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SUMMARY:International Competition Program #8: Abstract Showcase
DESCRIPTION:\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n\n SOLD OUT\n\n\n\nThe International Competition Programs are the backbone of the entire MIAF mission. Drawn from more than 2,450 submissions they showcase the best, most imaginative animating talent on the planet. For Programs 1 to 5 the only rule is diversity: you’ll get a bit of everything! For Programs 6 to 10 we take the opportunity to highlight interesting themes and styles that felt prominent in the year’s submissions.\n\n\n\nMIAF’s annual deep-dive into the world of abstract animation and ‘visual music’. The properties that underpin great abstract animation go to the very heart of what it is to create beautiful, frame by frame animated imagery; a form of animated artmaking with a history that reaches back to the earliest days of the animation. This is one of the very few opportunities anywhere in the world to see this kind of work up on the big screen where it looks and sounds its very best.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJourney To The Sentient Core Paul Fletcher Australia, 4’37, 2026 A celebration of living patterns, sound, and colour; a journey to the sentient core and a challenge to imagine ourselves as dynamic patterns.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPictures For Piano (1)Diek Grobler South Africa, 3’00, 2025 An abstract interpretation of Chopin’s Etude Opus 10 no. 12, made by instinctively improvising imagery onto a pinscreen.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDance Of CreationNatalia Ryss Israel, 3’13, 2025 A vibrant and vivacious world is brought into being in a joyful dance before our very eyes channelling the aesthetics of Neoplasticism.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSketchesDirk de Bruyn Australia, 4’25, 2026 An experimental animation examining a variety of optical effects and incorporating Found Footage directly drawn and rotoscoped onto 35mm film.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCan Circle Circles?Xuerou Huang UK, 4’32, 2025 What if language lost its meaning, but we still kept talking? Inspired by semiotics, absurdism, and divination systems like tarot, this is one answer.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbsence V2Jean Detheux Canada, 4’41, 2025 A re-interpretation of a film completed more than a decade ago and done with/for/to/from music magnificently interpreted by Paola Erdas.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSubharmonicsMarcell Mostoha Denmark/Hungary, 4’59, 2026 Blooming glimpses of the ever-changing; repetitions that form a circle; keys that can best be found in the depths of the unconscious.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWandering Dot And The Blank Square Page UniverseIeva Lība Ratniece Belgium, 5’15, 2025 An immersive visual poem about a journey within a blank page – prompting the question, is a blank page ever really empty?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[sun]filmDerek Taylor USA, 3’10, 2024 Repurposed found imagery from the 16th Century onwards create a moving tableau to trace the sun as a natural constant, a mirror of human curiosity, and a radiant symbol of mystery.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShapes And Forms – Eddy Current Suppression RingOliver Georgiou Australia, 2’54, 2025 Traditional paint on cel artwork celebrating the fine energy of a local rock band.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Fourth Dimensional IDome Wood Australia, 6’03, 2025 A complex, digitally stylised traverse tracking consciousness as it awakens to a higher-dimensional space beyond the visible world.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSymbiontsQuirijn Dees Switzerland, 9’27, 2025 A beguiling, molten descent into a visceral organic cycle of interaction within an unfamiliar ecosystem.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStates Of MatterMarvin Hauck Netherlands, 7’00, 2025 A meditative exploration of materiality, textures, movements, and tactile sound, created from wax and paper.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImpromptuSteve Subotnick USA, 6’09, 2025 Proving less is more, an utterly fascinating film made entirely on five wooden boards.\n\n\n\n SOLD OUT\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n↑ ( #top )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis session is classified: Unclassified (M) Mature, not recommended for viewers under 15 years.Please 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/international-competition-program-8/
CATEGORIES:Competition,International
LOCATION:165 Bank St, South Melbourne VIC 3205
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