Ghost in the Shell
CANBERRA ART BIENNIAL SCREENING
Sat
12
Sat 12 Oct 7:00 PM
Arc Cinema
Allocated Seating
82 Mins | Canberra Art Biennial
October
1995 | DCP | JPN, UK | D: Mizuho Nishikubo, Mamoru 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.
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