Spectacles of Wonder
GOMA's latest free cinema program celebrates imaginative and visually spectacular movies from across more than a century of filmmaking.
Overview
You'll be wonderstruck: for just over three months at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art, awe-inspiring works — creative marvels, too — are lining the walls and halls. Yayoi Kusama's The Obliteration Room is just one of the highlights at the venue's free Wonderstruck exhibition. Pieces by Patricia Piccinini, Ai Weiwei and American artist Nick Cave are a mere few others. From Friday, June 27–Sunday, October 5, 2025, celebrating the imaginative and visually spectacular is also on the agenda across the site's big-screen lineup.
As it frequently does given that it's home to the Australian Cinematheque, GOMA is pairing Wonderstruck with a free film program, exploring how the themes at the heart of the exhibition translate to the movies. Its full range of flicks is split into a trio strands: colour, pattern and illusion. So, expect one of the three to be of significance in every single picture.
The medium's earliest days are covered via Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon — and so is Wes Anderson's fondness for pastel hues in The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel. The buzzing hummingbirds of documentary Every Little Thing, Studio Ghibli's wonders via My Neighbour Totoro, Michel Gondry's imaginative approach via The Science of Sleep: they're among the sights set to flicker through the gallery's cinemas as well.
When you're not getting spectacular spectacular with Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge!, indulging pure imagination via the OG Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory or diving into one of Antonio Banderas' (Babygirl) finest performances in Pain and Glory, you can twirl through The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, be charmed by Amélie and fall for Her — and embrace the full Three Colours trilogy, surrender to The Green Fog, ponder All That Heaven Allows and navigate dreams within dreams in Inception. Doco Kusama: Infinity is a fitting inclusion, too.
Films screen on Wednesday and Friday evenings, as well as Saturday and Sunday during the day.
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