Australian Centre for the Moving Image

ACMI has proven itself an astute commissioner, with a particular focus enabling leading practitioners to engage in cross-disciplinary collaboration. The $100,000 biennial Ian Potter Moving Image Commission has supported Angelica Mesiti's The Calling (2014), Daniel Crooks' Phantom Ride (2016) and was most recently awarded to Gabriella Hirst for her proposed work Darling Darling (working title) that will premiere in 2020. ACMI's exhibitions program has commissioned many works including Julian Rosefeldt's critically acclaimed Manifesto (2015) and Soda_Jerk's critically acclaimed TERROR NULLIUS (2018). In 2016, ACMI co-commissioned and premiered virtual reality experiences of Sandpit's play Ghost, Toast and the Things Unsaid with Google Creative Lab and Grumpy Sailor, and Stuck in the Middle With You, an immersive dance experience by choreographer Gideon Obarzanek and award-winning filmmaker Matthew Bate. In 2017, ACMI premiered cross-disciplinary VR co-commission Prehistoric VR by Sydney-based puppetry company Erth. In 2019, ACMI held a VR Showcase featuring two Mordant Family VR Commissions: Dr Christian Thompson's Bayi Gardiya (Singing Desert) and Joan Ross's Did you ask the river? alongside the acclaimed VR work Awavena by Lynette Wallworth. Tully Arnot Epiphytes (working title) is the third and final recipient of the Mordant Family VR Commission.