Resfest to Hit Seoul With Digital Films
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By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter
Focusing on a variety of digital films as well as current music videos, commercials, motion design and live music, the digital film festival Resfest will hit Seoul this week.
Traveling to 33 cities in thirteen different countries on six continents this year, the first and largest festival of its kind will take place from Nov. 17 to 21 at Yonsei University's Centennial Hall in Seoul.
"Since it is a hybrid festival, Resfest will show diverse art films, music videos and motion design to celebrate creativity and imagination which are expressed through digitalized methods", producer of Resfest Korea Jae Soh said.
Starting in 1995 at an art gallery in San Francisco as a small film festival entitled "The Low Resolution Film Festival", Resfest has grown to be an important digital arts festival with 80,000 attendees worldwide annually.
Entitled "Imaginary Attack!" the fifth edition of the festival this year features a variety of events such as seminars, concerts and illustration exhibitions along with screenings of a wide selection of films.
The festival's films will be showed in 18 sections, which include about 300 short feature films and music videos. They were selected from over 1,500 submissions around the world. Works by one of Britain's top directors, Johnathan Glazer, will open the festival and a documentary film about hip hop by Kevin Fitzgerald will close the festival.
Well known for his commercial here for Levi's jeans, in which a couple runs breaking through walls, Glazer is thought to have created some of the most cinematic commercials and music videos of our time. A selection of his best 22 works will be presented as retrospective screenings.
And seven years in the making, the closing film called "Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme" offers an inside look at the lifestyle, music and history of the virtuoso improvisational rhyming technique that has become central to underground hip hop culture.
Other major highlights of this year's Resfest include a collection of 23 shorts works that satirize U.S. President George W. Bush under the theme "Bushwhacked". Directors such as Bryan Boyce, Eric Henry, Michael Moore, Archer $ Beck and Guerrilla News Network made brilliant and satirical parodies.
The music video section, which consists four parts _ Cinema Electronica, Video That Rock, Warp Vision and Shynola Rarities, will show creative and innovative use of digital technology to present music.
And as disc jockeys (DJ) do with music and sound at clubs, their counterparts in motion design called video jockeys (VJ) will hold four seminars to show off how they mix visual images in an improvisational way. Guests can participate in seminars such as VJ School Seminar, Motion Theory & Kozyndan Seminar and Quantel _ DI Seminar and learn about one of the newest trends in visual arts.
An exhibition titled "Kozyndan Illust Exhibition", a collection from Kozyndan who became famous in Los Angels for their illustrations depicting scenes of cities, will be held in the lobby of the venue during the festival. And underground music bands such as Sugar Doughnut, Nastyona and Fortune Cookie will hold rock concerts at 7 p.m. on Nov. 18 and 19 at SsamgieSpace Baram near Hongik University following screenings of rock music videos.
Soh suggested that people attend the opening ceremony because it will provide general information about the festival's events. And he strongly recommended that guests choose one seminar that most attracts them, since they are all full of interesting prospectives and insights from experts and professionals in each field.
Resfest
Where: Yonsei University's Centennial Hall in Sinchon, Seoul
When: Nov. 17 to 21
How Much: From 5,000 won to 30,000 won
Info: (02) 749-7747 or visit www.resfest.co.kr
Staff Reporter
Focusing on a variety of digital films as well as current music videos, commercials, motion design and live music, the digital film festival Resfest will hit Seoul this week.
Traveling to 33 cities in thirteen different countries on six continents this year, the first and largest festival of its kind will take place from Nov. 17 to 21 at Yonsei University's Centennial Hall in Seoul.
"Since it is a hybrid festival, Resfest will show diverse art films, music videos and motion design to celebrate creativity and imagination which are expressed through digitalized methods", producer of Resfest Korea Jae Soh said.
Starting in 1995 at an art gallery in San Francisco as a small film festival entitled "The Low Resolution Film Festival", Resfest has grown to be an important digital arts festival with 80,000 attendees worldwide annually.
Entitled "Imaginary Attack!" the fifth edition of the festival this year features a variety of events such as seminars, concerts and illustration exhibitions along with screenings of a wide selection of films.
The festival's films will be showed in 18 sections, which include about 300 short feature films and music videos. They were selected from over 1,500 submissions around the world. Works by one of Britain's top directors, Johnathan Glazer, will open the festival and a documentary film about hip hop by Kevin Fitzgerald will close the festival.
Well known for his commercial here for Levi's jeans, in which a couple runs breaking through walls, Glazer is thought to have created some of the most cinematic commercials and music videos of our time. A selection of his best 22 works will be presented as retrospective screenings.
And seven years in the making, the closing film called "Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme" offers an inside look at the lifestyle, music and history of the virtuoso improvisational rhyming technique that has become central to underground hip hop culture.
Other major highlights of this year's Resfest include a collection of 23 shorts works that satirize U.S. President George W. Bush under the theme "Bushwhacked". Directors such as Bryan Boyce, Eric Henry, Michael Moore, Archer $ Beck and Guerrilla News Network made brilliant and satirical parodies.
The music video section, which consists four parts _ Cinema Electronica, Video That Rock, Warp Vision and Shynola Rarities, will show creative and innovative use of digital technology to present music.
And as disc jockeys (DJ) do with music and sound at clubs, their counterparts in motion design called video jockeys (VJ) will hold four seminars to show off how they mix visual images in an improvisational way. Guests can participate in seminars such as VJ School Seminar, Motion Theory & Kozyndan Seminar and Quantel _ DI Seminar and learn about one of the newest trends in visual arts.
An exhibition titled "Kozyndan Illust Exhibition", a collection from Kozyndan who became famous in Los Angels for their illustrations depicting scenes of cities, will be held in the lobby of the venue during the festival. And underground music bands such as Sugar Doughnut, Nastyona and Fortune Cookie will hold rock concerts at 7 p.m. on Nov. 18 and 19 at SsamgieSpace Baram near Hongik University following screenings of rock music videos.
Soh suggested that people attend the opening ceremony because it will provide general information about the festival's events. And he strongly recommended that guests choose one seminar that most attracts them, since they are all full of interesting prospectives and insights from experts and professionals in each field.
Resfest
Where: Yonsei University's Centennial Hall in Sinchon, Seoul
When: Nov. 17 to 21
How Much: From 5,000 won to 30,000 won
Info: (02) 749-7747 or visit www.resfest.co.kr
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