moving image screenings
This River of Art Festival, the Kinema Narooma, becomes a home for art on screen – celebrating film, visual art, performance, music and storytelling from across our region and beyond.
For the first time, River of Art, the Kinema and Far South Film Inc come together, united by a shared commitment to championing regional creativity, creating new opportunities for artists and filmmakers, and connecting audiences with the diverse ways stories and ideas can be brought to the screen.
KINEMA + FAR SOUTH FILM INC present:
CONTINUOUS PRESENT – Digital Artists from the South East
FIVE FILMMAKERS. ONE CONTINUOUS SCREEN. DROP IN AND DISCOVER.
A new collaboration celebrating moving-image work being created right here in South East NSW.
Continuous Present brings together five regional filmmakers and digital artists in a free, continuously looping program in Cinema 2 at the Kinema. From experimental film and visual storytelling to digital art on screen, discover different creative voices, perspectives and approaches to the moving image.
There’s no start time and no need to book. Grab your morning coffee, drop in for one work or stay for the full loop – and experience the screen as a gallery for contemporary regional creativity.
- Scott Baker/Abre Ojos
- Susan Chancellor: Millingandi, Glad Tidings and Road Trip
- Bob Georgeson: Fairhaven Point , Various
- Yemaya Grace Maitri: Bermagui, Surface Tension
- Kristin Rule: Mallacoota
FREE SCREENING DAILY | 9AM–12PM | CINEMA 2
25 SEPTEMBER – 5 OCTOBER 2026
KINEMA + RIVER OF ART present:
What drives us to create – and what happens when art becomes inseparable from life?
FOUR FEATURE FILMS | FOUR FILMS for $40.00
w/ the River of Art FESTIVAL PASS (or usual individual ticket price), multiple screenings offered over 10 days.
This specially selected film program takes us into the lives and worlds of musicians, visual artists, sculptors and creative collaborators. From the competing egos of four virtuoso musicians and Yayoi Kusama’s extraordinary determination to make her mark on the art world, to an Icelandic artist navigating family and relationships, and the irreverent creative force behind one of Australia’s most distinctive art-school bands.
Together, the four films explore ambition, collaboration, identity, relationships and the compulsion to create – a celebration of the many different ways art is made and lived.
River of Art is delighted to bring moving image and digital screen art into the 2026 Festival through a new collaboration with Far South Film Inc and the Kinema. It’s an art form we’ve long wanted to bring more fully into the Festival, and Continuous Present creates an exciting new platform for South East NSW filmmakers and screen artists to share their work with our audiences.
Our sincere thanks to the Kinema’s new owners, Kristy Randall and Alex Padovan, for opening the doors of this much-loved cultural venue to the Festival and embracing the collaboration with such enthusiasm, and to Hiromi Matsuoka, Murray Van der Veer of Far South Film Inc and their Filmmakers for bringing their screen expertise, regional knowledge and creative energy to the project. This first-time partnership brings together three organisations with a shared commitment to regional creativity, connection and opportunity – and marks the beginning of a collaboration River of Art has been keen to see happen for some time.