The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) are currently preparing for the opening of an Australian exclusive exhibition, TIM BURTON, a significant retrospective of filmmaker and artist opening 24 June 2010.
 
The exhibition explores the full scale of Burton’s career, as director, concept artist illustrator and photographer, through hundreds of artworks that spectacularly illuminate the creative vision behind Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Alice in Wonderland.
 
Tracing Burton’s visual imagination from his earliest childhood drawings through his mature work in film, the exhibition Tim Burton brings together over 700 examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, photographs, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, and includes an extensive film series spanning his 27-year career.
 
The exhibition comes direct from The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and is presented as part of Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2010.

Event highlights (just announced):

To complement the exhibition experience ACMI is preparing to create a "Tim Burton wonderland" with something on offer for everyone.

* Live events featuring Tim Burton himself, including a red carpet gala opening
* 14 weeks of Tim Burton’s films at ACMI Cinemas
* A limited-season film program exploring the cinematic works that inspired and shaped Burton
* Late Night Thursday openings complete with performance attractions and ways to get involved in the fun
* Costumes from Alice in Wonderland, designed by Academy Award®-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (not exhibited at MoMA)
* A national call-out for applicants for a job within the exhibition. The successful applicant/s will meet Tim Burton and take part in public events for the exhibition. Under 18s only. Entries will be via video submission. (More details announced Thurs 25 March)

Dates and details of the above events will be announced over the coming months. All the latest news, discussion, photo and video features, essays and guides to all the activities will be available on the ACMI website: www.acmi.net.au/timburton

Tim Burton
24 June and 10 October, 2010
Gallery 1, Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Federation Square, Melbourne