Digicult will be at Res Festival Turin, on Sunday 17th December with its video selection Visual Muzik – Part One, commissioned by festival Dissonanze 2006. Artists e video centers screened: Dienstelle, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Jeffers Egan, Semiconductor, Tez, Reline2, Argos, Montevideo
Visual Muzik A trip in the production during recent years through the works of artists who knew best how to put together the concept of visual music, research and synthetic analysis between audio and video. Visual Muzik sets out in Italy as the first of its kind attempt at a retrospective, dedicated to programs that are normally known in live and performance contexts. The monographs of the artists involved (Karl Kliem, Meta, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Tez, Jeffers Egan, Reline 2, Semiconductor) and the selected video center programs (Argos, Montevideo, SixPackFilm) are among the brightest examples of contemporary electronic research between graphics, video art and electronic music put together. The survey is an audiovisual journey capable of enchanting and surprising and will carry the audience towards the aesthetic possibilities of tomorrow.
Resfest , il Festival itinerante del cinema digitale che si svolge in sequenza in più di 40 città sparse nei cinque continenti e che è diventato ormai una manifestazione di riferimento internazionale per le ultime generazioni di filmmaker, i talenti emergenti e gli appassionati di nuove tecnologie applicate all’ambito visivo, torna per il secondo anno consecutivo a Torino , dove dal 14 al 17 dicembre 2006 sarà ospite del Museo Nazionale del Cinema alla Multisala Massimo .
Organizzata da Virtuality Conference con il sostegno della Regione Piemonte e della Compagnia di San Paolo , la manifestazione si ripresenta nella città che l’anno scorso ha ospitato con successo la sua prima tappa assoluta in Italia con una particolare edizione celebrativa. Restfest, infatti, compie dieci anni e li festeggia anche sotto la Mole con un programma di quasi 200 titoli , più ricco che mai di eventi, retrospettive e sessioni speciali specificamente dedicate alla particolare ricorrenza.
RESFEST’s 2006 global tour marks the 10th anniversary of the pioneering film and digital arts festival, which kicks off this year with a special presentation in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, from October 19-22, followed one day later by its Paris debut at the esteemed Pompidou Center. The festival will continue on to more than 43 cities on six continents around the world, captivating audiences with its signature mix of innovative film screenings, informative panels, experiential parties and cutting-edge performances.
The festival received a record 2,200 film submissions this year, with programmers viewing hundreds more in assembling a stellar collection of outstanding short films, dynamic music videos, experimental animation and cutting-edge motion graphics. In addition to Paris, RESFEST will debut in Berlin, Eskisehir, Jakarta and Lima. The festival will culminate for the first time ever in the United States, with a series of expanded seven-day events to take place in March and April 2007 in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In another first, the festival will be presented in high-definition during these spring engagements.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
To celebrate this commemorative year, RESFEST will feature a pair of special anniversary programs looking back at its decade-long history of revolutionary filmmaking. Unsung Heroes: Music Video Gems from the Archive gathers directors who’ve turned the music video into an art form, with classic promos for Air, Cornelius, UNKLE, Phoenix and others, while A Decade of RESFEST: 10 Seminal Short Films compiles milestone short form work that has become the stuff of RESFEST lore, including Michael Overbeck’s Tongues and Taxis, Bob Sabiston’s Snack and Drink and Stefan Nadelman’s Terminal Bar.
Three more thematically arranged short film programs highlight intriguing new work: State of the Art offers a collection of live action, animation, motion graphics and documentary that will point the way for filmmakers in the years to come; Out of the Box highlights the adventurous, absurd and eccentric; and Fear and Trembling examines the horror trend that has swept the film world of late. Programming includes world premieres from festival veterans Richard Fenwick, Eric Henry, Johan Kramer and Stefan Nadelman, and recent work by Sam Arthur, Bert and Bertie, Jonas Odell, PES, Chris Shepherd, Run Wrake and many more.
This year’s feature film, Rock the Bells, will be premiering at numerous RESFEST locations internationally. This thrilling documentary from directors Casey Suchan and Denis Henry Hennelly offers a fast-paced insider’s account of one concert promoter’s seemingly impossible quest to reunite all nine members of the Wu-Tang Clan on stage at the 2004 California festival Rock the Bells, just months before the death of ODB. The film, which also includes performances from the likes of Redman, Dilated Peoples, MC Supernatural, Sage Francis and others, has been described as a Woodstock for the hip-hop generation. Additionally, several more yet-to-be-announced feature films will play at select RESFEST engagements.
