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Category: Focus

  • Meet The Filmmaker: John Astley & Emily Burridge [2023]

    Meet The Filmmaker: John Astley & Emily Burridge [2023]

    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…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: The Making of “Among The People” [2023]

    Meet The Filmmaker: The Making of “Among The People” [2023]

    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…

  • The Strange & Wonderful Worlds of Felix Colgrave [2023]

    The Strange & Wonderful Worlds of Felix Colgrave [2023]

    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…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Dennis Tupicoff [2023]

    Meet The Filmmaker: Dennis Tupicoff [2023]

    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…

  • Pannonia: A Certain Drama_2022

    Pannonia: A Certain Drama_2022

    TICKETS (soon) The Pannonia Studio has a fascinating history. Formed in 1951 in communist era Hungary, it produced hundreds of animated shorts and more than 20 animated features – including the classic “Son Of White Mare” by Marcell Jankovics. The animated shorts being made at Pannonia were absolutely unlike anything else being made in communist…

  • It’s A Mad, Mad Pannonia World_2022

    It’s A Mad, Mad Pannonia World_2022

    TICKETS (soon) The Pannonia Studio has a fascinating history. Formed in 1951 in communist era Hungary, it produced hundreds of animated shorts and more than 20 animated features – including the classic “Son Of White Mare” by Marcell Jankovics. The animated shorts being made at Pannonia were absolutely unlike anything else being made in communist…

  • French Digi: Next Gen_2021

    French Digi: Next Gen_2021

    TICKETS For some time, Supinfocom has been the dominant digital animation school in France. But there are some new kids on that block and here at MIAF  we have been watching them go from strength to strength in recent years. Schools such as Pole3D, Brassart, École des Nouvelles Images, ArtFX, ESMA and Georges Melies have…

  • Animated Docs + Doc Panel Q&A_2021

    Animated Docs + Doc Panel Q&A_2021

    TICKETS This program showcases films that artfully and imaginatively employ the fascinating properties of animation to explore subjects as diverse as the unlikely sexual allure of serial killers, what life was like as a child chimney sweep and how Jimmy Page scored his legendary ’59 Telecaster. The screening will include specially recorded introductions by some…

  • Late Night Bizarre_2021

    Late Night Bizarre_2021

    TICKETS It’s back: our annual haul of the most pungent pieces that have been slid under our door. So, sit down, put your hands where we can see them and take in the full bodied aroma of Late Night Bizarre 2021! Igorr-Very Noise Meat Dept France, 2’36, 2020 A twisting and twisted impact-max warp-speed roll…

  • The Making Of “Meanwhile…” & The Return Of Michael Cusack_2020

    The Making Of “Meanwhile…” & The Return Of Michael Cusack_2020

    TICKETS Master Australian animator Michael Cusack has produced an outstanding collection of superbly crafted independent films and some of this country’s most loved animated ads. His 2017 masterpiece After All was the first film in MIAF’s history to win both Best Australian Film and Best Of The Festival. And his ads for Schmackos have beamed into…