Venue : Odeon Cinema, The Merrion Centre, Leeds
Date : Sunday 30th September 2001
Time : 6.00 - 12.00pm
Price : £3


A 1960's cinema, unused and semi-derelict since 1980 will provide a unique venue for a fascinating look at digital film courtesy of Glitch and Onedotzero with ambient electronica from Vector DJ's and Hutah VJ's.



Onedotzero
Wavelength 01 touring programme

The edgiest work from the most innovative promo and commercial directors around. A visual and aural adventure through an international array of work that includes exclusives, director's cuts and previews of graphic-influenced work. There's been a staggering increase in animated work filtering to the mainstream via the music promo domain since the first wavelength edition. This renaissance has been directly triggered by the accessibility of digital animation tools, and in turn has resulted in our most geographically diverse programme to date.

Oualalaradime - In Your Arms
by h5: Bardou-Jacquet/Houplain (music by Zebda/Ben Diamond)
Bursting onto the scene last year with his typographical promo for the child, this festival edition includes a double helping from Parisienne design boutique, h5. Oualalaradime is a virtuoso animation running the gamut of animation styles from computer-gaming sports sims to child-like hand drawings via Hanna-Barbera and manga. Bardou-Jacquet's tour de force hits every style head-on to make a startlingly cohesive whole. Into Your Arms, based on a TV singles dating game-show allows further hybrid fusings of live action, typography and dot matrix animation.

Rock 'n' Roll Highschool
by Klas Ahlund@stylewar (music by Teddy Bears Stockholm)
Pixel power to the rescue, Donkey Kong meets Spinal Tap. A rock and roll caper where the band are rendered as old school video game characters doing what rock stars do: sex, drugs, drink, are all included along with the proverbial TV thrown out of the window. It was only a matter of time before Commodore 64 sprite-based animation came back into vogue. Character design by Stylewar and Kingsize.

The Beamer
by Run Wrake (music by Spacer)
Wrake's unique collage style, usually seen through his Howie B collaborations, is let loose on pussyfoot act Spacer. Working with an open brief he's created a looped-up world where Magritte meets Escher by way of MTV.

Am I Wrong?
Scratched by Geoffroy De Crecy (music by Etienne De Crecy)
De Crecy made his directorial debut, Am I Wrong?, for his famed French house producing brother, Etienne, as a college project. Despite claiming no political intention this is an intricately quirky and humourous look at a fast food chain. Rebellion disrupts a hamburger joint production line with drastic results. While in Scratched, auto-culture is given a cynical sideswipe with superb animation and typical Gallic flair.

Blipverts
by Shynola/Chris Bran (music by Radiohead)
Anti-promos for maverick musical talents Radiohead, matched by Onedotzero festival stalwarts Shynola and animator Chris Bran. Forays into digital micro-movies inspired by Kid A create a perverse and disturbing world of DNA stick men, mutated bears and freakish terrains.

History
by Johnny Hardstaff
Relative newcomer Hardstaff's eulogy on gaming culture in a special Playstation2 commission. A multi-layered, multi-referenced, scrolling-graphic tableau that takes in everything from early console graphics to late Tekken.

Don't Panic
by Tim Hope (music by Coldplay)
An immense talent who has grown to prominence since last year's festival. An underwater symphony for a beautiful world of domestic cut-out harmony upset by torrential rain and flooding illustrates Hope's ethereal and iridescent style. With additional animation by John Williams.

Angel (unreleased director's cut)
by Walter Stern (music by Massive Attack)
A rare chance to see this moody and thought-provoking banned promo from Stern. The hounded becomes the hound in this taut psychological take on mob mentality turned on its head.

Weapon Of Choice
by Spike Jonze (music by Fatboy Slim)
Five star weirdness, as Spike Jonze directs Christopher Walken, who's in the mood for dancing and swooping around a Los Angeles hotel inspired by the melodies of Norman Cook.

In Your Arms
by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet (music by Ben Diamond)

I Can't Wait
by Stephane Sednaoui (music by Mirwais)
Distorted imagery to disturbing effect. Another collaboration between friends of 15 years, Mirwais and Sednaoui, who describes the way they work together as 'visually and musically throwing up'. A representation of the electro-obsessed Mirwais through twisted cabled imagery.

