RAVE

RAVE is a pulse-pounding cinema experience at GOMA's Australian Cinémathèque, featuring a selection of films that explore the rave scene as a site of connection, release and transformation. This free, curated cinema program delves into the rave counterculture, that was born out of Chicago's post-disco underground club scene in the late 80s. 

Here are 3 films to rave about: 

Beats 2019

The much-anticipated screen version of Keiran Hurley's award-winning, coming-of-age play is bittersweet and bold. Imagine Fellini's Vitelloni set to a throbbing techno beat. Filmed in black and white, with Steven Soderbergh as executive producer, Beats finds real poignancy in the bond between two innocents as they enter a wonderland of rebellion and romance.

BPM (Beats Per Minute) 2017

Heart beats and house beats fuse throughout Robin Campillo’s award-winning film BPM (Beats Per Minute). Set in the early 1990s, it brings the audience in close to the activities of the Paris branch of ACT UP (AIDs Coalition to Unleash Power), of which Campillo was a member. BPM is a film of bodies, blood, and beats erected on a porous boundary between the personal and the political.

Raving Iran 2016

Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran's underground techno scene. They get off on what they do, and their passion for making music and spinning records is palpable. But dodging police, lying to government officials and having to peddle their recordings on the black market takes its toll in a country where the routine “eat, sleep, rave, repeat” is a punishable political act. When the DJ's are are invited to the biggest techno festival in the world, in Switzerland, the young men must figure out if music, artistic expression and freedom are worth sacrificing family, friends, culture and country.

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