WILD TALES FROM THE IMAGINATION
WILD NORTH COMIC CON & CINEMART PRESENTS
DARWIN ANIMATION FESTIVAL
The DARWIN ANIMATION FESTIVAL is a three day celebration of animation in all its forms from hand drawn stop-motion to anime, CGI to AI, with live spoken word and music to digital experiments.
Featuring local, national and international award-winning animations, live performances and cutting edge
explorations of artificial intelligence and filmmaking.
DARWIN ANIMATION FESTIVAL
OPENING NIGHT - 27th JUNE
A collection of short animated films by Northern Territory, Australian and First Nation animation producers. Discover the unique creative imaginations of Australian animators from Darwin and Australia in this specially curated collection of works including COOKED (Studio Gilay) - a hilarious and wickedly humourous web series by First Nations animation company about the colonisation of Australia, MINING BOOM (Odd Pirate) - the hugely popular viral online series about FIFO workers on the world's most inept mining site; LOVE & TREMBLING (Flugendorf Films) a surreal animation of mermaids and seafarers by writer and artist Levin Diatschenko and PENANCE (Phenomec) - a groundbreaking animation by local artists Wilf Watson & Dan Hartney created with the UNREAL gaming engine through an international competition from EPIC GAMES.
THE ISLANDS WHERE WE LEFT OUR ANCESTORS
LIVE COMIC WITH SPOKEN WORD & MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
FRIDAY 28th JUNE
The Islands Where We Left Our Ancestors explores the Aeolian Islands in Italy as artist and writer Joshua Santospirito tries to discover why his ancestors left, migrating to Australia. Joshua and his parents search for his great great grandfather's resting place whilst Joshua tries desperately to not to lose his cool with them. He explores stories of humans travelling across time and space, family migration, discusses modern Australian mixed identities, argues with ancient gods and dreams of psychopathic flameball gum trees. A warm and philosophical mix of memories, mythologies and family gossip.
ART X MACHINA
IMAGINATION X ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
SATURDAY 29th JUNE
ART X MACHINA is a deep dive into the brave new world of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and the human imagination, showcasing international collection of contemporary artists exploring new possibilities in art, animation, filmmaking, design, architecture, motion graphics and cybernetic futurology (with a few jokes thrown in for good measure).
This specially curated collection includes award-winning short films and viral videos by international artists and animators working with AI software including SORA AI, RUNWAY and Stable Diffusion.
Be prepared to be amazed, shocked and appalled by the oncoming revolution in creative imagineering!