Special Screening Event! 

Celebrate the Perth International Jazz Festival becoming the latest tenants of Memorial Hall with this special screening of the iconic WA-based film featuring Miles Davis.

Live music will commence from 6pm with the Ricki Malet Duo.

Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician, Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown after his plane is diverted. Years later, now a family man and making a meagre living tracking dingoes and playing trumpet in a local band, John still dreams of joining Billy on trumpet and makes a pilgrimage to Paris.

Duration: 1h 49m

Director: Rolf De Heer

Writer: Marc Rosenberg

Cast: Colin Friels, Miles Davis, Helen Buday

Classification: PG

Consumer Warning: OCCASIONAL COURSE LANGUAGE

Please note that the cinema will utilise headphones in place of a sound system. All headphones are cleaned after each session. Personal headphones are not compatible with the wireless headphone system.

Please note that gates open at 6pm.

BYO alcohol is not permitted.

Minors are not permitted without a guardian, parent or responsible adult in attendance. We will not permit persons aged under 15 to films that are rated MA15+. Please see our terms and conditions for all entry requirements/conditions.

Synopsis of Dingo

On the night of January 14, 1969, a jet plane is diverted to the Australian outback town of Poona Flat. The locals, including twelve-year-old John 'Dingo' Anderson (Colin Friels), rush to the airport, curious at this odd event.

On board is the legendary jazz trumpeter Billy Cross (Miles Davis) and his band. Cross, seeing the crowd, decides to play by way of greetings. The band sets up on the runway and the music suddenly explodes, rolling across the desert like a tidal wave. Dingo has never heard anything so beautiful in his life. The band members re-board and the plane drifts away as softly as a dream. Twenty years later...

In the vast sun-scorched outback, Dingo spends his days hunting dingoes and is obsessed by one wily and elusive animal with only three legs. By night, he sits alone at his campfire and dreams of playing trumpet in Paris with Billy Cross.

Dingo, however, is married with kids and his world doesn't stretch far from Poona Flat. But on the eve of yet another birthday he decides that if he doesn't do something about realising his dream he may never have the courage again. He buys a ticket to Paris and arrives ill-prepared.

He starts to track down Billy Cross through the most sophisticated and bizarre city in the world. Cross, now in his sixties, has not played in public for many years and is living the life of an eccentric recluse, surrounded by computerised music facilities and health equipment. When Dingo eventually finds him, he can't recognise the idol of his dreams.

Dingo's naive enthusiasm is infectious. They enter a jazz club and Dingo is allowed to play. Then another trumpet is heard and, for the first time, Dingo fully recognises the Cross that has inspired his life.