MIF is back – inviting you to leap into the unknown with some of the most exciting creative minds of our generation.

Taking over Aviva Studios and spreading across the city and beyond, experience art that pushes boundaries, addresses the big questions of our time and creates hope for the future.

Treat yourself to a MIF '25 A3 Poster to remember your experience. 

About the show:

Where does the self begin or end? Who are you when your body begins to decline? 

In this contemplative new film and live installation, artist Juliet Ellis deconstructs the relationship between our body, mind and self. A Symphony of Flesh and Bones draws on the artist’s family history to create a profound and hallucinatory work that both probes and provokes universal questions about personas and impermanence.

Focusing on the experiences of her father Lloyd, a world champion bodybuilder, and her brother, Anthony, a former cage fighter, Ellis explores how and why we build our bodies as shelters or armour – and how the physical effects of aging impact the different identities we construct.

A Symphony of Flesh and Bones is grounded in Ellis’ Buddhist practice. Deeply meditative, the piece comprises of film split across multiple screens, and a stage performance responding to the film’s content. Ellis sits at the centre of this in the flesh as the live element conducting the work, while dreamlike images of Lloyd and Anthony as younger men, their bodies today and their unrealised dreams appear on screen.