Transcendence A Cinema of Awe
When
30 Jun – 6 Oct 2024
Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
About
‘Transcendence: A Cinema of Awe’, screening alongside GOMA’s winter exhibition ‘Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses’, brings together films that capture the sublime on the big screen.
These filmmakers ask some of the biggest questions we ponder: what makes us human, how do we transcend painful experiences, what does art move in us and what do we hold sacred. Featuring some of cinema’s most deep-thinking filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Carl Theodore Dreyer and Lars von Trier, their stories are often writ large through rapturous visuals inviting us to emerge from the cinema looking at the world anew.
Screenings will include Wim Wenders’s new film Perfect Days 2023 which dwells in the quiet profundity of cherishing daily living from the perspective of a Tokyo toilet cleaner, the arresting aesthetic language of Brimstone and Glory 2017 which begins as a documentary about a vibrant fireworks festival in Mexico and expands to encompass the importance of community connections and working together in pursuit of keeping cultural traditions alive, though to a silent film with live music - A Page of Madness 1926 - which boldly visualizes altered states and is recently restored by the National Film Archive of Japan.
Live Music & Film: A Page of Madness
11.00am, Sun 18 Aug | Event concluded
Teinsosuke Kinugasa's boldly experimental film follows an elderly man who has become a janitor at a psychiatric hospital to be near his mentally ailing wife. The film screens from a new 35mm restoration and features accompaniment by post-rock band hazards of swimming naked.
Live Music & Film: The Crowd
11.00am, Sun 29 Sep | Buy Tickets
A tale of the hopes and dreams of an ordinary couple struggling to stay together in an impersonal metropolis, The Crowd hints at the power of love and the possibility of redemption. Organist David Bailey provides live musical accompaniment the film on the Gallery’s 1929 Wurlitzer organ.
QAGOMA acknowledges the generous assistance of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra; the Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm; the Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen; and the National Film Archive of Japan, Tokyo in providing materials for this program. Program curated by Rosie Hays, Australian Cinémathèque. Additional writing by Talor Marshall.
This Week
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Perfect Days 2023 PG
- When 12.50 pm, Sun 6 Oct 2024 (124 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Event Ended
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Stop Making Sense 1984 G
- When 3.20 pm, Sun 6 Oct 2024 (88 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Event Ended
Past
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Say Amen, Somebody 1982 All Ages
- When 8.30 pm, Fri 4 Oct 2024 (100 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Summer of Soul (…Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 2021 PG
- When 6.00 pm, Fri 4 Oct 2024 (118 mins)
- Where GOMA
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봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄 (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring) 2003 MA15+
- When 1.10 pm, Sun 29 Sep 2024 (102 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Live Music Live Music & Film: The Crowd 1928 G
- When 11.00 am, Sun 29 Sep 2024 (98 mins)
- Where GOMA
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill 2003 G
- When 8.00 pm, Fri 27 Sep 2024 (82 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Geographies of Solitude 2022 Ages 15+
- When 6.00 pm, Fri 27 Sep 2024 (103 mins)
- Where GOMA
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill 2003 G
- When 3.15 pm, Sun 22 Sep 2024 (82 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Melancholia 2011 M
- When 12.30 pm, Sun 22 Sep 2024 (136 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Because We Have Each Other 2022 M
- When 8.30 pm, Fri 20 Sep 2024 (89 mins)
- Where GOMA
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君たちはどう生きるか (The Boy and the Heron) 2023 PG
- When 6.00 pm, Fri 20 Sep 2024 (124 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Ordet (The Word) 1955 PG
- When 2.50 pm, Sun 15 Sep 2024 (126 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Mannen fra Snåsa (Doing Good) 2016 Ages 18+
- When 12.40 pm, Sun 15 Sep 2024 (99 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Offret (The Sacrifice) 1986 PG
- When 6.30 pm, Fri 13 Sep 2024 (149 mins)
- Where GOMA
