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The DARWIN ANIMATION FESTIVAL is a three day celebration of animation in all it's 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. 7pm THURSDAY 28TH
DARWIN ANIMATION FESTIVAL > OPENING NIGHT
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 wicked comedy 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.
This special event features work created by Northern Terrirory artists Jonathon Saunders, Levin Diatschenko, Dan Hartney, Timothy Parish, Philip Tarl Denson, Wilf Watson & Todd Williams & MORE.
7pm FRIDAY 29th JUNE
THE ISLANDS WHERE WE LEFT OUR ANCESTORS
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 traveling 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.
This 50 minute performance with storyteller / graphic novelist Joshua Santospirito and Colombian-Australian violinist Natalya Bing. Using art, live storytelling and live music: the recipe for this performance is created using one part theatre, and one part comic strip. A live musical animatic, this story is a continuation of Joshua's exploration of how our stories are embedded in the world around us: an exploration that began with his award-winning first graphic novel The Long Weekend in Alice Springs in 2013.
7pm SATURDAY 29th JUNE > ART EX MACHINA
The Brave New World of IMAGINATION X AI
ART EX 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 unique collection curated by local artist and filmmaker Timothy Parish includes award-winning short films and viral videos by international artists and animators working with AI software including SORA AI, RUNWAY, MIDJOURNEY and many more tech startups that you've probably never even heard of. Be prepared to be amazed, shocked and appalled by the next revolution in creative imagineering.
ABOUT WILD NORTH COMIC CON '24
The Wild North Comic Con celebrates all things comics culture, featuring international, national and local comic creators, book launches, live audio-visual performances, artist alley, zine market, animations screening and workshops.
Discover the full program at: https://www.wildnorthcomics.com/comiccon24
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bustard Town, 17 Knuckey St, Darwin City NT 0800, Australia,Darwin, Northern Territory
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