ACMI is used to art that moves and its latest, Spectacle: The Music Video Exhibition, is no different. While some may believe that music video kicked off with the MTV generation, curators Jonathan Wells and Meg Grey Wells have gone on a mission to find the earliest music videos in existence and have managed to find clips that date back as far as the 1920s.
The exhibition presents over 300 works spanning nine decades. The clips range from work by directors as prolific as Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry to musicians ingrained in our popular collective conscience, such as Nick Cave, Daft Punk and the Chemical Brothers.
