What's On at ACMI: Wednesday 5 to Tuesday 11 October 2016

ACMI + Melbourne Festival present
Collisions, the first VR film to tell an Indigenous story, opens as a free exhibition
Thursday 6 October 2016 to Sunday 15 January 2017
acmi.net.au/collisions
The work of acclaimed filmmaker and artist Lynette Wallworth features in new exhibition Collisions, inviting audiences on an immersive Virtual Reality (VR) journey to the land of Indigenous elder, Nyarri Nyarri Morgan. In Wallworth's thought-provoking, narrative VR work, Nyarri shares the incredible story of his first contact with Western culture in the 1950's – when he witnessed firsthand and with no context, an atomic test. Half a century later, another technology affords him the chance to show you the world that was ruptured that day. Collisions is co-presented by ACMI and Melbourne Festival, and was developed as a result of the inaugural Sundance New Frontier-Jaunt VR Residency.
Tickets: FREE

ACMI + Melbourne Festival present
Creating Worlds: Lynette Wallworth & Enrique Vargas In Conversation
Saturday 8 October, 3.30pm
acmi.net.au/creating-worlds
Artist and Filmmaker Lynette Wallworth and Theatre Director Enrique Vargas both create immersive works that explore bold new ways of telling and experiencing stories. In Collisions, audiences are taken on a virtual journey to the remote Western Australian desert where Martu elder, Nyarri Nyarri Morgan, shares the story of the impact of the 1957 atomic bomb testing on his homelands. In Echo of the Shadow, Vargas invites the audience to enter a sensorial labyrinth, a singular experience of looking, listening, smelling, tasting and touching. Join Enrique and Lynette in a conversation moderated by Melbourne Festival Artistic Director, Jonathan Holloway, about creating immersive worlds, audience interaction and experiential storytelling and their most recent works showing at ACMI as co-presented by the Melbourne Festival.
Tickets: FREE

360 Degree Video Workshop is the next free INTERMIX event (ACMI's ongoing free programming for young people aged 15 to 25)
Saturday 8 October, 11am to 4pm
acmi.net.au/intermix
ACMI's dynamic and innovative youth program INTERMIX offers an extensive program of free events, developed in consultation with young people aged 15 to 25. Providing opportunities to create, debate, design and interact, INTERMIX brings young creatives together.  On Saturday 8 October INTERMIX event 360 Degree Video Workshop provides a technical workshop that focusses on the production workflow needed to produce polished and professional 360 degree video content. Participants can learn about camera options, lighting techniques, recording sound, editing, adding graphics and publishing videos in this hands on intensive workshop. Suitable for skaters, filmmakers, music video makers, documentary-makers or those who are just interested to see what it's all about.
Tickets: FREE

ACMI Cinemas Screen Tokyo Story PG
From Thursday 6 October
acmi.net.au/tokyo-story
Consistently featuring on all-time top ten lists alongside classics such as Citizen Kane (1941) and Vertigo (1958), Yasujiro Ozu's humanist masterpiece is a deceptively simple story and a poignant study of aging and modern Japanese society. An elderly couple take a trip to Tokyo to visit their grown up children, only to find that their offspring's busy work schedules mean they have little or no time to see them. Ozu's delicate handling of the family dynamics is careful not to pass judgement. His unobtrusive and observational camera captures the nuanced complexities of modern life and the changing nature of Japanese family, culture and generational obligation.
Tickets: Full $17, Concession $13, Member $10

ACMI Cinemas Screen Chevalier UNCLASSIFIED 15+

From Thursday 6 October
acmi.net.au/chevalier
Winner of Best Film at the 2015 London Film Festival, Chevalier is Athina Rachel Tsangari's astoundingly funny and original follow up to her 2010 film, Attenberg. Described as a -buddy movie without the buddies', Chevalier is the story of six friends who head out on a luxury fishing trip and become consumed by a competition to decide who is the -Best at Everything'. Dancing, jet skiing, holding their breath, rapid fire responses to culinary questions, comparing calf muscles (and other body parts); for these cabin-mates nothing is off-limits. As the men make the journey back to dry land, the one-upmanship intensifies to reveal what Variety has dubbed a, 'committedly deadpan comedy of manners, morals and men behaving weirdly."
Tickets: Full $17, Concession $13, Member $10