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Followed by Shorts Two: Out of the Box and Videos That Rock.
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A presentation of the AG-HVX200E movie camera, presented and run by Fabio Farina, Technical Support Specialist of Panasonic Italy, SpA.
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State of the Art, Resfest's flagship showcase of short form work, mixes live action, animation, motion graphics and documentary. As always, there’s a truly international feel to this collection, with films coming from South Africa and Spain, the UK and Korea, the Netherlands and the US. In addition to the sumptuously operatic The Tale of How by newcomers The BlackHeart Gang, the program features striking work from creators familiar to Resfest audiences, including Run Wrake, PES and Chris Shepherd, plus three world premieres from festival alumni – Johan Kramer's poignant profile of a nearly blind Spanish boy, 0.08; Stefan Nadelman's cuisine-driven CliffsNotes to the history of war, Food Fight; and RND# maestro Richard Fenwick’s conceptual thriller, The Box.
Screening of By Design
Resfest annual survey of the latest and best in motion graphics, computer-generated imagery, innovative animation techniques and broadcast design returns for its sixth year. This time out, the program traverses fidelities both high and low, finding inspirations as diverse as cuckoo clocks and footballs, while using a wide array of techniques ranging from state-of-the-art CGI to stop-motion animation comprised entirely of Post-It notes. There’s gorgeous new work from two members of the 2006 RES 10 – Tokyo multidisciplinary magician Takagi Masakatsu offers the poetic tour de force Bloomy Girls and US heroes Impactist deliver the mystical voyage Ranch. Meanwhile, two established visual masters and longtime RESFEST collaborators make their return: Ben Stokes with the world premiere of his new homage to moviemaking, Dub Projector, and Graham Woods with his hypnotic and hauntingly evocative video for Scott Walker’s “Jesse.”
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Special Guest Stylophonic along with screenings from the Videos that Rock section. An evening of images and music with a selection of musical shorts from Resfest 2006 and videos by Matteo Bonifazio, director of Italian DJ/producer/composer Stefano Fontana, a.k.a. Stylophonic. To be followed by the DJ set of “Italian Fatboy Slim,” who is by now internationally known thanks to the song Baby Beatbox chosen by Dolce & Gabbana as the original score for their TV ad campaign “D&G Time.” The commercials will be shown at the end of the evening.
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Tiro al blanco (Target Practice): performance by Luis Nieto, director and creator of Carlitopolis (Shorts Two section: Out of the Box) The provocative director from Colombia, now living in Paris, who in his pseudo shock video presented at the festival rages with savagery against a laboratory mouse and tries to enter during a live transmission of the Guinness Book of World Records target practice. The video is created with his “perversionist artist” style.
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As always, this popular program showcases the ability of talented filmmakers from around the world to elevate the past year’s most exciting electronic and hip-hop songs through the ingenuity they bring to short form video. A collection which sees the likes of Basement Jaxx, Hifana and Massive Attack rubbing shoulders kicks off with Robert Hales’ Smiley Faces for Gnarls Barkley, a charming ride that’s one part Zelig, one part Danger Mouse’s Grey Video. Elsewhere, +Cruz and Shane Lester hit hard with What You Standin’ For, for Japan’s DJ Uppercut, and a pair of exciting new talents make their names in thrilling fashion – Ireland’s David O’Reilly with Szamar Madar for the Venetian Snares and France’s Nadia Micault for Sir Alice’s L’amour Made in Taiwan Australia’s Nicolas Randall closes out the party with All He Needs a cheeky “cover” of Mike Mills’ seminal “All I Need” for Air that’s one part parody, one part homage.
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Special presentation: Professor Nieto’s Show, introduced by Luca Carlucci, graphic artist and composer
More work by Luis Nieto, the director of incredible special effects will present pieces made before and after Carlitopolis, or rather, a selection of videos and some making of his more or less recent works: from Nieto’s Show, a mini-series created for Canal plus which takes place in a laboratory in which the director (helped by his assistant Patrick, a chimpanzee with a diaper) films in front of his experimental students that are actually all kinds of animals to the small animated film Far West and the commercial Squareness recently made for Coca-cola.
