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| •RES REPORTS: RES March Screening Report, RES 10 NYC & LA, SXSW •RES REVIEWS: Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life •4U2C: 13th Annual MVPA Awards •UPCOMING EVENTS: The Other Final •DEADLINES: LA Shorts Fest, Big Cartoon Exhibition, Melbourne Underground •RESFEST: RESFEST 2004 •RES MAGAZINE: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind •ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES •SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE •CONTACT US | |
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| RES MARCH SCREENING REPORT
This week's RES Screening Series in LA featured a stellar crop of new music videos and short films that drew over 400 people to the Egyptian Theatre on a Tuesday night! As part of the screening RES presented a retrospective of the work of French design studio H5, who spoke about their video work after the screening (they've directed videos for Massive Attack, Goldfrapp, Röyksopp and Alex Gopher among others).
In addition to H5's Herve, Ludovic and Francois, other filmmakers in attendance included Josh Graham, Brett Simon, Elliot Jokelson, and Talmage Cooley who presented his hilarious short film "Pol Pot's Birthday."
Spotted at the after-party at a nearby bar, where DJs Valida and Kiino Villand provided the tunes, were filmmaker Syd Garon, Brandon and Michelle from ColourMovie, Jens from Brand New School, Imaginary Forces' Karin Fong, Sound Lesson's J-Logic and many more.
Our next RES Screening event takes place April 12th. Big screen debuts on tap include new work from The Streets, Zero 7 and Tokion's Sound Class short film.
Buy your tickets now, while they are hot!
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| RES 10 EXHIBITS AND PARTIES - LA & NYC RES will be hosting events to celebrate this year's top 10 directors and artists. The parties and exhibits will take place in New York and Los Angeles.
Each year, the RES Magazine editorial staff chooses the 10 filmmakers, video artists, musicians and design collectives they think will have the most impact on the fields of filmmaking, music video, broadcast design in the coming year. This year's RES 10 includes:
Tunde Adebimpe (filmmaker/musician) | Ellen Allien (musician)
The Los Angeles exhibition, featuring video projection, illustration,
painting and music, will take place April 17-24 in Los Angeles at the Banco
Popular Building, 125 West 4th Street, Suite 103 in downtown Los Angeles.
The show opens on April 17 with a party, honoring the artists; on the show's
closing day (April 24), several of the featured artists (Ruben Fleischer,
Motion Theory and Kozyndan) will speak about their work.
The New York City exhibition and party, featuring video projection,
illustration, paintings and music will take place on April 30, 2004, at the
Art Director's Club, 106 West 29th Street in New York City.
This year, RES also selected 10 up-and-coming student artists from colleges
and universities worldwide. Their work will be showcased as well.
RES 10 EXHIBITION DETAILS --> LOS ANGELES | |
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| DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS
Every Yankee visiting Austin for the eighteenth annual South by Southwest music conference probably trotted out a few tired Texas clichés during their stay, but only because they turned out to be so apt. The hospitality is truly Southern, people do speak at 10 words a second with gusts to 50 and the portions are most definitely Texas-sized. So is SXSW, and come Sunday, the
Austin-Bergstrom International Airport was teeming with spent, haggard hipsters who'd been humbled by the whole thing and now wanted nothing more than to drink a Bloody Mary on the plane, then go home to sleep the sleep of the dead.
Within two hours of arriving in Austin on Wednesday, I was provided with an anecdote tailor-made for filling awkward silences with new acquaintances. My hotel, the utilitarian and decidedly unglamorous (and just far enough from 6th Street, the central artery of the festival, to be annoying) Doubletree Club turned out to have a Denny's literally in the parking lot. Having caught less
than two hours of sleep before my 5:45 AM flight out of LaGuardia, this seemed like a great idea. After suffering through a Grand Slam breakfast and watching my dining companion gnaw on a T-bone steak that looked like a piece of old tire (what was he thinking?), I realized it was not a great idea. Denny's only works if you're on a road trip or on drugs.
But then Little Richard walked in with his entourage, which made it all worthwhile. You could almost hear a sucking sound as everyone's attention was drawn to the center of the restaurant, where the group of seven or eight black men of varying ages sat down. Little Richard, in town to deliver the SXSW keynote address, didn't seem able to walk very well. He looked old and of course incredibly made up, but he's still definitely got some of the Lawd's fire in him. After a beefy bodyguard stared down a couple of would-be photographers, an elephantine waitress informed LR that her son, whom she was serving, had just shipped home from Iraq. "Je-sus sent him home!" LR proclaimed. "Je-sus loves him!"
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| METACREATION: ART AND ARTIFICIAL LIFE
By Mitchell Whitelaw | MIT Press
On a screen, a moving image of what appear to be insects concealed by synthetic foliage appears. As viewers approach the screen, their images, mirrored within the screen, cause the insect to recoil and retreat. Where does life end and artificial life begin?
