MANiiFEST

MANiiFEST was a brickfilming competition hosted by Ben Young on Bricks in Motion in 2022. It was the twelfth official Bricks in Motion summer contest, and was a second iteration of Young's MANiFEST contest, following the first from 2021. As with the first one, the aim of the contest was to encourage experimentation in brickfilming, with greater freedom than the average brickfilm contest, and with entrants encouraged to consider styles or combinations of mediums that are not commonly seen in brickfilming. The contest was announced via a narrative-based video featuring Ben Young, Chris Wynn, Seán Willis, and Lucas Mass together in person. The contest received 38 accepted entries; the most ever to a Bricks in Motion summer contest.

Judging and prizes
The contest was judged by a panel consisting of Seán Willis, William Osborne, Lucas Mass, "Edbound", Thomas Evans, and Ben Young. Like the preceding Bricks in Motion Summer contests, no formal set of judging criteria were used, but consideration was given to overall creativity, originality, and interpretation of the contest's theme and spirit.

Prizes were awarded to the top three placing entrants, in a prize pool format. The three prizes available are a copy of Dragonframe 5 including Bluetooth controller, a Brickstuff Pico LED light board starter kit, and the LEGO set 71374 Nintendo Entertainment System.

List of all entries: {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="min-width:100%;" !data-sort-type="text" style="width:53%"|Film Name !data-sort-type="text"|Director
 * The Alien Cookie Destroyer || "DNAnimation"
 * Be not Afraid || "UncertainDrag0n Studios"
 * “The Brick.” || "E-Motion"
 * bro hid there for years || "FenrirStudios22"
 * Car park || Dylan "Funky Monkey Studios" Landes
 * Chosen || Elijah "TN Studios" George
 * Dream, In || "Sim Ned Productions"
 * Good Idea/Bad Idea: Climate Change || Seza Tiara Selen
 * Hingus Badabingus and Janica Diboof Meet the Couch Goblin in Janica's Couch and Find a Sock Painting || Max "Maxed Out Productions" McPhee
 * I certainly wouldn't claim this to be the longest brickfilm title on record, as no doubt something truly absurd exists, but it really is quite the run on sentence and might just manage the highest title to video length ratio at a stretch, I mean, you never know... Also, tenuously philosophical yolks and stuff. || "2x2 Brick Studio Bros Productions"
 * I like LEGOs Lincoln Logs suck! (password: watchvideo) || The Four Monkeys
 * I Think Eating Ham Makes Me Depressed || Jonathan Mangiapane
 * Insomnia || Joshua Nelson
 * LEGO Flatpack || Lewis "duffosaur" Duffield
 * LEGO on the lake - Where to put the loot? || Rainer Storck
 * Life After Dark || "_.l_u_c_astleship._"
 * jker almost undies || "egg mcguffin"
 * Johnny Thunder & The Gemstone || Andrew "Caped Crusader" Drozd
 * Johnny Thunder and the Tomb of Abaj || Stuart Nelson and Keith Nelson
 * A Journey Deep Underground || Dawid "DaGarbes" Garbowski
 * LUCID? || Joel "JaguarBrickFilms" Meyer
 * manifest loo || "swatman1997"
 * Manifested for Manifest || "Jim's Epic Films"
 * Mind-Wipe, or Terrestrial Termination of a Sustained Subservient Bovid Methuselah || Joshua Armell
 * The Museum Trip || "cgdude9"
 * NO MILK || "TinyMushroomFilms"
 * Project: 5922 || Adam "Castlerock15" Letson
 * Seat on the Table || Ilmari Teekkinen
 * Shenanigans in Summer || "Hutdog Studios"
 * spaceship down || "Brickfoot"
 * SPIDER TRAP || "Humbug"
 * A Step Out of Reality (WIP MANiiFEST Cut) || "JO Co"
 * Taco Trouble 2 Funny Moments || "Jeff"
 * A thought || "Moth Fan's films"
 * TIME || "Brick Brother Studio" and "KRINJJ BEATS"
 * Wacky Cargo! || Sebastian "JuanAteTheJetDryer75" Garay
 * Waiting for Rain || Aaron Williams
 * yer ordinary pirate duel || "Banana Productions"
 * A Journey Deep Underground || Dawid "DaGarbes" Garbowski
 * LUCID? || Joel "JaguarBrickFilms" Meyer
 * manifest loo || "swatman1997"
 * Manifested for Manifest || "Jim's Epic Films"
 * Mind-Wipe, or Terrestrial Termination of a Sustained Subservient Bovid Methuselah || Joshua Armell
 * The Museum Trip || "cgdude9"
 * NO MILK || "TinyMushroomFilms"
 * Project: 5922 || Adam "Castlerock15" Letson
 * Seat on the Table || Ilmari Teekkinen
 * Shenanigans in Summer || "Hutdog Studios"
 * spaceship down || "Brickfoot"
 * SPIDER TRAP || "Humbug"
 * A Step Out of Reality (WIP MANiiFEST Cut) || "JO Co"
 * Taco Trouble 2 Funny Moments || "Jeff"
 * A thought || "Moth Fan's films"
 * TIME || "Brick Brother Studio" and "KRINJJ BEATS"
 * Wacky Cargo! || Sebastian "JuanAteTheJetDryer75" Garay
 * Waiting for Rain || Aaron Williams
 * yer ordinary pirate duel || "Banana Productions"
 * Shenanigans in Summer || "Hutdog Studios"
 * spaceship down || "Brickfoot"
 * SPIDER TRAP || "Humbug"
 * A Step Out of Reality (WIP MANiiFEST Cut) || "JO Co"
 * Taco Trouble 2 Funny Moments || "Jeff"
 * A thought || "Moth Fan's films"
 * TIME || "Brick Brother Studio" and "KRINJJ BEATS"
 * Wacky Cargo! || Sebastian "JuanAteTheJetDryer75" Garay
 * Waiting for Rain || Aaron Williams
 * yer ordinary pirate duel || "Banana Productions"
 * A thought || "Moth Fan's films"
 * TIME || "Brick Brother Studio" and "KRINJJ BEATS"
 * Wacky Cargo! || Sebastian "JuanAteTheJetDryer75" Garay
 * Waiting for Rain || Aaron Williams
 * yer ordinary pirate duel || "Banana Productions"
 * Waiting for Rain || Aaron Williams
 * yer ordinary pirate duel || "Banana Productions"
 * yer ordinary pirate duel || "Banana Productions"
 * yer ordinary pirate duel || "Banana Productions"

