# RESFest > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/RESFest > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/RESFest.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RESFest > Source revision: 1240434519 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Defunct American film festival For information on low resolution images, see [Image resolution](/source/Image_resolution). This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "RESFest" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) RESFest Location United States Language International **RESFEST** (1996–2006) is a defunct American film festival. It was by the 2000s the most prominent [digital film festival](/source/Digital_film_festivals) in North America. ## History RESFest was a leading global showcase of new digital filmmakers alongside [England](/source/England)'s [Onedotzero](/source/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](/source/Michel_Gondry), [Spike Jonze](/source/Spike_Jonze), [Chris Cunningham](/source/Chris_Cunningham) and [Jonathan Glazer](/source/Jonathan_Glazer) all had their catalogs of work showcased at RESFEST over its 10-year run.[1] The film festival was founded and directed by [Jonathan Wells](/source/Jonathan_Hale_Wells)[2][3] 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](/source/San_Francisco)’s [SoMa](/source/South_of_Market%2C_San_Francisco%2C_California) district. Founded by Wells and Bart Cheever, the first year’s program featured work from pioneering music video and motion graphics studio [H-Gun Labs](/source/H-Gun), England’s design collective [Tomato](/source/Tomato_(design_collective)), digital designer Nick Philip and filmmaker [Spike Jonze](/source/Spike_Jonze), whose early skateboard short films were screened. The New York City screening in January 1996 featured work by [Rox](/source/Rox_(American_TV_series)), [Emergency Broadcast Network](/source/Emergency_Broadcast_Network), and [Sofia Coppola](/source/Sofia_Coppola).[4][5] In 1997 the producers also created the digital film lifestyle magazine [RES](/source/RES_(magazine)), which was affiliated with the online media site [Sputnik 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sputnik_7_(website)&action=edit&redlink=1). 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 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Delgado, Lisa (2001-09-06). ["Filmmakers Say: Hi, Resfest"](http://archive.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2001/09/46533). *WIRED*. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["'Last RESFEST Marks New Start"](https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2010/09/141_8970.html). *Korea Times*. 2007-08-26. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Carpenter, Susan (2005-09-29). ["Eclectic festival beyond film"](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-29-wk-moviebright29-story.html). *Los Angeles Times*. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0458-3035](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0458-3035). Retrieved 2016-05-02. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Chandras, Jay (15 May 1996). "Where to go when Sundance goes Disney". *Bikini*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-la_5-0)** Harmon, Amy (1996-01-10). ["Do-It-Yourself Directors"](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-01-10-fi-22959-story.html). *Los Angeles Times*. - John Alderman (September 25, 1998) ["All Digital, All Weekend"](https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1998/09/15255) Wired - Wendy Mitchell (12 September 2005) ["RESFEST kicks of global tour in New York this week"](http://www.screendaily.com/resfest-kicks-of-global-tour-in-new-york-this-week/4024316.article) Screen Daily ## External links - [RES Magazine](https://web.archive.org/web/20060613071100/http://res.com/index.res.html) (archive - June 2006) - [RESFEST](https://web.archive.org/web/20060104023517/http://www.resfest.com/) (archive - January 2006) - [Flux](http://flux.net/) This article about an American film festival is a stub. 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