'Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion': $10 Tickets

Overview

Since April, Melbourne's Australian Centre for the Moving Image has been celebrating femininity across screen history at world-premiere showcase Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion. On offer: an exhibition focusing on ladies in cinema and television, including examining how women are represented, championing standout talents, exploring how depictions and expectations have changed, and unpacking what female talents have symbolised — and been forced to deal with — about and from the society around them.

Head by any time until Sunday, October 1 and that's what awaits. It's both a massive and a landmark exhibition. More than 150 original costumes, objects, artworks, props and sketches are gracing the Federation Square venue's walls and halls, all heroing oh-so-many women and their impact.

Make a date between Friday, August 4–Sunday, August 13, however, and you'll get discounted entry. Across the ten days, ACMI is slinging tickets for just $10 — and cheap bookings are available online

We're the country that gave the world Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie, to name just a few renowned Australian actresses owning the silver screen in recent years, so of course we're the country that's spearheading this exhibition.

Among a lineup that spans threads that've never been displayed before, various cinematic trinkets, large-scale projections and other interactive experiences, attendees can check out odes to Marlene Dietrich in 1930's Morocco, Pam Grier's spectacular Blaxploitation career, Tilda Swinton in 1992's Orlando and the aforementioned Robbie via 2020's Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). Plus, there's Mae West's sky-high heels from 1934's Belle of the Nineties, as well as Michelle Yeoh's fight-ready silks from 2000's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

The list goes on, clearly, covering Anna May Wong, Marilyn Monroe, Laverne Cox and Zendaya as well. And, everything from Glenn Close's Cruella de Vil in 102 Dalmatians to the Carey Mulligan-starring Promising Young Woman also gets time to shine.

Images: Eugene Hyland Photography.