Ritorna per il sesto anno consecutivo la ricerca del Resfest sulle migliori e più attuali grafiche in movimento, immagini generate dal computer, tecniche di animazione all’avanguardia, e broadcast design. Questa volta il programma subisce le ispirazioni più diverse, quanto potrebbero esserlo un orologio a cucù e un pallone da football, utilizzando una vasta gamma di tecniche che spaziano dalla più evoluta forma di CGI (Immagini Generate dal Computer) fino all’animazione in stop motion fatta esclusivamente di Post-It. Ci sono dei nuovi meravigliosi lavori di due membri del RES 10 del 2006: da Tokyo, il Mago multidisciplinare Takagi Masakatsu presenta il tour de force poetico BLOOMY GIRLS; mentre il gruppo americano Impactist ci trasporta in un viaggio mistico con ZOO ROOM ”RANCH”. Fanno il loro ritorno due affermati maestri delle arti visive e collaboratori veterani del RESFEST: Ben Stokes con l’anteprima mondiale del suo omaggio alla realizzazione delle opere cinematografiche, DUB PROJECTOR:DHS, e Graham Woods che presenta un video ipnotico e incredibilmente evocativo realizzato per JESSE di Scott Walker.

200 NANOWEBBERS
UK | 2:49 | 2005
DIRECTOR: SEMICONDUCTOR (RUTH JARMAN AND JOE GERHARDT)
SOUND: DOUBLE ADAPTOR
TOOLS: 3D STUDIO MAX, MAX SCRIPTING (TO CREATE GENERATIVE FORMS FROM AUDIO), AUDITION, AFTER EFFECTS, PLASTIC ANIMATION PAPER, HAND-DRAWN ANIMATED TEXTURES, BOUJOU
With 200 Nanowebbers, UK artists Semiconductor used their own custom generative programming to transform the sonics of a peformance track from Dublin-based electronic bar band Double Adaptor into a nano-scale visual landscape. Rhythms and melodies spawn a molecular environment that dances to the audio via custom-made programming, while additional hand-drawn maps and animations give this sonic micro-climate a human touch.

4F
JAPAN | 2005 | 4:00
DIRECTOR: UONUMA (SHINGO AGE, SAYAKA MARUYAMA)
TOOLS: AFTER EFFECTS, CINEMA 4D, 3D STUDIO MAX, SOUNDTRACK
Prefixed with the line “A floating flower, a floating floor,” 4F then shows you exactly those things, going on a romping tour through a collapsed city that sometimes springs up, like a pop-up book, or dangles down, like a Calder mobile, where flowers bloom in unexpected places.

90 DEGREES
FRANCE | 8:37 | 2005
DIRECTORS: FRANÇOIS ROISIN, RAPHAËL MARTINEZ-BACHEL, JULES JANAUD
TOOLS: 3D STUDIO MAX, REALFLOW, AFTER EFFECTS
Created at powerhouse French animation school Supinfocom, this award-winning experimental piece from a group of animators now at the Mill uses shadowy grays and luminous blue to represent the construction and subsequent destruction of a living human form, one 90-degree angle at a time.

BLISSFUL
US | 2006 | 0:35
DIRECTOR: LEFTCHANNEL
MUSIC: FANTÔMAS
RECORD LABEL: IPECAC
TOOLS: AFTER EFFECTS, 3D STUDIO MAX, PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, POSER, SONY HVR-ZIU, CANON 20D, MAC, WINDOWS
With this brilliantly executed, detail-rich, silhouette-like motion graphics piece, Ohio-based Leftchannel packs a fall from grace worthy of Dante into less than a minute.

BLOOMY GIRLS
JAPAN | 2005 | 5:37
DIRECTOR/COMPOSER: TAKAGI MASAKATSU
TOOLS: SONY TRV-950 MINIDV, AFTER EFFECTS, FINAL CUT PRO, LOGIC, MAC G5
2006 RES 10 alum Takagi Masakatsu’s latest video painting suggests oils mixing on a palette all by themselves, with only the occasional faint hint of female faces emerging from behind rich, undulating waves of color and texture that carry the mysterious beauty of the surface of a lake.

BORDERLINE
UK | 4:00 | 2005
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/EDITOR/EFFECTS: ALEX CHANDON
MUSIC: THE DARK POETS
TOOLS: CANON XM1 MINIDV, PREMIERE, AFTER EFFECTS, PENTIUM 3 PC
Using all manner of inversions and refractions, director Alex Chandon serves up a surreal portrait of a London deserted by the laws of gravity to create an impossibe science-fiction cityscape of the imagination.

