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"essential...the future of graphic and visual arts" the guardian guide
onedotzero’s groundbreaking festival, now in its tenth year, is the largest festival of its kind, travelling to over 60 cities worldwide each year and presenting an unparalleled array of explorations in motion. it has fused talent and audiences from a range of creative disciplines to create a conduit and catalyst for progressive advanced cinema. onedotzero was established ten years ago in 1996 at the start of the desktop digital revolution. over the last decade, has grown from a pioneering weekend festival at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London in the mid-nineties, to become "the most crucial, groundbreaking festival of the early 21st century" [Guardian Film Unlimited] encompassing curated compilation screening programmes, feature films, documentaries, live performance events, club nights, creative talks, and artist presentations. External view of the entrance to the ICA from the Mall. ...
Over the past decade, onedotzero has been committed to championing, commissioning, producing, and presenting new innovative moving image works that cross music, architecture, design, film, interaction design, computer gaming and live audio visual explorations. onedotzero was the first festival to present and commission audio visual performances, computer gaming visuals, music videos, and commercials in a film and arts context and have played an essential part in bringing these works to a wide international audience and in raising awareness of original creative explorations
onedotzero is a hybrid organisation: a world leading festival of moving image, a cross-media production company and an acclaimed international network of events. pioneering in its vision, onedotzero champions and explores new forms of moving image, celebrating the next generation ofcreators. its activities range from a dvd label to events, education projects to publishing, and consultancy to productions.
since it’s inception in 1996 onedotzero has collated and commissioned hundreds of hours oforiginal programming for the eponymous annual digital creativity festival and other related projects. it has been the largest dedicated digital film festival in the world since 1999 and elements of the london event are presented around the globe
onedotzero was conceived in the mid-nineties out of a desire to explore moving image across single screen, interactive and live audio-visual work. today, the festival remains the site for contemporary creative collisions, and is committed to providing a home for visionary moving image experimentation. onedotzero provides a place for both established and emerging creativity to thrive side by side, remaining accessible to all.
onedotzero runs a free open submission scheme and receives around 2,000 entries from all over the world each year.
In Screen International’s 25th anniversary issue onedotzero directors Matt Hanson and Shane Walter were named as one of the top ten visionaries of the UK film industry alongside Ridley Scott, Chris Nolan and Lynne Ramsey. Matt Hanson is an author, producer, and director, specializing in new moving image forms including digital film, video games, and digital art. ...
Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937 in South Shields) is an influential English film director and producer. ...
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Programming
Screening programs Curated programme strands include the following: True to its pioneering roots, wow + flutter features a spectrum of styles spanning animation, motion graphics and abstract experimentation from a wide geographic spread. This program has included films from Shynola, ne-o, Alexander Rutterford, Richard Fenwick Shynola is the collective name of a group of four visual artists based in London who have collaborated on a variety of projects, most notably a number of acclaimed music videos for several pioneering artists. ...
Alex Rutterford is a British director and graphic designer working mostly on music videos. ...
- wavelength: progressive music videos compilation.
Innovative and risk taking work from the most adventurous music promo directors around, from zero to high budget - includes directors’ cuts, lost promos and previously unseen creations. One of the first places to feature work from Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Jonathan Glazer, Chris Cunningham. Spike Jonze with the Silver Bear award for directing the movie Adaptation. ...
Michel Gondry, 2005 Michel Gondry (born May 8, 1963) is a Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial, and music video director noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. ...
Jonathan Glazer Jonathan Glazer (born 1966) is a British director of films, commercials and music videos. ...
Chris Cunningham is a English music video film director and video artist who was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1970, and grew up in Lakenheath, Suffolk. ...
- extended_play: narrative shorts.
Short film / animation programme focusing on narrative-driven work, which extend beyond the boundaries of storytelling and style - perspectives: new directions in documentary
A new take on documentary, perspectives presents the best new digitally-infused docs, contesting the seemingly objective nature of documentary and posing new models for our approach to factual filmmaking. As the world becomes more celebrity obsessed, onedotzero focuses its gaze on the fixation with a deeper matter: the character driven universe. a follow up to previous festival character design investigations, this new programme shows the range, sophistication, and invention of this area that will delight and inspire onedotzero broadens the scope of previous years’ graphic cities programmes to include evocative interpretations of all types of terrain and environments, from surreal urban worlds to imaginary technoscapes - j-star: innovative Japanese short form work.
