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Slide – Bill Plympton
TICKETS Bill Plympton wrote the rule book on what it is to be a truly indie American animator. His unique style has influenced generations of animators who sought to follow in his footsteps and entertained audiences around the world. When we saw his latest feature – SIX years in the making – drop we swooped…
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Grendel Grendel Grendel
Please not this session is rated: General (G) Tickets (sold out) VERY LIMTED late release tickets available! Classic Australian Feature The story behind the preservation and digitising of “Grendel Grendel Grendel” stands as MIAF’s most exciting moment. Grendel’s director, Alex Stitt, was an icon of Australian animation and design. His most recognised work includes the…
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Dozens Of Norths – Koji Yamamura [2023]
TICKETS At last, the world has a feature film by master animator, Koji Yamamura. Based on his illustrations and texts published in the monthly publication Bungakukai, “Dozens Of Norths” has been mesmerising festival audiences the world over, taking out the coveted Contrechamp Award at the Annecy festival last year. Exquisitely, meticulously hand-drafted and channelling the…
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Son Of The White Mare – Marcell Jankovics (feature)_2022
TICKETS (soon) Pannonia Studio Showcase #3 Marcell Jankovics‘ stunning 1981 odyssey “Son Of The White Mare” radiates with a refreshing energy, pushing the boundaries of the animated form even by its own hallucinogenic standards. Unfolding like artwork etched into a cave wall and brought to restless life by an unclassifiable spell that only cinema can…
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Symphony In Sweeatch: The Crazed Other-World of Dax Norman_2021
TICKETS Dax Norman clearly has Picasso and Dali trapped in his imagination – and it looks like they’re both fighting hard to get out. Nothing will prepare you for an immersion into the hyper-animated world of Dax Norman. His films approach and rush past as a kind of tumbling, mutating surrealist caravan being chased by…
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Cinema 3: Online Program #1 Romantic Chorus_2020
TICKETS Welcome to Online Program One, which features our full length animated documentary Romantic Chorus and opens with a short interview between MIAF producer and Programmer Annie Murray and the film’s directors and producer/editor, Jeff M Giordano and Aaron Gwyn speaking on the film’s message of self-acceptance AND acceptance of others through the lens of…
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Feature #2: “La Casa Lobo”_2019
TICKETS For centuries children have dreamed of ominous woods, threatening wolves and other fearsome fictional creations, but with their feature debut Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña have drawn upon their own folklore and fairy tales to craft this visually stunning stop-motion animated film out of paint, paper, tape, furniture and the vapour of ebony-hued hallucinations.…
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Feature #1: This Magnificent Cake_2019
TICKETS This Magnificent Cake Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef Belgium, France, Netherlands, 45’00, 2018 Oh Willy Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef Belgium, France, Netherlands, 17’00, 2012 This delightful new feature film from the multi-award animating duo Marc James Roels and Emma De Swaef is little short of a masterpiece of the style they…