Meet the Artists

 

Meet participating artists and filmmakers throughout Screens in the White Box 2026. Join us at the Opening Night and selected screening sessions to connect with the creators, discover the stories behind their works, and hear more about their creative processes.

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1.Massi Gamboni– IRIS: An experimental surrealist film blending 2D animation, 3D environments, and live action as a small creature journeys through a strange landscape while pursued by a malevolent eye. BLOOD MOON: A gothic western about a monster hunter and a vampire whose violent confrontation evolves into an unexpected exploration of conflict, monstrosity, and empathy.

 

2. Kristina Kozynina – The Little Things: uses surrealism to explore how unsettling everyday encounters in Melbourne shape a young woman’s perception, emotions, and lasting psychological experience. 

 

3. James Matijasevich – Parea: A situational comedy about a fruit seller, a stubborn helper, and a ghoul who must overcome their differences and learn to work together.

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4. Jialin Guo – A participatory photographic and archival installation exploring how human identity is interpreted, reconstructed, and sometimes misrepresented across personal, archival, and AI systems. 

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5.Takako Osawa – Uzumé: A short video blending the endangered Southern Bent-wing bat with Shinto mythology and playful dance to explore environmental crisis, collective action, and coexistence with the natural world. 

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6. Daoyang Guan – Wait, Still: An experimental moving-image loop that transforms a still coastal landscape into an unstable digital memory, exploring waiting, recollection, and the tension between stillness and technological disruption. 

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7. Demure – A drama short film about a troubled young woman who forms an unexpected bond with a stranger, leading her on a journey of self-worth, identity, and self-discovery.

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8. Andrea Tirona – Hidden: A 2D animated comedy about a socially anxious person whose desperate attempts to hide his face after losing his beloved mask lead to a series of absurd and chaotic situations. Loner: A short film about a college student suddenly left alone in an empty world, navigating paranoia, loneliness, and the unexpected freedom of solitude.

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9. Suvekchya Saakha – Lost & found: A mixed-media animated short about an international student navigating homesickness, identity, and belonging while searching for a sense of home in an unfamiliar city.

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10. Jemimah Ventura – Marked Memories: A 2D animated pitch trailer exploring reincarnation, memory, and birthmarks through vivid colours, contrasting worlds, and diverse visual genres.

 

11. Arwen Qin - Remind The Sneeze!!: A magical comedy about a jellyfish witch whose accidental sneeze turns a simple potion-making session into unexpected chaos. Fly Me To The Moon: A whimsical adventure about a young inventor who journeys into the sky to return a mysterious egg, only to discover an angel that carries her toward an unknown world.

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12. Andrea Thao Yiannis – Burning Daylight: Following the sudden absence of a small village’s Sun Creature, a brave girl embarks on a journey to the higher realm. 

 

13. Zeyang Liu – Shadowing 1: An experimental work exploring language anxiety and fragmented cultural identity by transforming English and Japanese into unfamiliar sounds and fractured text. Shadowing 2: An experimental work examining how fragments of Chinese language in Melbourne are decontextualised, consumed, and made unfamiliar, turning one’s mother tongue into something that must be relearned and translated.

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14.Till It Breaks Team – Till It Breaks: A psychological short film about a man tormented by the sea’s call toward death who ultimately confronts the ocean and the mysterious figure haunting his mind. Burial: A surreal short film about a depressed man who sets out to bury his own corpse, only to discover he is actually burying the objects and memories of his childhood.

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15. Cody Fordham – Shabadoo: A campy animated music video filled with angels, robots, kaiju, and chaotic characters, combining playful storytelling with a kitsch dance track.

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16. Thamu Waile - Maphosa– Sea Sentinel: An action-packed animated short about an old man protecting baby sea turtles from hungry seagulls, blending anime and classic cartoon styles with the contrasting beauty and chaos of the beach.

 

17. Rachel Poon -  Starfall: An animated graduate film about a struggling artist who reconnects with her younger self and rediscovers the importance of creativity and artistic self-expression. Rondo: An animated story about a ballet-dancing young man from an art-loving village who finds himself captured by a robot-controlled regime.

 

18. Celeste Magris - Sehnsucht: An animated short about longing, creativity, and finding the courage to pursue what you love, even in the face of uncertainty and inevitable failure.

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19. Isabella Mesiti - Intimates: An experimental animation exploring the quiet intimacy of sleeping beside someone while revealing the often-hidden time, labour, and imperfections behind frame-by-frame animation.

 

20. Leonardo Halcyon Day - Unidentified Hostile Lifeforms: As his spaceship goes into emergency lockdown, a lone astronaut navigates the dark corridors in search of his crew. Little does he know, they are not the only lifeforms present on the ship.

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Acknowledgement
 

Presented by Australia Multi Art & Culture Council and Creative Asia Foundation, Screens in the White Box brings together emerging artists and filmmakers working across short film, animation, experimental moving image, video art, and interdisciplinary screen-based practices.

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Through a diverse collection of works, the exhibition explores the screen not simply as a space for storytelling, but as a medium for perception, memory, identity, emotion, and imagination. From intimate personal experiences to surreal worlds, cultural displacement, environmental concerns, and encounters with technology, each work offers a distinct way of seeing and experiencing the world through moving images.

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At its core, Screens in the White Box asks what happens when moving images leave the conventional cinema and enter the gallery space — where audiences are invited not only to watch, but to pause, move, encounter, and experience images differently.

“Screens in the White Box explores the screen as more than a window onto another world. It becomes a space where memories, emotions, identities, and imagined realities can meet, overlap, and transform.”

Across the exhibition, audiences are invited to discover a wide range of emerging creative voices, encounter different approaches to moving-image practice, and experience how the screen can become an artistic space in its own right.

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Screens in the White Box is a platform for emerging filmmakers, animators, and moving-image artists to present their work beyond conventional screening contexts. By bringing screen-based practices into a shared exhibition environment, the project creates opportunities for creative exchange, artistic visibility, and connections between practitioners, audiences, and the wider arts community.

More than a showcase, Screens in the White Box encourages encounters between different creative disciplines, approaches, and perspectives. It offers emerging practitioners a space to share their work, connect with one another, and open new conversations around contemporary moving-image practice.