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To celebrate the launch of Living In The End Times on paperback, Verso Books and The Church of London are inviting filmmakers to submit short films, which respond, in creative and innovative ways, to Žižek’s theory of the end times:

Global capitalism is fast approaching its end times, says “the Elvis of cultural theory” Slavoj Žižek in his new book, Living In The End Times.

With an extended deadline of July 30th there’s still plenty of time to shoot, edit and render a philosophical short for the topical brief.

For more details, inspiration and a peak at some of the entries, check out the ‘Shooting Žižek creative brief here

How to submit

The film – up to ONE minute in total – can take any format: animation, drama, documentary, stop-motion or other.

The winner will be picked by Žižek himself!

The winning film will screen before an open lecture by Žižek in London later this year and the winner will receive a selection of Verso’s back catalogue, curated by the subversive publishers themselves.

Entries can be uploaded to a video-hosting website, like YouTube or Vimeo, with a link sent to zizekfilm@thechurchoflondon.com by July 30th.

NOTE: Although filmmakers will retain ownership over their submissions, Verso Books and The Church Of London will have full permission to feature content across all their platforms.

onedotzero_adventures in motion: thank you everyone!

a huge thanks to the BFI team, and to everyone that came along to this year’s festival and made it our most successful to date, with thousands of you packing out the events, talks and screenings. look out for a special festival highlight edit coming soon. it’s been great hearing about your festival highlights, don’t forget to let us know what you thought and share your festival experiences with us on:

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Festival Round Up: Live Av Events

on thursday night dj yoda stormed the BFI IMAX, not once, but twice with his show stop, look and listen, on the uk’s largest screen, leaving audiences awed.

following friday’s sold-out screening of a special ninja tune edition of bug, the party continued in the bar to celebrate ninja’s 20th anniversary, with coldcut and offshore on the decks.

saturday’s av extravaganza, dark fibre, presented holotronica supported by musion’s 3d holographic projection technology. featuring holotronica [stuart warren-hill, hexstatic], av artists d-fuse with audio from swayzak’s brun, vj/illustrator shantell martin and electronic dj/producer 10sui.

Festival Round Up: Installations

throughout the festival incredible free installations filled every floor of the BFI Southbank, commissioned by onedotzero.
quayola’s multi screen installation ‘topologies’ permeated the gallery, audiences enjoyed 2001-inspired intimate cinema pods from ovei, featuring edouard salier’s two videos for massive attack, and antivj’s latest incarnation of their audiovisual volcano mapping project ‘eyjafjallajokull’. bringing interactive play to the proceedings were hellicar + lewis’s interactive mirror feedback, and cassette Playa x kin design x onedotzero industries: take a picture / i can haz ur everything… new-age photo booth – download your animated images here if you had a go!

Festival Overview: Screenings And Features

joining classic onedotzero compilation screening programmes wavelength, wow + flutter, extended play and j-star was the ever popular citystates and guest programme pictoplasma: characters in motion. four brand new curated programmes joined the line-up: audiences were wowed with leftfield horror with nightfall, caught animated gems from female directors in ladymation, were fascinated by robotica and caught work from cutting edge creatives in code warriors. it was great to present many of the emerging artists to introduce their captivating works featured in new british talent.

on sunday afternoon onedotzero had the pleasure entertaining the new digital generation of mini motion critics and creators with family friendly shorts in sprites.

thanks to all of the featured creatives who came along and introduced their work, and thank you to everyone who submitted their work, we hope this overview shows the diverse, weird and wonderful breadth of themes, genres and ideas that onedotzero compiles from, and encourages even more of you to submit your work next year.

feature film previews
we were honoured that gareth edwards, director of monstors and steve sale, director of superhero me took part in on-stage q+a sessions following their fantastic feature previews, and audiences enjoyed an exclusive making-of short film alongside the beautiful chico + rita.

Festival Overview: Innervisions: Talks And Workshops

it was great to meet so many of you at the sold-out innervisions talks and workshops. thanks for all the feedback about how inspiring they were. they covered everything from coding to games, data visualisation to graphic design, robot building and all sorts in between. a huge thank you to all of the speakers and workshop leaders:

in creators’ talk: two x two renowned graphic designer and provocateur neville brody and founder of allofus simon ‘sanky’ sankarayya, each introduced one emerging creative talent whose work is currently inspiring them: introducing photographer laura pannack and designer richard harvey respectively. chair adrian shaugnessy tweeted that he was ‘knocked out by the newcomers’.

acclaimed magazine and blog it’s nice that were invited by onedotzero to stage a live
version of the magazine: introducing graphic designer rob mathews, writer + artist maisie broadhead, artist michael crowe, illustrator louise naunton morgan, animation director johnny kelly, designers thomas thwaites and roel wouters.

games and film – the new ‘indie’?in association with bafta hosted special guests joey ansah [the bourne ultimatum, street fighter legacy], allen leitch from spov [presenting a rare big screen showing of their cinematic title sequence for the new call of duty game] and ben hibon [codehunters]

protein forum got together some of london’s finest practitioners of data visualisation [aka info-graphics] to showcase some of their work and share their learning. guests included david mccandless, andrew shoben; dave bowker; and peter crnokrak.

as part of the code warriors screening, filip visnjic from creative applications net led a brilliant talk with artists chris lavelle and steffen fiedler.

thanks to tinker london for their brilliant hands-on moanbot: robot-building workshop, we can’t wait to see the results, so please share pictures / clips of your robots on our twitter , facebook or vimeo.

thanks to all the amazing up-and-coming creatives that took part in our education workshop, cascade. thank you to those who made cascade special: derek yates, d+ad, kin design and john nussey, squint opera, all of us and joel gethin lewis.

we, and the the industry partners were seriously impressed with the quality of work. take a look here

Online onedotzero exclusive! Check out the world premiere of renowned filmmaker Edouard Salier‘s brand new video ‘Atlas Air’ for Massive Attack, in advance of the release of Massive Attack’s ‘Atlas Air’ EP in aid of the charity War Child.

