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SUMMARY:International Shorts Showcase #2 [2025]
DESCRIPTION:\nTICKETS\n\n\n\nA terrific selection of new animated shorts from all over the world screening throughout the day. Curated into two programs to showcase the diversity of styles, genres and stories that only animation can deliver.\n\n\n\nAll the films in this program are truly inspired examples of works that push the unique properties of animation to the limits of imagination. In animation, if you can imagine it you can show it… and these filmmakers can imagine some pretty amazing stuff!\n\n\n\nTrailer\n\n\n\nMIAF’s IAD 2025 trailer – International Shorts Showcase #2\n\n\n\nFilms\n\n\n\nTerritory – Barbara Magdalena Synak\n\n\n\nTerritoryBarbara Magdalena SynakPoland, 6’47, 2025Kidnapped by her own body, a woman is drawn into an emotional maze chasing – and escaping from – an abstract red ball, charting a jagged course through feelings about body, food and power.\n\n\n\nArmpit Hair Cat – Jeong Shin\n\n\n\nArmpit Hair CatJeong ShinSouth Korea, 4’47, 2024Dinner service takes a sharp turn for the surreal when a not-so-secret new ingredient turns up in the burgers.\n\n\n\nAfter Ark – Chih Hao Shen\n\n\n\nAfter ArkChih Hao ShenTaiwan, 5’00, 2025A strangely enchanting return to a broken, unsettling Eden, transformed by forces unseen.\n\n\n\nFreshwater – Olivia Wilyman\n\n\n\nFreshwaterOlivia WilymanCanada, 2’51, 2025A beautifully crafted personal collection of childhood memories, recalling not just moments in time but how they are navigated and processed by the younger self.\n\n\n\nThe Eye In Nothing – Michael Edwards\n\n\n\nThe Eye In NothingMichael EdwardsUSA, 5’43, 2024Is it the eye in nothing or is the nothing in I? A metaphysical visual poem about the failure of speech, the burden of articulation, and the lurking intimations of absence in human experience.\n\n\n\nLarval – Alice Bloomfield\n\n\n\nLarvalAlice BloomfieldUK, 12’10, 2025Channelling a retro Aeon Flux chique, a woman tumbles through a vortex of her own fantasies as she dreams up ways to assume the looks of her celebrity idol.\n\n\n\nTICKETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis session is classified: Unclassified (M) Mature, not recommended for viewers under 15 years.\n\n\n\nPlease note that Backlot is NOT fully accessible. There are stairs with handrails, but no lift to the second floor where the cinema is located.\n
URL:https://miaf.net/events/iad-international-shorts-showcase-2/
CATEGORIES:International
LOCATION:165 Bank St, South Melbourne VIC 3205
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