Archive for May, 2004

onedotzero8 in motion

While a myriad of rivals continue to encroach on this event's home territory, the eighth iteration of this world-leading festival continues regardless, consolidating on its pioneering past with the usual collections of motion graphics, music videos, animated shorts, computer-gaming and Japanese visuals. Highlights this year include Shynola and Hi-Res! retrospectives, Nike 'Art of Speed' motion visuals alongside the zany animé, Dead Leaves.
onedotzero8 takes place at the ICA, London 28 May - 6 June

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Laurent Briet's Cauchemars

Having just won Best Video Produced for Under $25,000 for the Mellowdrone track, Fashionably Uninvited, at the MVPA 2004 awards, now is an ideal time to sample Laurent Briet's videography at cauchemars.com. Clips to view include spec promo's for Radiohead and Aphex Twin, along with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Squarepusher music videos.

MVPA U.S. music video winners

The MVPA awards are nothing if not completist. It is good to know the Best Hair award winner of a music video, just as it is that room can still be made in award ceremonies for Hollywood heavyweights such as Gore Verbinski alongside the current generation of animation superstars.
Here's the complete list of MVPA 2004 award winners:

Pop Video of the YearRevolver Film Company / Floria SigismondiChristina Aguilera “Fighter”
Director of the Year
David LaChapelle
Christina Aguilera “Voice Within” / Jennifer Lopez “I’m Glad” / No Doubt “It’s My Life”
Alternative Video of the Year
Partizan / Alex & Martin
The White Stripes “7 Nation Army”
Video of the Year
FM Rocks / Bryan Barber
Outkast “Hey Ya!”
Rock Video of the Year
HSI Productions / David LaChapelle
No Doubt “It’s My Life”
Best Direction of a New Artist
Michel Gondry
Steriogram “Walkie Talkie Man”
Country Video of the Year
Oil Factory Inc.

Lyric mobile video project

Showstudio's mobile video dispatches courtesy of their Lyric project illustrate an uneven, but highly personal selection of clips from "twelve leading creatives from the fields of fashion, music and image-making".
The project is hampered by an awkward web presentation (Why force full-screen presentation when the resolution is for handheld media? And why can't we just download these 3gp files to our videophones?), and the content being 'fashion-' rather than idea-led.
Strangely most of the clips are reminiscent of Super-8 film shorts.

Sony's Type X super-DVR

Next generation DVR technology is surfacing, notably with this high capacity, ultra-specced Sony concept model, turbo-charging moving image viewing. Tivo cubed.
Sony's concept model digital video recorder, the Type X has more than 1 terabyte of storage and has 7 TV tuners, for recording of seven different video/audio sources simultaneously, and use in HDTV high-definition environments.

idN's My favorite conference

With speakers including Weta Digital (responsible for LOTR effects), Delaware, ILM, Resfest and Devilrobots IdN's my favorite conference 2004 taking place in Singapore in a coupla days is taking an eclectic approach to moving image creativity, alongside fields from fashion, advertising and graphic design.

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Machinimag publication

Machinimag is as the name suggests an online publication specialising in all things machinima. The site includes articles, forum and a downloadable PDF.
Attractive supplement to the machinima online communities and magazines such as 3DFilmMaker.

Ever-growing pulsating positronic brain

I, Robot film marketing ramps up ready for release in mid-July 2004. The eagerly-awaited Alex Proyas full-length feature looks like it won't disappoint judging by the effects evident in the trailer and teaser sites.

I, Robot trailer [Large] | Alternative trailer at Alex Proyas' Mystery Clock
I, Robot Now - NS-5 teaser site | I, Robot Now commercial & direct link
3 Laws featurette [7M]
Isaac Asimov's classic short stories are brought to the big screen: In the year 2035, robots are an everyday household item, and everyone trusts them, except one, slightly paranoid detective (Spooner: Will Smith)

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Stephen Frears' Route V50

Following from Spike Jonze's Dalarö pseudo-docs for Volvo, Stephen Frears makes a beautifully formed, if more conventional, short film:
Route V50: Website | Campaign site

"It starts in a place called Doubt and ends in a place called Confidence."
This is a short film as ourobouros, as Robert Downey Jnr's personalities start splitting into separate characters. Although there's less of the car in the film than Volvo's previous slice of nanotainment (the Mystery of Dalarö), here it feels more gratuitous, the brand advertising more overt.





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