Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
From the wonders of more than a century of cinema, to television, computer games and the screen-based art of the future, ACMI is the place to find out everything about the moving image.
The collection retains feature films, documentaries, animation, experimental works, games, user generated content and media art works. It also includes archive material, posters, film stills and a small artefact collection is made up of six major sub-collections:
ACMI Digital
This sub-collection consists of all works created through ACMI Public Programs such as MAP (Memory and Place) Digital Stories, Screen It!, works created and submitted by tertiary film students or acquired through selective submission from the public, for exhibition in the Memory Grid.
Cinema Papers
The Cinema Papers sub-collection includes press kits representing every film reviewed in the Cinema Papers magazine during its history. Also included is the monograph reference library accumulated by the magazine during its lifetime and a complete run of the Cinema Papers magazine.
Exhibitions
This sub-collection includes two major types of works: exemplary works that represent significant contributions to the history of film and new media; and commissioned works from local, state, national and international artists and producers. .
Lending
A sub-collection of moving image material on 16mm film, 35mm film, VHS video, DVD and CD-rom, available for loan to ACMI Members under specific terms and conditions of use. Comprises works from the key movements, events and filmmakers of the twentieth century and contemporary cinema. Works encompass short and feature length films, television, documentary, education titles, animation, experimental, and new media.
State Film Theatre
Publicity material from the 1960's and 70's when the State Film Theatre operated as a film distributor for predominantly Eastern European films released in Australia. Also includes material distributed by SFT related to educational and documentary films, and selected Australian features unable to gain a commercial release..