Results

 * 1. || Seat on the Table || Ilmari Teekkinen
 * 2. || Insomnia || Joshua Nelson
 * 3. || Waiting for Rain || Aaron Williams
 * 4. || Mind-Wipe, or Terrestrial Termination of a Sustained Subservient Bovid Methuselah || Joshua Armell
 * 5. || Johnny Thunder and the Tomb of Abaj || Stuart Nelson and Keith Nelson
 * 6. || A Step Out of Reality (WIP MANiiFEST Cut) || "JO Co"
 * 7. || A Journey Deep Underground || Dawid "DaGarbes" Garbowski
 * 8. || LEGO Flatpack || Lewis "duffosaur" Duffield
 * 9. || LUCID? || Joel "JaguarBrickFilms" Meyer
 * 10. || Good Idea/Bad Idea: Climate Change || Seza Tiara Selen
 * 6. || A Step Out of Reality (WIP MANiiFEST Cut) || "JO Co"
 * 7. || A Journey Deep Underground || Dawid "DaGarbes" Garbowski
 * 8. || LEGO Flatpack || Lewis "duffosaur" Duffield
 * 9. || LUCID? || Joel "JaguarBrickFilms" Meyer
 * 10. || Good Idea/Bad Idea: Climate Change || Seza Tiara Selen
 * 9. || LUCID? || Joel "JaguarBrickFilms" Meyer
 * 10. || Good Idea/Bad Idea: Climate Change || Seza Tiara Selen
 * 10. || Good Idea/Bad Idea: Climate Change || Seza Tiara Selen
 * 10. || Good Idea/Bad Idea: Climate Change || Seza Tiara Selen

An honorable mention was given in the results stream to Taco Trouble 2 Funny Moments by "Jeff".