Season: Women Make Film
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema carries on from Mark Cousins’ work on The Story of Film: An Odyssey and is a new road trip covering the art and craft of the movies.
Five years in the making, this epic journey through film history is made up of 40 ‘chapters’ narrated by Tilda Swinton, Jane Fonda, Adjoa Andoh, Sharmila Tagore, Kerry Fox, Thandie Newton and Debra Winger.
Cousins employs almost 1,000 film extracts from 13 decades and 5 continents to explore how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped; and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, through the compelling lens of some of the world’s greatest directors – all of them women.
The series is presented monthly in 14 episodes, alongside a selection of the women-directed films that appear in it.
‘A marvel of passionate cinephilia’ - The Guardian
Tickets
Our Women Make Film series screens monthly for FREE (bookings essential).
Book a session pass for all episodes in Season 2.
Each episode is paired with a feature film: $12 adult / $10 concession.
7-month season pass: $60 Adult / $50 Concession (that’s 2 FILMS FOR FREE! / over 25% discount)
Program
Season 1: Screenings 1 to 7 | March to September 2022
Episode 1: Openings and Tone - 12 March, 1:00pm | Blackboards (35mm) - 12 March, 2:30pm
Episode 2: Believability, Character and Meet Cute - 9 April, 1:00pm | Toni Erdmann - 9 April, 2:30pm
Episode 3: Conversation, Framing and Tracking - 7 May, 1:00pm | Outrage - 7 May, 2:30pm
Episode 4: Staging, Journey and Discovery - 4 June, 1:00pm | Faces Places - 4 June, 2:30pm
Episode 5: Adult / Child, Economy and Editing - 9 July, 1:00pm | The Arch - 9 July, 2:30pm
Episode 6: POV, Close-Ups and Dreams - 6 August, 1:00pm | NFSA Restores: Proof - 6 August, 2:30pm
Episode 7: Bodies & Sex - 10 September, 1:00pm | Évolution - 10 September, 2:30pm
Season 2: Screenings 8 to 14 | October 2022 to May 2023
Episode 8: Home, Religion and Work - 8 October, 1:00pm | American Psycho - 8 October, 2:30pm
Episode 9: Politics, Gear Change and Comedy - 19 November, 1:00pm | Selma - 19 November, 2:30pm
Episode 10: Melodrama, Sci-fi, Horror and Hell - 10 December, 1:00pm | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - 10 December, 2:30pm
Episode 11: Tension, Stasis and Leave Out - 4 February, 1:00pm | Wadjda - 4 February, 2:30pm
Episode 12: Reveal, Memory and Time - 11 March, 1:00pm | On Body and Soul - 11 March, 2:30pm
Episode 13: Life Inside, Meaning of Life, Love - 1 April, 1:00pm | Mustang - 1 April, 2:30pm
Episode 14: Death, Endings, Song and Dance - 13 May, 1:00pm | Girlhood - 13 May, 2:30pm
PLAN YOUR VISIT
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