The Darklight Digital
Film Festival in association with Sink Digital Media is the first
festival of its kind to be held in Ireland. It will provide a platform
for the convergence of art and creative technologies, offering the
public a chance to see the exciting new developments being made
in the digital arts.
The festival will bring
together an exciting body of work from rising new talent in filmmaking,
animation, graphic design and music, it will feature the work of
both Irish and International artists and filmmakers.
The Festival will showcase
the innovative and progressive work of both amateurs and professionals
from varied backgrounds who are using computer technology creatively.
The Darklight Digital
Film Festival screenings will be held in the Irish Film Centre,
Eustace Street Dublin, some of the highlights are:
HIGHLIGHTS
EXPOSURE May
28 @ 2.00pm
Exposure opens the Festival
with student and experimental work from Ireland and abroad, featuring
a compilation of quick fix pieces up to a minute long, 3D animation
and video work.
VISUAL MOTION
May 28 @ 6.30pm
Showcasing the best
3D animation work and special effects sequences from Irish and international
Festival award winners including:
Academy Award consideration
Abe's Exodus uses the latest development in the cross-over of video
game technology and content into other entertainment media. Set
in the fictional 'Oddworld', Abe's Exodus is the first ever animated
short derived from video game footage.
Bingo by award winning
Chris Landreth, as with Landreth's 1996 Oscar nominated work The
End, Bingo pushes the limits of 3D-computer graphics this time by
bringing the atmosphere and heightened realism of live performance
theatre to the CG (computer graphics) world. You won't find gratuitous
special effects in Bingo: instead the entire project is a special
effect, through its believability, artistry and magic.
DIGITAL FEATURE
May 28 @ 8.50pm
The Last Broadcast made
cinema history in October 1998 as the first feature film to be released
in American Movie theatres via satellite. Wired magazine said the
makers of The Last Broadcast were players bringing the 21st-century
Hollywood to life.
The Last Broadcast breaks
new ground on a technical level: this shrewd and startlingly good
feature was recorded on digital video and produced on a desktop
computer. ON SCREEN Magazine. The Last Broadcast was produced for
a head-turning $900.00, the creators Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler,
believe their 'discount drama' owes its existence to the emergence
of new technologies that are revolutionising the film industry.
The Last Broadcast is set in an innocuous cable access show, the
fans meet on the internet, the hosts hold near cult status, the
Jersey Devil murders feature on one of the shows. The film forces
the viewer to confront an alternative version of the facts and makes
us ask: "Who did it ?", Fact or Fiction, watch and see!
DIGITAL SALON
May 29 @ 2.00pm
The Digital Salon programme
will show exciting work from the American Resfest, and London's
One dot Zero Digital Film Festival, also featuring work from Pandemonium
Digital Festival London. These screenings include the hottest and
hippest new Digital work from all over the world. Definitely one
to watch!
DIGITAL LIGHT
May 29 @ 7.00pm
Digital Light is a programme
of Digital Video Shorts and other experimental video work from both
the professional and non-commercial world.
Premiering at Digital
Light will be the San Francisco International Film Festival Golden
Spire Winner 'Suspension' by Irish filmmaker Paul Rowley. This experimental
film deals with reworking devices of traditional narrative and visual
abstraction. Suspension is a multi-layered collection of images
drawn from stereotypical Western Films.
'Wanted' by Milla Moilanen
for KROMA productions is a Prize winning Film from Finland, this
beautiful and haunting film explores themes of ethnicity, genetics
and cloning.
DIGITAL MUSIC VIDEO
May 29 @ 8.50pm.
Darklight will close
the Festival by bringing to the 'Big Screen' examples of work that
illustrate how this genre provides a perfect platform for the innovation
in new audio-visual technology.
The latest and the loudest
music videos will include cutting edge work from Fat Boy Slim and
The Aphex Twin, Orbital and many more.
EVENTS
Over the weekend there
will be a busy programme of events including Digital Art ARTHOUSE,
Temple Bar 27-29 May A Digital exhibition showing Art Works, Video
Installations and Digital Projections, Computer-aided and Interactive
Art pieces projected on plasma screens, CD-ROM, and Websites. The
exhibition will run consecutively with the festival in ARTHOUSE,
Temple Bar: Thursday 27-30 May. For more details on Digital Art
please contact:
Chantal Doody at Sink
Digital Media
TEL: 6629930
Or
Mark Cullen at Pallas Studios
TEL: 8781167
Workshop: The Making
of a Digital Feature
10.30-1.00 ARTHOUSE, Temple Bar 28 May Price: £10
Stefan Avalos and Lance
Weiler makers of 'The Last Broadcast', will give a workshop and
explore the areas of Digital Filmmaking. The Last Broadcast was
produced for a head turning $900 and the creators believe their
discount drama owes its existence to the emergence to new technologies
that are revolutionising film. The 90 minute feature is making cinematic
history, shot on borrowed digital cameras costing as little as $900
and edited with off the shelf Adobe software and a 166- megahertz
PC. The Last Broadcast is the first digital picture to be released
in the U.S.A via satellite, thereby completely bypassing both the
crippling costs of conventional film and Hollywood's mighty distribution
machine.
Seminar: Digital
Future- Media Convergence and Distribution.
2.00 - 4.30 ARTHOUSE, Temple Bar 28 May Price: £10
In this seminar the
panel will discuss their creative work and the digital technologies
that have become part of the process. The panel includes:
Nick Ryan from Dublin creative design team Image Now, who produce
work for TV and film using digital technology. They developed the
special effects sequences for the feature, Meteor and U2's Pop Mart
tour. Will Rowe from Protein T.V a U.K based internet broadcast
channel, speaking about new methods of distribution over the internet.
Melanie Horken, an Australian based new media developer will discuss
distribution via satellite. Niamh Walsh, (to be confirmed) Graph
productions, a digital film documentary maker, recent successes
include D-station, currently working on the Fun Lovin Criminals
rokumentary.
Darklight Cabaret
11 TILL 2.00 FRI 28 May IFC
Friday Night 28th
May-Cabaret and Desert Island Disco, hosted by Vada24'7, Shirley
Temple Bar. and Earthman, Also live "Multimedia" performance by
Space in Vada Sat 29th May IFC.
FUTURE SHADOWS
Darklight Digital Film
Festival in association with Influx Records presents FUTURE SHADOWS
INFLUX keep the flag
flyin' for top quality independent dance promotion..... Influx are
very proud to present..... The return of Coldcut Live for the first
time in Ireland as a full Live / Interactive / Multi Media / Audio
and Visual Experience.... As Part of the DARKLIGHT FILM FESTIVAL.
@ THE IFC & MEETING HOUSE SQUARE ( enter via IFC )
Plus Special Guests Scratch Perverts
Saturday 29th May @ 10.30 PM
Live Internet Broadcast by 44K.com
More details on this unique event soon.
BIOGS AND PHOTOS FOR
ALL ARTISTS AVAILABLE FROM BUZZ O NEILL @ THE NUMBERS BELOW
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For more information
on the Festival please contact:
Darklight Festival Office
19 Clare St
Dublin 2
Tel: 01-6629035
Email: info@darklight-filmfestival.com
check out the website:
Web: www.darklight-filmfestival.com
