Tag: Film

Masterclasses at Melbourne University | Martin Scorsese

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Martin Scorsese | 17th September 2016 The Faculty of Arts, in association with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, presents a one day masterclass on American director, producer, screenwriter, and film conservationist, Martin Scorsese in celebration of ACMI’s SCORSESE exhibition. The day will consist of two sessions focussing on Scorsese’s mastery of storytelling through creative process and collaborations. Each session will entail a lecture discussing specific films, followed by Q&A and discussion. A light lunch and course handout notes will be provided. SESSION DETAILS Session 1: Scorsese Sights, Sounds and the Manufacture of Emotion In this lecture Dr Mark Nicholls analyses clips from selected films and demonstrates the way Martin Scorsese tells his stories with actors and through his departments of photography, editing, sound and design. Scorsese’s films make a remarkable visual and aural impression on their audience. Matching…

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Screening | Aura Satz: In and out of Synch | Gertrude Contemporary and Liquid Architecture

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Liquid Architecture and Gertrude Contemporary present an evening of films and sound with London-based artist Aura Satz who is in Australia as part of the Biennale of Sydney. Aura Satz’s work encompasses film, sound, performance and sculpture. Her works explore the relationship between esoteric technologies (Chladni plates, Rubens’ tubes, theremins, mechanical music machines, phonographs, dial tones, drawn/optical sound) and the human body (heightened perceptions, sensory disorientations, psychoacoustics). Satz is interested in the question of how both technologies and the body are mediated by notation systems, languages and codes. Some incredible artists feature in these works incluing Lis Rhodes, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Daphne Oram and more. Satz has shown at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, the Hayward Gallery, Barbican Art Gallery, ICA, Rotterdam Film Festival, New York Film Festival and many other spaces and institutions. Date: Thursday 24 March 2016, 6.30pm–8.30pm Venue: Studio 18, Gertrude…

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Screenings | Art + Film | ACMI

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ACMI is presenting a series of one-off screening of short and feature-length films by Australian and international artists. In coming months ART+FILM will present Taiwanese conceptual artist Chen Chieh-jen’s seminal film Factory (2003), in partnership with the 20th Biennale of Sydney,  as well as two intense, hyper-sensory videos by New Zealand-born artist Steve Carr, in partnership with the Centre for Contemporary Photography.  ACMI’s May ART+FILM offering will comprise highlights from Carriageworks’ 24 Frames per Second exhibition, with each work highlighting the exhilarating physicality of dance as it is presented on screen.   ACMI’s monthly ART+FILM program will continue to provide unique insights into the work of local and international artists. Sessions are free, but bookings are required.   Details of upcoming screenings are below.   Chen Chieh-jen Presents: Factory (2003) Tuesday 22 March, 6:30pm Presented in association with the 20th Biennale of Sydney   Taiwanese artist Chen…

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Tracey Moffat Talk at CCP

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“I would rather talk to another artist about their art practice than discuss my own work”, Tracey Moffatt said in a recent interview published in the Spirited catalogue for the Queensland Art Gallery. This is an extraordinary opportunity to hear directly from Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia’s best known and most influential contemporary artists. In conjunction with her exhibition at CCP, Moffatt will give an exclusive public talk at the gallery. Join us for an evening of information sharing and discussion around Moffatt’s enduring and wide reaching practice. As an artist within the VCE syllabus in 2015, this is a valuable opportunity for educators to hear, first hand from Moffat. Date: Tuesday 7 July, 6pm—7.30pm Venue: Centre for Contemporary Photography, 404 George Street, Fitzroy Tickets: $10 students and CCP members, $15 non-members. Bookings essential. Book here > Website: http://www.ccp.org.au/lecture_series.php Born in Brisbane in 1960, Tracey Moffatt studied…

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Symposium | Indigenous Screen Performance | ACMI

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This symposium will look at the outstanding contribution that Indigenous writers, directors and actors are making to Australian film, television and theatre with a particular focus on Redfern Now, The Gods of Wheat St and Tim Winton’s The Turning. Participants include Leah Purcell, Tony Birch, Jon Bell and Jub Clerc who have multiple credits as writers, directors and actors. Date: Monday 10 November 2014, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm Venue: ACMI in Melbourne The aim of this symposium is to begin a conversation on how roles are changing for Indigenous actors on screen, and how Indigenous writers, directors, actors and producers work together to create a performance. The symposium will be followed on Tuesday 11 November by the presentation of the Kate Challis RAKA Award for the best film or television script by an Indigenous writer over the last 5 years. As places are limited for this…

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Lecture | John Swindells - Film in Service of the Sacred

