AFF & Samstag Moving Image Commission

The AFF & Samstag Moving Image Commission initiative is a rare kind of investment in the Australian arts community that sits outside current funding models.

It reflects a commitment to support the practice evolving at the intersection of film, art and new media.

There is no application process. The commissioned artists have found the time and support an invaluable space for their artistic practice. While the national partnership of galleries combined with a film festival provides significant professional bounty, profile, artistic challenge and acknowledgment.

Archie Moore: AFF & Samstag Moving Image Commission 2024

Archie Moore (Kamilaroi/Bigambul) presented a new moving image work for an exhibition at Samstag with the Adelaide Film Festival in 2024. Moore’s commission and associated exhibition followed the artist’s Golden Lion winning work kith and kin at the prestigious Venice Biennale.

Moore's ambitious new moving image work is the thirteenth AFF & Samstag Art and the Moving Image Commission and is the fifth iteration of his installation series Dwelling, in which Moore imaginatively recreates the mise-en-scéne of his childhood home. This ongoing investigation of memory and the effect of colonisation draws on visual, auditory, haptic and olfactory elements to create a powerful sense of verisimilitude.

The exhibition ran from 11 October – 6 December 2024 at Samstag Museum of Art.

Previous Commissions

4TH NATIONAL INDIGENOUS ART TRIENNIAL: CEREMONY

Hayley Millar Baker, Joel Bray and Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu (2023)

HELLO DANKNESS

Soda Jerk (2022)

THE WAITING ROOM

Molly Reynolds & Rolf de Heer (2018)

ALREADY ELSEWHERE

Geoff Cobham (2017)

THE SUMMATION OF FORCE

Trent Parke & Narelle Autio (2017)

COLLISIONS

Lynette Wallworth (2016)

THE WAY OF THE NGANGKARI

Warwick Thornton (2015)

CHAR SOO

Hossein Valamanesh (2015)

PAN NO. 11: CROSS PLATFORM TRANSFER

Daniel Crooks (2013)

STRANDED

Warwick Thornton (2011)

REKINDLING VENUS: IN PLAIN SIGHT

Lynette Wallworth (2011)

DUALITY OF LIGHT

Lynette Wallworth (2009)

Initiatives

AFF & Samstag Moving Image Commission

AFF & Samstag Moving Image Commission

Initiatives

AFF & Samstag Moving Image Commission

The AFF & Samstag Moving Image Commission initiative is a rare kind of investment in the Australian arts community that sits outside current funding models.

Previous Commissions