If you ever waved a jug over your head in Mooseheads with your trousers around your ankles you’ll be fascinated to hear that Canberra’s Film and Sound Archive have restored a rare print of the historic Eagle Rock video:
Forty two years after the distinctive opening guitar riff of one of Australia’s best loved rock anthems [...]

[ 23 March, 2013; 3:00 pm; 3:00 pm; ]

If you’re attending Folkie this year you may like to attend to some screenings from the National Film and Sound Archive.

A special film-screening with live musical accompaniment, the 13th awarding of the National Folk Recording Award, more versions, hopefully, of Canberra’s Calling to You, and a retrospective by the iconic Canberra songsmith, Fred Smith, [...]

The National Film and Sound Archive has added this to YouTube:
Directed by Raymond Longford and filmed by Ernest Higgins, this film captures the formal naming of Canberra, on 12 March 1913. It has been digitally restored by the NFSA as part of the celebrations for the Centenary of Canberra.
The music was devised and [...]

[ 19 March, 2013; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

Continuing their fine tradition of creating events that defy simple entry into the RiotACT’s categories database, You Are Here is hosting an exciting mix of old films, live performance, music and who knows what else at the National Film and Sound Archives on Tuesday the 19th.

The You Are Here festival and the National Film and [...]

There is so much amazing free stuff to go look at in Canberra. Here’s some more courtesy of the NFSA!
The fascinating links between Canberra and film, from 1913 … and, the development of the Federal Government’s role in film-making and photography, from 1913.
These are the subjects of two new FREE exhibitions, CineCity Canberra [...]

You Are Here artist and holder of the newly minted “Best All-Rounder” title, Luke McGrath gives some background on his involvement with one of the most exciting events at this year’s festival, Hit Him In The Comic Cuts.

[ 6 March, 2013 to 9 March, 2013. ]

Silent Films with live music at the Arc cinema for the rest of the week. Get to it!

Cinema’s Golden Summer will draw on the collections of the NFSA’s fellow film archives in Europe and
the US. Alongside their early feature films will screen some of the few surviving fragments of the Australian
movies from the [...]

Yesterday a collection of Canberrans assembled in the National Film and Sound Archive to do what Canberrans do best – talk about Canberra.
The event was called CANberra of WORMS. It’s a good thing they used so many strategically placed capital letters or I may have missed what they were trying to do there.
Taking the format [...]

[ 22 February, 2013; 5:30 pm; ]

Last Friday the National Film and Sound Archive have Gotye fresh from his Grammy wins.

This Friday they’ve got me.

Well me and a start studded panel for CANberra of Worms as notified on Facebook:

A digging conversation at the NFSA.

‘Does Canberra have an underbelly?’, ‘Does the rest of Australia really hate Canberra?’

Australians can get pretty passionate [...]

The National Film and Sound Archive are letting us know about their latest acquisition:
Fractured Heart is an interactive sound and light sculpture designed and built by illuminart (Cindi Drennan, Craig Laurendet and Luku Kukuku) in collaboration with Wally de Backer (Gotye). It was first presented as the backdrop to his live performance of Somebody That [...]

Following on from his initial success OzHair has taken a further crack at the Mildenhall collection.

[ 12 July, 2012 to 19 July, 2012. ]

This just in:

For the fourth year, Arc Cinema is hosting the Arab Film Festival. Each year the festival is growing in popularity, and this year sees a host of World Premiere and Australian Premiere screenings (details below).

Tickets $11/$9 concession. Bookings call 6248 2000 or at the NFSA Box Office.
Details [...]

[ 14 December, 2011; 12:00 pm; ]

This came across my desk this morning and looks like fun for a good cause..

[ 10 October, 2011; ]

Poetry will be brought to life through film in Canberra when the best films of the Poetry in Film Festival take to the screens the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia on October 10.

Hot off the heels of the Awards Night in Melbourne, Canberra is the first stop in PIFF’s national tour showcasing this [...]

[ 27 May, 2010 to 29 May, 2010. ]

A sawn down version of the Human Rights Arts And Film Festival is coming to Canberra, specifically the National Film and Sound Archive.

Details on the festival’s Canberra page.