Music Video programme 8:00pm- 9:30pm

Film Base: Friday 8:00pm- 9:30pm

DATA: "R.S.S." (02:51)

By Arturo Gil Olvera

MX

Hours of zapping and information overload compressed into three minutes of headache-inducing, rapid-fire cuts. The story is told in the cut.

"Edition is the invisible language of this age" - Mr. Orridge.

PostPanic Showreel Animation (01:45)

By Ania Markham

HOL

IP

PostPanic is a creative studio specialising in creating unorthodox, strongly design-led film, animation and print projects. This showreel was an attempt to interpret the studio's name. Created by Mischa Rozema, PostPanic's Co-Founder and Creative Director, and 3D animator, Ivor Goldberg, this is a dark slice of PostPanic's output.

Pteranodon (05:40)

By Alan Lambert

IRL

WP

"Pteranodon" is a partner piece to "Quarterlight", from 2004. "Pteranodon" developed from "Pteranodon 14" - which amalgamates footage shot in Asia with images from recent wanderings into the Middle East . The soundtrack combines Arabian pop with Irish electronica and simple optical effects transform the water towers of Kuwait into architectural patterns reminiscent of the mandelbrot sets and fractals of Chaos.

Apple On A Tree (4:50)

By Astrid Rieger, Zeljko Vidovic

DE

"Just the other day I was an apple:
And I said: God? I want to know what's it's like to be a man.
And he said: Okay, my son.
And: DING! I'm a man.
But, you know, I miss my life as an apple..."

Cal-TV: "Imagine This" (04:16)

By: John Callaghan

IRL

WP

 

"Imagine This" is an audio mash up of George W Bush singing the John Lennon classic "Imagine", it has been a worldwide hit and has made it into the BBC Radio 1 Music Festive 50 on UK Radio 1. The video gives us a lip-synching Bush interspersed with Iraq war footage, leaving a humorous but poignant take on the Iraq War.

Woodcat 02:57

By Giancarlo Bonati

UK

IP

 

Like a strange nature documentary, this animated piece is a slow climb through the branches of a cherry tree, encountering the struggle of everyday existence experienced by the inhabitants of a small make believe world, and the larger one around it. In it, we find creatures of dubious functionality going about their normal, daily business.

Les 5 Siamoises (05:10)

By Hugo Arcier

FRA

This movie is a mental trip in the mind of an hypnotized woman.
With the music, we follow the construction of a fantasmagoric image.

Sampling (03:12)

By Jean-Francois Lanthier

CAN

IP

Sampling is a video about nature - a sequence of images illustrating vegetal and animal wildlife transforming traces of human activity. Electroacoustic music links the images.

Inches: "Chunks of Kill" (03:55)

By Gnomes

IRL

WP

Inspired by a children's felt animal set, this piece is very loosely based on the novel "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. Using the felt animals in order to keep the action (and in turn the story) quite simple, it is an understated exploration of revenge, where the animals are mistreated and eventually revolt. Hope arises from an absence of any form of authority.

3-1: "You Will Never Find Me" (06:09)

By 310k (Ivo Schmetz (NL) and Paul Rickus ( UK )).

HOL

IP

"You Will Never Find Me" is a track by the Dutch live electropunk/pistolpop band, 3-1. The video is about searching, going to strange places where things happen that can only happen when you've been searching for a long time - a bizarre reality sets in and gives the idea of living in a dream world with no way out.

 

Exposed (02:47)

By Iceberg Fernandez

UK

 

In his dialogue with the outside world the filmmaker artist lives inside-out, getting exposed and printed on the celluloid. This is a 16 mm black & white dance poem exploring the cinematic choreography composed of the internal rhythm of the shots or screen action, their pixilation, camera angle and rhythmic montage. Finally, its soundtrack reinforces all these elements.

Sky HD (01:00)

By VentureThree in collaboration with The Mill

UK

Sky HD is TV at its most intense. At the centre of this brand world is the idea of "feel everything". This is expressed through animations of 5 different feelings: euphoric, intense, hot, alive and serene. Working individually or together they take you on a virtual reality journey into a magical synaesthetic world. Feel it for yourself. Feel everything.

