Abstract and Non-Narrative Animation Competition I at Anifilm 2023: (GoCritic! Review)https://www.zippyframes.com/festivals/abstract-animation-anifilm2023-gocritic-i

31 May 2023 Haci Seferov reports on the abstract, non-narrative programme of this year's Anifilm Festival (part of our GoCritic! review series). Time, repetition and the enigma’s of the everyday are among the themes covered in Anifilm’s Abstract and Non-Narrative...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Festivals

Abstract and Non-Narrative Animation Competition II at Anifilm 2023 (GoCritic! Review)https://www.zippyframes.com/festivals/abstract-animation-anifilm2023-gocritic-ii

31 May 2023 Katerina Beloglazova reports on the abstract, non-narrative programme of this year's Anifilm Festival (part of our GoCritic! review series). The winning film 'Sliver Cave' depicts the relationship between the artist, artwork, and spectator as a hunt....

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Festivals

Abstract and Non-Narrative Animation at Anifilm 2025 (GoCritic! Review)https://www.zippyframes.com/festivals/abstract-non-narrative-animation-at-anifilm-2025-gocritic-review

15 July 2025 Anifilm Festival has a tradition of showcasing abstract and non-narrative independent animation. Arsalan Awais writes about the 2025 selection. The Abstract Animation Competition at Anifilm 2025 offered a cinema of form over exposition. Works where...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Festivals

Asia Animation Forum 2015: Call for Papershttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/academic/asia-animation-forum-2015-call-for-papers

11 June 2015 Capture - 3D Printing - Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality- Animation & Games- Animation Application in other art form ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES & INSTRUCTIONS The deadline for proposal submissions is July 31, 2015. Accepted presenters must submit...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Academic

Asia Animation Forum 2016: Call for Proposalshttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/academic/asia-animation-forum-2016-call-for-proposals

10 June 2016 Participate in the Asian Animation Forum in October 2016. Open call for abstracts. The 2016 Asia Animation Forum (AAF) (23 -25 October 2016, KOMACON, Korea) intends to rediscover the value of Asian animation and establish a global network to promote...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Academic

Anifilm Festival 2025 Winners: Quay Brothers, 'The Voice of the Sirenes', 'Bunnyhood'https://www.zippyframes.com/festivals/anifilm-winners-2025

11 May 2025 landscape of 'Deluge' (drawn on only 24 pieces of paper) won the main prize in the festival's Non-Narrative & Abstract Animation Competition. In the student section, the tragicomic story of the mother and her daughter in 'Bunnyhood' by Mansi Maheswari...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Festivals

Anifilm Festival 2026: 'Olivia', 'Winter In March', 'Floating' Winhttps://www.zippyframes.com/festivals/anifilm-festival-winners-2026

12 May 2026 workshops initiative) Back to competition (10 feature films, 34 short films, 35 student films, 30 music videos, 24 abstract and non-narrative films, and 9 VR films, including 17 videogames and 12 student video games), the award for Best Feature Film for...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Festivals

'Once There Was A Sea', ''Love, Dad', Anne Frank' in the Anifilm Winners 2022https://www.zippyframes.com/festivals/anifilm-winners-2022

16 May 2022 competition sections competed in total 11 feature films, 31 short films, 33 student films, 24 music videos, 15 abstract and non-narrative films and 16 VR films. The award for the Best Feature Film for Grown-ups went to 'Where is Anne Frank?' by Israeli...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Festivals

Ecstatic Truth V: The Age of the Absurd (Under_the_Radar Symposium Vienna)https://www.zippyframes.com/component/icagenda/under-the-radar-symposium

27 April 2020 will be published in a themed issue of the International Journal of Film and Media Arts. The proposal should include an abstract of not more than 500 words and a short biography of no more than 200 words. Please send it to:...

• Type: Event
• Event Category: ACADEMIC
• Event Date: 2020-04-27 00:00:00

Anifilm International Festival of Animated Filmshttps://www.zippyframes.com/festivals/next-festivals/anifilm-international-festival-of-animated-films

04 May 2027 59 minutes or less made by professionals (out of school). Student Film: For films of 59 minutes or less made by students. Abstract and Non-Narrative Animation: For audio-visual works using the principles of animation in the widest possible sense. Music...

• Type: Event
• Event Author: ZF Team
• Event Category: ANIMATION & FILM FESTIVALS
• Event Date: 2027-05-04 00:00:00

Broncos and Buffalos: Reinventing Muybridge at Anifilm Festival (GoCritic! Review)https://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/broncos-and-buffalos-reinventing-myubridge-anifilm-go-critic

14 May 2024 be projected in the zoopraxiscope, a transparent spinning wheel, resulting in the cinematic illusion of movement. In the Abstract and Non-Narrative Animation competition at Anifilm in Liberec, two films use Muybridge’s work as their starting point:...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Shorts

Animafest Zagreb Award for Animation Studies to Maureen Furnisshttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/academic/animafest-zagreb-award-for-animation-studies-to-maureen-furniss

29 November 2016 gaps and better representing the art of animation worldwide. [read her complete statement below] Furniss earned her PhD in abstract animation with a dissertation, Things of the Spirit: A Study of Abstract Animation, drawing parallels between abstract...

• Type: Article
• Author: ZF Team
• Category: Academic

Animation and Philosophy SAS Symposium 2018: Call for Proposalshttps://www.zippyframes.com/news/academic/animation-and-philosophy-sas-symposium-2018-call-for-abstracts

04 February 2018 we are developing something that is quintessentially human. In contrast to other mammals, the human kind is capable of abstract thinking. Birds and animals live in the present, but a human being can represent both the past and the future, construct...

• Type: Article
• Author: Ismini Karantzi
• Category: Academic

4 States of Matter: Interview with Miguel Pires de Matoshttps://www.zippyframes.com/interviews/interview-with-miguel-pires-de-matos

27 July 2018 short, which I had the pleasure of watching at the Monstra Lisbon Animation Festival 2018. 4 States of Matter” is an abstract animation film whose main theme is “matter”. It is developed in four different acts/movements, each one with a distinct graphic...

• Type: Article
• Author: Eliane Gordeeff
• Category: Interviews

Nocturne by Anne Breymannhttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/nocturne-anne-breymann

07 February 2019 keep believing in my ideas over the two years I worked on the film. ZF: How did you work with your collaborators (music, abstract animation), and what did you ask of them? AB: I chose all of my collaborators because I admire their work, and so I trusted...

• Type: Article
• Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
• Category: Shorts