In early 2009 Diplo debuted his film Favela on Blast, a five-years-in-the-making documentary exploring the Brazilian slum favelas of Rio de Janeiro and the thriving baile funk music scene that exists within. Curated by Claire Spencer Cook from BBC Film network.
The very latest and most inspiring music videos, motion graphics and shorts from japan, where image-makers seem to inhabit the near future, allowing the rest of the world a sneak peek of what is to come. japan remains a diverse and rich breeding ground for new talents who push visual innovation and adventurous narratives on a daily basis. expect eye-popping visuals, side-splitting fun to serene beauty.
BBC film network presents moving image work by the latest bright sparks and up-and-coming talent from the uk’s filmmaking scene. a collaboration with the BBC’s interactive showcase for british film-makers that aims to give exposure to the most exciting new talent by screening shorts and profiling the people behind them. Curated by Claire Spencer Cook from BBC Film network.
In an age driven by non-stop digital culture on fast-forward, many creatives have revived a handcrafted approach to producing new works. across promos, broadcast and independent shorts alike, directors have begun to rewind to the homemade, stitched and stuck together. from ambitious personal experiments breathing life into corrugated card to quirky productions utilising sewing kits and 3d, a more tactile aesthetic emerges, offering surprising collisions of a new post-digital look.
the driving force of onedotzero's programming since inception, wow + flutter's remit has always been to seek and share the most innovative and surprising work in progressive, motion graphics and short-form works. fresh talent and celebrated masters alike strive to expand, blur and explode traditional notions of what future moving image could be. as a playground for creative expression.
Serves up the most exciting and offbeat music videos from around the world, including work for röyksopp, n.a.s.a and fleet foxes. this area has spawned current cinematic titans such as spike jonze, michel gondry and jonathan glazer, amongst others. it remains a fertile breeding ground for breaking talent and startling new ideas.
In the three weeks leading up to the onedotzero festival, AntiVJ worked in residence at EMPAC to create this performance and installation. En route to EMPAC, Joanie Lemercier (co-founder of AntiVJ) discovered that a volcano in Iceland that caused the cancellation of all flights. The volcano—Eyjafjallajökull—became the subject of AntiVJ’s new work, a painted wall mural augmented with projections to create the sensation of three-dimensional forms. Lemercier had been fascinated by geometry and minimalism for years; with this work he incorporated more organic shapes and visual elements that would connect geometric patterns with mountainous terrain, ocean waves, wind, snow, and rain. By projecting a “virtual layer” of light, color, and animation over the static painted scenery, he created an imagined landscape of futuristic mountains, where the audience’s perception of space is progressively challenged.
The AntiVJ visual label is a project initiated by a group of European visual artists whose work is focused on the use of projected light and its influence on our perception, presenting performances and installations that create wonderment and challenge the senses.
An Academy Award-winning documentary about Phillipe Petit's daring and defiant tightrope walk between the twin towers, which became known as the “artistic crime of the century.” Presented in conjunction with Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity. Unfiction is a series of documentary films that turn truth into something other than fact, using poetry and imagination, rather than transparency and objectivity. These filmmakers question the very notion of authenticity, and disobey the typical documentary filmmaking practices; instead they stage their own realities on location, employing techniques such as reenactment, personal voice-overs and special effects.
For the past two years, EMPAC has hosted a residency by The OpenEnded Group, an innovative digital arts collective specializing in the creation of 3D digital works. Now audiences can see the result. Upending, a work commissioned by EMPAC and appearing here in its world premiere, is a revelatory stereoscopic theater performance, an actor–less drama of disorientation and reorientation that compels us to rethink our relationship with the material world. Using ordinary flat photographs and processing them with non-photorealistic rendering and stereoscopic HD video, Upending transfigures familiar objects, spaces, and persons in ways that are both beautiful and uncanny. The play of images is accompanied by a gutsy EMPAC-made recording of Morton Feldman's first String Quartet by the FLUX Quartet, which The New Yorker's Alex Ross describes as “legendary for its furiously committed, untiring performances.” The music provides an aural lens that renders the video almost balletic, even as the visuals allow us to hear Feldman as never before. Listen to a short interview on WAMC with Curator Micah Silver and Paul Kaiser of The OpenEnded Group
Will Rawls (producer) and Kyle Wilamowski (director and editor) created this short documentary on the founding, history, and current relevance of Movement Research (MR), one of the world’s leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms. Through interviews with key participants in the organization, the film explains MR’s vital mission: valuing individual artists and their creative process and vital role within society; creating and implementing free and low-cost programs that nurture experimentation and instigate discourse; and reflecting the cultural, political, and economic diversity of the MR community, including artists and audiences alike.