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Animating the Great Debate: Creativity and GenAI
SOLD OUT AI is transforming animation. MIAF, Deakin and SIGGRAPH gather industry voices to explore the possibilities, risks and changes ahead. AI is the topic of our moment in history – and will have an outsized role in writing the future chapters. It is already a force within the commercial and independent animation spaces, with…
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Meet The Filmmaker #4: “Relentless Melt” – Max Hattler & A World Of Sublime Abstraction
Max Hattler is a filmmaker whose work has turned up in successive MIAF’s. An innovator and experimenter par-excellence, his personal films have charted unique journeys into the animation landscape. From his Hong Kong base, he established “Relentless Melt,” a kind of ‘abstractheque’ that draws from incredible work within both his teaching and curating realms, to…
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Meet The Filmmaker #5: “Kyiv Cake” – The Inside Story
Direct from Estonian’s dependably brilliant Joonisfilm Studio comes “Kyiv Cake”; an exploration of certain world events through a lens that only animation – in fact, only Estonian animation – could ever hope to deliver. A rich and thought-provoking cocktail of observational insights viewed through a lightly contorted surrealist lens, “Kyiv Cake” places an animated prism…
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F.A.N. European Animation Survey – Program #1: Portugal
MIAF has partnered with five different European animation festivals from the Festivals Animation Network (FAN). Together we have crafted five programs of new animation that delivers a comprehensive overview of what’s happening in the European animation scene. Candido Jose Pedro Cavalheiro Portugal, 11’20, 2007 “Candide never loved her. And manipulation is his favourite game.” Cold Soup…
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F.A.N. European Animation Survey – Program #3: Greece
MIAF has partnered with five different European animation festivals from the Festivals Animation Network (FAN). Together we have crafted five programs of new animation that delivers a comprehensive overview of what’s happening in the European animation scene. ApodemyKaterina AthanasopoulouGreece, 5’02, 2012Socrates compared the human soul to a cage, in which knowledge is depicted as birds. Man…
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F.A.N. European Animation Survey – Program #4: Spain
MIAF has partnered with five different European animation festivals from the Festivals Animation Network (FAN). Together we have crafted five programs of new animation that delivers a comprehensive overview of what’s happening in the European animation scene. Los PatosÁngela ArreguiSpain, 6’51, 2021Mari Carmen faces her first day at work when a duck shows up on the…
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F.A.N. European Animation Survey – Program #5: Italy
MIAF has partnered with five different European animation festivals from the Festivals Animation Network (FAN). Together we have crafted five programs of new animation that delivers a comprehensive overview of what’s happening in the European animation scene. ConfinoNico BonomoloItaly, 11’00, 2017A shadow puppet artist is confined to a lighthouse island for mocking Mussolini during his performance,…
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Women in Animation – social gathering
SOLD OUT MIAF is excited to welcome Women in Animation (WIA) for the second year in a row. Join us on Saturday evening for a relaxed social gathering and a chance to build meaningful industry connections. We’ll meet in the bar for friendly conversation, like‑minded creatives, and a playful animation‑themed connection game designed to spark…
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Izabela Plucinska – Retrospective & Q&A
Izabela Plucinska is one of the most interesting and innovative independent animators working today. Over the last 25 years MIAF has screened most of her films, and watched Izabela breathe life into flat tablets of coloured plasticine. As those characters took on more intense and engaging physical forms we’ve watched in quiet awe as Izabela…
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F.A.N. European Animation Survey – Program #2: Cyprus
MIAF has partnered with five different European animation festivals from the Festivals Animation Network (FAN). Together we have crafted five programs of new animation that delivers a comprehensive overview of what’s happening in the European animation scene. The Tornado Outside Maria Tomazou Cyprus, 8’15, 2023 Anna lives in a perfect house – except that it is…