Featuring a selection of works rarely seen outside Japan, showcasing an original and diverse range of creativity, spanning promos, shorts, animation and graphics. Including visuals from Groovisions, Ichiro Tanida. - lens flare: video game cinematics compilation
Along with Siggraph, one of the first programs to show video game cut scenes. Examples include Resident Evil, Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, Silent Hill Resident Evil, known in Japan as Biohazard ), is a highly successful survival-horror franchise that started life as video games developed by Capcom and created by Shinji Mikami. ...
Grand Theft Auto may refer to: Grand Theft Auto (series), a series of free-roam video games Grand Theft Auto (video game), the first game in the series Grand Theft Auto (film), a 1977 film by Ron Howard Motor vehicle theft, a felony in the United States This is a...
Gran Turismo is Italian for grand touring or grand tourisme. ...
Silent Hill is the title of a very successful survival horror video game franchise, produced by Konami and developed mostly by Team Silent. ...
to celebrate ten years of adventures in moving image in 2006, onedotzero created two special programmes:
- onedotzero spectrum #1 + #2
Looking back over the onedotzero archive, these two programmes approach a decade of progressive digital filmmaking, charting the medium’s advances with an eye towards the future. With key productions, producers and moments, these two collections create a context to address issues as diverse as the fetishisation of technology, experiments in aesthetics, and the genuine attempt to create novel forms of visual expression and film languages, splicing ‘film’ into new creative modes that cannot be enclosed by preconceived and dated expectations.
onedotzero often curates new talent programmes and workshops. for onedotzero_10 onedotzero showed
A collaboration with BBC Film Network, a showcase of the best new British filmmakers, featuring shorts spanning animation, drama, documentary, drama, experimental and music. The BBC Film Network is an interactive showcase and community for up-and-coming UK filmmakers
Live events Also integral to the festival are the unique live diverse multi-sensory entertainment. Live music artists have included Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack, Husky Rescue, Trevor Jackson, Mu, Colder, Blacktronica, Le Hammond Inferno, Saint Etienne, DJ Food and Coldcut. onedotzero have pioneered VJing, the cross over of music with AV, and premiered theWorld's first ever AV album, by Hexstatic. Recent live visual artists have included UVA (United Visual Artists), The Light Surgeons, Hexstatic, D-Fuse, Scanner, and Gustavo Lamas. Massive Attack are a successful and critically acclaimed band from Bristol, UK. They have released eight albums - four full studio albums, two movie soundtracks, one remix album, and a greatest hits collection. ...
Husky Rescue is an ambient-pop band from Helenski, Finland. ...
King Cold is a fictional character in the second half of the manga Dragon Ball and the anime Dragon Ball Z. // King Cold sits on his throne chair King Cold has a rather high-class attitude and stature. ...
Saint Etienne may mean: Saint Etienne, a UK band Saint- tienne, a commune of France AS Saint- tienne, a football (soccer) team This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Coldcut: Jonathan More (left) & Matt Black Coldcut is a duo comprising English DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More. ...
Hexstatic: Stuart Warren Hill (left) and Robin Brunson Hexstatic is a UK music duo, consisting of Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, that specializes in creating quirky audio visual electro. ...
Hexstatic: Stuart Warren Hill (left) and Robin Brunson Hexstatic is a UK music duo, consisting of Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, that specializes in creating quirky audio visual electro. ...
The term scanner has several meanings: In radio, a scanner is a device for searching for and receiving radio broadcasts. ...
As part of the onedotzero_10 festival in London, onedotzero took over the top galleries of the Hayward Gallery, London, for a night of surreal entertainment. Artists included Saam and George Demure. Throughout the onedotzero tour, onedotzero showcases some of the best local talent, including bands, dj's and vj's. Hayward Gallery, London The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the South Bank Centre, situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, in central London, England. ...
History Created in 1996 by writer and former film critic, Matt Hanson, the first full festival (1997) showcased the vibrant new media collective and digital arts scene burgeoning in London. Combining Hanson's interests in film and new media, the festival tapped into the the new desktop digital filmmaking tools becoming available, and forsaw the idea of what Hanson termed 'the film studio in your flat.' Matt Hanson is an author, producer, and director, specializing in new moving image forms including digital film, video games, and digital art. ...
