Category: Focus

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…

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…

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…

TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: John Astley & Emily Burridge “Into Lyrebird Gully” – 3 Years In The Making When John Astley sat down to make the film that he hoped would define his studies as an animation student and pave the way for a career making independent animated films, he never imagined that the production…

TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: Jody Clever The Making of “Among The People” Melbourne based Jody Cleaver has a personal art practice encompassing printmaking, painting, curation and animation. Her various artworks have been the subject of exhibitions at a wide range of Melbourne galleries and her animated films have screened at festivals around the world. Her…

TICKETS Tickets are Sold Out You always know when you’re watching a Felix Colgrave film. You might not know what’s going on, you might not know what the creatures populating it are or what they are capable of doing, but nobody makes films that look like Felix Colgrave’s films. They are, in the truest sense…

TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: Dennis Tupicoff “The Only Photograph Of Emily Dickinson: American Poet” Dennis Tupicoff has been creating iconic, critically acclaimed animation here in Australia for nearly 50 years. Films such as “The Darra Dogs”, “His Mother’s Voice” and “Chainsaw” have done much to define the independent animation landscape of Australia. A new Dennis…