Booklet Autumn 2015

EVENTS MAR – MAYnfsa.gov.au

open Mon-Fri 9AM – 5PM Welcome to the NFSA’s latest screen and sound experience in Acton – The Front Room. Explore the history of sound, music and broadcast in comfort. Listen to radio broadcasts on our 1950s radiogram, watch classic TV in the lounge space or play CDs on our listening posts. Whether you’ve got five minutes or five hours, there’s always something to see, hear or do in The Front Room. nfsa.gov.au2

VINYL LOUNGE VINYL LOUNGESt Patrick’s Day FRI 6 MAR, FRI 10 APR,FRI 6 MAR Fri 1 May5.30PM – 6.30PM 5.30PM – 6.30PM(Drinks and nibbles from 5PM), (Drinks and nibbles from 5PM),NFSA Theatrette, FREE NFSA Theatrette, FREEIn the lead-up to St Patrick’s Day the Join us after work for a glass of wine andMarch edition celebrates all thing’s nibbles and hear what’s spinning on theIrish, and the Irish influence on NFSA’s turntables this month! Bring yourAustralian music. With kind support LPs and groove into the Vinyl Lounge!from the Embassy of Ireland.Don’t forget to wearsomething green! 3

Pop upBIGSCREENFILM FESTIVA L mildura MON 9 – SAT 14 MARCH TRARALGON MON 23 MAR AND mon 13 apr nfsa.gov.au/bigscreen4

p FRIDAY the 13th NFSA Ghost Tour! Get your scare on at the NFSA! FRI 13 MAR FRI 13 MAR 9.30PM, Price: $35 Limited offer – only 20 places. 7PM, Arc Cinema, $10 Join Tim the Yowie Man for a rare and The Babadook (M) spooky Friday 13th ghost tour of the NFSA’s headquarters. Discover the (2014, M, 95 mins) strange, the ghostly and the disturbing stories lurking in the NFSA’s basement A single mother, plagued by her and under the stairs…if you dare! A husband’s violent death, battles with rare treat for lovers of the strange and her son’s fear of a monster lurking the macabre. in the house. She soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. Book early to avoid disappointment: Starring Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall bookings via NFSA reception: and Noah Wiseman. (02) 6248 2000 or [email protected] 5

fiaf C1O2N-1G8RESS april 2015 Canberra Taiwan FIAF Film Festival FRI 17 APR FRI 20 MAR 7PM, Arc Cinema 6PM, Arc Cinema, FREE entry FIAF Screening – as part of the Official opening of the 2015 International Federation of Film Canberra Taiwan Film Festival. As a Archives (FIAF) 2015 Conference proud partner of the Australian Centre being held in Sydney and Canberra for China in the World at ANU, the in April, the NFSA will present a very NFSA is co-hosting the official opening special surprise public screening on of the 2015 Canberra Taiwan Film Friday 17 April, in collaboration with Festival. The NFSA is screening a rare our international film archive partners. 35mm original release print of the We’ll be announcing details closer Golden Lion award-winning Bei-qing to the date so watch our website for Chengshi - A City of Sadness. details. For more information on the FIAF Conference, see www.fiafnet.org Bei-qing Cheng shi – A City of Sadness (1989, Dir. Hsiao-Hsien Hou) This Taiwanese thriller is set against the tumultous events of 1947 known as the 2/28 incident, an anti- government public uprising in Taiwan. Tickets available via NFSA reception: (02) 6248 2000 or [email protected] For more festival formation, see http://ciw.anu.edu.au/events6

DISNEY CLASSICS Dates filmAPRIL SCHOOL Mon 20 aprHOLIDAYS at Arc The Lion King (1994, G, 89 mins)Mon 20 – Fri 24 APR Wed 22 apr The Hunchback10AM, Arc Cinema Thur 23 apr of Notre Dame$5 each session (1996, G, 91 mins)The NFSA continues its program Mulanof school holiday Disney Classics (1998, G, 88 mins)with another wonderful selectionof animations on the big screen at Fri 24 apr TangledArc Cinema, as part of the 2015 (2010, PG, 100 mins)Centenary of Animation. Thistime, we revisit some of Disney’s 7contemporary classics including TheLion King and Tangled. Bring yourchildren (and inner child!) down tothe NFSA this April. All screeningscommence 10AM.To book phone (02) 6248 2000

THE AuSTRAlIAN SAlES ANd MEdIATHEquE dISTRIBuTION is open every day from noon to 5pm, at ACMI License or buy in Federation Square, DVDs for your community or Melbourne. educational group, or for broadcast, VOD or home viewing csCooSeoloeflelfelyemYeMcocoootuurrirroeenn ACCESS CENTRES ONlINE are located in state Discover the collection libraries and NFSA at nfsa.gov.au, on offices. Call ahead YouTube, Flickr, to request specific Facebook, Twitter and items from the Soundcloud collection.8

70 Years after Now, 70 years later, the ImperialLiberation War Museums (UK) has digitally restored the film, adding the voice-German Concentration over commentary as it was written inCamps Factual Survey 1945. The NFSA is proud to screen this significant film to commemorateRestored (1945/2014, Unclassified 18+, the 70th anniversary of the liberation72 minutes) of the Belsen concentration camp in April 1945. Presented in cooperationTHURSDAY 23 APR with Imperial War Museums (UK), the screening will be followed by a Q&A7PM, Arc Cinema, $10 with Helen Lewis (Canberra), author and daughter of Allied armed forcesIn 1944 and 1945 Allied troops cameraman Mike Lewis who filmed atcameramen filmed the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp.the Nazi concentration camps in anattempt to create evidence of the horrors 9they witnessed. In the UK a team thatincluded editor Stewart McAllister,Alfred Hitchcock and Australian writerColin Wills commenced work on anambitious documentary film based onthe footage. But progress was slow, andby autumn 1945, the unfinished filmwas shelved.

