Australian Centre for the Moving Image

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, or ACMI, is dedicated to the moving image in all its forms. It is located in Federation Square, in Melbourne, Australia, 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.

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Attractions

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:

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, Jim Jarmusch, Robert De Niro and David Cronenberg. Genres have included Focus on Gypsies and for the release of King Kong, Focus on Monsters.

ACMI undertakes partnerships with a variety of film festivals; Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Festival of German Films, Little Big Shots, Melbourne International Animation Festival, 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 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 2011 [1] followed by "Star Voyager: Exploring Space on Screen"[2] in September 2011.

Exhibition Opened Closed Origin Content Partner
Deep Space: Sensation & Immersion 26 October 2002 27 January 2003 Art Gallery of New South Wales as Space Odysseys: Sensation & Immersion  
Ngarinyin Pathways Dulwan 26 October 2002 31 August 2003 ACMI Pathway Project of the Ngarinyin 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  
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  
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  
Pixar: 20 Years of Animation 28 June 2007 14 October 2007 Museum of Modern Art Barbican Gallery
Replay Christian Marclay 15 November 2007 3 February 2008 Cité de la musique  
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
Dennis Hopper & The New Hollywood 12 November 2009 25 April 2010 Cinematheque francaise  
Tim Burton: The Exhibition 24 June 2010 10 October 2010 Museum of Modern Art  
Dreams Come True: The Art of Disney's Classic Fairy Tales 18 November 2010 26 April 2011 New Orleans Museum of Art 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
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
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
Best of the Independent Games Festival 2012 27 March 2012 8 July 2012 ACMI Independent Games Festival

Australian Mediatheque

Australian Mediatheque is a space with multiple screening stations with access to works from ACMI and the National Film and Sound Archive.

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.

Former attractions

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 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 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 video game. In 2005 an exhibition was dedicated to Sonic the Hedgehog called Sonic the Hedgehog: Icon of our Times.

The Games Lab has now been incorporated into the Screen Worlds exhibition space.

Notes

  1. ^ "Shaun Gladwell: Stereo Sequences" (Press release). acmi. 2011-02-14. http://www.acmi.net.au/media-gladwell-stereo-sequences.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-18. 
  2. ^ "Star Voyager: Exploring Space on Screen" (Press release). acmi. 2011-05-16. http://www.acmi.net.au/media-star-voyager.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-18. 

References

"What's On Aug-Sep 2009", ACMI, 2009

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