10 Minute Culture Fix

So you don’t know your modernists from your surrealists and exactly where do those abstractionists fit in? Or perhaps the concepts behind claymation turn your mind to putty! Sounds like you need a 10 Minute Culture Fix.

Enjoy a free taste of Melbourne exhibitions, films, galleries and cultural rarities at Fed Square with this weekly behind-the-scenes snapshot – all neatly explained for the time poor or conversationally challenged.

Just look for the 10 Minute Culture Fix signs located at the entrance to The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia and ACMI for directions on how to find these very special works.

This Week:

Watch an astounding short film at the Australian Mediatheque.

One hundred a day, 1973

Australia, 1973

Creator, Gillian Armstrong

7 minutes

In this highly acclaimed short by the director of ‘My Brilliant Career’ (1979) and ‘Oscar and Lucinda’ (1997), a young girl is forced to continue working at her machine all day in a 1930s shoe factory after a visit to a backyard abortionist. Cast features Rosalie Fletcher, Eve Wynne, Jenee Walsh, Beth Child, Virginia Partingale, Sue Piggott. Based on the short story ‘How beautiful are thy feet’ by Alan Marshall. Original format 16mm/black and white.

Australian Mediatheque

Level 1, ACMI

Open Daily

12pm – 6pm

Free Entry