Desert Island Flicks: Castaway with Brendan Maclean

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) presents one-night-only with critically acclaimed musician, Brendan Maclean, who will give audiences an insight into his top five films and how they have shaped him.

Coinciding with ACMI's celebration of music video via Spectacle: The Music Video Exhibition, Castaway with Brendan Maclean shines a light on a multi-talented Australian musician all too aware of the power of the music video as a means for distributing music in the Internet Age.

With a mix of folk lyricism, indie rock and high pop sensibilities, Maclean broke onto the Australian music scene in 2007, taking out Australia's National Youth Week People's Choice Award for his debut record, Airport People, and winning the Australian National Youth Week Industry Award for Writing the following year. Maclean has toured with Claire Bowditch, Kate Miller-Heidke, Darren Hayes, and most recently, Amanda Palmer.

The singer-songwriter released his debut EP White Canvas in 2010, which featured singles Practically Wasted and Cold and Happy, both of which were accompanied by hit YouTube videos. Maclean's latest single Winner is his second to make it onto the viral sharing Buzzfeed channel.

-Triple-threat' Maclean has also been a long time Triple J broadcaster and DJ, Channel V presenter, and has made numerous guest appearances on Australian light entertainment television. A NIDA graduate, Maclean made his feature film debut this year playing the role of Klipspringer in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby.

ACMI's Desert Island Flicks program provides audiences with an incredible diversity of fascinating celebrity 'castaways' who reveal the personal stories behind their top five flicks - the films they'd pack if banished to a desert island. Through a mix of visual material and moderated discussion, audiences gain a rare and often intimate and personal insight into their lives.