This year’s Digital Space programme stretches its wings to take a broader view than ever of the continually evolving world of digital animation.
Screened as part of NZIFF 2006
The Digital Space 2006
This year’s The Digital Space programme stretches its wings to take a broader view than ever before of the continually evolving world of hi-res digital animation. The programme still plays host to highly imaginative abstract digital animation, but these pieces sit beside films with clearer narrative structures. There are films obviously inspired by gaming animation, works adapted from other mediums and several works of digital art created for gallery spaces.
Ar(r)etes 2005
The ocean is a dumping ground where a new type of sea-life evolves. A beautiful film about ugliness.
Theros 2005
Buildings sprout like headstones in the desert in this frightening picture of industry.
Panthera 2005
A skeletal predator prowls the back alleys.
Warning, Petroleum Pipeline 2005
A rolling, rhythmic construction zone transforms into a wild, metallic environment of oil industry infrastructure.
Re: Those Sounds You Sent Me! 2005
Constructed via email – a film utilising images born of people’s responses to sounds and vice versa.
Akkad 2005
A stunning, twisting kaleidoscope of pedestrians, traffic and commuters in an ultra-symmetrical metropolis.
Yu 2005
Add this thrilling point-of-view flight through a sinister, futuristic landscape to the register of great digital roller-coasters.
Flesh 2005
Be warned. This is a highly provocative juxtaposition of soft-core porn and hard-core 9/11 imagery.
Dream Boy 2004
Starring many moustachioed Lego men.
Bitcrusher 2004
A floor plan gradually grows into a digital architectural structure – with a few glitches.
Rupture 2005
This discordant, crackling mesh of electronic, fibrous energy dares you to discern patterns before they disappear.
Zero Degree 2005
Artist and camera conspire in a revenge plot against a murderer.
Jona/Tomberry 2005
In this visceral adaptation of his graphic novel, Rosto has created a confounding world which awaits the ultimate horror.