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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.[1] The following BiM summer contest was The Genre Games in 2023.

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.[2]

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:

Film Name 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 Tiyara 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"

Results[]

Top 10
Place Film Name Director
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 Tiyara Selen

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

References[]

Official Bricks in Motion competitions (2008 - Present)
Technical Excellence Competition · Space, Time, and Reality · Avant-Garde · Septemberfest 2010 · Tales of Yore · Kitchen Sink · Bricks in Motion Celebration · Darkness and Light · Septemberfest: The Citizen of the Year LIVES · Sight & Sound · Spirit of Adventure · Movie Magic · Past and Future · Fright and Fear · Septemberfest 2020 · MANiFEST · MANiiFEST · The Genre Games · Musical World

Twenty-four Hour Animation Contest · Brickfilm Rapidly All Week Long · BiM Awards · Animation Challenge · EASTER · BFD Animation Contest

See also: Official Brickfilms.com competitions (2001 - 2008) · AniExer-size · Contrast · Brickfilm Day