DOTMOV FESTIVAL 2006

HAPPENING

DOTMOV is a digital film festival organized by an online magazine “SHIFT”, aiming to discover unknown talented creators and provide an opportunity to show their works. We had a total of 267 works from 27 countries this year, and excellent 24 works among them were selected by guest judges. All the selected works are also exposed on the website.
This year’s festival will take place in “SOSO (Sapporo), sendai mediatheque (Sendai), and digmeout (Osaka) during the whole month of November, 2006.
There are also invited films specially screened; an unique compilation of 100 One Minute Slow Motion Videos “SLOMO VIDEO“, a collection with a concept of ‘motion graphics as environment’ “Motion Texture DVD“, and 11 selected films as an exchange program with “New Media Festival in Seoul which has been held in Seoul since 2000
It is also displayed as special exhibition program for visitors to play at the venue an interactive audio & visial works “CODE“, created by Sadmb.
During the festival, a lot of related audio & visual events will also be scheduled at SOSO.

SCREENING PROGRAM　


  • Giocattoli Futuristi
    10:00 | 2006 | Italy
    Dir: Claudio Castelli
  • This is an excellent piece of work. It is a good sample of futurism, cubism and expressionism. It creates new animation with picturesque reference, this work is abudant with colour, expression and mordern music. It enables people to imagine the ‘Metropolis – Fritz Lang’ also the colour and meterial from Paul Gauguin & Georges Rouault. Eventually this is beautiful work that people fall into artistic interest.
    Selected and commented by Sugarcube


  • Taichi ‘In’
    5:45 | 2005 | Hong Kong
    Dir: Jacky Lochinghang
    Footage video: Sun style T’ai Chi Ch’uan VCD
    Released by Philcon Audio & Visual Int. Co. Ltd.
  • According to Wikipedia, “Sun style T’ai Chi Ch’uan” of which this film uses as material, is one of Chinese traditional styles of T’ai Chi Ch’uan and “ranks fourth in popularity and fifth in terms of seniority among the five family styles of T’ai Chi”.
    To take concrete materials as sampling source is a common method in sound-makings or movies. Not only field-recordings or shootings, but also ordinary documentaries, ‘how to’ videos, and educational videos can be useful materials. However, the interesting feature of this work is not about the reference of such existing sources. Jacky Lochinghang did not specially edit time line or cutout, but just clipped 5 minutes and 45 seconds of T’ai Chi video. Only editing work he did is to crop around the person in a rectangle shape, to color the surrounding in black, and to put only one Kanji character “In” on the black part. The creation appeared by this simple work is what I’m really interested in.
    Obviously, it seemed that the work to mask the person with black rectangle was done by hand. In the city like Akihabara, Tokyo, some devices to take out mosaic of adult video are in market, but the hand controlling by joystick requires very strong passion and concentration. Early video games also require the same kind of concentration.
    This work superficially looks to follow the person’s movement by an accurate machine, but in fact it is traced by the operation which seemed to be done by hand. As a result, it adds delicate fluctuation and tension to the work, which cannot be expressed by machine.
    The base material (the rectangle window and the person moving inside), black background and a word “In” are in really simple composition, but it’s also like beautiful minimal music. The delicate fluctuation is successful in letting audience to focus on the perfect ordinary video of 5 minutes and 45 seconds (T’ai Chi VCD). The person playing T’ai Chi tries to expand his own world, but the outside close to his body shows the aura of null field, which is symbolized with the word “In”. I think this is a work expressed inside and outside, yin and yang (black and white), and existence and nonexistence of person (world) in a really simple way.
    That is also as if watching some sort of sports, continuous volley of tennis or table tennis.
    Selected and commented by Jiro Ohashi


  • New Me
    4:05 | 2006 | Austria
    Dir: Aleksandra Domanovic
    Music: Jamie Lideil
  • This piece shows how a video with simple one angle camera shot could be incredibly entertaining with an intelligent visual idea.
    Selected and commented by Yoshi Sodeoka (c505)


  • 2D Slave
    4:47 | 2005 | Hong Kong
    Dir: Jacky Lochinghang
    The story is based on Fourth Dimension: Tetraspace © 2002-2003 Garrett Jones
    Soundtrack: Waking Life
  • This piece stuck out from the rest because of it’s direct narration and playful view of our world from a (really) flat kind of guy. I loved the “educational” diagrams and hand-drawn type combined with some not-so-digital stop-animation. Perfect for a flat world. Flat is beautiful!
    Selected and commented by Fork


  • Amino Assets
    1:00 | 2006 | UK
    Dir: Zeitguised
  • Zeitgeist’s Aminoassets is a play on the building blocks of all life on earth – Amino Acids. The lo-fi stop-motion style is an interesting approach to the story of evolution where everything starts and finishes with assets – is what we own what we are? – and though the mutant fusion apocalyptic finale is a little predictable, the overall combination of style and content choice made this piece stand out for us as a cohesive well written well executed idea rather than just another software based eye candy techno workout.
    Amino Acids created proteins which form the basis of life, Aminoassets by Zeitguised explores this. Beginning with a puff of smoke we are a shown assortment of objects spread across a sheet of lined paper implying that this is a study from a text book at school. The animation style is a kind of stop motion but done on a computer which adds to the nostalgic mood. The objects build up and rub together in a primordial soup of creation as the stark clitchly soundtrack intensifies. Eventually the objects combine to create strange mutant people. The piece ends as it begins in a puff of smoke, a reference to civilisations demise perhaps? Also saying how everything we know is made of the same elements. In all an excellent piece.
    Selected and commented by The Designers Republic


  • Futures
    3:58 | 2006 | Germany
    Dir: Robert Seidel
    Music: Zero 7 feat. Jose Gonzalez
    © 2006 Warner Music UK Limited
  • “Futures” is hypnotic, textured, and beautiful. Robert Seidel reveals a hidden world in everyday objects. Deconstructed organic elements reverse in time, becoming what they once were. It suggests that in death there is a hidden beauty.
    Selected and commented by Motion Theory

  • KANA
    6:44 | 2006 | Japan
    Dir: Akio Okamoto
    Music: Ultra Living

  • Oh Deer
    5:39 | 2006 | New Zealand
    Dir: Chungmin Moon
    Music: Junjayang

  • You Drive Me Oh Oh Oh
    3:46 | 2004 | Japan
    Dir: Torisukoshiro + Autophene
    Music: Juicy Panic

  • Water’s Face
    1:37 | 2006 | South Korea
    Dir: Ji-Suk Jung

  • Eat Maki Maki
    1:33 | 2005 | Japan
    Dir: Taku Anekawa + Melt Metal

  • Floating Mustache
    0:33 | 2004 | Japan
    Dir: Taku Anekawa + Melt Metal

  • CARBON 14
    5:42 | 2006 | Japan
    Dir: Yugo Hori
    Music: Segeke a.k.a Shigeki Tamura

  • Soundscape
    Loop | 2006 | UK
    Dir: Thomas Traum
    Music: Tim Hecker, My Love Is Rotten To The Core

  • Its Tomorrow Already
    7:54 | 2005 | Japan
    Dir: Takafumi Tsuchiya
    Sound: aus

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