MIAF 2026 Izabela Plucinska – Retrospective & Q&A

Izabela Plucinska is one of the most interesting and innovative independent animators working today. Over the last 25 years MIAF has screened most of her films, and watched Izabela breathe life into flat tablets of coloured plasticine. As those characters took on more intense and engaging physical forms we’ve watched in quiet awe as Izabela found ways to raise them up and form them into fully three dimensional characters – living, breathing, feeling, struggling, thinking, plotting, running, and hiding, right before our eyes.

Her latest films take these characters and these worlds to a whole other plane though. Their capacity to move and morph, to blend and reform and shape-shift is next level animating – an evolution that you can witness again, or anew, as this program takes you through the full breadth of her work.

We are beyond thrilled to be able to bring Izabela to Melbourne to share her work and talk about her techniques, her mastering of the materials she uses to make these films, and the places the stories come from.

This session is classified: Unclassified (M) Mature, not recommended for viewers under 15 years.