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Category: Retrospective

  • Grendel Grendel Grendel [2023]

    Grendel Grendel Grendel [2023]

    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…

  • MOME Showcase (Hungary) [2023]

    MOME Showcase (Hungary) [2023]

    TICKETS Here at MIAF, we’re not the only ones to notice it. The rise and rise of Hungarian animation is one of the subjects that comes up over and over at festivals when programmers get together to try and outsmart each other. The reasons for it may be elusive but the results speak for themselves.…

  • 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…

  • Son Of The White Mare – Marcell Jankovics (feature)_2022

    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…

  • Symphony In Sweeatch: The Crazed Other-World of Dax Norman_2021

    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…

  • Paul Fletcher – Australian Master_2019

    Paul Fletcher – Australian Master_2019

    TICKETS Paul Fletcher needs little introduction to a couple of generations of Australian animators – he has trained a lot of them during a distinguished career at VCA. His personal art and animation practice is vast and – in truth – better known overseas than in Australia. Paul is a restless, prolific experimenter and innovator.…

  • Character Animation for VFX Films_2019

    Character Animation for VFX Films_2019

    TICKETS “Method Studios” (previously “Illoura”) is one of the ‘A-Lister’ animation studios with production facilities around the world and work that spans “Game Of Thrones”, “Christopher Robin”, “John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum” and “Men in Black: International”. They are – quite literally – one of the animation and VFX studios that has redefined the field…

  • Special Guest: James Cunningham Retrospective + Q&A_2019

    Special Guest: James Cunningham Retrospective + Q&A_2019

    TICKETS James Cunningham is a 3D CG animator of astonishing expertise. “Poppy” won a SIGGRAPH Grand Jury Prize in 2010, “Infection” was selected for screening in competition in Cannes, “Delf” was selected for the Saatchi & Saatchi new directors Global showcase – to name just a few highlights. His role as teacher and mentor has…

  • Masters Of Mayhem: The Brothers McLeod Showcase_2019

    Masters Of Mayhem: The Brothers McLeod Showcase_2019

    TICKETS This Stratford-upon-Avon based studio, built from the ground up by Greg and Myles McLeod, must be one hell of an interesting place to work. Somehow they’ve harnessed the raw chaotic anarchy of their imaginations and built an award winning studio that continues to go from strength to strength while still turning out some of…