Yesterday was day two of the onedotzero_adventures in motion festival and it saw the debut of this year’s showcase programme, wow+flutter 10. Featuring 36 short films, it was a great international mix of styles and subject matter, ranging from experimental, abstract, generative floating forms, to neo-noir love stories, an anime-cute kitteh dreaming about being a World War II flying ace, a two-headed chicken deity, Greg Mutt’s Avatar review, immersive neon animation loops, data visualisations about what countries’ populations would be happy to go to war (surprising results there), kung-fu dumplings courtesy of our creator Sun Haipeng, and an explanation of the Greek economic collapse via a Ren and Stimpy aesthetic. Uniting them all was good humour and an encouraging inventiveness, showing just how much creative talent there is out there. But you don’t need a festival to tell you that, just spend 20 minutes on Vimeo. However, the programme was well curated and seeing the films on the big screen was a real joy. While they were all well made, one of the highlights was from a teenager—19-year-old auteur Ansted Moss who created Use As Directed, above, an abstract spoken-word meditation on brand labels detaching from their products to form a rocket to destroy us.In the evening it was cut-and-paste turntablist DJ Yoda, whose modus operandi is mischievous-humoured nostalgia, who entertained attendees at the BFI IMAX. He performed a VJ/DJ set that didn’t disappoint, traversing the last 40 years of popular music, TV, and film culture in an epileptic mish-mash of YouTube clips that were frequently hilarious, but the image clarity, like the form of DJ Yoda dwarfed by the 66ft high by 85ft wide screen, was lost on the IMAX. Still, good fun. Even if not everyone agreed. As we were getting up to leave, among the excited chatter someone said, “I don’t get it, all he did was play old TV clips.” Well, yeah, but that’s kind of the point. Who doesn’t want to see the A-Team soundtrack come scratching into life, or the Inverse Phase – F___ed 6502 ’s Cee Lo “F**K You” parody (a.k.a. the Nintendo/Sega turf war track) cut up with footage of the OutRun arcade game?We’ll be at the festival all weekend, so we’ll report back on Monday on some of the panel talks, screenings, and have some photos of the installations.
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Onedotzero_Adventures In Motion Festival Kicks Off With Kittehs and Kung-Fu Dumplings
Some old faves and new forms at the onedotzero_adventures in motion festival.