Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell

CANBERRA ART BIENNIAL SCREENING
Sat
12
Sat 12 Oct 7:00 PM

Arc Cinema
Allocated Seating
October
Sat 12 Oct

1995 |DCP| JPN, UK |DMizuho NishikuboMamoru Oshii 
Japanese – English subtitles 

In the cyberpunk sprawl of New Port City, 2029, Major Motoko Kusanagi (Atsuko Tanaka) – a cybernetic police officer with a powerful prosthetic body – leads an elite cybercrime unit hunting a nefarious hacker. Their current target is the Puppet Master (Iemasa Kayumi), who can infiltrate and manipulate human minds. As the investigation deepens, Major Kusanagi uncovers a conspiracy that throws her own identity into question.  
 
Based on the manga by Masamune Shirow, this critically acclaimed international co-production explores what it truly means to possess a ‘ghost’ – a soul – in a world where the lines between human and machine are increasingly blurred.  
 
‘For sheer mind-expanding sci-fi strangeness this is hard to beat’ – Time Out 

Presented by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) in collaboration with Canberra Art Biennial and Canberra Glassworks alongside an installation by artist Bronte Cormican-Jones.  
 
Cormican-Jones and the NFSA’s Aidan Delaney (Creative Producer and Program Coordinator) will give a brief introduction to the film and its connections to the artwork.
 


A short film about the development of the artwork Of line, of light, featuring footage from the NFSA collection, will play in the Mediatheque from 6.30pm. 
October
Sat 12 Oct

Arc Cinema

1 McCoy Circuit Acton, Australian Capital Territory, 2601