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MIAF 2025

Category: Focus

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Lachlan Plain [2024]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: Lachlan Plain [2024]

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: The Hand Built Alternative Realities of Lachlan Plain Lachlan Plain is a very hands-on animator. The films he makes are visceral examples of animation crafted out of real materials brought to life before our eyes. With narrative arcs eschewing anything remotely orthodox, the compelling, confounding worlds he creates channel the kind…

  • EKA Showcase [2024]

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    EKA Showcase [2024]

    TICKETS Estonia’s EKA Academy of Arts is home to one of the finest, most open and diverse animation courses in Europe, if not the world. It draws students from around the European union who seek to create unique animated films that stand as individual, creative statements, not as calling cards for a life in the…

  • Australian Animation In A Time Of A.I. [2024]

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    Australian Animation In A Time Of A.I. [2024]

    TICKETS Special MIAF Presentation Nobody – NOBODY – knows for sure how the rise of A.I. will impact on Australian animation. But like a cyclone on the weather map we know it’s coming. Some doors will be opened, some closed and some, likely, blown in. Commercial studios will look to it to help save costs…

  • Animation In The Time Of AI [2023]

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    Animation In The Time Of AI [2023]

    This workshop will be run at COLLARTS and is limited to just six (6) people. This will followed by a Q&A session available to everyone. Calling All Animators – Come Play, Come Learn Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) coming or is AI here? For as long as animators have been animating they have been experimenting, pushing…

  • Artificial Intelligence Q&A session [2023]

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    Artificial Intelligence Q&A session [2023]

    This session follows a workshop run at COLLARTS. This Q&A is chance for everyone to see the work from the day and hear all about AI in animation. Tickets (FREE) Celebrate International Animation Day with a discussion on the future of AI in Animation. After spending the day in a workshop playing with the latest…

  • Anijammin’ [2023]

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    Anijammin’ [2023]

    Please not this session is rated: Unrestricted M (Mature) – Restricted to persons aged 15 and over unless accompanied by an adult. Tickets (sold out) VERY LIMTED late release tickets available! Guest Co-Curator: Marv Newland Gotta love a great ANIJAM! A bunch of disparate animators come together and individually animate their own section of a…

  • Animating Worlds in Virtual Production

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    Animating Worlds in Virtual Production

    This VERY special masterclass is being held in partnership with Film, Television and Animation, Deakin University. This five hour workshop will be held at Deakin University Melbourne Burwood Campus Separate ticketing – not included in any MIAF passes. TICKETS Animating Worlds in Virtual Production A masterclass for all in bringing stop-motion animation and virtual production…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Matt Bissett-Johnson [2023]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: Matt Bissett-Johnson [2023]

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: Matt Bissett-Johnson Touchdown, Planet MBJ! Matt Bissett-Johnson has been submitting inscrutably bizarre, off-the-wall micro gems for quite some time. The first iterations arrived as little expeditions from reality that appeared to be animated on post-it notes. Featuring characters that look like dystopic extras from a world populated by bugs, experimental beasts…

  • Australian Focus: The Films of UTS Animal Logic Academy with Guest Q&A [2023]

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    Australian Focus: The Films of UTS Animal Logic Academy with Guest Q&A [2023]

    TICKETS The UTS Animal Logic Academy is proving to be a powerhouse of animated innovation, bringing together a prodigious roster of talented practitioners from a wide range of different places in the Australian animation ecosystem. The films being produced at the Academy are, unsurprisingly, world class and stand as a showcase of what can be…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: 4 Makers / 3 Films [2023]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: 4 Makers / 3 Films [2023]

    TICKETS Tickets are Sold Out Meet The Filmmaker: 4 Makers / 3 Films Creative Interventions: Using Animation to Bring Live Action to Life The capacity for animation to bring an extra dimension to an otherwise live-action film is virtually limitless. The wonder is that it doesn’t happen more often. Small injections of the kind of…