CLRICK
SPAIN | 2005 | 1:30
DIRECTOR: JAMES ALEXANDER COX
MUSIC: MT JZZ
TOOLS: AFTER EFFECTS, FINAL CUT PRO, MAC POWERBOOK G4
Clrick reduces sterile modern office constructions to their most rudimentary shapes in a mirrored journey through urban space that examines the dynamic negative spaces of city skylines.

DUB PROJECTOR
US | 3:46 | 2006
DIRECTOR: BEN STOKES
Longtime festival favorite Ben Stokes brings old celluloid – full of people projecting old celluloid – to life in this ode to his love for film projection, which shakes to a heavy dub beat.

HYPERARCHI
AUSTRALIA | 2005 | 3:13
DIRECTOR: JIMMY I-HSIU YUAN
ART DIRECTION AND DESIGN: JIMMY I-HSUI YUAN, GIUSEPPE DEMAIO
SOUND DESIGN: WILL PYETT
TOOLS: 3D STUDIO MAX WITH CEBAS FINALRENDER STAGE 1
Exploring what the director calls “the concept of liquid architecture,” Hyperarchi blends deconstructed views of a satellite in space with fluid, decorative graphics.

JED'S OTHER POEM (BEAUTIFUL GROUND): GRANDADDY
US | 2006 | 2:55
DIRECTOR: STEWART SMITH
RECORD LABEL: V2
TOOLS: APPLE II PLUS
Media artist Stewart Smith programmed this unsolicited video for Grandaddy’s 2000 song “Jed’s Other Poem” using his very first computer – a 1979 Apple II Plus with a mere 48K of RAM. The song’s lyrics run in that familiar old green-on-black, occasionally detouring from the line to form basic shapes, before the camera pulls back at the end to reveal Smith’s scrolling codebase.

JESSE: SCOTT WALKER
UK | 6:24 | 2006
DIRECTOR: GRAHAM WOOD
RECORD LABEL: 4AD
For veteran UK crooner Scott Walker’s haunting treatise on Elvis’ stillborn twin brother, Graham Wood produced an equally haunting, kaleidescopic video that mashes Victorian-era patterns with contemporary graphic iconography (male and female bathroom door stick figures, a crucifix), producing a uniquely unsettling experience.

KOPENFENSTER
US | 2006 | 2:59
DIRECTOR/ANIMATOR: MICHAEL TAVAREZ
MUSIC: APHEX TWIN
TOOLS: AFTER EFFECTS, FINAL CUT PRO
Inspired by the typography of Philipp von Rhoden, Kopenfenster uses simple, neon-like shapes to explore the processes of decay and regeneration, expanding from the human molecular level outward to encompass the entire sweep of the cosmos.

KU KU
LITHUANIA | 2005 | 1:22
DIRECTOR: RIMANTAS LUKAVICIUS
SOUND DESIGNER: HAPPYENDLESS
TOOLS: 350D, AFTER EFFECTS, PHOTOSHOP, 3DS MAX
After offering a weighty meditation on the gray sculptural beauty of ancient urban canyons, Ku Ku delivers an unexpected punchline.

MACHINE
JAPAN | 1:56 | 2006
DIRECTOR/ANIMATOR/SOUND DESIGNER: YU FUJII
TOOLS: 3D STUDIO MAX, LIGHTWAVE, AFTER EFFECTS, PREMIER, ACID PRO
One industrial machine begets many more in this playful if slightly creepy design video, in which ever-increasing numbers of arachnoid and ape-like robots leap, dance and twitch, producing a throbbing, skittering techno symphony.

MADE IN GERMANY
GERMANY/TURKEY | 2:00 | 2006
DIRECTORS/EFFECTS: MELIH BILGIL, BJÖRN FRIELING, CHRISTOPHER ADJEI
MUSIC: DENNIS KNOPF
TOOLS: CANON XL 2, ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
Made in Germany offers a graphical picture-book tour of Germany that collects images representing archetypal German inventions and traditions, before finally – in typically German fashion – neatly filing them away.

MR. BEER: HIFANA
JAPAN | 1:30 | 2005
DIRECTOR: YOSHIKAZU TAKANO
PRODUCTION COMPANY: GROUNDRIDDIM
RECORD LABEL: W+K TOKYO LAB
TOOLS: AFTER EFFECTS, PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR
Hifana reportedly looooves beer, and in this flashy motion graphics piece, the Tokyo duo offers a virtual catalogue of the various ways beer lovers enjoy their frosty brews. Belching included.