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Barbara Blackman Temenos Foundation 16th Annual Lecture Tour Film in service of the sacred John Swindells John Swindells is an acclaimed writer, producer and director of documentary films and new media projects. This lecture explores the potential of film to serve the sacred. Swindells observes that although many filmmakers have tried to represent the sacred, few have truly succeeded. Rather than simply enumerating films that tell spiritual stories, however, Swindells’ presentation will address how the spiritual can enter into stories of the everyday, infusing the film’s characters and spaces and inspiring the audience. The lecture will tour Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide. Please contact the venues below if you have any queries. Lecture tour program Sydney Date: Sunday 25 November, 11am Venue: The Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of New South Wales No bookings required For more information, please go to: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/calendar/temenos-lecture-2012/  Canberra…

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Film, Feminism and Fun at West Space!

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Film, Feminism and Fun at West Space!  September 5 – 15, West Space, Melbourne A Dinner Party: Setting the table – feminist art forum, events and art exhibition A Dinner Party: setting the table, is a collaborative project curated by Caroline Phillips and Victoria Duckett. It is a cross- media forum and series of events that brings a range of feminist artists, scholars, and social commentators together to explore feminist art today. The project is the first step towards the realization of a larger feminist exhibition The F Word which will tour Regional and metropolitan Victoria in 2014/15. Events programme Thursday, September 6, 6-8pm | Knitting Circle with Kate Just. Bring a piece your working on, or just bring some needles and wool and Kate will help you get started. Friday, September 7, 6-8pm | Film: Imaging Her World: Feminist Visions A…

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Film Screening | Eames: The Architect & The Painter

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The Australian Centre for the Moving Image presents Long Play Eames: The Architect & The Painter  Friday 1 June 2020 to Sunday 17 June 2020 Australian Premiere and Exclusive to ACMI As part of its Long Play program, the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) presents the Australian premiere of Eames: The Architect & The Painter which will screen from 1 to 17 June. James Franco narrates the story of 40 years of creativity from powerhouse couple Charles and Ray Eames. Film makers Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey cleverly collate and curate an abundant Eames archive (Ray was known to keep every note, scribble and scrap of paper in case she needed it at a later date), to give us rare insight into the world of this dynamic duo. Including interviews with Charles Eames’ daughter and grandson Lucia Eames…

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Symposium | Animals in Art and Philosophy Part 2 - Raimond Gaita keynote

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In Flesh and Blood: Animals in Art and Philosophy The second symposium in the series In Flesh and Blood: Animals in Art and Philosophy run by the Centre for Ideas at the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) will take place on Tuesday, 24 April. The draft program is as follows: Morning 10.30 – 1.30: Animals, the law and politics Justin Clemens ‘Man is a swarm animal’ What is it about ‘man’ that makes him a candidate for politics and the political? What makes human being-together a properly political question and not just a question of species-activity or genetic determinism? In this presentation, I examine a pun of Jacques Lacan. This is S1, l’essaim; S-one, the swarm. To date, this pun has, at best, been taken as a suggestive metaphor; at worst, as just another…

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Exhibition and Public Programs: William Kentridge - Five Themes at ACMI

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William Kentridge: Five Themes Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 8 March to 27 May Tickets are now available via the ACMI website About the Exhibition Premiering in Australia after travelling to San Francisco, New York, Paris, Vienna, Jerusalem and Moscow, the exhibition explores five key themes that have captivated Kentridge throughout his career. Well known for his stop motion films of charcoal drawings, Kentridge’s multi-disciplinary approach will be showcased through over 60 works ranging from animations, drawings and prints to theatre models, sculptures and books. More on the ACMI website. William Kentridge: Public Programs held from 4 March until 27 May 2020 Coinciding with the exhibition William Kentridge will inspire and take part in a series of public programs presented by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Note some programs have limited places and require pre-booking. Nebula Date: Sunday…

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Monash Museum of Art Exhibitions open Feb 2012: Hany Armanious, Adrian Paci and Contemporary Portraiture

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Three new exhibitions opening at Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA in Melbourne on 1st February 2012 Exhibition Dates: 1 February to 7th April Opening Function: Saturday 4 February 2012, 3.00 - 5.00pm, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield Campus. Hany Armanious: The Golden Thread Hany Armanious: The Golden Thread is the Australian premiere of works shown at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, presented alongside a suite of new works and an artist’s book developed for MUMA. The first major exhibition of Hany Armanious’ work in Melbourne, The Golden Thread builds upon a burgeoning critical reception that has grown around the artist’s work internationally over the past decade. Born in Egypt in 1962 and migrating with his family to Australia six years later, Sydney-based Hany Armanious was the sole Australian representative at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Hany Armanious: The Golden Thread was developed by the Australia Council,…

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