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presented by:
tuesday 23 june, 6.15pm
acmi cinema 1
#1 international showcase
friday 26 june, 9.15pm
acmi cinema 2
#2 asian showcase
Admission age: 18+
(Films in competition)
Also see:
Studio Focus: The Mill
International Program #7: Digital Panorama |
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Our annual look at SIGGRAPH returns to MIAF 09, but
this time with a twist. This year MIAF was lucky enough to be invited
to sit on the jury for SIGGRAPH Asia. MIAF Director Malcolm Turner
spent a week in Seoul going through the finest digital animation
submitted and from this outstanding vantage point created this comprehensive
double collection of International and Asian highlights, prize winners
and a few overlooked gems which missed the jury concession. These
films showcase the state of CG animating as presented at the motherlode
of all things digital, SIGGRAPH Asia. The campaign to bring SIGGRAPH
Asia to Melbourne is on-going! |
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tuesday
23 june, 6.15pm
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E.T.A.
Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen
Denmark, 2008, 4'30
The only thing that makes long intergalactic
journeys bearable is the lovely flight attendants.
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Simulacra
Tatchapon Lertwirojkul
USA, 2007, 4'00
One day an inquisitive robot locks in
on a mission. |
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Emily
Kim Leow
Canada, 2007, 1'00
A short, sharp tale about a little girl
who kills her family and decides this is probably as good a time
as any to leave. |
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Still Life
Maya Segal
USA, 2008, 2'45
A digital recreation and re-imagining of
the form and shape of books and paper.
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The Horrors 'She
Is The New Thing'
Corin Hardy
UK, 2007, 2'45
An audacious, high energy collage of live
action and splattered ink drawing influence from horror flicks and
severe anxiety. |
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Cycle
Guy Bar'ely
USA, 2007, 4'30
A mysterious connection plays out on the
G train.
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Re:Animation
Juan Leon
USA, 2008, 1'00
A veritable, super detailed line-drawn
visual avalanche.
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BBC iPlayer 'Penguins'
Vince Squibb, Darren Walsh
UK, 2008, 1'30
Look….up there….in the sky!
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Onde Sonore
Martina Stiftinger
Austria,
2007, 3'00
A beautiful, Escher-esque film about a
roomful of fish that breeeeathe music. |
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The Moment
Verena Fels, Csaba Letay
Germany, 2007, 1'00
A critical moment caught in kaleidoscopically
colourful slow motion.
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Drench 'Brains
Dance'
Ringan Ledwidge
UK, 2008, 1'30
If you’re a Thunderbirds and Joe
90 fan, this is for you. |
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Toumai
Carlos Stevens
USA, 2008, 4'15
The earth was a vastly different place
before Man was born. |
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They Will Come
To Town
Thilo Ewers
Germany, 2008, 1'30
A subtle look at an extreme climate change
scenario.
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Guinness 'Tipping
Point'
Nicolai Fuglsig
UK, 2007, 1'30
A film that’s as much fun as a pint
of Guiness.
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Harmonix: 'Rockband'
Pete Candeland
UK, 2007, 1'45
Touring with a rock band is definitely
not for the faint hearted.
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Wizard of OS: The
Fish Incident
Tom Jantol
Croatia, 2008, 4'30
The animated abstract diary entries of
a surrealist artist.
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Orangina 'Natrually
Juicy'
Fred & Farid
UK, 2007, 1'45
A deer and a lion join forces in the quest
for refreshment.
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Walka
Agnieszka Kruczek
Germany,
2008, 2'00
Only in the movies! Only in these sort
of movies. A man with a ponytail tries out his sweetest moves as he
battles a digital adversary, streetfighter style. |
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Lawson - Well Done
Timm Osterhold
Germany, 2008, 2'15
An unlikely competitive rescue mission
breaks out in the desert.
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Liquidator
Johannes Schmid
Switzerland, 2008, 2'45
An eye-popping demo of some sophisticated
fluid animating software. |
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Monsieur Cok
Franck Dion, Richard van den Boom
France,
2008, 9'45
An ex-employee visits his egg-headed ex-boss
at a robot-run bomb factory. |
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This Way Up
Smith & Foulkes
UK,
2008, 8’30
There’s a right and a wrong way to
deal with the soon-to-be-buried. And then there’s the way these
two accident prone undertakers go about it….
Best Film: SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 |
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friday 26 june, 9.15pm
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Outer Planet
Lee Seung Wook
Korea,
2007, 5'15
Despite the persistence of the rest of
the solar system, one planet remains obstinately outer, |
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The Evil Twin
Yun Wang
Taiwan,
2008, 3'75
Events take an unexpected change in direction
when a young woman falls in love with a guest at her mother's funeral.
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World Soccer Winning
Eleven 2008
Goh Fujita
Japan,
2007, 1'30
A graphic design overload that takes us
on to the football field and right into the action.
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Kudan
Taku Kimura
Japan,
2008, 9'30
An uncommunicative man is transformed into
a cow-bodied monster and learns his lesson. |
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Confine(s)
Makoto Yabuki
Japan, 2007, 2'40
A film that pushes an animated imagination
right through the speed barrier.
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Heavy Duty
Jung-Peng Chiou, Teddy Yang
Taiwan, 2008, 4'00
Even superheroes grow old.
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Minamitama District
Nobuo Takahashi
Japan, 2008, 1'45
The boom and bust cycle of the Japanese
financial system.
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Angkor Ruins -
The Bayon Temple And Its Faces
Masaaki
Sakata
Japan, 2007, 4'30
A 3D simulated rebuilding of a lost Asian
temple. |
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Renkan
Nobuo Takahashi
Japan, 2007, 1'45
An animated version of the politics of
urban planning.
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Miniascape Mix
Tomonori Hayase
Japan, 2007, 4’00
A lightspeed photo collage rendition and
re-engineering of a stark urban environment.
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Close, Strange
Season
Cho Heaseung
Korea, 2007, 4'30
A man opens an album only to find a boy
wandering around inside with a fish.
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Just For One Thing
Zhi-Qian Wang
China, 2008, 6'30
For every set of eyes, there is a different
way to look at the world. |
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Fly Out Blue
Jack Shih
Taiwan, 2007, 13'00
An Esheresque, absorbing 3D film capturing
the freedom of flight.
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