Australia’s Solely Fulldome Movie Competition Is Returning to the Melbourne Planetarium This Summer time

For greater than a century, watching a film has concerned gazing both a rectangle or a sq.. They’re the shapes the silver display screen is understood for, and the small display screen as nicely. However catch a movie on the planetarium and every part turns into round — which makes fulldome flicks, as they’re known as, one thing significantly particular.

Melbourne Planetarium performs motion pictures on its dome via regular programs — movies particularly made to make the most of the completely different screening format — and the Melbourne International Film Festival features a fulldome showcase in its annual lineup. However Australia solely boasts one movie fest that is solely all about hemispherical views. That occasion: the Dome Under Festival, which debuted in 2020 earlier than the pandemic, and can return to the Victorian capital in February 2023.

Operating throughout Saturday, February 4–Sunday, February 5, Dome Beneath Competition’s newest outing will as soon as once more see one of the best new fulldome releases from all over the world head to Scienceworks. With classes devoted to family-friendly titles, kids’s motion pictures, animation, experimental flicks, astronomy, science and world tales, this system options loads of highlights — overlaying every part from dinosaurs, black holes and icy worlds by to visits to Akihabara in Tokyo, Indigenous songs and dances, and the Aurora Borealis.

In whole, 25 movies from 14 nations will grace the dome, as handpicked by the Dome Beneath group. Each will fill each inch of the planetarium’s 16-metre domed ceiling — and play with 5.1 encompass sound.

Fulldome screenings may sound like a fad — cinema has seen greater than its justifiable share of gimmicks come and go in its time — however as soon as you have seen a film made for the format, these notions rapidly slip away. Certainly, there is a purpose that Australia retains embracing the medium, with the Brisbane Worldwide Movie Competition additionally having fun with a foray into the identical house greater than a decade again, and Sydney enjoying host to Wonderdome throughout the summer season of 2021–22.

One thing else that makes the dome screening expertise additional particular: you positively cannot simply wait to see these flicks at dwelling a month or so down the monitor.

Dome Under Festival 2023 screens on the Melbourne Planetarium at Scienceworks, 2 Booker Avenue, Spotswood, from Saturday, February 4–Sunday, February 5. Head to the venue’s website for tickets and additional particulars.