Category: Cinema

City Symphony Live Music & Film with world music, folk electronic duo Zemzemeh

Posted by Rosie Hays   ●   4 Apr 2023

On Sunday 30 April, our third City Symphony Live Music & Film screening features a selection of rarely screened short films. Within these films street photographers capture cheeky kids playing in New York’s East Harlem in the 1940s, meanwhile in the film Bridges Go Round 1958 the camera dances with a city skyline, and two films…

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City Symphony Live Music & Film with Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra

Posted by Rosie Hays   ●   14 Mar 2023

The 18-piece band — Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra — is the musical accompaniment to the lyrical Slovakian documentary Lines 2021 on Sunday 26 March in our next ‘City Symphony’ Live Music & Film series. While the City Symphony film movement began in the 1920s, this contemporary film, released a hundred years after the movement began,…

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City Symphony Live Music & Film with post-rock band hazards of swimming naked

Posted by Rosie Hays   ●   20 Feb 2023

The launch of our new event cinema series kicks off on Sunday 26 February and runs across 10 unique screenings and music performances until 26 November 2023. Our ‘City Symphony’ Live Music & Film series will start with a screening of the iconic Man with a Movie Camera 1929 paired with Brisbane based post-rock band…

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Anything but still

Posted by Victoria Wareham   ●   24 Dec 2022

Moving us into heightened states of observation and bringing attention to everyday narratives, as well as wider historical implications, the works in the exhibition ‘Still Life Now’ and accompanying ‘Still Lives’ film program consider how contemporary artists and filmmakers draw on the ideas of the still-life tradition to explore issues of consumerism, beauty, power, postcolonialism…

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Melting into Air – Five unmissable films

Posted by Robert Hughes   ●   6 Dec 2022

Presented in conjunction with the Gallery of Modern Art’s blockbuster ‘Air’ exhibition, ‘Melting into Air’ (26 November 2022 – 23 April 2023) is the new, free cinema program at the Australian Cinémathèque, GOMA. It explores screen depictions of this essential element from over the past century, showcasing hidden mysteries within deep fogs, the sublime potential…

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