State of the Art, è la vetrina più importante dei corti del Resfest, e possiede una ampia varietà di forme: live action, animazione, grafiche in movimento e documentari. Sezione di grande internazionalità, con filmati che arrivano dal Sud Africa, Spagna, Gran Bretagna, Corea, Paesi Bassi, USA. In aggiunta al fastoso e operistico THE TALE OF HOW dei neofiti The Blackheart Gang, il programma vanta le opere più spettacolari di artisti che sono già noti al pubblico del Resfest, come Run Wrake, PES e Chris Shephard, oltre alle anteprime dei lavori di tre promettenti “alunni” del Festival: 0:08 di Johan Kramer, il commovente ritratto di un ragazzino spagnolo quasi cieco; FOOD FIGHT di Stefan Nadelman che con i suoi appunti culinari ci introduce alla Storia della Guerra e THE BOX, un thriller concettuale di Richard Fenwick, il maestro di RND#.

NIEBLA
MEXICO/SPAGNA | 7:30 | 2006
DIRECTOR: EMILIO RAMOS
ANIMATION / DESIGN / ILUSTRATION: EMILIO RAMOS, MARIA DEL MAR HERNÁNDEZ, JORDI CODINA
MUSIC: LEO HEIBLUM
SCRIPT: MARIA DEL MAR HERNÁNDEZ, JORDI CODINA, EMILIO RAMOS
OLD MAN VOICE: JOSEP CODINA
RENDER: IRAKLI KUBLASHVILI
STILL PHOTO: ROCÍO RAMOS, SANTIAGO GARCÉS
CREDITS DESIGN: DIANA LÓPEZ FONT
PRODUCTION: PRODUCCIONES ATOTONILCO - CIUDAD DE MÉXICO - UNIVERSITAT PEMPEU FABRA
Led by the words of an old man, we will witness the extraordinary event that changed the life of a village forgotten amid the fog

A PERFECT RED SNAPPER DISH
KOREA | 9:10 | 2005
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER/COMPOSER: HONG-JIN NA
PRODUCER: KNUA
CINEMATOGRAPHER: SUNG-JE LEE
EDITOR: EU-GENE JEON
SOUND DESIGNER: MIN-SOO KANG
ART DIRECTOR: JI-YE YOO
CAST: YONG-KUN BAE, JAE-SOO LEE, SU-YOUNG LEE
TOOLS: ARRI BL, AVID, PRO TOOLS, MAC
In this black comedy, a passionate chef’s colossal lack of culinary acumen fails to deter him from attempting to conjur up the perfect plate of red snapper.

FOOD FIGHT
US | 5:30 | 2006
DIRECTOR: STEFAN NADELMAN
TOOLS: PANASONIC DMC-LC33, AFTER EFFECTS, GARAGEBAND, SOUNDTRACK
Food Fight tells an abridged history of war, from World War II to the present day, using foods to represent the countries in conflict, from sushi rolls to fish and chips to hamburgers and French fries. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically reenacted smorgasbord of aggression.

GAME OVER
US | 1:30 | 2006
DIRECTOR: PES
PRODUCERS: SARAH PHELPS, PES
Motivated by a desire to take something electronic and remake it by hand, stop-motion alchemist PES lovingly recreates five classic arcade games using food and household objects. In Space Invaders, the invaders are plastic bugs, and in Pac-Man, the little yellow dot-munching protagonist becomes an pizza with a slice taken out, taking the viewer on a charming, semi-nostalgic journey into what the director calls

I AM (NOT) VAN GOGH
USA | 5:00 | 2005
DIRECTOR /SCREENWRITER /ANIMATOR
/CINEMATOGRAPHER /PRODUCER: DAVID RUSSO
VOICES: ANDREA WOLLENBERG, DAVID RUSSO, SCOTT JORGENSON, ROBYN HART
SOUND DESIGN, RE-RECORDING MIXER: SCOTT HAMBLETON, UNDERTONE MUSIC EDITORS: JOE SHAPIRO, DAVID RUSSO
POST COORDINATOR: R.K. ADAMS
OPTICALS: FRED PACK, ALPHA CINE
NEGATIVE CUTTING: ANDY PRATT NEGATIVE CUTTING
TITLES: DEAN MARTINSON, TITLEWORKS
TOOLS: 50 YEAR-OLD 35MM MITCHELL GC, SELF-FABRICATED RIGS & CONTRAPTIONS; DIVIDED SCREEN EFFECT CREATED BY FILM JUMPING TWO SPROCKETS IN THE GATE ON IMPACT – CAMERA WAS EQUIPPED TO SURVIVE THE 120-FOOT FALL AND KEEP ROLLING; NO COMPUTERS OR SOFTWARE WERE USED
A misfit artist proposes a film production to a confused public arts festival panel. A true story, many times over, originally created as a site-specific art installation for Seattle’s Bumbershoot festival.

