chickens trapped on a farm and desperate to escape. If they don't produce any eggs for the week, Mr. and Ms. Tweedy will have their heads and turn them into chicken pot pies.

 

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit PG

In Cinema from 2 Jul

Inventor and cheese-lover Wallace and his devoted canine Gromit run their own vegetable protection agency, Anti-Pesto, but get into all manner of mischief when they unintentionally create a Were-Rabbit with a voracious appetite.

 

Flushed Away G

In Cinema from 2 Jul

Roddy (Hugh Jackman) is a decidedly upper-crust "society rat" who makes his home in a posh London flat. When a common sewer rat named Syd comes spewing out of the sink and decides he's hit the jackpot, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the "whirlpool."

 

Wallace & Gromit: The Aardman Collection G

In Cinema from 1 Jul

This special compilation features several classic Aardman multi-award winning short films including early instalments of Creature Comforts, the complete works of William Shakespeare (in under five minutes!) and the third Wallace and Gromit adventure, A Close Shave plus many more Aardman treats!

 

School holiday program

24 Sep – 8 Oct

Our holiday program in the heart of Melbourne includes kids and teens' workshops in coding, filmmaking, robotics, virtual reality and more. Catch a kids' movie in the cinemas, or explore the animated worlds of Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run downstairs in the exhibition.