Where can you find the fluid, dream-state imagery of video/film director Jonathan Glazer (Radiohead’s “Street Spirit,” Sexy Beast), video sets by London-based VJ collective Addictive TV (whose past work for electronica icons Howie B. and Fatboy Slim has been eye candy of the purest stripe), and a veritable landslide of some of the most cutting-edge, dynamic, and just plain outrageously entertaining digital films and videos that raises the bar higher than most people can manage without benefit of cost-prohibitive neuromancing wetware upgrades?
Nowhere but the eighth annual Resfest, the touring brainchild of Jonathan Wells’ monthly guide to all the übercool new-school digital dreamware, which this year decamps in Austin at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Friday-Sunday, Oct. 8-10.
This year the three-day cavalcade of soul-tweaking visual splendor and chaos also features the Nike-sponsored By Design program (motion graphics from Suk & Koch, MK12, and others), Bushwhacked! (featuring Austinites Archer & Beck), and a collection of Shynola rarities (they’re the shit). And, of course, there’s afterparties galore and more DJ sets than you can shake a Technics 1200 at. Dig in.
More info at www.drafthouse.com and www.resfest.com.
This article appears in October 8 • 2004.