Medieval to Metal Rockumentary Film Series: ‘Don’t Look Back’ 1967

Curated by BMI Heritage Curator – Ellen Becker

December 11 @ 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm

Bar open at 6pm

$15 – $35

Minerva Theatre

Don't Look Back

Director: D.A. Pennebaker, 1967 (1hr 36m)

To celebrate the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s Medieval to Metal exhibition, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute is screening three iconic rock films in our historic Minerva Theatre.

Clear your palette of the recent serving of slick music documentaries with quintessential films of the ‘direct cinema’ genre.

D.A. Pennebaker documents Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour of England, which opens with Dylan flipping cards with the lyrics to Subterranean Homesick Blues, considered one of the first ‘music videos’.

Pennebaker’s camera follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It’s the period when Dylan is shifting from acoustic to electric, a transition that not all fans, including Baez, applaud.

Tickets and Bookings

Tickets $10 BMI members & Ballarat Film Society members ($30 Season Pass). Plus booking fee.

$15 general admittance ($35 Season Pass). Plus booking fee.

Art Gallery of Ballarat - Exhibition

Medieval to Metal

For those who rock, we salute you! Medieval to Metal: The Art & Evolution of the Guitar tours to Ballarat, Victoria this October. Exclusive to the Art Gallery of Ballarat, the exhibition features 40 iconic guitars on loan from the National Guitar Museum (USA) alongside an awe-inspiring assemblage of photographs, paintings, drawings, illustrative designs, and objects.