The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) will present the world premiere of Star Voyager: Exploring Space on Screen, a major exhibition charting the history and future of space exploration as experienced through the moving image, opening 22 September, 2011.
Filmmakers’ and artists’ imaginings of space travel, from Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon (1902), the first footage of a human on the moon in 1969, and recent films such as Duncan Jones’ Moon (2009) and James Cameron’s Avatar (2009), have allowed us to experience through the moving image what most of us can only dream of. Star Voyager celebrates this imagination and exploration through over 100 years of the moving image.
