- Kill Your Idols: Run Wrake's Visual Anarchy
- What Dreams May Come: Michel Gondry and The Science of Sleep
- The Occidental Tourist: Matthew Barney in Foreign Territory
- What a Scanner Sees: Richard Linklater Animates a Philip K. Dick Sci-Fi Classic
- Our Band Could Be Our Life: Adding Up Animal Collective's Parts
- California Dreaming: Beck's Visual Artistry
- Connecting with Miranda July
- Minor Ephiphanies, Major Achievements: Mike Mills and His Feature Debut Thumbsucker
- The Citizen Actor: Gael Garcia Bernal's Sense of Duty
- Motion Theory and kozyndan's Grand Opening
- Sign of the Times
- Underdogs: The Coup's Funky Revolution
- Eternally Brilliant: Michel Gondry
- Surface to Air: Building Talkie Walkie
 | KILL YOUR IDOLS: RUN WRAKE'S VISUAL ANARCHYWords: Marisol Grandon Photo: Acclaimed British desktop filmmaker Run Wrake has taken a turn toward narrative with his recent work, as evidenced by his surreal short film Rabbit, currently on tour with RESFEST. read article » |
What Dreams May Come: Michel Gondry and The Science of Sleep
Words: Holly Willis
Photo: Autumn de Wilde
Acclaimed filmmaker Michel Gondry discussions his latest excursion into the realm of the subconscious in his new feature film The Science of Sleep.
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The Occidental Tourist: Matthew Barney in Foreign Territory
Words: Glen Helfand
Photo: Chris Winget
The polarizing, massively successful artist Matthew Barney continues to explore many of his trademark themes in his latest film, Drawing Restraint 9, a heavily formal, ritualized romance aboard a Japanese whaling vessel, and in its accompanying exhibition at SFMOMA.
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What a Scanner Sees: Richard Linklater Animates a Philip K. Dick Sci-Fi Classic
Words: Jesse Ashlock
Photo:
Richard Linklater's upcoming film version of Philip K. Dick's classic 1977 novel A Scanner Darkly is the boldest treatment of the much-adapted science fiction author's work to date, again employing the revolutionary animation software Linklater first utilized for Waking Life. It's also the most faithful.
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Our Band Could Be Our Life: Adding Up Animal Collective's Parts
Words: Jesse Ashlock
Photo: Autumn de Wilde
The geographically dispersed quartet Animal Collective just released its latest record, Feels. Despite worrying especially about success or failure or even trying to be a band in any conventional sense -- maybe because it doesn't worry about those things -- Animal Collective has become one of the most beloved and critically acclaimed independent groups of the decade.
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California Dreaming: Beck's Visual Artistry
Words: Daniel Chamberlin
Photo: Autumn de Wilde
Beck's insatiable curiosity and art school ethic has led him to collaborate with some of the most gifted visual creators of his generation during his decade-plus career. Dan Chamberlain goes inside Beck's visual artistry, exploring the artist's visual side leading up to his recent "Girl" video with Motion Theory. The story accompanies RESFEST 2005's special Beck Retrospective.
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Connecting with Miranda July
Words: Holly Willis
Photo: Autumn de Wilde
Talented and intense performance, sound and video artist Miranda July's much-lauded first film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, takes taboo and transgressive subjects and makes them complex and significant, not scandalous or titillating.
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Minor Ephiphanies, Major Achievements: Mike Mills and His Feature Debut Thumbsucker
Words: Holly Willis
Photo: Todd Cole
Mike Mills' often-moving feature debut Thumbsucker captures a family trying to figure things out -- kids and parents alike question who they are. Mills' trademark affection for the fluidity and openness of adolescence is evident throughout. Holly Willis talks to the director.
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The Citizen Actor: Gael Garcia Bernal's Sense of Duty
Words: Jesse Ashlock
Photo: Derek Sharpton
Magnetic Mexican-born actor Gael García Bernal was everywhere you looked in 2004, starring in two of the year's most critically acclaimed films, Walther Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries and Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education.
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Motion Theory and kozyndan's Grand Opening
Words: Holly Willis
Photo: kozyndan
Every iteration of RESFEST has featured a new identity created by a leading artist. For the upcoming festival, we invited Motion Theory and kozyndan -- two accomplished creative teams featured in this year's RES 10 -- to work together in developing a dazzling opener combining illustration, live action, 3-D animation and music.
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Sign of the Times
Words: Sue Apfelbaum
Photo: Gus Powell
Muralist Stefano's billboard-sized painting of President George W. Bush as an ape-like dullard, currently rising into the sky above a West Chelsea restaurant, offers a reminder of the coming war of ideas to take place in New York City when the Republican National Convention rolls into town in late August.
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