australian Panorama

Sat 25 June
5.00pm
ACMI Cinema 2

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An outstanding year for Australian submissions – probably the strongest we have seen in the course of five MIAFs. Australia had another tilt at an Oscar, SBS continued to wear its love of animation on its sleeve by commissioning a series of fairy tales, Melbourne and Sydney continue to prove to be popular places for animators to live and from darkened rooms from Perth to Wagga Wagga, all manner of wondrous animated gems flew our way. Eclectic is the only word that will cover this program.

Admission is restricted to 18+

Exhausted: The War > Dan Hartney, Ben Tiefholz, Brad May
2004 > 6'00
A battalion of happy faces arm up and head for the battlefield.
> danhartney@hotmail.com

Medusa - First Date > Pierce Davison
2004 > 3'00
Dating Medusa - the chick that can turn you to stone and has snakes for hair? Sounds like a bad idea to us.
> pierce@davisonbros.com

The Drop > Thomas Marley
2004 > 2'15
There's no space in this man's army for raindrops who haven't got the right stuff.
> skyc@holmesglen.vic.edu.au

Kinetics 2 > Annemarie Szeleczky
2003 > 2'30
Textured, multi layered and full of visual surprises, a superb follow up to last year's well received "Collage Kinetics".
> annemarieanim@netspace.net.au

Pest Control > Peter Leary
2004 > 3'45
Pest is right! An army of the uglies go after the human oppressor.
> danhartney@hotmail.com

Real World > Rebekah Farr
2004 > 4'00
A whimsical, textured film exploring the clash of two very different worlds.
> bek@nectarine.com.au

The Silver Screw > Mary Benn
2003 > 4'75
A lively tale with a sting - or a bump - in the tail.
> queenmab@swiftdsl.com.au

Get In The Car > Greg Holfeld
2003 > 5'30
Just another drag 'em out, knock 'em down contest otherwise known as 'The Family Outing'
> greg@panicproductions.com.au

Bright / Ming > Si-Jun Zhou
2004 > 4'00
A traditional Chinese folk story told using contemporary Chinese shadow play.
> carl.hammerschmidt@sbs.com.au

The Magic Drum > Lindsay Cox
2004 > 5'30
An Inuit fisherman gets a lot more than he bargains for when he hooks the skeleton of a woman thought lost to the seas.
> lindsay.cox@rmit.edu.au

Top Shelf > Marta Tesoro
2004 > 5'45
An utterly charming fairytale about a girl who makes the mistake of playing with a magical toy carousel.
> marta_geminirabbit@yahoo.com.au

The Twelve Months > Jonathan Nix
2005 > 6'00
Adapted from a traditional Russian tale. A girl is sent into the woods on an impossible task and encounters a friendly giant.
> kathrynbrownhill@yahoo.com.au

Crawlspace > Peter Sved
2004 > 8'00
That little gap between two spaces is a pretty interesting world with it's own rules and evolutionary cycles.
> ruths@aftrs.edu.au

Black And White, Red All Over > Greg Holfeld
2004 > 4'45
Life can be tough for a penguin in a black and white film-noir world - especially if he sees red!
> greg@panicproductions@com.au

The Birdhouse > John Lewis
2004 > 5'00
Genuinely creepy - a look inside a world of multiple greys, intrigue and menace.
> johnlewis01@hotmail.com

Birthday Boy > Sejong Park
2004 > 9'15
In the Korean war, a young boy returns home to find a parcel on his doorstep which will change his life forever.
> ruths@aftrs.edu.au
-- Australia's own Oscar nominee --

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Admission is restricted to 18+
IMPORTANT: Film classification regulations do not allow us to admit any person under the age of 18 years EXCEPT to the Kids Animation and Ub Iwerks Short Films Collection.