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Posted on April 23, 2020April 23, 2020

Body Image by Cheryl Rogers

‘Can you hear that noise again?  A ‘clunk, clunk, clunk’, coming from the clapped outtreadmill you found on Gumtree. ‘Free, pick up only.’ That should have been warning enough, but you said it just needed a couple of new bearings and it’d be right as rain.’

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Posted on March 13, 2020April 23, 2020

Tenuously Acquainted by Katherine Watson

Mum makes that tutting noise that only annoys me because I do it too. Tuttuttut in quick succession as she reads, or pretends to. Like someone knocking on her teeth asking to get out.

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Posted on March 13, 2020April 23, 2020

Vignette by Rebekah Ward

“We’ll Run…!”
“But…. I…. have to go…with them…”  “I have to.”  In its palm a small orb pulsates.             “Please,” she begs. “I wish you’d stay …. with me….” Leaning in she closes its palm.

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Posted on March 13, 2020April 23, 2020

YouTube Momma by Debra Tidball

10.3K Likes

Ping: ‘Your poor darling. Sending hugs and kisses to Kaylee and her Momma.’

I tuck Kaylee into her bed. ‘Cuddle?’ she murmurs. But I flop onto the lounge and return to the screen.

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Posted on March 13, 2020April 23, 2020

Safety in Mundanity by Claire Thompson

One image always pinned to my eyes is the smoke of that summer. Not really an image then, at least not a clear one. Just grey. A city encased in smoke. Like bees, we were made drowsy by it. Stumbling down pathways, throats stinging with ash.

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Posted on March 13, 2020April 23, 2020

Seed by Agnes Sunil

Heather Greenway peered out of her little mud hut, overlooking her once colourful and joyous village. Heather’s village was now filled with ash and smoke. When her parents were alive, they told her of a village that had plants, trees, flowers and all sorts of beauties.

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Posted on March 13, 2020April 23, 2020

Top of the Queue by Libby Sommer

‘Great to see people out and about again today,’ I’m saying out loud to no-one in particular, frothing milk at the coffee machine. ‘Three days of fire-quenching rain,’ he agrees, as if he were a mate of mine.

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Posted on March 13, 2020April 23, 2020

The Woven Image by Dorothy Simmons

So God created man in his own image.  But not woman? Someone to rib – hah! -your mates about? No Goddess? Several. Just check your myths and legends. Multi-tasking already. I think about such things as I crouch at my loom, bearing down on each individual strand,  growing the weft which will carry the whole weave.

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Posted on March 13, 2020April 23, 2020

Seen by Emily Ralph

Hello, my smile says, are you looking for me? You hesitate, your thumb hovers above a one-dimensional girl whose face is no larger than your cuticle, a flatscreen Thumbelina begging for one moment of consideration.

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Posted on March 13, 2020April 23, 2020

Southern Oscillation by Brenda Proudfoot

The busted door was something he could do without. Gary opened the ute’s passenger door and slid across the seat. He didn’t give it a second thought. His mind was drowning in figures. How many days until his dam was empty? How long ’til the overdraft ran out? It had taken him years to build up a quality herd.

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Microflix 2020 Progress Diaries with UTS Animation Students – No. 5

Posted: August 30, 2020

Hello and welcome all you Flixers! Only one day left until the submission deadline – Monday August 31st – how is everyone feeling? Here at the Microflix team we wish everyone the best of luck while they progress through the finishing touches of their Microflix’s. How many of you are feeling a lack of motivation …

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Microflix 2020 Progress Diaries with UTS Animation Students – No. 4

Posted: August 26, 2020

Hello and welcome all you Flixers to todays blog post! More dates have been crossed off your calendars as the submission date to the Microflix Film Festival draws nearer – August 31st. I’m hoping that today’s blog post with UTS Animation students will inspire you as you finalise those last stages of your flix. The …

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Microflix 2020 Progress Diaries with UTS Animation Students – No. 3

Posted: August 24, 2020

Have you crossed the dates off your calendar since my last blog post? If so, then you’re on the ball and know that the Microflix deadline is just round the corner. Actually, it’s next week people (August 31st), so we better get cracking on the finishing touches of our Microflix films! And subsequently, onto this …

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Microflix 2020 Progress Diaries with UTS Animation Students – No. 2

Posted: August 20, 2020

Another day bites the dust as we roll closer and closer to the Microflix submission deadline (August 31st). For some, it’s another day of going around in circles trying to find inspiration for their adaptation.  And so another progress diary from UTS Animation students is in order, in the hope that it will spark your …

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Microflix 2020 Progress Diaries with UTS Animation Students – No. 1

Posted: August 13, 2020

Hello Fellow Flixers! With less than a month to go til the submissions deadline date (August 31st), many of you filmmakers, animators and storytellers are progressing somewhere through the second half of your projects! Maybe you are near the end or have already submitted? Or you are just beginning your Microflix now and are in …

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REAR WINDOW: Inspiration in isolation

Posted: June 1, 2020

There are almost too many microlit texts to choose from – but here, I’ve done all the hard work for you. Between frenzied hand washes, check out these microlit texts and get thinking about how they could make the leap from page to screen. What makes these texts great? More importantly, how do we communicate …

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The new normal: How to adapt stories during COVID-19

Posted: May 20, 2020

Or Ashleigh’s Tips for Adapting Microlit – Part Two By now we’re well into isolation and adjusting to the new normal – if normal is a parallel universe where I go on three walks a day and spend my nights learning embroidery. What time to be alive.  Many people are finding isolation is a chance …

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Three texts you can adapt for short film during COVID-19

Posted: May 12, 2020

Or, Ashleigh’s Tips for Adapting Microlit – Part One The 2020 Microflix Comp is here, and the microlit is in. There are countless texts to choose from, and endless ideas to explore. Here, I’ve broken down three texts which I loved and could visualise on film. The following texts lend themselves to dramatic adaptation and …

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THE ART OF ADAPTATION

Posted: May 7, 2020

The 2020 Microflix Awards and Festival is upon us and this batch of microlit is ripe for adaptation – but what’s the best way to make someone else’s story your own? In Such a Transformation, Yasmine Gooneratne says; “The best adaptations imitate … capturing the spirit of the text …Imitation invites the reader to hold …

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Taj’s Tips for Filmmaking in COVID-19

Posted: April 3, 2020

Hello to my filmmaking and screenwriting friends! With the Microflix submissions for writing in, who’s keen to dive into some new adaptations?! For today’s blog instalment we’re going to be looking at a few of the Microlit submissions for this year’s upcoming Microflix festival with the theme of IMAGE and I’ll be running through a …

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