RESFest

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'''RESFEST''' (1996–2006) is a defunct American film festival. It was by the 2000s the most prominent [[digital film festivals|digital film festival]] in North America.

== History == RESFest was a leading global showcase of new digital filmmakers alongside [[England]]'s [[Onedotzero]] festival. The festival toured the world and in 2005 travelled to 35 cities in the USA, Canada, UK, Japan, Australia, Brazil and in various cities in Europe, Asia and Africa. A large part of the festival's latter content focused on cutting-edge music videos and short films, and directors like [[Michel Gondry]], [[Spike Jonze]], [[Chris Cunningham]] and [[Jonathan Glazer]] all had their catalogs of work showcased at RESFEST over its 10-year run.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://archive.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2001/09/46533|title=Filmmakers Say: Hi, Resfest|last=Delgado|first=Lisa|date=2001-09-06|magazine=WIRED|access-date=2016-05-02}}</ref> The film festival was founded and directed by [[Jonathan Hale Wells|Jonathan Wells]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2010/09/141_8970.html|title='Last RESFEST Marks New Start|date=2007-08-26|website=Korea Times|access-date=2016-05-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-29-wk-moviebright29-story.html|title=Eclectic festival beyond film|last=Carpenter|first=Susan|date=2005-09-29|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|access-date=2016-05-02}}</ref> after the dissolution of the Low Res Digital Film Festival which he had previously co-founded.

Low Res Digital Film Festival first took place in October 1995 at an art gallery in [[San Francisco]]’s [[South of Market, San Francisco, California|SoMa]] district. Founded by Wells and Bart Cheever, the first year’s program featured work from pioneering music video and motion graphics studio [[H-Gun|H-Gun Labs]], England’s design collective [[Tomato (design collective)|Tomato]], digital designer Nick Philip and filmmaker [[Spike Jonze]], whose early skateboard short films were screened. The New York City screening in January 1996 featured work by [[Rox (American TV series)|Rox]], [[Emergency Broadcast Network]], and [[Sofia Coppola]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=Where to go when Sundance goes Disney|last=Chandras|first=Jay|date=15 May 1996|work=Bikini}}</ref><ref name="la">{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-01-10-fi-22959-story.html|title=Do-It-Yourself Directors|last=Harmon|first=Amy|date=1996-01-10|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

In 1997 the producers also created the digital film lifestyle magazine [[RES (magazine)|RES]], which was affiliated with the online media site [[Sputnik 7 (website)|Sputnik 7]]. The original founders parted ways, with Cheever establishing a D.FILM festival and Wells championing RESFest.

Both the festival and magazine stopped updating their websites in the midst of RESFEST 10, the organization's 2006 tour, and have since been inactive.

==References== {{reflist|30em}} * John Alderman (September 25, 1998) [https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1998/09/15255 "All Digital, All Weekend"] Wired * Wendy Mitchell (12 September 2005) [http://www.screendaily.com/resfest-kicks-of-global-tour-in-new-york-this-week/4024316.article "RESFEST kicks of global tour in New York this week"] Screen Daily

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060613071100/http://res.com/index.res.html RES Magazine] (archive - June 2006) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060104023517/http://www.resfest.com/ RESFEST] (archive - January 2006) *[http://flux.net/ Flux]

[[Category:Defunct film festivals in the United States]] [[Category:Film festivals in California]] [[Category:Film festivals established in 1996]]