Massive Attack ‘Atlas Air’ from onedotzero on Vimeo.

The hard hitting-film, which explores the theme of rendition, follows Salier’s strikingly beautiful film for ‘Splitting the Atom’, the first single on Massive Attack’s latest album, Heligoland. Salier’s ‘Splitting the Atom’ film will screen as part of this year’s onedotzero_adventures in motion festival at the BFI Southbank from 10 – 14 November 2010, as part of the ‘wavelength 10’ screening programme.

‘Atlas Air’ Film Credits:

Massive Attack ‘Atlas Air’ 
Directed by Edouard Salier
Produced by: Edouard Salier, Svana Gisla and David Danesi 
Production Company: Black Dog Films and Digital District Paris 
CGI:Jean Lamoureux, Emilie Caudroit, Rémi Gamiette, Kevin Monthureux,  Jimmy Cavé, Romuald Caudroit and Thomas Marquet. 
2D : David Sapyyapy, Lou Menais, Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka. 
Art & Compositing : Julien Michel, Xavier Reye and Damien Martin. 
Commissioner: Svana Gisla for Virgin Records/EMI Music  

Edouard Sailer on the film: ‘I decided to make a prequel to the Splitting the Atom clip, whilst leaving interpretation to the viewer to a certain extent but mixed with the real sense of the song and the text of Del Naja. The song is about rendition so that was certainly an inspiration.’

With a long history of working with the most exciting promo directors, filmmakers and animators around the world, onedotzero_adventures in motion has regularly showcased Massive Attack’s associated moving image work, as well as presenting the likes of Chris Cunningham, Spike Jonze, Mike Mills, Michel Gondry, Jonathan Glazer and many more since the early stages of their careers.

onedotzero’s wavelength 10 screening programme offers radical new takes in music video – a genre that continues to act as a playground for breaking new directors and musicians to make their mark. This year’s programme includes recent classics by critically acclaimed directors alongside witty lo-fi promos from up-and-coming talent. Highlights will be Chris Milk and Aaron Koblinʼs unique crowd-sourced music video project,The Johnny Cash Project, Anthony Schepperd’s ‘The Music Scene’ for Blockhead; and Jan Van Nuenen’s ‘Scars’ for Basement Jaxx ft. Meleka, Kelis & Chipmunk.

wavelength 10 screens on Thurs 11 November at 20:50, Fri 12 November at 18:30 and Sun 14 November at 20:45 at onedotzero_adventures in motion at BFI Southbank.

For full festival programme visit our main onedotzero_adventures in motion festival event page.

article shane walter, onedotzero director, about the street scrawls for stirred up magazine

The streets are littered with original literature. If you are not blinded or too jaded, look beyond the adman’s commercial onslaught, media messages, visual overload and ‘official’ street paraphernalia – there is so much more to see. The street is an art gallery – in the case of Banksy’s work, a pricey one where people are trying to chip away at early stencils to take a chunk of his art home with them for free rather than pay the hundreds of thousands that he now commands. His work is the tip of the Street Art iceberg, with a variety of artists vying for the attention of those that know where and how to look for it, from stencils to stickers, paste up to graffiti.

Take a dive deeper and you will find something more humble, direct – the form of original graffiti that has real urgency. These are the scrawled messages, slogans and ideas of the everyman. This literature of the street is a barometer of the day. Its strength and allure perhaps is its very ephemeral nature. It does not last – pasted over, cleaned off, scrubbed out or decayed and faded away – leaving a fresh page for the next scribbler. But it has impact and power none the less.

At its best it provides short sharp bursts of wit and incisive comment – nuggets of wisdom even. Take any area of an inner city today and you will find a plethora of street musings. The Hoxton and Shoreditch triangle in London’s East End, for example, is a mecca for urban culture but also has a vibrant scene of street scrawlers with unique messages who alert people to their thoughts and concerns. This is today’s news in written snapshots more valid than the vacuous water cooler moments of chitchat or cheap celebrity driven glossy mags. They may be the preoccupation of the few but they often reflect the sentiment of the masses.

These scribes are covert and underground by their nature and don’t have access to the mass media of newspapers or TV – even the internet and blogosphere is not the domain for them to share their sharp views. It is street culture from another more direct and human source, humble, local but with a passion to say something. The tools are low tech, certainly not digital but entirely functional and fit for purpose. The quills of choice are the spray can, stencil, chalk, pen or paint ready for easy and swift application for the delectation of the passer-by.

It’s the place to air personal grievances, political comments, angry rants, frustrated fears and calls to arms – always delivered with purpose and confidence. There is something quaint and almost medieval about the practice. I love the personal, almost inexplicable writings that at first leave you totally clueless to their meanings or motivations. But they stay with you, playing on and with your mind, resonating much longer that you would have thought possible. As one street writer puts it, “Gold in my head.”

To see more photos on this subject from shane walter visit: www.flickr.com/photos/szen_volta

http://motionographer.com/features/quayola-interview/

adventures in moving image

Filmmaker opportunity: creative brief – inspired by Slavoj Žižek. Extended deadline of July 30th.

onedotzero_adventures in motion wrap and thanks!

Edouard Salier film premiere for New Massive Attack ‘Atlas Air’ single

literature of the street

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