Free screenings

The following anime films are screening FREE!! Saturday nights on the big screen over the next couple of months. Sure you may have seen a number on DVD already, but for the sheer thrill of watching something at Fed Square that's not sport you've gotsta be there.

There's also a bunch of great graduate films/animation screenings in Feb-March - check out http://www.fedsquare.com/index.cfm?pageID=19 for times.

3 Feb 2007
From 10pm, Akira (1987, 124min, rated M). Following directly after the 2nd Annual Freestyle @ Fed Square Hip Hop Jam. Greedy politicians, guerrilla activists, corrupt scientists, military despots, telekinetic humans and motorcycle gangs collide in a post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The one that started it all.

10 Feb 2007
From 10pm, New and retro anime TV series
From 11pm, Read or Die (2001, 90min, rated M). Literally. A young agent of the “Special Operations Division” of the British Library (the force behind the British Empire) must use her psychic power over paper to stop a plot to use the clones of major historical figures to destroy the world.

24 Feb 2007
From 11pm, Escaflowne (2000, 96min, rated M). Careful what you wish for. An unhappy schoolgirl’s wish to escape her dreary life is granted when she is suddenly transported to Gaia, a mystical world on the brink of war and destruction.
From 12:30pm, New and retro anime TV series

3 March 2007
From 10pm, New and retro anime TV series
From 11pm, Ghost in the Shell (1995, 85min, rated M). In 2029, a cybernetic officer with Tokyo’s Section 9 security force has to struggle with both sophisticated criminals capable of hacking human minds, and the very nature of her existence.

10 March 2007
From 10pm, New and retro anime TV series
From 11pm, Appleseed: The Movie (2004, 103min, rated M). In a post WWIII world, a seemingly idyllic society has formed in the city of Olympus, but for former soldier and new arrival Deunan, the cracks are beginning to show.

31 March 2007
From 10pm, New and retro anime TV series
From 11pm, Godzilla: Final Wars (2004, 125min, rated M). When ten monsters begin attacking major cities around the word, the Earth Defence Force must decide whether to trust in an alien race that promises peace, or in the ancient power of the mightiest monster of them all, Godzilla!


A showcase of some of Australia’s finest new photography, design, fashion, animation, film, and visual art graduates from universities and institutions around the country on the big screen and the atrium screen weeknights 29 January – 11 March.

There will be special screenings of animation films at 7:30pm and experimental film and video art at 9:30pm on the following bolded dates*:
http://www.fedsquare.com/index.cfm?pageID=19&viewDate=2007-1-1&eventID=579