Heaven's Gate
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Find something newA lavish, satirical and dizzying audiovisual installation reflecting the Hollywood dream factory.
Event details
When
Open daily from 10am to 4pm
12 December 2025 – 9 March 2026
9 Jan – 21 Feb: open Friday and Saturday evenings 6pm – 8pm
Where
Cost
Free
Don't miss internationally acclaimed video artist Marco Brambilla's extraordinary work, exclusively in Canberra
Heaven's Gate is the latest in internationally acclaimed video artist Marco Brambilla's Megaplex series of video collages. A lavish take on the silver screen spectacle of Hollywood dreams and excess, Heaven’s Gate presents an explosion of visuals engulfing viewers in a kaleidoscopic dreamscape.
The artwork, presented for the first time in Australia, takes the form of a dominant totem in the NFSA’s Gallery. It takes viewers on a journey through Dante’s seven levels of Purgatory, each depicted as a fantastical landscape composed of looping samples from Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Drawing on Hollywood dreams and excess – while referencing gaming, news, cinema, and reality TV – Heaven's Gate weaves these heterogenous images into a hyper-sensory parallel universe, celebrating collective storytelling consciousness and satirising saturated glamour.
Images: Heaven's Gate (detail) 2021, Marco Brambilla
Artist bio
- Marco Brambilla
Marco Brambilla is a leading figure in contemporary video art, internationally recognised for his pioneering use of digital imaging technologies and immersive moving image installations.
His work has been exhibited at leading institutions such as the New Museum (New York), Santa Monica Museum of Art, Nxt Museum (Amsterdam), Seoul Biennial, Broad Art Museum (Los Angeles), Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul), Le Centquatre (Paris) and the Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland). Brambilla has been featured at prestigious film festivals, including Venice and Sundance, and was honoured in 2025 at the Cinema Unbound Awards by the Portland Art Museum. He is a recipient of the Tiffany Comfort Foundation and Tiffany Colbert Foundation awards.
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