Comrad Couture (2009), ACMI: Berlin on Film 2010 The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, in association with the Goethe-Institut, presents - Berlin on Film Thursday 4 November – Monday 8 November 2010 To coincide with the Berlin Dayz cultural festival and the twentieth anniversary of the reunification of Germany, the Australian Centre for the Moving [...]

Underground Cinema is a secret film screening event held in undisclosed locations throughout Melbourne. The locations and even the films identity are kept a mystery. Undergound Cinema are not your average cinema experience, as they describe arriving at one of their locations alike “walking onto a film set, with live performances recreating elements of the [...]

Directed by Special Problems, Produced by Special Problems, Live Action: Produced by Jett Steiger and Peter Brant for Team G, DP: Kevin Phillips, Costume Designer: Erica Frank, Post-production/animation/edit by Special Problems, Additional animation: Curtis Baigent, Commissioned by Warp Films A second single from Flying Lotus’ self-proclaimed “space opera” Cosmogramma, MmmHmm features renowned bassist Thundercat (Sa-Ra [...]

The 59th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced that American cinema legend Joe Dante will attend the Festival for a special film tribute – Dante’s Inferno. Known for his subversive humour and social critique, in films such as Gremlins, Piranha, Small soldiers, The Burbs, Dante will also present the Australian premiere of his very [...]

Curated by Clare Lewis – as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program supported by Arts NSW Laresa Kosloff, Spirit & Muscle, 2006, digital video, 4:39 minutes. Image courtesy and © the artist and Neon Parc. A new exhibition opening at Firstdraft this month explores six contemporary Australian artists’ post-minimalist tendencies. Artists: Peter Adsett, Gail [...]

ACMI: Matthew Barney on Film Thurs 1 July – Sun 11 July 2010 Drawing Restraint 9, Matthew Barney This July the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) invites you to enter the surreal world of visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney with the essential season of Matthew Barney on Film. Art and film world [...]

Semi-Permanent & Dosh Wallets, Sydney, 2010 Semi-Permanent and Dosh Wallets launch search to find the next generation Dosh designer. 12th March 2010: Semi-Permanent, Australia’s leading design festival, has partnered with forward thinking wallet brand, Dosh, to find the next generation Dosh designer. The competition is calling for artists to submit a piece of work which [...]

New York, I Love You Since the birth of movies, New York has long been cinema’s dream city – its teeming populace of one-of-a-kind characters, its stone-and-glass skyscrapers rocketing towards the heavens, its subterranean cultures and its rooftop love affairs all making for the perfect backdrop to all manner of action, comedy, drama and poetry. [...]

Semi-Permanent announces second raft of speakers for Sydney conference Semi-Permanent, Australia’s award winning design festival*, is pleased to announce additional speakers to its already awe-inspiring line up. Award winning filmmaker David Michôd, San Francisco based design community Fecal Face and Australia’s own frankie magazine, join this year’s event on the 19 and 20 March. Other [...]

Semi-Permanent, Sydney, 2010 March 2010 sees Australia’s design community come together for the 8th year for Semi-Permanent in Sydney. With a week-long celebration of all things aesthetic, Semi-Permanent goes above and beyond, bringing together the design community across a number of conferences, workshops, exhibitions and after parties. Not to be outdone by last year’s roll [...]

Semi-Permanent, Melbourne 2009 Semi-Permanent Melbourne 2009 Montage from Semi Permanent on Vimeo. Missed Semi-Permanent this year? See the video montage from Melbourne above, and click here for Sydney. Via Semi-Permanent

Ponyo Ponyo (c)  2008 Nibariki – GNDHDDT, 2009 Nibariki – GNDHDDT Madman proudly present the highly anticipated DVD release of PONYO – the latest animated masterpiece from Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, and the world-renowned, Studio Ghibli. In a small town by the sea, high on a cliff, lives 5-year-old Sosuke. One morning, while playing [...]

HP “Create Amazing” Using the ’tilt-shift’ effect the new ‘Create Amazing’ campaign from HP displays Shanghai, New York, Santorini, London, Istanbul, and some sets built in L.A, as if it were all a small-scale moving model. Client: HP Agency: Mcgarrybowen Production Company: Partizan Entertainment

9 Academy Award®-nominated director Shane Acker teams up with two of the world’s most visionary filmmakers, Tim Burton (Alice In Wonderland, The Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Night Watch, Day Watch), to bring a totally unique and visually stunning animated fantasy epic to screen. When the small rag doll [...]

ACMI – Tim Burton: The art and imagination of the most fantastical filmmaker of our time Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005), Directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson, Shown: Co-director Tim Burton on the set, Photo credit: Derek Frey The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) joins Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2010 with an Australian [...]