onedotzero is a contemporary

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s organisation based in

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that aims to promote new work in

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and motion arts. The organisation conducts public events, artist and content development, publishing projects, education, production, creative direction, and related

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consultancy services. It holds international events, including the onedotzero festival first held in 1997. onedotzero is supported by the

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. It runs a free open submission scheme, and receives around 2,000 entries from all over the world each year. The group curates,

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s, produces, and presents new moving image works that also include music, architecture, design, film, interaction design, computer gaming and live audio visual explorations.

History

onedotzero was created in 1996 by writer and former film critic Matt Hanson as a film festival designed to promote new media

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s and new digital art works developing in

. The festival promoted the new desktop

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making tools that were becoming available, which Hanson termed 'the

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in your flat.' It allowed exploration of a film on a single screen, interactive and live audio-visual work. onedotzero was the first festival to present and commission audio visual performances,

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visuals,

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s, and

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in a film and arts context. The first festival in 1997 was produced with a short-lived new media arts collective, ''onearmbandit''. From this group, new media and

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Shane Walter joined Hanson as joint festival director for the second festival (onedotzero2,1998) and subsequent festivals. Hanson and Walter established the onedotzero company later in 1997. After Hanson resigned as director at the end of 2001 Walter continued as sole director of onedotzero6 and subsequent festivals. Other directors whose

work was shown in early festivals include

Chris Cunningham Chris Cunningham (born 15 October 1970) is an English video artist and music video director who directed music videos for electronic musicians such as Autechre, Squarepusher, and Aphex Twin and Björk. Early in his career he worked as a com ...

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and

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. In November 2008 the festival onedotzero_adventures in motion was held at the

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and

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for the first time. The festival tours internationally, including

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, Argentina, New York, France, Russia, with sell-out festivals at London's BFI Southbank on November 8. and in Buenos Aires on September 8. The festival includes themed compilation screenings featuring

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, music videos, animation and motion graphic from several countries. It also features live audiovisual performance. In 2008, onedotzero held two events in the BFI IMAX. They commissioned British musician

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to collaborate with stage designer

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and onedotzero industries for a one-off show. They also hosted a night featuring audiovisual acts The Light Surgeons, D-Fuse AV and

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. The festival also featured installations by artists including

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, Doodlearth and

. In 2006, to mark the tenth anniversary of onedotzero, the group held a series of events, including onedotzero_transvision at the

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, onedotzero_amour at the

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, and onedotzero_metamorphosis at the

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. In

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’s 25th anniversary issue onedotzero directors Hanson and Walter were named as one of the top ten visionaries of the UK film industry alongside

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, Chris Nolan and

Lynne Ramsay Lynne Ramsay (born 5 December 1969) is a Scottish filmmaker and cinematographer, best known for the feature films '' Ratcatcher'' (1999), '' Morvern Callar'' (2002), '' We Need to Talk About Kevin'' (2011), '' You Were Never Really Here'' (2017) ...

. The '' Guardian Film Unlimited'' described its work as ''the most, crucial groundbreaking festival of the early 21st-century''. onedotzero held a festival in

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In September 2008, with over 50,000 people attending over the weekend, for screenings, installations and live events from

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and Martin Philips, Christian Wloch,

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and

In 2009 they again held their film festival at the BFI in London "adventures in Motion" and co-curated (with the V & A Museum) "decode: digital design sensations" with new work in digital and interactive design, from small screen based graphics to large-scale installations, and included 35 works by artists and designers including Daniel Brown, Golan Levin and Daniel Rozin as well as new designers including Troika and Mehmet Akten.

Related projects

onedotzero was conceived as a producing festival and soon created spin-offs from its programming.

onedottv

In 1999 the festival span off the TV series onedottv - it was produced and programmed by Hanson and Walter. In 2001, a 12-part follow-up maxi-series "onedottv_global " was made for the UK television channel

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, directed and produced by the co-directors, with camera by

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. It involved filming subjects in Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sweden and Paris.

onedotzero DVD label

The onedotzero DVD label, launched in 2001, distributes and sells in several countries. The onedotzero_select DVD series are compilations with highlights of the festival screenings, as well as other new works including short films, documentary and music videos. The fifth edition in the series was released in summer 2007. Subsequent releases include a DVD single - the multi-award winning black and white animated short '' Who I Am And What I Want'' by artist

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and director

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, of Slinky Pictures.

onedotzero publishing

In 2004, a book and accompanying DVD, '' Motion blur: graphic moving imagemakers'', was co-edited by Hanson and Walter, with interviews mainly sourced from Hanson's interviews from the onedotzero_global TV series, and additional photography from Walter . It was published in the UK, Netherlands, and USA, going to reprint twice. The follow-up book, produced by Laurence King, was released in 2008.

onedotzero + MTV Bloom

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and online.

onedotzero industries

onedotzero has a sister production company, onedotzero industries, which was founded by Shane Walter and Sam Pattinson. it works in the area of moving image and

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for TV, web, live events, visuals, promos, installations, commercials and emergent technologies. Clients include

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, LG,

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, The Charlatans,

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, and Giles Deacon. Projects include the animation series Geek Boy for the Sci Fi UK channel, live visual content for the

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, U2,

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and

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tours, all video content for the

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stage production and video and interactive content / production for the

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and

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live tours. onedotzero industries works with designers including Willie Williams,

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, Logan, Julian Opie, UVA, D-Fuse, Minivegas, Shroom, and Alex Rutterford, as well as to commissioning new student designers.

Videography/bibliography

Television

* onedottv (1999)

DVD

* onedotzero_select dvd1 (2003) * onedotzero_select dvd2 (2004) * onedotzero_select dvd3 (2004) * onedotzero_select dvd4 (2005) * onedotzero_select dvd5 (released Summer 2007) * '' Who I Am And What I Want'' (2006) award-winning DVD single by

and

, Slinky Pictures * D-Tonate by D-Fuse (2003)

Print

* Motion Blur: Graphic Moving Imagemakers * Motion Blur 2: Multidimensional Moving Imagemakers (published early 2008)

References

External links

* Website
onedotzero

onedotzero_buenos airesonedotzero_industriesBloom new talent competition in conjunction with MTVFilms from previous festivals
on BBC Film Network *http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/users/16380687 *http://motionographer.com/2008/04/07/onedotzero-for-asics/
A decade of onedotzero
*https://web.archive.org/web/20071121032903/http://www.creativeconomy.org.uk/digitalpioneers/the_advisory_panel.asp *https://web.archive.org/web/20060302205950/http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/catalogue/browse/?id=D5FD9B420eeaf2E8FAkPmHCEEEEF
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