The MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL champions the world’s finest machinima and filmmakers using video games and their technologies. An annual event, the festival showcases game-based videos created by artists and practitioners whose work lies at the intersection of video art, cinema, animation, and gaming.
The screened works are selected on the basis of their cultural relevance, artistic achievement, and innovative style by an international panel of jurors and by our cadre of curators. We strongly believe that the Festival selection best represents the diversity, ingenuity, and creativity of game-based video practices.
Filmmakers and video artists engaged in the practice of appropriating, repurposing, and remixing video games are encouraged to send us their work for consideration. All submissions will be judged by an international panel of jurors comprising scholars, curators, and critics. A Critics' Award will be awarded to the most groundbreaking work.
Screenings of selected machinima will be curated around different themes and presented in different sections. The most interesting submissions are those which seek to capture or highlight a specific facet of contemporary life, from politics to art, from violence to creativity, from technology to ideology, through the aesthetic lenses of digital gaming.
Featured artists: https://milanmachinimafestival.org/artist-index
The deadline for submissions is December 30, 2022
The full program will be announced in Early March 2023
Please carefully read our simple submission guidelines and requirements below before sending your work.
Critics' Choice Award.
Awarded by an international panel of scholars, curators, and critics:
Previous winners include:
Stanislaw Petruk (2023), Sam Crane (2022), Gina Hara (2021), Bram Ruiter (2019)