Onedotzero Film Festival - Adventures in Moving Image

Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Sunday 30th October - Thursday 3rd November

Extended Play 05 - Sunday 30th October

An international selection of digital short films. Most were enjoyable, but a few lacked narrative content. I particularly enjoyed Over Time, featuring muppets playing jazz - stylish endearing animation.

Mike Mills Music Videos - Monday 31st October

Mike Mills has recently completed his first feature film, Thumbsucker. This retrospective was an opportunity to see a selection of his music videos, including work for Air, Yoko Ono and Mansun. I particularly like his video for Kelly Watch the Stars in which he juxtaposed a table-tennis competition with the basic ping-pong computer game.

Wow + Flutter 05 - Thursday 3rd November

This screening of experiments in digital animation and motion graphics brought the festival to a close. There was an impressive range of short works on show from across the globe. The film that got the best reaction from the audience was Park Football, a simple animation of cylindrical characters playing, you guessed it, park football. Full of humour, it illustrated how simple 2D vector animation can be just as effective as complex 3D animation if it is executed well.