TwinKranes: "Plateau" (3:20)

By Susie & Jessie

IRL

Official selection

 

In April 2006 Twinkranes, along with USA-born, Dublin-based directors, Susie & Jessie,travelled to the East coast of Scotland where cult horror flik "The Wicker Man" was filmed to shoot their first music video. Two spooky days of shooting were spent with the resulting footage coming together as a terrifying look into the near future.
 

North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative: "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en" (Vice Records)

By D.A.D.D.Y.

IRL
Official selection

BOO! This year's sweetest - and scariest - benefit song is "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en" , featuring a star-studded indie ensemble (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beck, David Cross, The Postal Service, Sonic Youth and many more) collectively known as the North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative , with all proceeds donated to UNICEF.

D.A.D.D.Y. worked with Johnny Kelly Jr. Matthew Bolger, Delicious9, and Brian Cheatle.
 

Palm: "Other World" (02:24)

By Ania Markham

HOL

IP

 

PostPanic is a creative studio specialising in creating unorthodox, strongly design-led film, animation and print projects. Agency AKQA wanted to illustrate that Palm's consumers were communicating worldwide using their products. With an extremely tight turnaround of 2 weeks, Postpanic were instructed to select stock footage and use icons taken from Palm products to create a film. We decided to carefully motion track our selected footage so we could combine it with our motion graphics to create seemingly simple colour lines of communication which would move in a balletic motion on screen, building to a crescendo at the end.

 

Fly By (3:38)

By Mischa Langemeijer

IRL

 

This music-video is about open spaces without boundaries, about feeling free as a bird or, at least, the longing for this feeling. This piece is built with footage taken from Langemeijer's window, looking out over the city at the end of the day. Capturing that moment of stillness and evoking a sense of freedom as the birds criss-cross the unbounded sky.
 

Plaid: "Caretstik" (Warp Records) (7:00)

By Tim Redfern

IRL

Official selection

The video, commissioned by creative review, is 'about' shopping and was shot around Dublin entirely using a digital SLR camera. These stills were animated to the MIDI timeline of the track with custom written software and output in Hi-Def 1080i.

 

Shopculture (00:42)

By Stiletto

USA

 

 

Where'd You Get That Bag (Travelling Handbag) (00:45)

By Stiletto

USA

Stiletto NYC is a design studio based in New York & Milan co-founded in 2000 by Stefanie Barth and Julie Hirschfeld. Stiletto specialises in motion, live-action and print projects. "Shopculture" and "Where'd You Get That Bag" were commissioned by Lucky magazine to illustrate how

Lucky functions in the marketplace. In "Where'd you get that bag" we recreated the idea of how things spread virally from person to person. "Shop Culture" represents the overload of our consumer culture. The client in this project was really open to allow us to use abstraction to create our interpretations of the marketplace.

 

Double Adaptor: "Nanowebbers" (02:49)

By Semiconductor

IRL

For '200 Nanowebbers', Semiconductor have created a molecular web that is generated by Double Adaptor's live soundtrack. Using custom-made scripting, the melodies and rhythms spawn a nano-scale environment that responds to the audio's resonances. Layers of energetic hand-drawn animations play over vector shapes that form atomic scale associations. As the landscape flickers into existence, substructures begin to take shape and resemble crystalline substances.

 

Daedelus: "Sundown" (03:18)

By Clay Lipsky, produced by Ninja Tunes

UK

Official Selection

 

The video for "Sundown" is a fairytale story about growth and re-birth. It chronicles a civilization's reckless industrialisation and self-destructive growth causing an imbalance in the ecosystem that ultimately leads to its demise. Nature's resilience, though, eventually corrects the imbalance and returns the world to a state of normalcy. Meanwhile, Daedelus serves as a mysterious figure seemingly conducting the ensuing chaos through his music.
 

Coldcut featuring Roots Manuva: "True Skool" (03:34)

By Clay Lipsky, produced by Ninja Tunes

UK

Official Selection

Coldcut's energetic club anthem, "True Skool" featuring Roots Manuva, inspired a music video that depicts their infectious grooves spreading all over the world. A grafitti-esque flow of graphics pours from their speakers transforming bleak cityscapes into vibrant street scenes containing acrobatic dancers. Meanwhile, Roots Manuva's lyrics, blasting media hype and extolling musical diversity, teach us what "True Skool" is all about.

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