Interactive experiences at ACMI

From the moment you enter our new exhibition, The Story of the Moving Image, you’ll receive a free Lens. The Lens allows you to collect everything you see when you visit, from objects and artworks to interactive experiences. When you get home, just login to the ACMI website with your Lens code to access a personally-curated online collection featuring rich content, surprising insights and deeper context, as well as new films, TV shows, videogames and art to watch and play.

A large-scale digital experience awaits you at the end of The Story of the Moving Image. Your Lens activates one of the many touchscreens where you can discover interesting and unusual connections between what you have collected, and other films, movies, videogames and objects in the screen culture universe.

Edit your own story in real time! Move physical story-board blocks around to trigger an iconic TV or film clip played on a large screen. Moving the blocks means moving the clips to another section of the story. You can save the story at any stage with your Lens so you can take it home and share with others.

This experience combines physically editing film and digital editing on screen.

Foley is the art of sound. Since radio days, Foley artists have used unique methods and materials, like crumpled celluloid for forest floors, to create the soundscapes of films, TV shows and videogames. Now you'll get the same chance to add strange and wonderful sound effects to memorable scenes from Round the Twist and Li’l Elvis and the Truckstoppers. You can save your video with your Lens so you can take it home and share with others.

Play classic and modern games from local and international indie developers and AAA publishers in an arcade experience that puts consoles, creativity and gaming culture at your fingertips.

Take a stroll through this beautiful interactive and immersive display of Australian home videos from the ACMI collection. Beams of light are projected from the ceiling that animate when you hold out your hands. These digitised home movies from the 1930s connect stories from our past to our present.

Shadow Play mirrors your own movements to demonstrate how these elemental building blocks can shape fables, myths and legends. Remember making shadow puppets as a kid? Just like that. Drawing on the history of shadow play and puppetry, your shadows morph to form fantastical creatures and characters like monsters, spirits, royalty, knights and clowns in mysterious locations from the natural world and antiquity.

Creating your very own Flip Book has never been this fun! The Flip Book is one of the most simple and popular early forms of moving image animation, but we've made it a bit easier since then. When you enter the booth, the camera records your movements to make your very own Flip Book which you can save to your Lens.

Head to the ACMI shop with your Lens to have it printed and log in online with your Lens to share the digital version.