The first festival was produced with short-lived new media arts collective, onearmbandit. It was from this group that new media and theatre producer Shane Walter joined Hanson as joint festival director for the second annual event (onedotzero2,1998) onwards. Hanson and Walter established the onedotzero company later in 1997. After Hanson resigned as director at the end of 2001 Walter continued as sole director (onedotzero6 onwards). He has continued to extend the international reach of the festival through spin-off events ever since.
Touring Events The 10 day London festival is the first stop on onedotzero's global network of festivals, which travels across the UK, Europe, Asia, the Baltics, the Americas and Australasia. This global reach inspires the international perspective of onedotzero's programming. Last year the tour visited over 60 cities including Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Sydney, Athens, Lisbon, Sarajevo, Warsaw, Stockholm, Madrid, Berlin, Istanbul, Helsinki, Oslo, Belfast, Brighton, Bristol and Edinburgh
International events Some of the locations of international events 2006 - onedotzero_singapore: 22 - 25 June 2006. Location: red dot museum, Singapore.
- onedotzero_athens: 14-19 September 2006. Location: Bios, Greece
- onedotzero_seoul: 22 - 29 September 2006. Location: Nabi Centre, Korea
- onedotzero_buenos aires: 29 September - 01 October 2006. Location: Centro Cultural Recoleta, Argentina
- onedotzero_cph:dox: 10 - 19 November 2006. Location: various venues in Copenhagen, including live event at Tivili Gardens, Denmark
- onedotzero_taipei: 15-24 dedember 2006. Location: various venues in Taipei, Taiwan
Other major national events outside this tour include: - onedotzero_transvision: February 2006. Location: V&A Museum, London - a one-off evening curated by onedotzero for the V&A Museum's 'Friday Late' series. onedotzero curated over 20 leading artists to create a series of moving image explorations that brought together moving image explorations including installations, interactive works, and live music. Artists included Airside, Hi-Res!, Intro, Peepshow, Saam, Sennep, Tank.TV, The Light Surgeons, UVA, Universal Everything. The event was attended by over 7,000 people.
Offshoots in 2001 onedotzero launched the onedotzero dvd label that now distributes and sells around theworld. onedotzero produced the top selling book and accompanying dvd, motion blur: graphic moving image makers, published in the uk, Netherlands, and usa in mid-2004. the book has now gone to reprint twice, and a new edition was released in september 2005. the organisation is currently researching and preparing new publications due in 2007
Besides an extensive international tour onedotzero has been responsible for numerous digital film productions and commissions, including short films and TV series for channel 4: onedottv in 6 parts in 1999 and onedottv global in 12 parts 2001.onedotzero's sister productions company, onedotzero industries, has also produced visuals for Sony PlayStation, Japanese TV, and the live stage visuals for acts such as U2, The Rolling Stones, Beck, Little Britain stage show, and George Michael's 2006 tour, for which onedotzero created a unique 24 metre long ski slope LED screen. A short film (also short or short subject) is a motion picture that is shorter than the average feature film. ...
For other versions of PlayStation, please see PlayStation (disambiguation) The PlayStation (Japanese: プレイステーション) is a rubbish game console of the 32/64-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid-1990s. ...
U2 is an Irish rock band formed in Dublin, featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals, rhythm guitar and harmonica; The Edge (David Howell Evans) on lead guitar, keyboards and backing vocals; Adam Clayton on bass guitar; and Larry Mullen, Jr. ...
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band that rose to prominence in the early 1960s during the British Invasion. ...
For other uses, see Beck (disambiguation). ...
Little Britain is a character-based BBC radio and television sketch show written by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. ...
George Michael (born 25th June 1963) is a British pop singer/songwriter of English and Greek descent who (as a solo artist and half of the duo WHAM!) has sold an estimated total of 80 million records. ...
onedotzero + mtv Bloom - a new talent commission competition launched in autumn 2006. a global competition to find the best up-and-coming moving image talent from around the world and to commission a series of one-minute-films that explore identity and community. deadline for entries: january 31 2007
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