Digital Movie Festival
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C'erano abbastanza brividi e spaventi tra le candidature di quest'anno, per permettere di creare questa sezione oscura e sconvolgente, che spazia dalla Anteprima Mondiale di MOLOCH, una simbiosi particolare tra fabbrica e individuo, del regista polacco Marcin Pazera, fino ad arrivare a BUGCRUSH, il vincitore del Premio della Giuria al Sundance Film Festival, del regista americano Carter Smith, un inquietante sguardo ai pericoli che si corrono quando si cerca a tutti i costi di inserirsi in un liceo di provincia. In JONA/TOMBERRY, l'olandese Rosto ci colpisce con un incubo senza precedenti, mentre l'inglese (ma venezuelano di nascita) Carl Zitelmann, utilizza, nel suo TEMERARIO, un'animazione vivida e austera per far vivere agli spettatori gli ultimi momenti di un cowboy.
ARTIFICIAL WORLDS V.3
UK | 8:00 | 2005 WRITER/DIRECTOR: RICHARD FENWICK PRODUCER: JO PHIPPS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: JEFF CLEVERLEY DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: LOL CRAWLEY CAST: ESTHER SHARMAN, SARAH HARDY, STEPHEN BROWN, BEN JOHNSTONE, HARVEY TANG, SEBASTIAN HATTON, MICHAEL JAMES LAMONT, DOUGLAS MCQUILLIN OFFLINE EDITOR: PAUL HARDCASTLE @ TRIM EDITING FILM COLORIST: MARK GETHIN @ MPC COMPOSER: CATHODE HEAD OF POST-PRODUCTION: MARCUS O’KEEFE MODELLING/ANIMATION TEAM: MOSHINE ANIMATION STUDIO AND ROBERT SHOEBOTTOM FLAME ARTIST: MARK BEARDALL @ TRIANGLE TELEVISION SPONSORS: TRIANGLE TELEVISION, TRIM EDITING, MPC FUNDERS: ARTS COUNCIL, DIGITAL CITY, AV FESTIVAL, MIDDLESBROUGH COUNCIL TOOLS: 16MM, AVID, 3D STUDIO MAX, FLAME The latest installment in British director Richard Fenwick’s ongoing RND# series and the third of his Artificial Worlds films, Artificial Worlds v.3, like its predecessors, explores an experimental rupture, presenting the end of the world in a short film. Apocalyptic and nihilstic, it portrays the real world in freefall, focusing on eight anonymous characters as they attempt to outrun a fast-moving digital tsunami, which tracks them like an incomprehensible predator from another dimension. BUGCRUSH
US | 36:00 | 2006 WRITER/DIRECTOR: CARTER SMITH PRODUCER: ERIN WILE DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: DARREN LEW CASTING DIRECTOR: JENNIFER VENDITTI EDITOR: HOLLE SINGER SOUND DESIGNER: ERIC NAGY PRODUCTION DESIGNER: STEFAN BECKMAN WARDROBE DESIGNER: PAUL STURA MAKEUP AND HAIR: MIKE POTTER/JOANNA STEWART SFX MAKEUP: JEREMY SELENFRIEND SOUND MIXER: NOAH TIMAN RERECORDING MIXER: ANDY KRIS COLORIST: BILLY GABOR ASSISTANT DIRECTORS: KERMAINE SUMRA/CARRIE FIX SCRIPT SUPERVISOR: TONY OSSO ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: LEIGH HOLTZIN TOOLS: LIGHTWAVE, AUTO CHARACTER SETUP (LIGHTWAVE PLUGIN), PHOTOSHOP, AFTER EFFECTS Based on a short story by Scott Treleaven, this year’s Sundance Jury Prize winner in short filmmaking tells the story of Ben, a small-town high school loner, whose fascination with Grant, the seductively dangerous new kid, and his sinister friends eventually leads him out to a rural farmhouse where he encounters a world darker than he could possibly have imagined. JINNIKU NO UMAREKAWARU
ITALY/JAPAN | 5:17 | 2006 DIRECTOR/EDITOR/COMPOSER/VFX: ALESSANDRO PACCIANI VOICE: KINOSHITA YURIKO TOOLS: 3DS MAX, BRAZIL, BOUJU, COMBUSTION, AVID XPRESS, PHOTOSHOP Shot in director Alessandro Pacciani’s Florence, Italy bathroom and in Ginzu Japan, Pacciani's Jinniku is a super-condensed exercise in high-tech J-Horror. Inspired by a nightmare involving a breathing sink and slithering meat, the film challenges expectations and perceptions by violently splicing together the worlds of live flesh and CG effects against a score of explosive white noise. JONA/TOMBERRY
NETHERLANDS | 12:14 | 2005 WRITER/DIRECTOR: ROSTO ANIMATOR: STUDIO ROSTO A.D (ROSTO, MARTIJN PAASSCHENS, CHRISTEN BACH, ROLOFF DE JEU) SOUND DESIGNER: TOM HAMBLETON PRODUCERS: ROCKETTA FILM, STUDIO ROSTO A.D, ERIK SCHUT, ROSTO, HANNE DIT TOOLS: HD, MAC G5, AFTER EFFECTS, PHOTOSHOP, CINEMA 4D In this animated through-the-looking-glass fever dream, an ordinary man finds himself on top of a mountain hovering above a twitching baby with a human torso and a mermaid’s tail. A needle-nosed homunculus who is apparently responsible for this dystopian vision hands the man a gun and insists he shoot the creature. When the man refuses, things just get weirder. MOLOCH
POLAND | 7:20 | 2006 WRITER/DIRECTOR: MARCIN PAZERA EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: MARCIN KOBYLECKI COMPOSER/SOUND EFFECTS: DEMODOLL ADDITIONAL ARTISTS: GRZEGORZ KRZYSIK Moloch belongs to a long dystopian filmmaking tradition in which machinery is anthropomorphized that stretches back to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, which also featured a terrifying metal god called Moloch. In this grim, gothic nightmare, the setting is the harsh, cold, inhuman environment of an industrial plant, in which a wayward machine called Moloch occasionally wakens from its slumbers to stir the worst human instincts. TEMERARIO UK | 9:51 | 2006 DIRECTOR: CARL ZITELMANN PRODUCER: DEBBIE CROSSCUP SCREENWRITER: PAUL FRANCIS WILLIAMS PRODUCER/CHARACTER DESIGNER: KIM FREDERIKSEN CINEMATOGRAPHER: CARLOS CATALAN EDITOR: MARIE SØDERPALM COMPOSER: MATTHEW DAVIDSON SOUND DESIGNER: CHRISTOPHER WILSON COMPOSITING AND GRADING: DAN SNAPE ONLINE AND FINAL GRADE: JAMES OSBORNE With stylized animation inspired by manga and vintage comics, and storytelling that mixes the feel of old Westerns with fantasy and horror, Temerario – Spanish for “temerity,” or brashness – tells the story of Rio, a cowboy who must confront the evil within himself by fighting a duel with his shadowside. |
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