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君たちはどう生きるか (The Boy and the Heron) 2023 PG
- When 2.50 pm, Sun 8 Sep 2024 (124 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Shashvi shashvi maq'vali (Blackbird, Blackbird Blackberry) 2023 Ages 18+
- When 12.30 pm, Sun 8 Sep 2024 (110 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Die Stille vor Bach (The Silence Before Bach) 2007 Ages 15+
- When 7.40 pm, Fri 6 Sep 2024 (102 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Keyboard Fantasies 2019 All Ages
- When 6.00 pm, Fri 6 Sep 2024 (71 mins)
- Where GOMA
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봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄 (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring) 2003 MA15+
- When 3.20 pm, Sun 1 Sep 2024 (102 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Because We Have Each Other 2022 M
- When 1.00 pm, Sun 1 Sep 2024 (89 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) 1987 PG
- When 8.00 pm, Fri 30 Aug 2024 (128 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) 1957 PG
- When 6.00 pm, Fri 30 Aug 2024 (96 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Geographies of Solitude 2022 Ages 15+
- When 3.00 pm, Sun 25 Aug 2024 (103 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Fedrelandet (Songs of the Earth) 2023 All Ages
- When 1.00 pm, Sun 25 Aug 2024 (90 mins)
- Where GOMA
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2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 G
- When 6.30 pm, Fri 23 Aug 2024 (149 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Amadeus 1984 PG
- When 2.00 pm, Sun 18 Aug 2024 (160 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Live Music Live Music & Film: A Page of Madness 1926 Ages 15+
- When 11.00 am, Sun 18 Aug 2024 (79 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Aftersun 2022 M
- When 7.30 pm, Fri 16 Aug 2024 (102 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Brimstone and Glory 2017 PG
- When 6.00 pm, Fri 16 Aug 2024 (67 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) 1957 PG
- When 3.20 pm, Sun 11 Aug 2024 (96 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Ordet (The Word) 1955 PG
- When 12.45 pm, Sun 11 Aug 2024 (126 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Mannen fra Snåsa (Doing Good) 2016 Ages 18+
- When 7.30 pm, Fri 9 Aug 2024 (99 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Keyboard Fantasies 2019 All Ages
- When 6.00 pm, Fri 9 Aug 2024 (71 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Ân Bên trong vỏ kén vàng (Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell) 2023 Ages 18+
- When 1.30 pm, Sun 4 Aug 2024 (179 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Stop Making Sense 1984 G
- When 8.05 pm, Fri 2 Aug 2024 (88 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Say Amen, Somebody 1982 All Ages
- When 6.00 pm, Fri 2 Aug 2024 (100 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Amadeus 1984 PG
- When 2.10 pm, Sun 28 Jul 2024 (160 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Die Stille vor Bach (The Silence Before Bach) 2007 Ages 15+
- When 11.30 am, Sun 28 Jul 2024 (102 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Cowboy Poets 2022 Ages 15+
- When 8.15 pm, Fri 26 Jul 2024 (83 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Shashvi shashvi maq'vali (Blackbird, Blackbird Blackberry) 2023 Ages 18+
- When 6.00 pm, Fri 26 Jul 2024 (110 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Melancholia 2011 M
- When 2.40 pm, Sun 21 Jul 2024 (136 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Aftersun 2022 M
- When 12.30 pm, Sun 21 Jul 2024 (102 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Ân Bên trong vỏ kén vàng (Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell) 2023 Ages 18+
- When 6.30 pm, Fri 19 Jul 2024 (179 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Offret (The Sacrifice) 1986 PG
- When 2.30 pm, Sun 14 Jul 2024 (149 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Perfect Days 2023 PG
- When 8.30 pm, Fri 12 Jul 2024 (124 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) 1987 PG
- When 6.00 pm, Fri 12 Jul 2024 (128 mins)
- Where GOMA
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2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 G
- When 2.00 pm, Sun 7 Jul 2024 (149 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Brimstone and Glory 2017 PG
- When 3.30 pm, Sun 30 Jun 2024 (67 mins)
- Where GOMA
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Summer of Soul (…Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 2021 PG
- When 1.00 pm, Sun 30 Jun 2024 (118 mins)
- Where GOMA