WarpVision DVD | Trailer image (Itsu/Pleix)
Warp Vision, an anthology of cutting-edge videos from the pioneering electronic music label Warp, is released September 27.
Warp Vision: 1989�2004 DVD
WarpVision site
WarpVision Trailer [QT 4.7M]
Warp's eclectic DVD selection reflects the obsessions, twists, turns and writhings of this label which, although firmly marking home territory in electronica, has never wanted to be so easily boxed and defined.
La Biennale, Venice's arts extravaganza just got better with a new director of the Europe's most glamorous film festival (Cannes, no, too hyped up). The full programme is now online. Marco Müller has revved up the 61st Venice film festival (running September 1-11), with a high profile digital section, Venezia Cinema Digitale which includes Tim Robbins' Embedded, Tetsuya Nomura's Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, and Part 3 of Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, From Sark to Finish.
Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2 has been building up anticipation ever since itan excellent reception at Cannes and a consequent Japanese opening. Scheduled for U.S.
CGNetworks has a great article about the making of the latest Audi, a car company whose range actually matches the stylishness of their sleek moving image branding.
Created by Framestore Illusions' features the Audi A6, and utilises some intense but subtle visual trickery to throw the viewer off-kilter. As the car weaves through Sao Paulo's streets we gradually release it's moving through a warped Escher-like landscape of impossible architecture.
Soldats Sans Merci Vietnam
Looks like machinima is taking another step towards mainstreaming, with it finally getting a resource as part of the Internet Archive Game Video Collection. It already includes the download favourite Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles based on the Halo graphics engine, and recent highlight Soldats Sans Merci: Vietnam using Battlefield 1942 as the filming source (by DCR Productions & Clan SSM).
The mystery surrounding Wong Kar-Wai’s long-awaited sci-fi-inflected 2046 will soon be revealed in a special preview of the finished feature (when screened at Cannes 2046 was still unfinished, a working print with audio and special effects shots still to be polished), and a Guardian interview with the director, at the National Film Theatre, London.
A sequel to Wong Kar-Wai’s masterpiece In The Mood For Love, 2046 is visually as lush as followers of the director have come to expect. The film is set in the hotel room from In the Mood for Love, Room 2046.
The Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival seemed a more subdued affair this year, it had a more slick industry feel, but London's Soho was still enlivened by a diverse range of stand-out work showcased by the event. Last week's award ceremony saw a now familiar gong going to Dougal Wilson in the music video category while heavyweight Fredrik Bond got a nod for best short this year. Full winners below:
The Ascent Media Short Film award
Winner: The Mood - Director - Fredrik Bond @ Coded Pictures, MJZ & Frenster Films
Runners up: The End of The Line - Director - Max Pugh @ Tilt Films
& We Have Decided Not To Die - Director - Daniel Askill @ Collider
The Discreet Animation award
Winner - Creature Comforts Cats & Dogs - Richard Goleszowski @ Aardman Animations
Runners up: Killing Time At Home - Director - Neil Coslett @ Blackwatch Productions
& Out of Joint - Director - Peter Peake @ South West Screen
The Polaroid Newcomer award
Winner: Nits - Director - Harry Wootliff @ White Leaf Films
Runners up: Dentally Disturbed - Director - Cameron Mitchell @ Academy
& Old Tricks - Christopher Glass @ Ape Like Films
The Sound Music Video award
Winner - The Streets Fit But You Know It - Dougal Wilson @ Colonel Blimp
Runners up: Goldfrapp Twist - Director - H5 @ Black Dog Films
& Steriogram Walkie Talkie Man - Michel Gondry @ Partizan
The Quantel Title Sequences & Idents award
Winner - BBC3 The Blobs - Director - Stefan Marjoram @ Aardman Animations
Runners up: Science On Five - Director - Sean de Sparengo @ Devilfish
& The Life & Death of Peter Sellers - Director - David Z Obadiah @ Voodoodog
The Streets Fit But You Know It - Dougal Wilson
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RESFEST 2004 tour dates and programme line-up are announced for the new season of touring for this slick showcase of digital film and music videos. With a more comprehensive short film programme than ever before the Resfest programme signals the strengthening of the short form due to the ubiquity of digital film tools, and graduation of further motion graphics pieces and animation talent from music videos into drama.
RESFEST 2004 programmes:
Resfest Shorts #1: State of the art storytelling, mixing live action, animation and graphics, includes JoJo In The Stars by Marc Craste, The Mood by Fredrik Bond and Oedipus by Jason Wishnow
Resfest Shorts #2: Humour-oriented shorts dashed with visual flourishes, includes Stefan Nadelman's One Step Ahead.
Official site (inc. Flash trailers) | Fan site: Advent Children.net
This year's Venice Film Festival will show a 30 minute preview of the new Final Fantasy film from Square Enix as part of the Venizia Digitale strand:
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children's renderings of Cloud (the computer game series' ongoing star) and compatriots are astounding, another leap from the heights of the first film's animation, and early reports suggest Square have learnt their lesson and spent just as much attention on the script as they have the exquisitely detailed CG.
The Mirrorball strand of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (18-29 August) expands yet again to present the world's most comprehensive (and one of the longest running) promo, CF and music video selections.
2004 Strands:
Kenny does Dougal : UK video director du jour, Dougal Wilson grilled on his work by Shynola's Richard Kenworthy
Fresh Tracks : The year's freshest, coolest music videos
Global Selection : Worldwide eye candy
Mirrorball Japan : Spotlight on extreme music videos and CF
McLaren : Awesome animated music videos
Performance : raw rock-out videos
Short docs : innovative short form drama
South American showcase : the rise of a new promo power
Other films to look out for in the main Director's Showcase of the festival include Satoshi Kon's lyrical Tokyo Godfathers animé, Brad Anderson's searing The Machinist (starring Christian Bale), and Korean hotshot Park Chan-Wook's much anticipated brutalist thriller Old Boy.
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