ACMI Turns 20

Overview

If you're a fan of movies, television, games and every other facet of screen culture, and you live in Melbourne, then you're also a fan of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. It's the nation's very own film, TV and game museum, right here in Federation Square — yes Melburnians, it's something special.

Can't remember the city without ACMI? That's because it's been part of the CBD for two decades now. Naturally, the venue is celebrating that fact by welcoming folks in — and slinging half-price movie and exhibition tickets for two days to help.

Shannon McGrath

Drop by the ACMI Turns 20 festivities on Saturday, October 29–Sunday, October 30 for discounted entry, which spans the dazzling Light: Works From Tate's Collection and all movie sessions. With the former, you can peer at a Melbourne-exclusive showcase from the UK's Tate galleries featuring more than 70 works, including pieces by Claude Monet and Yayoi Kusama. With the latter, you can feast your eyes on the Tilda Swinton-starring The Souvenir Part II, the end of ACMI's Goodbye to Godard tribute season, or opt for the Halloween-appropriate Blood and Black Lace and In Fabric.

And, ACMI is doing free cookies and choc tops for the two days, too — while stocks last.

Raemar, Blue, 1969, James Turrell. Tate: Presented by the Tate Americas Foundation, partial purchase and partial gift of Doris J. Lockhart 2013. © James Turrell. Photo: Phoebe Powell.