FESTIVALS : RESFEST 2005

Coverage of Resfest International Multi-media Film Festival Touring the UK until November 20th Read our preview here Win tickets at venues across the country here

Resfest 2005 Reviews

Short Film Programmes

Shorts One:

What Goes Up Must Come Down
Bizarre customers for a rap battling taxi driver.

11:59
A Dutch Moroccan, angry hip-hop and prejudice.

Jane Lloyd
One woman's life story - fast tracked.

Le Grand Sommeil (The Big Sleep)
Cracker toys take sleepy tablets and have misadventures.

Over Time
A homage by students to the late, great Muppet master, Jim Henson.

Rehearsal
Two actors and a cat are put through their paces - briefly.

Also showing: The Raftman's Razor, Winner Take Steve, La Vie d'un Chien

Shorts Two: A Region of The Shade, Are You The Favourite Person of Anyone?, Christopher Ford Sees a Film, Dimmer, Eiffeltornet, Fallen Art, Heavy Pockets, In Passing, It's Like That, Right Place, Watermelon Love.

Shorts Three:

Little Pony
Fighter ace takes on a squadron of toy planes in the living room.

Also showing: Animal Tragic, Duct Tape and Cover, Flotsam/Jetsam, Keep Right, Le Régulateur, Lucky, Rubber Johnny, Stalk, The Eel, What The

By Design:

Tread Softly
Poetic animated imagery, inspired by Maude Gonne and W B Yeats.

Also showing: Angle, Black Day to Freedom, Collision, Dancing about Architecture, Exit/Delete First Sight, Graffiti Ghost, Grrr, Loop, Los Angeles Let's Be Friends, Love Being, Of Montreal "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games, Paysage en Mouvement, Pemmikan, Perfect, Sioen "At a Glance",
The Clone Trooper Orchestra, The Poetry of Suburbs, The Redneck Manifesto "We Still Got It, The Street Window, The Zoo, Three Day Night, Timeline, Transform, UA 93: Newark to Nowhere.

Cut and Paste: America's Biggest Dick, Devendra Banhart "A Ribbon", Emiliana Torrini Sunnyroad", Empire, guy101, Kitchen, Les Fils de Teuhpu "Bricoleur", Made in Japan 2004, Obras, The Chalets "Feel the Machine", The Grey Video, Too Far West Is East, Zwölf Ein Halb Minuten (Twelve and a half minutes).

Video Programmes

Cinema Electronica and Videos That Rock which includes:

Mad Action "Smile"
Whistle stop-tour of 20th century art as a pop video face painting.

Retropectives Programmes

Beck Retrospective, Four Seasons of Traktor, XL Recordings Retrospective Beck retrospective includes: Girl

Special Programmes

Two by Mike Mills, Triple Threat, Ginga, New Order: Early Years. Triple Threat includes Ex-Fat Girl - don't be fat, be a poodle.

Feature Films

Thumbsucker
.An American teenager from the 'burbs attempts to quit sucking.

Also showing: Infamy, Just for Kicks, Jesus Is Magic, Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence

Resfest Touring Schedule and Resources

28 Sep – 2 Oct: London: National Film Theatre

13–16 Oct: Glasgow: Glasgow Film Theatre and Centre for Contemporary Arts

20–23 Oct: Dublin: Irish Film Institute and Filmbase

27–30 Oct: Bristol: Watershed

4–6 Nov: Belfast, Queen’s Film Theatre

11–13 Nov: Sheffield: Showroom

18–Su 20 Nov: Nottingham: Broadway

For more information about Resfest visit the official site