In his book Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life, Mitchell Whitelaw throws down the gauntlet: in our nervously liberating time of technological progress, we have found ourselves at the crux of a new, important enigma: what is more lifelike, machines or
nature? While wisely sidestepping any grandiose conclusions, Metacreation presents an insightful look at how these issues manifest themselves in the realm of art: the art of artificial life.
The work that interests Whitelaw investigates the space between living things and technological systems. By describing contemporary works in detail and then succinctly applying them to technological and artistic themes, Metacreation is informative as well as insightful. In what ways does art function as a mirror for our process of integration between nature and machines? How does our relationship to each affect the way we live? As Whitelaw notes of some of the artwork: "They are art
objects. Yet, some of them are hardly objects at all; they refuse to sit still and be observed, but hide from us, play with us, or invite us into their own virtual worlds."
-Matt Epler
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| NOMINEES ANNOUNCED FOR 13TH ANNUAL MVPA AWARDS
Nominees were announced this week for the 13th Annual MVPA Awards, to be held May 20 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown LA. The ceremony offers accolades to the creative and technical people who have created the year's most innovative music videos. MVPA offers statuettes across a broad array of categories, from the mainstream to the obscure. Among the most interesting are the Alternative Category, where the field includes Chris Hopewell's "There There" for Radiohead, Floria Sigismondi's "Untitled" for Sigur Ros, Michel Gondry's "Walkie Talkie Man" for Steriogram and Alex & Martin's "Seven Nation Army" for the White Stripes. Also noteworthy is the award for Directorial Debut, where the candidates include Ruben Fleischer's hilarious "We Know Something You Don't Know" for DJ Format, AV Club's "Show Me How to Live" for Audioslave and Hopewell's "There There." One of the coolest categories is Video Made for Under $25K, where the nominees are "We Know Something You Don't Know," Tiga's Nelly take-off "Hot in Herre" (Alex Moulton & Thomas Sontag), Mellowdrone's "Fashionably Uninvited" (Laurent Briet), Phoenix's "Funky Squaredance" (Roman Coppola), Postal Service's "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" (Matt Orenstein) and the Postal Service's "Such Great Heights" (Josh and Xander). A ton of great work will be honored this year! For more info, visit http://www.mvpa.com.
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| THE OTHER FINAL AT NYC'S ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
Monday, April 5 | |
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| LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Also known as LA Shorts Fest and slated to take place in September at Hollywood's ArcLight, this fest seeks shorts, features and screenplays and shorts completed after Jan. 1, 2003. All genres, categories and formats are welcome, with previewing taking place on VHS or DVD. Early Bird Savings deadline April 17, 2004; regular deadline May 17, 2004; final extended deadline: June 17, 2004. For further info, see the festival Web site. | |
| THE BIG CARTOON EXHIBITION
Las Vegas Comic-Con, in association with cartoonmogul.com, is hosting The Big Cartoon Exhibition, a three-day event in October designed to showcase animation art by independent animators from around the world. The curators seek animated film submissions; all genres, categories and formats welcome. For more information on The Big Cartoon Exhibition, contact info@cartoonmogul.com or check the exhibition's Web page. Deadline: July 9. | |
| MELBOURNE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
MUFF, a punchy international festival, seeks innovative, even
controversial shorts, features, documentaries, animations, and art works (art should address the theme of "violence"). Entry deadline is Friday, April 9th, and the entry fee is $25 AUS (about $12 US). See Web site for more details. | |
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| RESFEST 2004
We're currently accepting submissions for the 2004 RESFEST, so send in your film today! We encourage you to enter your film using our online submission form.
Early Deadline: April 16 - $20
Submissions:
http://www.resfest.com/submissions | |
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| ETERNALLY BRILLIANT
"I simply take an idea and keep pushing it to an extreme," says Michel Gondry, and it's this mantra which informs the
innovative director's brilliant new feature film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, profiled in the current issue of
RES. As an added bonus, we also present Gondry's complete vidiography as well as an interview he conducted with his younger brother, Olivier "Twist" Gondry, in Q+A. Also included in our
March/April issue, titled Who's Now / Who's Next, is our annual RES 10 guide to the year's
most compelling media innovators, our "school kids" guide to younger emerging
talents and much more.
Subscribe now to the one and only publication dedicated to innovative media culture. Special RES subscription offer: Save 30% off the cover price! Six issues of RES for $24.95 or 12 issues for just $44.95. Plus - only subscribers get the magazine DVD, with 90 minutes of music videos, shorts films, interviews and more.
To subscribe to RES, call toll-free in the US and Canada at 1-888-READRES (International readers, please call 1-856-931-6681). E-mail at subinfo@res.com
or subscribe online at http://www.res.com/subscribe.
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