What.s On at ACMI: April - May, 2017

Museum and Ideas

ACMI celebrates Asia TOPA
acmi.net.au/asia-topa
asiatopa.com.au
Joining Arts Centre Melbourne and a consortium of cultural organisations, ACMI showcases the colourful, the queer and the cutting-edge during the inaugural Asia TOPA program in 2017 – a festival-style program that celebrates the wellspring of moving image, performing arts and culture from the diverse Asia-Pacific region.

Bombay Talkies exhibition Open until 2 Jul, Gallery 2, 10am–5pm Free entry acmi.net.au/bombay-talkies
A major Asia TOPA highlight, ACMI exhibition Bombay Talkies captures the excitement and glamour of early Indian cinema with a treasure trove of artefacts collected by the -father of Bollywood cinema'. The exhibition showcases, for the very first time, the Dietze Family Trust archive, inherited by Melburnian Peter Dietze and his two brothers, who discovered late in life that their grandfather was a famous Indian filmmaker and entrepreneur.

ACMI's free, interactive Screen Worlds exhibition is open daily, and now features a new VR exhibit
Open every day except Christmas Day, 10am–5pm
Free Entry
acmi.net.au/events/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. This stunning exhibition will change the way audiences think about the most pervasive and powerful cultural forms of our time. Presented in conceptually connected sections Emergence, Voices, Sensation, Games Lab and Kids Space, Screen Worlds brings together rarely seen footage, fascinating objects and interactive displays. ACMI's first virtual reality (VR) commission Stuck In The Middle With You joined the Screen Worlds display in early November following its short exhibition at ACMI in early 2016. The work is an exciting and immersive VR dance experience that fuses choreography, performance, documentary and drama to put viewers on stage with the Sydney Dance Company. A rotation of new VR commissions will join Stuck in the Middle with You inside Screen Worlds in future.