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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Ten days of the best digital jiggery-pokery. onedotzero is back at London’s ICA for a ninth year with its annual digital dose of “adventures in moving image”. The festival, which launches in the capital before heading out on tour around the UK and the world, brings together a varied selection of cutting-edge filmmaking, from music promos and short films to computer graphics and live visuals. onedotzero set out nine years ago as an ideas lab to commission and showcase a new style of filmmaking made possible by digital technology. Non-traditional filmmakers from backgrounds like illustration, graphic design and animation had begun creating new forms of moving image, and the world of film was open to anyone with an idea and a laptop.  Since then, the event has grown into a 10-day festival with events covering 60 cities internationally, and has helped launched the careers of the likes of Hammer+Tongs (The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy), Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth) and Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind). This year’s highlights include masterclasses from MTV on “branding a generation”, charting its revolutionary TV over the last 20 years and featuring creatives from several of MTV’s international offices; and one from Honda, who dissect their Grrr advertising campaign. The Wow + Flutter strand of the festival showcases new trends, and features new work from Studio AKA, in the form of crazed French anime, Hell’s Kitchen and a mesmerizing comment on American’s attitude to world politics in Empire, by Edouard Salier.  Extended Play 05 features a mix of digital shorts and animation, including the darkly gruesome new wave horror, The Eel, and Over Time - dark, smokey jazz with muppet musicians. Meanwhile, Wavelength, the progressive music video strand, features promos from Beck (by promo kings Shynola), The Prodigy (Intro), Björk (Lynn Fox) and El Presidente (Jonas Odell), the latter of which was produced by painstakingly pho-tocopying and animating every frame over 2km of paper. There are also feature films in the form of Korean animation, Sky Blue, and a debut Japanese surrealist feature, Survive Style 5+, starring Vinnie Jones of all people. And this year’s live events include two spe-cially commissioned performances featuring Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack. If you fancy seeing stylish, innovative filmmaking, from gloriously beautiful new forms of animation to shorts that extend the boundaries of storytelling, onedotzero9 is a great place to start.
Matt Walton
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