Special Pre-ANZAC NewsfrontDay screening (1978, PG, 106 mins)FRIDAY 24 APR FRI 8 MAY7PM, Arc Cinema, $10 7PM, Arc Cinema, $10Forty ThousandHorsemen Digitally restored by the NFSA, in association with the film’s producers(1940, PG, 100 mins) and Roadshow Entertainment, this much loved Australian classic wasExperience one of Australia’s best directed by international awardloved classic film productions at Arc winner Phillip Noyce, and stars Billcinema, on the eve of the Anzac Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Gerardcentenary. Directed and produced by Kennedy, John Ewart, Bryan Brownlegendary Australian director Charles and Chris Haywood.Chauvel, written by Chauvel andhis wife and production partner Elsa Rangle RiverChauvel, and starring Chips Rafferty, ittells the story of three young Australians (1936, G, 86 mins)who join the army at the beginningof First World War and are assigned FRI 15 MAYto the Australian Light Horse cavalry,serving in Palestine. They eventually 7PM, Arc Cinema, $10take part in the Battle of Beersheba, thelast cavalry charge in modern warfare, A rare treat from the NFSA’swhich was filmed on location in the collection and the early golden daysCronulla sandhills, NSW. of Australian cinema. An Australian ‘western’ that tells the story of fierce rivalry between two neighbouring Queensland cattle stations.10

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Reconciliation Week Dates filmat NFSA wed 27 may Walkabout Thurs 28 MAY (1971, M, 100 mins)Wed 27 MAY – Fri 29 May The Tracker Fri 29 MAY (2002, M, 90 mins)Arc Cinema 2pm, FREE Charlie’s CountryCelebrate Reconciliation Week (2013, M, 108 mins)with the NFSA with a series ofspecial screenings celebrating oneof Australia‘s screen treasures, theamazing David Gulpilil. You willalso be able to enjoy a showcase ofclassic Indigenous short films (BlackScreen) throughout the day.12

Black Chat Big Name No BlanketFRI 29 MAy (2013, G, 106 mins)5.30PM – 6.45PM, FRI 29 MAyNFSA Theatrette, FREE 7PM, Arc Cinema, FREEJoin the Indigenous Connectionsteam and a special guest for a In the 1980s, George Rrurrambu, theunique Reconciliation Week Black frontman of the pioneering WarumpiChat that will celebrate Indigenous Band, made an extraordinaryanthems that helped shape our contribution to contemporarynation. Explore issues surrounding Aboriginal music and reconciliation.cultural representation, authority Dubbed the black Mick Jagger for hisand maintenance and what it means energetic performances and hailedfor Australia’s Living Archive to a legend for being the first to singappropriately represent the world’s rock and roll music in Aboriginallongest living culture. Black Chat will languages, George caught thebe followed by a free screening of Big Australian nation by surprise. He leftName No Blanket in the Arc Cinema. a legacy that changed the face of Indigenous music, uniting his own people and bringing black and white together. George Rrurrambu died a rock and roll legend in 2007 and there is no other quite like him. For the first time, this is his story. 13

PROGRAMMAR The Vinyl LoungeFRI 6 MARMON 9 – Big Screen Pop-Up, MilduraSAT 14 MARFRI 13 MAR The Babadook and NFSA Ghost Tour!FRI 20 MAR Canberra Taiwan Film Festival and Bei-qing Chengshi – A City of SadnessMON 23 MAR Big Screen Pop-Up, TraralgonAPRFRI 10 APR The Vinyl LoungeMON 13 APR Big Screen Pop-Up, TraralgonFRI 17 APR FIAF ScreeningMon 20 – Disney ClassicsFri 24 APR 70 Years after LiberationTHU 23 APR Forty Thousand HorsemenFRI 24 APRMAY The Vinyl LoungeFRI 1 MAY NewsfrontFRI 8 MAYFRI 15 MAY Rangle River Wed 27 – Reconciliation Week film screenings Fri 29 May Black Chat and Big Name No Blanket14 FRI 29 MAY

PARKINGBUS ROUTE ELLERY CRESENT NFSA LIVERSIDGE STREET MCCOY CIRCUIT GORDON STREETMCCOY CIRCUITLIVERSIDGE STREET CIRC UITMCCOYGETTING HERE Contact usPublic transport McCoy Circuit, Acton Phone: +61 2 6248 2000You can catch buses 3 and 7. Fax: +61 2 6248 2222For more info contact Action on 13 17 10 Freecall: 1800 067 274or action.act.gov.au. nfsa.gov.auParking OPENING HOURSThere is dedicated visitor paid parking Open weekdays 9am – 5pmon the premises between McCoy Circuit Open Friday nights for advertised events.and Ellery Cresent. There is also limitedfree parking surrounding the building on Friends of the NFSALiversidge Street. Support the NFSA by joining the FriendsAccess www.archivefriends.org.auWheelchair access via the Liversidge Streetentrance. Arc cinema and the Theatrette arewheelchair accessible and wheelchairs areavailable at reception. Both venues caterfor the hearing impaired and are fitted withhearing induction loops.

FREE Australia ionnASrccreen On screen at Arc Cinema, the NFSA is screening classic footage from the Film Australia Collection, including the Life in Australia and Australian Biography series. open Mon-Fri 9AM – 5PM For more information nfsa.gov.au16