Best of the Independent Games Festival 2009
Free exhibition, Open daily 10am-6pm
Play brilliant videogames for free, when the Best of the Independent Games Festival returns to ACMI.

Focus on Hopper's America
Thu 10 Dec 7pm and Sat 12 Dec 8pm
Full $13 Concession $10 (6 session package: Full $60 Concession $48)
Explore the times, artistic influences and works of one of Hollywood's great rebels in three parts.

Soundtrack for a Revolution unclassified 18+
Sun 13 Dec 3pm
Direct from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, this work tracks the spirit behind the US Civil Rights movement through stories of its activists and the freedom songs that gave it such resilient strength and dignity.

Screens with: Black Panthers unclassified 18+
Varda's classic observational documentary captures the force, essence and impetus behind the Black Panther movement.

American Dreamer unclassified 18+
This rarely seen documentary finds Hopper in New Mexico cutting his ill-fated sophomore film (The Last Movie). Lensed through a haze of drugs, Hopper is captivatingly raw and uncensored.

Screens with: Aleph unclassified 18+
"This film took a decade to make and is the only true envisionment of the sixties I know" Stan Brakhage

El Topo R18+
Fri 11 Dec 9.30pm
Jodorowsky takes the title role of a mysterious black-clad gunslinger on a whacked-out spiritual quest through the desert. Reminiscent of Bunuel and seized upon by New York's 1970s counter-culture, El Topo became the original midnight movie and was embraced by the likes of Dennis Hopper and Timothy Leary.