Review of the Resfest Short Film Festival, Nov 17-22 2005, ACMI Melbourne.( Printed in Real-Time magazine ).
( Update: added some pix and links to watch movies mentioned. )
For better or worse, Resfest comes through town like the dinosaur chase scene in King Kong, and we stumble out at the end of it – exhilarated, overwhelmed by the feast of technical delight, and yet somehow wondering why we are covered in cheese. That said, the Resfest condensed program of ‘short films, music videos, features, motion design, live music and speakers’ inevitably contains breathtaking moments – where the obsessive pursuit of novelty actually leads somewhere, where the technical wizardry transcends the sum of it’s intricate parts, where bedroom creatives kept chipping away on a piece that no-one could ever elevator pitch, where brats with a handicam nailed the perfect moment, or simply while holding your hand, where the film-maker-animator-designer gradually takes you outside of yourself, and what you thought possible. (more…)