Genie bottle film Prop
shown in film Three Thousand Years of Longing 2022
streaming on Netflix, Stan and Amazon Prime
Canberra Glassworks blew a limited series of blue and white glass genie bottles featured in the movie ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ directed by George Miller and starring Idris Elba as a djinn who is unleashed from a bottle by a professor played by Tilda Swinton. Further editions of the bottle were commissioned as corporate gifts.
Commissioned by 3000 Years of Longing Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW and United Artists Releasing, Hollywood, CA.
Fabricated by Annette Blair
Materials: blown cane glass
Project completed: 2022
Find out more
The Guardian Three Thousand Years of Longing review – heartfelt Aladdinesque adventure for grownups
QAGOMA Fairy Tales: Unmissable films in February
In February, the Fairy Tales Cinema program explores the changing face of fairy tales and the ways they blend with other storytelling traditions to reflect particular moments in time.
‘Fairy Tales Cinema: Truth, Power and Enchantment’ is presented in conjunction with Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art’s (GOMA) blockbuster summer exhibition ‘Fairy Tales’.
On display in the ‘Fairy Tales’ exhibition, view the striped glass Blue and white Djinn bottle by Canberra Glassworks that Alithea haphazardly scrubs and breaks in George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022).