Melbourne International Animation Festival 16-22 June 2008


Monday 16 June festival club: 5.30pm - 10.00pm
C2	7.00pm	Opening Night: Sneak Peek Premier Screening
TUESDAY 17 June festival club: 5.30pm - 10.00pm
C1 C2	5.15pm 6.15pm 8.00pm 6.30pm 8.15pm	Animation 101 #1: "The Hand" - A Portrait presented by Malcolm Turner Siggraph 2007 Highlights Asiawatch: The Beijing Film Academy International Program #1 International Program #2
Wednesday 18 June festival club: 5.30pm - 10.00pm
FC C1 C2	5.00pm 5.15pm 6.30pm 8.15pm	Music Video Set til 10pm (no ticket required) Animation 101 #2: Voice Wrangling presented by Pierce Davison International Program #3 International Program #10: Long Shorts
BEST OF THE NEXT: International Graduate Animation Festival presented by Crumpler 1 iddy biddy ticket gets you into all 4 programs
SP	5.00pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 8.00pm	Program #1: Spotlight on Character Program #2: Well Drawn Program #3: Strange Ideas & Bad Craziness Program #4: Puppet Animation
thursday 19 June festival club: 5.30pm - 10.00pm
C1 C2	4.00pm 5.15pm 6.15pm 7.15pm 8.45pm 5.00pm 6.30pm 8.15pm	Teen Program #1 Animation 101 #3: Meet the Puppets presented by Nick Hilligoss Australian Graduate Panorama Careers in Animation Forum presented by Holmesglen Institute of TAFE International Program #7: Abstract Panorama Country of Focus: Switzerland International Program #8: Puppet Panorama 1 Feature: Fear(s) of the Dark
FRIDAY 20 June festival club: 5.30pm - 11.00pm
FC C1 C2	7.30pm 4 .00pm 5.15pm 6.15pm 8.00pm 6.30pm 8.15pm	WIFT Forum (no ticket required) Teen Program #2 Animation 101 #4: Contentious Material presented by Russell Lowe Program contains offensive material WIFT Program Highlights from the Visual Music Marathon presented by Jean Detheux International Program #9: Puppet Panorama 2 International Program #6: Digital Panorama
saturday 21 June festival club: 12.30pm - 11.00pm
FC C1 C2	12.30pm 4.00pm 11.30am 1.30pm 7.00pm 8.45pm 2.30pm 4.15pm 6.00pm 7.45pm 9.30pm	Dog Star in the Club & colouring comp presented by Media World Australian Forum Kids Program Studio Focus: Animose, Russia Animated Documentaries San Francisco Bay Area Historical Australian Panorama International Program #4 International Program #5 Feature: Fear(s) of the Dark repeat Late Night Bizarre Program contains offensive material
sunday 22 June festival club: 4.00pm - 11.00pm
C1 C2	12.00pm 1.45pm 3.00pm 5.15pm 7.00pm 8.45pm 4.00pm 5.45pm 8.00pm 10.00pm	International Program #1 repeat International Program #2 repeat International Program #3 repeat International Program #4 repeat International Program #5 repeat International Program #6 repeat Icons of Puppet Animation Marcy Page: Producer Master Class Best of the Festival Best of the Festival repeat
FC = Festival Club SP= Screen Pit C1 = Cinema 1 C2 = Cinema 2
Important Admission is restricted to 18+ (except for Careers in Animation Forum, Kids Program, Teen Programs and Animation 101 - #3) Film classification regulations in Australia require all films to either be formally classified OR restricted to an audience of 18 years of age and over. Most festivals do not have the resources to do this and it is for this reason alone that we are not able to admit any person under the age of 18 years to the main MIAF screenings.

saturday 21 June, 8.45pm acmi cinema 1 18+ There has always been something pretty special in the water in San Francisco. It has long been a hotbed of wide-open, full-speed, über-inspired originality and a well-spring of some of the planets most creative outpourings. San Francisco is a great place for any artist to experiment and animation is most definitely no exception. Whether it be psychedelia, revelling in the founding moments of computing or crash testing the insanest ideas on an open minded audience, there are a lot of films out there that could have only been made in San Francisco. And here’s a bunch of ‘em. This show will be a wild, wild ride. This program comes straight out of the private collection of one of MIAF’s best friends and SF animation legend, Karl Cohen.
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	Pre-Historic Poultry Willis O’Brien USA 1917, 3’00 A fascinating insight into the earliest days of puppet animation. One of the first animated films made in San Francisco, it was actually animated on the rooftop of the cable car building on Mission St using the sun as its primary light source.
	Crusader Rabbit Jay Ward USA 1950, 4’00 A fully crazy early SF animated TV series featuring one of the original animated TV characters. This nutty little guy was the precursor to Ward’s ultimate creation, Rocky And Bulwinkle.
	Quasi At The Quackadero Sally Cruikshank USA 1975, 10’00 A kind of “Sargent Pepper” meets “Metropolis” – kind of! An incredible gallery of ultra bizarre characters, a strange surreal sideshow, a poster film for the psychodelic aesthetic. All that and much more. At the time she made this, she was living in SF with Kim Deitch (son of Gene) and was an influential artist in the Bay Area scene. An early film from an animator who went on to create an extremely important body of work as well as animating for TV shows such as The Twilight Zone and Sesame St.
	Thank You Mask Man Jeff Hale USA 1968, 8’00 Jeff Hale went on to create a substantial body of work with the national Film Board of Canada but not before animating this true classic. It is an animated version of a side splittingly hilarious Lenny Bruce monologue that tracks the mindset of the Lone Ranger who, having just saved a town from disaster, decides to accept “the Indian” as a gift from the grateful inhabitants. “For an unnatural act” is his reply when Mask Man is asked what he wants ‘the Indian’ for. Leave your PC handbook at the door folks.
	Malice In Wonderland Vince Collins USA 1982, 5’00 Definitely not one for the kiddies. A scabrously sexual, super surreal retelling of much beloved story that some how includes a girl, a rabbit and a lot of colour.
	Ballet Frenetic Seth Olitzky USA, 5’00 San Francisco was home to some of the very first people who experimented with computers to extend the boundaries of animation. To the modern eye, ‘Ballet Frenetic’ probably looks like something that could have been zapped up on a Commodore 64 but as an early pioneer Olitzky laid down many of the rules that are being used to this day.
	Paradisia Marcy Page USA 1987, 15’00 One of the first films by MIAF’s special guest, Marcy Page, made when she was living in the Bay Area at the beginning of her career. Beautifully drawn, ‘Paradisia’ is a pastel extravaganza of sensuous, flowing imagery. > Also see: Marcy Page Program
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