RESFEST’s eternally popular music video showcases, Cinema Electronica and Videos That Rock, collect the last year’s most noteworthy and entertaining efforts, with work from an international coterie of directors, including Fluorescent Hill, Olivier Gondry, happy, Chris Hopewell, Minivegas, Monkmus, Ace Norton, Pleix, Cat Solen, Joel Trussell, Dougal Wilson and others, for a diverse array of artists, including Basement Jaxx, Bright Eyes, Coldcut, Death Cab for Cutie, Gnarls Barkley, Hot Chip, The Knife, Massive Attack, The Presets, Jamie Lidell, Tiga and Zero 7. By Design, the festival’s annual motion graphics and broadcast design compendium, also returns for its sixth year, with the latest from Leftchannel, Grant Orchard, Ben Stokes and Graham Wood, plus numerous notable newcomers.
Following last year’s first-ever artist showcase collecting Beck’s music video corpus, this year’s special artist retrospective, Radiohead, the Visionaries: A Decade of Breaking New Talent, celebrates the British quintet’s proud history of championing the latest and greatest visual innovators. Another special program, Everything Under the Sun: Filmmaking with a Purpose, focuses on issues-based short form work, with directors like Neill Blomkamp, Fenwick, Simon Robson and Three Legged Legs grappling with topics ranging from environmental degradation to stem cell research.
RESFEST will also feature numerous panels, including the popular Icon Chef designers’ showdown and the seminar Inside Music Videos, and an array of performances and events celebrating RESFEST’s first decade of existence. RESFEST’s 10th anniversary identity is the creation of Venice, CA-based Transistor Studios, and was inspired by the diversity of the places around the globe that RESFEST visits.
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF INNOVATIVE CREATIVITY
When RESFEST began, the first DV cameras and desktop editing systems were just reaching filmmakers. Back then, some commentators were already forecasting the onset of mobile video playback on handheld devices of the day, while others wondered if the Internet could open up new distribution avenues for independent filmmakers. Ten years later, those predictions about the ways
technology would enable creators to link to their audiences in exciting ways have come true.
Meanwhile, RESFEST has become a global beacon for innovative creators everywhere. In this new cultural arena, the live, physical events offered by RESFEST take on new importance. In at time when we have unprecedented access to concepts and content from all over the globe and the world feels smaller than ever before, there’s still nothing better than meeting up in person to exchange new ideas and experience new approaches to making art. This year’s RESFEST anniversary tour brings the global creative community together to experience and celebrate 10 years of innovative cinema, and to explore the future together.
GUEST
Cocktail di inaugurazione: dj-set di Fabrizio Vespa
A toast to welcome the traveling Resfest upon its arrival in Torino. Spinning the discs will be the noted citizen dj, Fabrizio Vespa. His sound is mostly electronic but has a progressive soul that leans toward insistent and techno rhythms.
Wendsday, 13 december, AB+, ore 18.30
Fabrizio Vespa has worked in nearly every club in Torino. His beginnings are connected to radio. He worked for several years at Radio Flash and then at RAI where he conducted the show “RAI StereoNight” and the final editions of the famed musical program, “Sounds & Ultrasounds” that was aired on Radio Due RAI of Rome. He has also worked in the music field as a journalist writing for “Mucchio Selvaggio” (Wild Heap) and “Rumore” (Noise). He now writes for “La Stampa” and “Toriono Sette.” He was the supervisor for the musical score of the film Andata e Ritorno (Roundtrip) by Marco Ponti, collaborated on the project Motel Connection and is currently teaching Sound Design at the Institute of European Design (IED) in Turin. His sound is genuinely electronic but has a progressive soul that leans toward insistent and techno rhythms. He is featured at Electrochic every Saturday night and at Rock City and AB+ on Thursday nights.
Session special: Including among others Emilio Ramos, creator of the short Niebla (Shorts One section: State of the Art)
Friday 15 december, Cinema Massimo, sala Tre, ore 16.00 18.30
EMILIO RAMOS – was born in Mexico City in 1972. He has worked in the animation field for eight years. Most of his completed works were done for advertising. Since 2004 he has lived in Barcellona where he completed his Masters in Animation at the Pompeu Fabra University and started work on Niebla. This short was the winner of the Special Jury Award at the latest edition of the Virtuality Conference and was chosen to be part of the Short One section at the Resfest 06. The short, which screened at the most recent Siggraph in Boston, won the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 edition of ArtFutura, the foremost Spanish festival of art, culture and digital technology.
Special presentation : Bert & Bertie
Two irreverent English directors with an ironic and surreal style will present their “four-handed short,” the amusing Phobias, and other earlier works created independently. (Shorts Two section: Out of the Box).
