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Make Warp visuals

The audiovisual projects are coming thick and fast from Warp. News emerges on the follow-up to Warp Vs Creative Review, the successful music video ‘competition’ run by the label and magazine: Warp/CR Animate was so successful in turbocharging their promo video output they are doing it again.
Ten young filmmakers are wanted for a motion graphics [...]

DOTMOV festival shifts gear

DOTMOV FESTIVAL 2004 is organized by the esteemed and long-running Japanese e-zine, Shift. The second edition of Sapporo’s own digital film festival, it runs over a month at Soso, and this year’s Call for Entries (now ended) resulted in submissions from over 30 countries.
DOTMOV seeks to distinguish itself from other digital moving image events by [...]

Ars Electronica 2004 begins

ARS Electronica, the world’s premier digital arts festival begins today, September 2-7, in Linz, Austria.
With the theme, Timeshift, the World in 25 years, the symposium is just one part of a programme including electrolobby, a Japanese animation programme, digital installations & performances, and the Prix Ars Electronica, prizes for digital excellence (this year including 7 [...]

Venice film festival ‘Digitale’

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 [...]

Machinima archived for posterity

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 [...]

Soho Shorts 2004 winners

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 [...]

Resfest 2004 line-up

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 [...]

Mirrorball 04

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 [...]

Antenna summer screening

July 22 is the date for London’s NFT to once again screen the best recent music videos, courtesy of Antenna. Alongside the latest music videos hot off the beta-deck will be panellists Vez (Ninja Tune video commissioner), Vernie Yeung (hot from the recent Faultline video, Biting Tongues), and Graham Linehan (comedy writer/director turning his hand [...]

Projekttor vj festival

The three-day Projekttor VJ festival takes place in Berlin, 1-3 July, 2004. Locaton: Café Moskau, Karl-Marx-Allee.
Daytime programme includes VJ workshops and software showcases of Arkaos, DV jukebox, Pure Data, and Phlumx, alongside the innovative Pioneer DVJ-X1 VJ DVD mixing deck.
Nightime programme features an international collection of DJs and VJs including Pixel Orchestra (IT), Photonics (NL), [...]