MWFF: A Special Alchemy
Experimental filmmakers discuss creativity in lockdown and the many ways women express themselves through the moving image.

Experimental filmmakers discuss creativity in lockdown and the many ways women express themselves through the moving image.
This special speaker series kicked off the Open House Melbourne 2021 July Weekend program, raising the big questions about the role of policy, climate change and architecture in the future of cities.
RMIT Culture’s Salons bring together our brightest writers, artists and thinkers in discussion.
A deep dive into desire, bodies and consumption for fashion victims and film fetishists.
‘Brazen Hussies’ filmmakers and activists discuss the pioneers of the 1970s Australian feminist movement.
The award-winning NYC-based filmmaker on his archival-led approach to documentary filmmaking and the making of ‘Spaceship Earth’.
A panel talk on climate resilience, eco-futurism and the social experimentation emerging from the experience of being locked down in our own private biospheres at home.
Step backstage and explore The Capitol’s hidden corners and spaces not usually accessible to the public.
The acclaimed British filmmaker discusses his seductive, darkly humorous fashion thriller ‘In Fabric’ (2018) with Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.
Discussing the new, remixed, re-edited and under-seen works made by video artists Sari Braithwaite, Tiyan Baker and Sam Smith in lockdown 2020.
Political refugee and author Shokoofeh Azar writes about hope and freedom.
Stare up at “that” awe-inspiring ceiling from anywhere in the world.
Contemporary feminist discussions that’ll feed your curiosity and expand your thinking.
Experience Melbourne Music Week 2021 with performance excerpts from Ara Koufax and Simona Castricum.
Simon Winkler leads this discussion between Simona Castricum and Luke Neher and Sam Gill of Ara Koufax.
Relive Melbourne Design Week 2021 with recordings of our talks on ‘Designing the world you want’.
Visual highlights from our Melbourne Design Week 2021 program.
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas surveys the effect On Guard’s ambient feminist thirst for blood had on Australian critics in 1984, and now.
Stephen Gaunson re-reads cancel culture under the lens of Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451.
Daniel Fairfax surveys the becoming of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis almost a century after it was conceived.
James Douglas maps the genealogy of Andrew Niccol’s retro-futurist Gattaca.
Djoymi Baker considers the present-day realities of Soylent Green’s gastro-future.
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