4 Ton Mantis
by Floria Sigsmondi (music by Amon Tobin)
Multi-talented painter, photographer and director famed for her warped and weird take on reality delivers a dark tale of abnormality for Tobin. An abstract urban melodrama featuring split personalities, shifting expressions, morphing limbs, capped by the brooding presence of a rampaging insect.

Grammy Winners
by The Designers Republic (music by Funkstorung)
The first promo from Yorkshire's very own graphic superheroes. Delivering an up-to-the minute cutaway flash-animated aesthetic fusing bold primary colour and urban photography. Motion graphic mayhem filtered through DR's hard-edged and much copied trademark style.

Endeka
by D-Fuse (music by Fibla)
Beyond visual electronica as the D-Fuse collective delve into hypnotically abstract imagery for spanish recording artist Fibla.

Only You
by Johan Perjus/Daniel De Viciola (music by Caesars Palace)
An ultra-low budget here forced a lo-tech, highly creative approach for this new Swedish rock act. A fresh combination mixing surreal monochromatic surveillance footage with digitally-created backgrounds. Inspired by and referencing eastern European animation and Polish children's films.

Adore
by Sebastien Drhey/Benoit Millot (music by i:cube)
More standout animation from France in the guise of architect-animators Drhey and Millot. Made solely on a G4 Mac it's a minimalist tracing on the poetry of flight and airport structures as man runs to catch a plane in fluid motion.

Imitation of Life
by Hammer + Tongs (music by REM)
Garth Jenning's masterful pop vignette. A short shot of a seemingly everyday chaotic LA lounge party played back, reversed, repeated and zoomed in upon creates an inventive and refreshing promo from master image manipulators and pop pretenders, REM.



Glitch Medialab

A Programme of No/Low Budget Films From Leeds and West Yorkshire Glitch Medialab is a Leeds-based independent film and video workshop set up in 1999 to produce and exhibit no/low budget films from music videos and animation to no-budget DV and 8mm/16mm shorts. The Medialab was founded by people from a spectrum of backgrounds including graphic designers, the unemployed, musicians and teachers with the aim of using digital technology to foster a healthy local film scene and make film and video more accessible. For Intermix Glitch will be screening a programme of the best film/video work by young film-makers in Leeds and West Yorkshire. Glitch are currently in the process of releasing a compilation video/CD of the best of Glitch film nights and have two new shorts in production, Darkness Sets In and Decisions.

Routines
by Glitch Medialab
A fifties-style noir about a mysterious new media organisation who promise to make people's lives happier. A detective trails a number of strange occurences at a shadowy organisation, the inertia travel company, finding an answer in his very own everyday routines.

Pylons
by Robert Thomas
Two government employees have to trace their route home to the city by the pylons dotted across the landscape. A low budget sci-fi short that deals with the disparity between country and city, between sound and image.

K-wol Film no.2
by Carl Allport
A training film for a strange new organisation.

It's Getting Dark
by Glitch Medialab
An urban ghost story. A travelling salesman sees something at a window of a block of flats in a city he has never been to before. An investigation of urban space and identity.

Bless You
by Scott Dulson
An infectious short film.

Repeat Offender
by Glitch Medialab
Pop promo for art punk band 'Lorimer'.

Parkside
by Robert Thomas
A short film that investigates the use of soundtrack.

Various
by Graham Hibbert
A number of short abstract digital animations.

All films on show are made in Leeds and West Yorkshire on low/no budgets, using digital video/super 8 and 16mm.



Hutah

Hutah are an innovative moving image company based in Leeds. Developing from their history of club projections Hutah are now involved with all areas of video production and presentation including animated graphics, visual installations, filmmaking and web based projects. Hutah balance their commercial projects with an interest in experimental filmmaking and new forms of graphic manipulation. Hutah also act as the video wing of the Vector collective.



Vector

Vector is an arts collective with a loose and shifting membership drawn from a diversity of digital disciplines. Over the last three years they have attempted to map new sonic territories and report back from the furthest reaches of the electronic spectrum. Attracting an international roster of electronic musicians Vector has consistently provided Leeds with a truly alternative forum to the stale music scene peddled by small-minded promoters and no-minded purveyors of the 'cool' Leeds lie. Vector has also taken its unique style to various cities around the north of England including an appearance at this years Lovebytes festival in Sheffield.