RESfest 2006

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash and Mogwai "Travel Is Dangerous"
0,08 (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2006; Director: Johan Kramer; Writer: Johan Kramer)
Documentary about a unique boy who loves football.
Badgered (Country: UK; Year: 2005; Director: Sharon Colman; Writer: Sharon Colman)
A badger with the bedtime blues.
Birds (Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Pleix; Writer: Pleix)
Dogs shake their slo-mo thang to a Vitalic track.
Carlitopolis Redux (Carlitopolis) (Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Luis Nieto; Writer: Luis Nieto)
A lab mouse gets into a tight squeak.
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (Country: Switzerland; Year: 2006; Director: Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack)
A documentary exploring the oil industry and its impact on the world economy.

Humans! and Food Fight
Food Fight (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Stefan Nadelman; Writer: Stefan Nadelman)
It's war and the chips are down.
Le Grand Sommeil (The Big Sleep) (Country: Belgium; Year: 2003; Director: Vincent Patar, Stephane Aubier; Writer: Vincent Patar, Stephane Aubier)
Cracker toys take sleeping tablets and have somnambulant misadventures.
The Host (Gwoemul) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2006; Director: Bong Joon Ho; Writer: Baek Chul-hyun, Bong Joon Ho, Ha Won-jun; Stars: Song Kang-ho, Byeon Hie-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Du-na, Ko Ah-sung)
A toxic monster terrorises Seoul.
Humans! (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Three Legged Legs; Writer: Three Legged Legs; Stars: n/a)
The world gets a nasty case of the humans.
loudQUIETloud: A Film about the Pixies (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Steve Cantor and Matthew Galkin; Stars: Charles Thomson (Frank Black), Kim Deal, David Lovering, Joey Santiago)
A documentary about The Pixies.

Radiohead "There There" and Silence Is Golden
Mogwai "Travel Is Dangerous" (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Monkmus; Writer: Mogwai)
Pop music video featuring a creepy crawly exodus.
Moloch (Country: Poland; Year: 2006; Director: Marcin Pazera; Writer: Marcin Pazera)
War erupts on an industrial wasteland.
Radiohead "There There" (Country: UK; Year: 2003; Director: Chris Hopewell; Writer: Chris Hopewell)
Fantastical video set in the woods.
Rock The Bells (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Casey Suchan, Denis Henry Hennelly)
A concert promoter tries to reunite the Wu-Tang Clan.
Silence Is Golden (Country: UK; Year: 2006; Director: Chris Shepherd; Writer: Chris Shepherd; Stars: Conor Morris, Kate McCloughlin, Andrew Dunford, Patsy Peters)
A boy's eye view of life with his single mum and a nutty neighbour.

Le Grand Sommeil and The Tale Of How
The Tale Of How (Country: South Africa; Year: 2006; Director: The Blackheart Gang; Writer: The Blackheart Gang)
Animated birds try to escape a belligerent octopus.
This Is Me (Country: UK; Year: 2006; Director: Sam Arthur; Writer: Sam Arthur; Stars: Paul Broughton, Darial Pertwee, Antony Du Silva)
Plane brilliance.
Tyger (Country: 2006; Year: 2006; Director: Guilherme Marcondes; Writer: Guilherme Marcondes) , Official Site
A tyger brings the jungle to town.
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