Friday, 15 december, Cinema Massimo sala Tre, ore 18.15 19.45 . Free
Bert & Bertie Behind the name “Bert & Bertie” there are two English director-producers, Katie Ellwood and Amber Templemore-Finlayson. Phobias is their first, and at the moment only film, made together (BertieFilm Productions). However both have had earlier independent experience in the world of video. Katie Ellwood worked as a writer for the video game Playstation 2, The Getaway Black Monday, while Amber Templemore-Finlayson worked as a producer on the short Dipper and Antonia’s Breakfast. They are currently working together on their new film entitled, The 1 Second Film.
” Tiro al blanco” (Tiro al bersaglio): performance of Luis Nieto , director, author of Carlitopolis (section Shorts Two: Out of the Box)
The provocative director from Colombia, now living in Paris, who in his pseudo-shock video to be presented at the festival rages with savagery against a laboratory mouse and tries to enter a target practice during a live transmission of the Guinness Book of World Records. The video is created with his “perversionist artist” style.
Friday 15 december, Cinema Massimo sala Tre, ore 20.30
Special Presentation: Professor Nieto’s Show ; introducing Luca Carlucci , graphic artist e compositor
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.
Friday 15 dicembre, The Beach, ore 22.30 . Free
Luis Nieto – was born in Columbia in 1979. After having studied Communications and Linguistics, he moved to Paris, where he is currently studying at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts. He is the creator of Carlitopolis, a pseudo-shock video presented in the Shorts Two section. The film involves a laboratory mouse that is put through a series of inconceivably brutal experiments. He is defined as a “perversionist artist” and he loves to present himself as being followed by a group of Hare Krishna animal defenders. In reality his provocative video, which won a special mention from the jury at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival, is a triumphant sampling of innovative techniques and very special effects that induce one to think about the truthfulness in contemporary images.
Special session : A.A.A.A.: Advertising As An Art Advertising as an Art ; with the participation of Javier Jimenez, executive producer 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 behind the scenes, “making of” and special effects from their best work.
Saturday 16 december, Cinema Massimo sala Tre, ore 17.30 19.00. Free
Motion Theory – is a California production house based in Venice that is involved in the advertising field and has worked for such clients as Reebok, Budweiser and Hewlett Packer (HP). The collective took a quick to rise to stardom about four years ago when it made some music videos for such bands as R.E.M. (Animal), Less than Jake, Velvet Revolver and Papa Roach. The film made for the song Girl, by the Los Angeles singer-songwriter Beck truly catapulted the group of filmmakers hidden behind the collective art name to international fame placing them high on the list of hot video directors.
Jules Janaud e Fran çois Roisin are both graduates of Supinfocom, the renowned French hotbed of talent in the animation field. They now work together at the Mill, the important post-production group with branches in London, New York and Los Angeles. Their experimental 90 Degrees created as a final school project and presented in the By Design section, was selected for the 28th Clermont-Ferrand Festival where it won the Audience Award in the “Labo Competition” section.
FastForward – was born in 2002 in Milan as a result of the meeting of five young professionals of varying experiences (architects, graphic designers and art directors) who were all highly specialized in the use of new technology. The collective, which is now made up of about twenty people, is active in the areas of motion graphics, broadcast design, commercials and entertainment. Among its major works are promos for SKY Cinema, Paramount Comedy, La7, Nicheleodeon and the Discovery Channel, FILA Snowspike commercials (with “invisible” special effects), Angel Devil (with high technical and VFX content) and the series of mini-commercials for perfumes such as Moschino, Versace Man and Alessandro dell’Acqua. In the context of videoclips, two of their most outstanding are the latest ones made for the artist Piero Pelù: “Tribù” and “Lentezza” (Slowness). This year, FastForward has won a gold and two silver medals at the Promax / BDA Europe 2006 in Vienna in the categories of “Best Mixed Media Animation,” “Best Use of Humor in Promotion,” and “Best Drama Promo” with its projects “Merry X-max 06” and “Film Attraction” which were both productions for SKY Cinema.
Visual Muzik , retrospective (audio) video curated byMarco Mancuso of Digicult
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 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, Dienstelle/Karl Kliem.
Sunday 17 december, Cinema Massimo sala Tre, ore 18.00 20.00
Visual Muzik A trip in the production during recent years through the works of artists who knew best how to put together the concept of visual music, research and synthetic analysis between audio and video. Visual Muzik sets out in Italy as the first of its kind attempt at a retrospective, dedicated to programs that are normally known in live and performance contexts. The monographs of the artists involved (Karl Kliem, Meta, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Tez, Jeffers Egan, Reline 2, Semiconductor) and the selected video center programs (Argos, Montevideo, SixPackFilm) are among the brightest examples of contemporary electronic research between graphics, video art and electronic music put together. The survey is an audiovisual journey capable of enchanting and surprising and will carry the audience towards the aesthetic possibilities of tomorrow.