AUSTRALIA | FILM
BIG HART AND ACMI IN ASSOCIATION
WITH MELBOURNE FESTIVAL PRESENT
22 YEARS
OF BIG HART:
A FILM RETROSPECTIVE
Throughout its 22-year history, Big
hART has created a remarkable body
of film and documentary works that
give voice to our nation’s invisible
and forgotten. These two engaging
programs of film present highlights
from the Big hART archives.
All proceeds go to Big hART’s Yijala Yala
Project’s ‘One in Two’, a campaign to address
the fact that every second young person in
juvenile detention in Australia is Indigenous.
AUSTRALIAN CENTRE
FOR THE MOVING IMAGE,
ACMI CINEMAS 1 & 2
Sat 25 at 6pm
Sun 26 Oct at 3pm
$16 / $12.50
ACMI Member/ACMI Film Member $11
Transaction fees may apply
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PROGRAM 1
Sat 25 Oct at 6pm
ACMI CINEMA 1
3 hrs, no interval
PROGRAM 2
Sun 26 Oct at 3pm
ACMI CINEMA 2
3 hrs, no interval
Hurt (2000)
52 mins
Challenging, haunting and
uplifting, this AFI Award–winning
docu-drama handed the film
making reins to 250 youths from
isolated towns in rural Australia,
giving them the chance to tell
their stories in their own way.
Drive (2002) 55 mins
North-west Tasmania has the
highest road fatality rate in
Australia for under-24 year
olds. This documentary, made in
collaboration with teens from the
region, explores the network of
consequences such tragedies leave
in their wake.
900 Neighbours (2006) 56 mins
This documentary tells the story
of a unique collaboration, as
residents of Sydney’s notorious
Northcott public housing
estate work together to create
a community theatre work, in
an effort to change people’s
perceptions about their home.
Big hART Shorts 1
55 mins
A diverse program of shorts from
the Big hART archive.
Nothing Rhymes with Ngapartji
(2010)
56 mins
In this fascinating documentary
acclaimed Pitjantjatjara actor
Trevor Jamieson grapples with
his relationship to traditional
Aboriginal culture, when he takes
his hit theatre show Ngapartji
Ngapartji to the remote Aboriginal
community of Ernabella, South
Australia.
Big hART Shorts 2
55 mins
A diverse program of shorts from
the Big hART archive.
Image: Keith Saunders
There are very few arts companies
like Big hART – an organisation that
embodies the belief that making
great art while also creating social
change is not only a possibility, but
a vital necessity.