Between the Details

Between [the] Details is a touring exhibition of video art from The Australian Centre for the Moving Image featuring works by Zanny Begg, Deborah Kelly, Jason Phu, David Rosetzky, Christian Thompson, and Kaylene Whiskey. Showcasing six moving image artworks, this exhibition celebrates a vibrant collecting and commissioning program. Working in video offers artists the opportunity to use editing as their primary technique; mixing and matching elements from other films or their own work to tell new stories. By remixing or rearranging footage they build different rhythms and moods, create hilarious juxtapositions, or shed new light on cultural cliches and presumed histories. The works in this exhibition all demonstrate an irrepressible desire to bring deep themes to the surface with humour and an incredible attention to detail. The collection of The Australian Centre for the Moving Image has a rich, 75-year history from its inception as the State Film Centre in 1946. Since its current incarnation in the early 2000s, the collection has expanded to include artworks and experimental film, and now holds a significant archive of complex, time-based media works and videogames, as well as an ever-expanding repository of digitised content and born-digital material.