student animation festival

-- Tix for students only $5! --

The vibrancy and rule-breaking abandon of student animation bursts onto the big screen for the 'festival-within-a-festival'. Raw energy, wild ideas and the kind of films that can only be made with people who have at least one foot firmly planted in the future are what these screenings are all about. We receive submissions from more than 50 tertiary level schools all over the world and this tiny sample of the very best tells us that creative animation is going to be around for a long time yet.

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program 1
Wed 22 June, 8.15pm, ACMI Cinema 1

Optical Resonance > Jonny Voss > RCA > UK
Ouar Lordz > Jean-Paul Suau > Ecole Emile Cohl > France
Outside > S-W Choi & A-Y Jung > Calarts > USA
Red Sky Morning > Sterling Sheely > USC > USA
The Wandering Storm > Jonah Friedman > VFS, Canada
Transmigration > Li-Jen Chang > South Korea
Oz > Olga Taranov > Sapir Academic College > Israel
2:41 Upfield > Callum Cooper > VCA > Australia
Subway Score > Alexander Isert > HFF, Germany
Isolation White > Liam Hamilton > Konstfack > Sweden
Little Road Movie > Denis Rousseau > ENSAD > France
Breath > Daria Szewczenko > Polish National Film School > Poland
Circuit > Thomas Muller > RMIT BAM > Australia
Edgar > Aviad Goldgevicht > Camera Obscura > Israel
Cici > Jan Bohuslav > FAMU > Czech
Conehead > Don Pan > UK

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program 2
Thur 23 June, 6.30pm, ACMI Cinema 1

Vernic > David Bunting > Bournemouth > UK
Backlight > Capucine Latrasse > La Poudriere > France
Une Deuce Illusion > Claude Weiss > Ecole Emile Cohl > France
The San Francisco Seagull Flies To The Clam Chowder > Yong Chu Suh > Calarts > USA
Apartment > Min Kim > Emily Carr > Canada
Bill > M Hilaga, S Hollis, P Ikegwuono, M Maloney > Savannah > USA
The Pier > Jason Bennett > Ringling > USA
Duel > Colin Elliott > USC > USA
Off The Hook > Anne Louise Allen > VCA > Australia
The Son of Angouleme > F Poulan & B Garnier > EMCI > France
La Migration Bigoudeun > Lecette de la Mongoerepe > Gobelins > France
I Woz Ere > Richard Coldicott > Norwich - NSAD > UK
Tarzanze > Torben Meier > Filmakademie B/W > Germany
Animalalalala > Bert Koh > RMIT BAM > Australia
Het Lelijke Kleine Zeehondje > Giorgio Mpotsis > Belgium
One Two Three... Try To Be > Alecksandra Bodek > Poland
The Lizard > Guillaume Aventurin > ENSAD > France
Excuse My French > Helene Friren > UK
Callamania > Aelys Hasbun > La Cambre > Belgium
Automat > Lucie Stamfestova > VSUP > Czech
A Short Story About > B Heiderscheid, E Peters, F Blaux, P Marais > Supinfocom > France

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program 3
Fri 24 June, 6.30pm, ACMI Cinema 1

The Elder > Clementine Wolf > La Poudriere > France
Menagerie > Georgia Black > RMIT BAM > Australia
Rattle > Ed Chen > USC > USA
Rex Steele - Nazi Smasher > Alexander Woo > Woohoo! Pictures > USA
Pan Tian Shou > Joe Chang > China Academy of Art > China
Tracks > Corrie Francis > USC > USA
Intimate Feeling With My Friend > Joon Kim > KAFA > South Korea
Goings Alone > Lou Dahl > Emily Carr Institute > Canada
Saturday Morning Revenge Fantasies > Mendi Menefee > USC > USA
Last Howl > David Devaux > ENSAD > France
Bus Stop > Matthew Abbiss > RCA > UK
The Permit > Gur Illany > VCA > Australia
Bayeux Tapestry > David Newton > Goldsmith > UK
Un Tombeau Au Paradis > Rodolphe Fevrier > ENSAD > France
Amfraid > A-S Bertrand, T Debeurme, S Van de Velde, P Verkindt > France
No Limits > H Wittlinger, A Perl & Stolzenberg > Germany
Le Reflect > Julien-Jun Akita > Ecole Emile Cohl > France

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program 4 ----- FREE SCREENING!!!!
Sat 25 June, 6.30pm, ACMI Cinema 1

The Films of the University of Southern California
+ announcing BEST STUDENT FILM FROM THE FESTIVAL!

Curated and Introduced by Kathy Smith
Chair & Associate Professor, DADA

USC’s Division of Animation & Digital Arts (DADA) was establised in 1995 and incoporates into its curriculum a theoretical and critical approach to the development and research of digital art forms as well as an historical understanding of how traditional media, drawing, painting, sculpture, video and installation art have transposed or been incorporated into animation.

Kathy has curated this program which highlights works from the first 10 years of DADA. She will journey to MIAF to introduce the program AND announce the Best Student Film Award of MIAF 05.

LA | XSI > chino > 1'00
A visual sentence about Los Angeles
Channel 8 News > Benjamin Hendricks > 1'20
No news is still news
Garden without Flowers > Alyssa Sherwood > 3'00
A meditation on the meaning of gardens
PedantPhilia > Sandra Cheng > 2'00
A student falls in love with her photoshop teacher
Get Well Soon > Marc Deckter > 2'30
A message of love to a sick friend
The Master of Harprass Ingenuity > Sam Yousefian > 3'30
Inside the mind of a homeless schizophrenic man
Corazon en Fuego > Yorico Murakami > 8'00
Do not disturb me when I am depressed!
The Residual Artifacts of Communication > Richard Sandoval > 6'00
The essence of common emotions and experiences
Blue Rain > Hsin-Ping Pan > 9'00
For those who have a flood in their houses and minds
Originated Decent > Jung-Eun Lee > 5'30
The evolutionary connection of our existence
Crimenals > Gregory Araya > 2'22
An absurdist collage of film noir and comic characters
Nativity > Mahyar Abousaeedi > 6'40
A renewal of resources in the wake of September 11 touches
life miles away
Convenience > Ryan Kirkwood > 6'30
A clinical look at chemical behavior modification in children
Love Sick II > Tsai-Yun Mou > 2'17
A desperate girl does everything to get her love obsession
Woman in the Attic > Chansoo Kim > 4'53
Saddened by the reality of her old age a woman confronts her
younger self in the attic
Welcome to Eden > Erin Condy > 4'20
The metaphysical misadventures of two scientists
Backseat Bingo > Liz Blazer > 5'35
Sexy senior citizen seeks same – an animated documentary
about senior citizens and romance

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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.