ACMI Turns Up The Volume With Live Music and Film Events

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) will present an omnibus of immersive, inspiring music events and films this spring to celebrate the evolution and diversity of contemporary music culture.

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To launch the season, from Monday 27 October – Sunday 2 November 2014 ACMI will screen one of the most inventive and breathtaking spectacles the music industry has ever seen, Björk: Biophilia Live. Shot on 16 cameras over one night at London's Alexandra Palace in 2013, this jaw-dropping concert film was directed by Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio) and Nick Fenton (The Double). It features Icelandic chanteuse Björk performing all the songs from her eighth studio album Biophilia, which includes custom built instruments and an educational app that's being rolled out in curricula worldwide.

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Taking a step back in time and a shift in genres, ACMI will also screen Stop Making Sense from iconic rockers Talking Heads from Saturday 8 November – Tuesday 18 November 2014. Described by Rolling Stone as 'the greatest concert movie ever made," the US band envisioned a concert film like no other. They independently raised the funds and hired a then-relatively unknown filmmaker to direct. On release, Stop Making Sense was dubbed 'close to perfection" by film critic Pauline Kael, while director Jonathan Demme went on to forge an impressive film career, winning an Academy Award® in 1992 for The Silence of the Lambs.

Melbourne Music Week

ACMI will present a very special live music event in association with Melbourne Music Week (14 – 23 November 2014).

The Church plays The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poète) All Ages

In a performance specially commissioned and conceived for Melbourne Music Week, The Church will perform a live score to Jean Cocteau's 1930 avant-garde film, The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poète) on Friday 21 November 2014 at ACMI.