Outdoor Cinema
Cinema meets the city skyline – sharp, subversive and alive with sound.
As part of Open Air at the Square, February brings two distinctive film experiences that celebrate cinema’s power to provoke, delight and reinvent itself.
2–5 February, 8pm | Big Screen
In Defence of Satire is a razor-sharp curated film program that presents critically acclaimed and cult-status satires, from the 1978 media satire Network, written by three-time Academy Award winner Paddy Chayefsky, to Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, that dive into the absurdities of media, power and performance. The program invites you to consider the continued power of satire as a form – in exposing the chaos beneath modern society’s polished surface.
16–20 February, 8pm | Main Square
A weeklong showcase of some of silent cinema’s most celebrated films from Australia, the US, Europe and China brought to life with live scores performed by renowned DJs and some of Australia’s leading musician-composers. Spanning horror, satire and comedy, with scores that traverse gypsy bluegrass to experimental electronica, Silent Cinema with Lives Scores continues to be the best-kept secret of Open Air at the Square.
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