DJ Spooky's newest large-scale multimedia performance work is an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent. The Antarctic Suite transforms Spooky's first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass. Field recordings from a portable studio set up to capture the acoustic qualities of ice forms, reflect a changing environment under duress.

Dream of Life is a cinematic plunge into the creative spirit of Patti Smith, a breathing collage of her philosophy and artistry. Shot over a remarkable 11-year period by renowned fashion photographer Steven Sebring, Dream of Life is unprecedented in its lyricism and its intimate access to an icon.

This 1926 German Expressionist silent film classic was FW Murnau's last German film before emigrating to America and is considered by many to be his masterpiece. Phillip Johnston's original score for Faust was commissioned by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and premiered at the New York Film Festival.

The Meaning of Moorabbin is Open For Inspection is staged as an open inspection. Using photography, film, video and design, this is an extraordinary theatre and installation work that plays with Australian notions of family and suburbia.

Melbourne International Arts Festival presents Eve Sussman's acclaimed video-musical, The Rape of the Sabine Women. Filmed with a cast of hundreds, and shot on location in Athens and Hydra, Greece, and in Berlin, Germany, this improvised dramatisation pits mid-twentieth century ideals against the eternal themes of power, longing, and desire.