RABBIT
UK | 8:30 | 2006
DIRECTOR: RUN WRAKE
ASSISTANT ANIMATORS: MARTIN MORRIS, BARNABY HEWLETT, MURRAY JOHN
EDITOR: RICH WHITE
COMPOSERS: HOWIE B, CRAIG RICHARDS
DUBBING EDITOR: CRAIG BUTTERS
DUBBING MIXER: CLIFF JONES
TOOLS: MIXED MEDIA, INCLUDING "FOUND" EDUCATIONAL STICKERS AND HAND-DRAWN ABSTRACT ANIMATION, AFTER EFFECTS
Director Run Wrake tells a dreamlike but dark story of lost innocence and the random justice of nature, using peculiar educational images borrowed from a distant '50s childhood. When two siblings discover a idol with remarkable powers inside the belly of a rabbit, great riches ensue – but at what cost?

SILENCE IS GOLDEN
UK | 14:30 | 2006
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: CHRIS SHEPHERD
PRODUCER: MARIA MANTON
CINEMATOGRAPHER: JOHN RHODES
EDITOR: JUSTINE WRIGHT
SOUND DESIGNER: ANDY HUMPHREYS
COMPOSERS: OLIVER DAVIS, JOHN MOORE
CAST: BILLY CONOR, BILLY’S MUM, MORRIS DENNIS WRIGHT, ANDREW DUNFORD, KATE MCCLOUGHLIN
TOOLS: AVID XPRESS, FINAL CUT PRO, SONY HD-W HD CAMERA
Slinky Pictures co-founder Chris Shepherd combines live action and animation in this amusingly dark fable of a young boy and his mother who are steadily driven bonkers by a loony neighbor who won’t stop knocking on the walls.

TEN THOUSAND PICTURES OF YOU
UK | 2:56 | 2006
DIRECTOR/ANIMATOR/SCREENWRITER: ROBIN KING
PRODUCERS: DENISE HOEY, ROBIN KING
DESIGNERS: DENISE HOEY, ROBIN KING
LIGHTING: MIRKO BEUTLER
SOUND DESIGN AND SCORE: NEIL DOUEK
TOOLS: CANON EOS 350D DIGITAL SLR, PHOTOSHOP, PREMIERE, MICROSOFT WORD, LOGIC PRO, AVID DS NITRIS, BLITZ 3D (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE), PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE;LIGHTING INCLUDING DEDOLIGHTS, 800W, 2K, SOFTBOX, C-STANDS TO SUPPORT “FLYING” OBJECTS
First-time director Robin King offers a surreal animated meditation on the destructive power of romance gone bad, taking viewers on an rollercoaster journey through the fractured mind of one jilted lover as she splots revenge on the movie star who spurned her affections.

THE BOX
UK | 8:00 | 2006
WRITER/DIRECTOR: RICHARD FENWICK
PRODUCER: JO PHIPPS
LINE PRODUCER: FADY SALAMÉ AT DAWSON PRODUCTIONS, CZ
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: LOL CRAWLEY
OFFLINE EDITOR: PAUL HARDCASTLE @ TRIM EDITING
FILM COLORISTS: TOM RUSSELL, KAI VAN BEERS AT VTR, LONDON
FLAME ARTISTS: PAUL DIXON, MARK BEARDALL AT TRIANGLE TELEVISION
COMPOSER: MICKEY CLARKE
MUSIC SUPERVISOR: MARK GALES
SOUND DESIGNER: SAM ROBSON AT TRIANGLE TELEVISION
SPONSORS: TRIANGLE TELEVISION, TRIM EDITING, NARRATIVE+, VTR, PANAVISION, AFM
FUNDERS: ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND, RES MEDIA GROUP, REFERENCE POINT FILMS
TOOLS: 16MM, AVID, FLAME
In the tradition of The Outer Limits and recent Japanese horror cinema, The Box is a creepy suspense story in which mundane everyday reality is subverted in inexplicable ways. A woman comes home from work and does the usual things

THE TALE OF HOW
SOUTH AFRICA | 4:27 | 2006
DIRECTED BY: THE BLACKHEART GANG
CONCEPT: MARKUS SMIT AND REE TREWEEK
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: JANNES HENDRIKZ
SCREENWRITER: MARKUS SMIT
CHARACTER DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION: REE TREWEEK
COMPOSITING AND 2-D ANIMATION: JANNES HENDRIKZ
MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN: MARKUS SMIT (WORMSTORM)
LEAD 3-D ANIMATOR: JUSTIN BAKER
3-D TEAM: LYNDON DANIELS, STANLEY SEGAL, ALEXANDER GILFILLIAN, JASON STAPLETON, RICHARD CLARK, PIETER MENTZ, BRIAN GOODWIN
VOICE ARTISTS: RAYMOND CONNEL, TIM BULL, INGE BECKMANN, NOEL LABRIDY, MINE JONKER, MARKUS SMIT
EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES: BLACKGINGER VISUAL EFFECTS AND ANIMATION
TOOLS: MINIDV, SONY CAMERA, APPLE G4
This gorgeously ornate, amusingly operatic CGI fantasy takes place in the Indian Ocean, where a settlement of “piranha birds” lives on the back of an octopus, which feeds on the birds when he gets hungry. Facing extinction, the birds get the idea to send a message in a bottle out to see. A white mouse named Eddie answers their call and travels to their island with an escape plan – but will it work?