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A collection of stylistically disparate work that is unabashedly issues-based. And those issues themselves are far-reaching, including the fragility of the environment, stem cell research, deforestation, nuclear proliferation and the anti-globalization movement, to name just a few. At a historical moment when many of us are feeling a greater drive to act, and act responsibly – both individually and collectively – it is a source of considerable encouragement and inspiration to find talented filmmakers so eager to lead the way.
Screening of A Decade Of Resfest: 10 Seminal Short Films
For our 10th anniversary, we’ve chosen 10 landmark films to represent the festival’s 10 years, illustrating the myriad ways RESFEST filmmakers have devised to reinvent their medium. These diverse approaches include twisted new applications of animation in Michael Overbeck’s Tongues and Taxis and Pic Pic André’s Le grand sommeil, radically new takes on documentary in Stefan Nadelman’s Terminal Bar and Bob Sabiston’s Snack and Drink, and fascinating explorations of painstaking artistic processes in Virgil Widrich’s Fast Film and David Ellis’ Letter to the President. The result is an utterly unique timeline of filmic innovation and advancement.
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Special Session: A.A.A.A.: Advertising As An Art
with the participation of Vi Nguyen, creative director of Motion Theory, Jules Janaud and Francios Roisin, directors (The Mill), Matteo Corbi, co-founder and VFX supervisor of FastForward; moderator: Jaime d’Alessandro, journalist.
The representatives of three avant-garde post production studios, all of different nationalities, will speak about their creations in the field of advertising, comparing the use of new technology and showing backstage, “making of” and special effects of their best work.
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On the occasion of RESFEST’s 10th birthday, we’re giving you a present: a decade-long survey of some of the best music videos ever to play the festival. Since RESFEST has always championed the music video as an art form in its own right, this greatest hits compilation is, not surprisingly, a truly stellar program. Don’t come looking for chart-topping singles, though H5’s amazing Remind Me for Röyksopp is one exception. But the films gathered here are strong in their own right, serving to enhance and augment their songs in unexpected, brilliant ways. Several grin-inducing audience favorites appear, including Ruben Fleischer’s We Know Something You Don’t Know for DJ Format, with its hilarious break-dancing flurries, and Alex Budovsky’s manic animation for (The Real) Tuesday Weld’s catchy-as-all-get-out Bathtime in Clernkenwell alongside classics for Air, Cornelius, UNKLE, Phoenix and more.
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Resfest’s relentlessly eclectic rock-oriented music video program has never been a place to find traditional performance videos, though this year it does offer one radical retake on that style, in the form of Nima Nourizadeh’s winking, behind-the-scenes parody for Hot Chip’s song of the summer, Over and Over. Many of the program’s other videos use sophisticated animation to tell epic, fantastical stories with ambitious themes: Joel Trussell’s War Photographer for Jason Forrest, a hilarious animated tale of rival rock and roll Vikings, and Elliott Jokelson and Loyalkaspar’s chalk-and-watercolor video for Pinback’s Fortress are both war sagas; meanwhile, Chris Hopewell’s Marble House for the Knife, a stop-motion day in the life of a family of mice, and Monkmus’ Travel Is Dangerous for Mogwai, a gorgeous, layered story of environmental degradation, both delve deep into the animal world.
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The best of the most recent visual music in the first Italian retrospective– created for the magazine “Digicult” and produced by Dissonanze 2006 – dedicated to the programs normally known in live and performed contexts. Among the artists, the projects and the palimpsests of the selected video center are: Jeffers Egan, Montevideo program, Reline, Semiconductor, Ryoichi Kurokawa,
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There were certainly more than enough outstanding chills and thrills among this year’s submissions to allow us to put together this dark and creepy program, which ranges from the world premiere of Polish director Marcin Pazera’s Moloch, a peculiar symbiosis of factory and man, to American filmmaker Carter Smith’s Sundance Jury Prize-winning Bugcrush, a disturbing look at the perils of trying to fit in at a suburban high school. The Netherlands’ Rosto whips up a spinning nightmare in Jona/Tomberry, while Venezuelan-born, UK-based Carl Zitelmann uses vividly stark animation to take viewers inside a cowboy’s last moments. In Temerario. Taken as a whole, Fear and Trembling’s troubling and occasionally terrifying tricks and treats will get into your subconscious and plant seeds there.
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