At Land + Inception 1944 – 2010 Ages 15+

Production still from At Land 1944 / Director: Maya Deren / Image courtesy: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra / View full image
When
6.30 pm, Wed 17 Sep 2025 (163 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
Admission
Free
About
At Land 1944
"Deren’s thematic preoccupation with the human body, its movement and the process of filmmaking, begins to take shape in [At Land], her second film, which draws some of its power from jump-cuts and the juxtaposition of spaces. Shot by the sea in Amagansett, Long Island, it features Deren herself again, as a woman washed up on the shore. She climbs up a dead tree, then is suddenly crawling on a dinner table, unnoticed by the party guests. Deren cuts from the seashore to the dinner party and back again to the seashore. At Land is an inimitable study of social rituals and the human body’s place in nature." Georgia Korossi, British Film Institute.
15 minutes | Ages 15+ | Contains mild themes
Inception 2010
Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) has forged a lucrative criminal career through the ‘extraction’ of ideas from the dreams of his targets. Adding a tinge of neo-noir, Cobb risks everything to take on ‘one last job’ - attempting the ‘inception’ of an idea - with his wife (Cotillard) as the enigmatic femme fatale threatening to dismantle his fragile subconscious.
Boasting a stellar cast (Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe), Inception is a mind/time/space-bending puzzle box, with stunning visuals that take us on a wild ride through worlds real and imagined, elevated by Hans Zimmer’s bold, energetic score.
148 minutes | M | Violence
Production still from At Land 1944 / Director: Maya Deren / Image courtesy: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra / View full image
Production still from Inception 2010 / Director: Christopher Nolan / Image courtesy: Roadshow Films / View full image
Production Credits
At Land
- Director: Maya Deren
- Script: Maya Deren
- Cinematographers: Alexander Hammid, Hella Heyman
- Cast: John Cage, Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
- Print Source: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra
- Rights: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra
- Year: 1944
- Runtime: 15 minutes
- Country: United States
- Language: None
- Sound: None
- Colour: Black & White
- Shooting Format: 16mm
- Screening Format: 16mm
Inception
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Script: Christopher Nolan
- Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
- Cast: Leonardo Dicaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard
- Editor: Lee Smith
- Print Source: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra
- Rights: Roadshow Films
- Year: 2010
- Runtime: 148 minutes
- Countries: United States, United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Sound: Stereo
- Colour: Colour
- Shooting Format: 70mm
- Screening Format: 35mm