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Starstruck

Australian Movie Portraits

Striking, beautiful portraiture comes out of the most thoroughly documented creative process there is – filmmaking. In a ground-breaking collaboration the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive invite you into this captivating realm between real and fictional worlds. 

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Lovers And Luggers : Publicity Shot featuring Shirley Ann Richards Lloyd Hughes And Elaine Hamill (1937)
Lovers And Luggers : Publicity Shot featuring Shirley Ann Richards Lloyd Hughes And Elaine Hamill (1937)
Hugo Weaving as Horatio Farrat by Ben King Film: The Dressmaker, 2015
Hugo Weaving as Horatio Farrat by Ben King Film: The Dressmaker, 2015
Judy Davis as Sybilla and Sam Neill as Harry by David Kynoch Film: My Brilliant Career, 1979
Judy Davis as Sybilla and Sam Neill as Harry by David Kynoch Film: My Brilliant Career, 1979
Daphne Campbell on location, Roper River, NT Film: The Overlanders, 1946
Daphne Campbell on location, Roper River, NT Film: The Overlanders, 1946
Anne-Louise Lambert as Miranda by David Kynoch Film: Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1975
Anne-Louise Lambert as Miranda by David Kynoch Film: Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1975
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Hugo Weaving as Horatio Farrat by Ben King Film: The Dressmaker, 2015
Hugo Weaving as Horatio Farrat by Ben King Film: The Dressmaker, 2015
Hugo Weaving as Horatio Farrat by Ben King Film: The Dressmaker, 2015
Hugo Weaving as Horatio Farrat by Ben King Film: The Dressmaker, 2015

If you love movies, you’ll love Starstruck!

8 August 2017

Archived media releases 2017

In an unprecedented partnership, the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) present a new star-studded exhibition, Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits.

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Brooke Lockett, Heidi Martin, Karen Nanasca, Halaina Hills; New York, 2012 Lisa Tomasetti
Brooke Lockett, Heidi Martin, Karen Nanasca, Halaina Hills; New York, 2012 Lisa Tomasetti
Brooke Lockett, Heidi Martin, Karen Nanasca, Halaina Hills; New York, 2012 Lisa Tomasetti
Brooke Lockett, Heidi Martin, Karen Nanasca, Halaina Hills; New York, 2012 Lisa Tomasetti

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