PALE BLUE EYES
SPAIN | 2005 | 2:53
DIRECTOR: LOPE SERRANO
MUSIC: AIR
SOURCE IMAGES AND AUDIO: BADLANDS (1973)
TOOLS: FINAL CUT PRO, PHOTOSHOP, SCANNER, LIGHT TABLE, PENCILS
Pale Blue Eyes is a loving study of a single loop of Sissy Spacek twirling batons in the street early in Terrence Mallick’s 1973 classic, Badlands; using rotoscoping and Photoshop tricks, director Lope Serrano breaks the sequence down to its fundamental sense of youthful innocence and energy.

PARK FOOT BALL
UK | 2006 | 2:15
DIRECTOR/DESIGNER/ANIMATOR: GRANT ORCHARD
SOUND DESIGN/SCORE: NIC GILL
SPECIAL EFFECTS: ANNA ORCHARD
TOOLS: AFTER EFFECTS, VELOCITY
Director Grant Orchard used simple graphics to portray a simple game, comically condensing all the atmosphere and emotions of a Sunday afternoon game in the park into what is surely the shortest match ever played.

PIXSALE
ARGENTINA | 2006 | 1:21
DIRECTOR: GAZZ
TOOLS: SONY VX2000 MINIDV, FINAL CUT PRO
Argentine directors Antonio Balseiro and Agustín Orol, part of the Buenos Aires animation collective Mefis.to, created a dancing stop-motion robot using yellow Post-It notes.

POESIA URBANA
BRAZIL | 2005 | 1:36
DIRECTORS/ANIMATORS: MARCOS VAZ, ANDRE CAMEIRO
DRAWINGS: VANESSA LOBO
SOUND DESIGNER: MARKINHO/GUGA
TOOLS: AFTER EFFECTS, PRO TOOLS 3D STUDIO MAX, PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR
A simple box contains many cities’ worth of images in this colorful, heavily decorative collage-driven art video that is by turns architectural and floral.

POSTPANIC'S POSTMAN
NETHERLANDS | 1:45 | 2005
DIRECTOR/EDITOR/GRAPHICS: MISCHA ROZEMA
CREATIVE DIRECTORS: MISCHA ROZEMA, JULES TERVOORT, MARK VISSER PRODUCER: ANIA MARKHAM
3-D ANIMATION: IVOR GOLDBERG
SOUND DESIGN: MASSIVE MUSIC
TOOLS: AFTER EFFECTS, 3D STUDIO MAX, ILLUSTRATOR, PHOTOSHOP, FINAL CUT PRO
Endlessly asked about the meaning of its name, Amsterdam creative collective PostPanic produced an introductory showreel animation that lays out the team’s corporate identity and examines the idea of a “post-panic world” using an alarming and amusing visual vocabulary.

RANCH
US | 1:00 | 2005
DIRECTOR/COMPOSER: IMPACTIST (DANIEL ELWING, KELLY MEADOR)
TOOLS: CINEMA 4D, FINAL CUT PRO, AFTER EFFECTS, PANASONIC DVX 100, REASON
Portland-based motion graphics duo and 2006 RES 10 member Impactist’s fondness for out-of-computer techniques shows up in this short spot created last year for a Toronto exhibition benefitting the World Wildlife Fund, in which fluttering books turn into birds during a magical boat’s-eye tour of a mystical body of water.

ROCK BOTTOM RISER: SMOG
AUSTRALIA | 5:42 | 2005
DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS: BRENDAN COOK, PAUL MCNEIL
EDITOR: BRENDAN COOK
RECORD LABEL: DRAG CITY
TOOLS: INK, PAPER, AFTER EFFECTS
A set of 700 evocative paintings previously exhibited by co-director Paul McNeil form the basis for a dreamy and flowing animation, which moves gracefully from inky abstractions to representational images at key lyrical moments, sublimely realizing singer Bill Callahan’s creakily tender sentiments about rising from the murk of memory toward one true thing.

THE BLOCKS
KOREA | 2005 | 2:24
DIRECTOR: MIRI SHIN
TOOLS: SONY VX2000, MIRAGE, PHOTOSHOP, COOL EDIT PRO
Seoul-based director Miri Shin’s pointedly simple video comments on the inherent tension between game worlds and the real one by using nude women in assorted poses as the puzzle pieces in a brutal version of Tetris. When the screen fills up, you lose!