DOTMOV FESTIVAL 2004
DOTMOV Festival 2004 is a digital film festival coorganised by Hokkaido Foundation For Cultural Activities with an aim to discover talented creators and provide them with an opportunity to show their work. Selected works from the entry throughout the world will be screened at SOSO which is produced by an online magazine Shift for a month, from November 1st to 30th. This year’s total submission was 385 works from 33 countries, and 36 works were selected by guest creators. All selected works for this year will be shown on web site from November 1st. (finished) During the festival, a lot of related audio & visual events will also be scheduled.
There are also Special Screening Programmes. Diesel‘s fall/winter advertising campaign “DREAM” which consists of 30 short films created by 30 different film-makers throughout the world under the theme of “dream”, Panasonic’s 10 short movies “Capture The Motion” created by ten young and energetic creators and some works from Sound x Vision 2004.
Digitalsnapshot
04:30 | 2003 | Germany
Dir: Lo Iacono
Sound: Michael Kadelbach- A ‘techno-queasy’ look at the everyday.
It’s journey around a moment in time is both hypnotic and somewhat unsettling. Our modern world captured in a modern way.
Selected and commented by The Designers Republic
Moments
Random Loop | 2003 | Germany
Dir: Armin Purkrabek
Sound: Phillip Schulze- I felt the possibility of a real movie with this work, rather than an image, which was created through the monitor with some applications. This was created with a high faculty of composition, manipulating each parameter to handle speed, gravity and time, imagination and editing. It makes me want to watch it again and again. I also felt the same type of admiration in “Digitalsnapshot”.
Selected and commented by Jiro Ohashi
2.5 CAMOUFLAGE
04:30 | 2004 | Japan
Dir: Sayaka Maruyama
Sound: Wataru Nishioka- After 5 seconds from the beginning, we immediately discover delightful amusement of camouflage and get struck with admiration. Sayaka leads us to the world of concerto that full of wits and rhythmic sense, which is different to M.C.Escher’s works that felt rather crammed with abstruse patterns and visual illusion. Sakaya’s work brings stimulations to us to see things around us in a new point of view with imagination.
Selected and commented by Sugarcube
The Zoo
01:04 | 2004 | Germany
Dir: Zeitguised
Music: Funkstorung- Bleak and unsettling, poetic and paced – a visually stunning piece of work that is both absorbing and challenging.
Selected and commented by Form
Molecule
03:10 | 2003 | Japan
Dir: Yuki Tozuka
Sound: Tomohiro Toyota- What is so amazing about this video is that it was probably made entirely with only one polka dot pattern asset, resized, duplicated, distorted, inverted and animated. I love the minimalist’s approach.
It’s inspiring to see the work of simple idea with playful use of a limited environment.
Selected and commented by Yoshi Sodeoka (c505)
_grau
10:01 | 2004 | Germany
Dir: Robert Seidel
Sound: Heiko Tippelt and Philipp Hirsch- _grau is a mesmerizing, beautiful, and disturbing work of art that fuses dark and light to create organic forms and amorphous shapes. The scenes unfold slowly, elegantly revealing tensions between seemingly simple fragments of life. It feels like a long look at some primordial soup giving birth to some of the world’s first life forms, or one-celled organisms that can’t quite fully resolve themselves.
The soundtrack, with its lonely drones rising and falling, make us believe we are witnessing a dark creation.
The director’s most impressive accomplishment was in going beyond the technology of the computer to create something that feels as if it is made of real moments in time, inside a reality only slightly offset from our own.
Selected and commented by Motion Theory
We Still Got It
04:23 | 2004 | Ireland
Dir: Johnny Kelly
Music: The Redneck Manifesto- The motivation for selecting this as our choice was for a combination of reasons. The piece benefits from a strong and simple concept and well thought out story. Putting the viewer in the shoes of a designer charged with designing the album cover for a band. The chosen visual style is interesting and relevant. Reinterpreting the style of cut out paper collage techniques using digital animation, employed in such a way that the techniques and technology used remains transparent, aiding the design, rather than overpowering it.
The design is strong, bold and confident, with excellent use of colour and composition. The animation related well to the music and was full of fun elements and a twisted sense of humour which is something that the Diesel creative team really appreciate.
The piece both captures and maintains the viewers attention until the end of the animation, and succeeds in clearly communicating the intended story.
Selected and commented by Diesel Virtual Department
Tarpit
03:00 | 2004 | USA
Dir: Takeshi Murata
The Stairs Of The Life Of A Woman
01:56 | 2004 | USA
Dir: Angelo Plessas
Sound: Gnac
Decorso
00:30 | 2004 | Italy
Dir: Davide Catania
Fade
09:56 | 2004 | China
Dir: Qian Qian
Music: Mahler “Symphony No.5”
Not My Type IV
04:40 | 2002 | Australia
Dir: Lycette Bros.
Oggo
06:02 | 2004 | USA
Dir: Saiman Chow
Limbo
05:42 | 2004 | Hong Kong
Dir: Tak Hung
Music: Yusuke Naito “Lowjack 3”
Supercollider
03:33 | 2004 | USA
Dir: Rick Silva
She Under A Sherrington Tree
08:25 | 2004 | Canada
Dir & Music: Nicolas Bernier & Delphine Measroch
Yellowrama
14:00 | 2001 | France
Dir: Gastaldon Vidya
Music: Jerome Tillie
Kannon
03:40 | 2004 | Japan
Dir: Takeshi Kushida
Manufactured Music
02:11 | 2004 | Spain
Dir: Actop
Music: Matthew Herbert as Radioboy
Over Dose
05:50 | 2004 | Japan
Dir & Sound: SecondToNoneWorks
Dark Howling
05:08 | 2004 | The Netherlands
Dir: 310k
Music: 3-1
Stevenson – Maximizing Waste
04:40 | 2004 | Australia
Dir: Pandarosa
Sound: Aka Ltd.
Lovers
02:34 | 2003 | Japan
Dir: Masato Yamaguchi
Aftermath
06:00 | 2004 | Austria
Dir: Hannes Kolblinger
RE-MIX
03:00 | 2004 | France
Dir: Reynald Drouhin
CMYK
00:30 | 2004 | Spain
Dir: Actop
Sound: Shudo
Concept: Vasava
Daidassou -Nijiiro no Arch-
05:35 | 2004 | Japan
Dir: JETLAG
Music: The Arrows
Polar
03:08 | 2004 | Canada
Dir: Eloise Camire
Two Rocks
02:00 | 2004 | USA
Dir: Margot Quan Knight
spiro/nano/diatoms
10:00 | 2004 | UK
Dir: Christian Hogue
Music: Jesper Norda
Captured In Tones
05:39 | 2004 | Germany
Dir: Sascha Pohflepp with Isabelle Schmidt
Music: Funkstorung with Sara Jay
Sleepwalking
01:00 | 2004 | Germany
Dir: Hey Presto
Music: Funkstorung
Torch
06:09 | 2004 | UK
Dir: Carolina Melis
Music: The Customers
Army Of Me
04:30 | 2004 | USA
Dir: Norma V. Toraya
Music: Esmerine
Self Portrait
00:45 | 2004 | USA
Dir: Norma V. Toraya
Harboring Wells
05:00 | 2004 | USA
Dir: Norma V. Toraya
Music: Do Make Say Think “Landlord is Dead”
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