If you live in Queensland, and Brisbane specifically, you can smell spring arriving on the breeze. One day we’re all choking on the annual dusty-dry winds, the next you can smell flowering eucalypts, sun-warmed grass and salt off the river. The air is suddenly humid-sweet and it’s now that our region is offering up spectacular produce…
We highlight the Australian Cinémathèque’s much loved secret weapon — the Wurlitzer Style 260 Opus 2040 pipe organ. From 2018 to 2020, QAGOMA will present Queensland’s Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF). The Festival experience comes to life with a range of dynamic events including classic silent films with live scores, a high point the screening of Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman 1928 featuring a…
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Brisbane born artist Milly Dent is one of the talented artisans featured in our QAGOMA Stores. Dent seeks to re-imagine daily routine and challenge conventional expectations of tableware, her work being both utilitarian and sculptural. Dent explores the relationship between fluid and static, pure and damaged, porcelain allows Dent to understand and push her practice to…
This diversity of programming at the Australian Cinémathèque, GOMA has built a deeply loyal audience that returns again and again — some dedicated patrons to virtually every screening — and has positioned QAGOMA to now proudly present the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF). A much-loved institution in its own right, BIFF was a fixture in Brisbane…
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Tickets are now on sale for the 2018 Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF), presented by QAGOMA with screenings at the Australian Cinémathèque, GOMA and venues across Brisbane from 11 to 21 October. The diverse program of more than 100 Australian and international feature, documentary and short films will be complemented by 24 thought-provoking events including conversations,…
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We survey the history of the Gallery of Modern Art’s black box, and some of the cinematic highlights that the Australian Cinémathèque has projected to loyal audiences since 2006. From 2018 to 2020, QAGOMA will present Queensland’s long-running and much-loved Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) and this is a unique opportunity for the Cinémathèque to…
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