The DVD series brings together the world's best and most innovative talent in filmmaking, music video, motion graphics and club visuals. Featuring a collection of rare gems and recent masterpieces along with award winning short films from the recent onedotzero7 2003 film festival, the DVD includes exclusive shorts by Slinky Pictures, Johnny Hardstaff and Ed Holdsworth, and featuring music by Black Strobe (Output), Lambchop and Legowelt (Ghostly).

Already established at the forefront of digital film through its internationally renowned annual festival and its notable Channel 4 television series, onedottv, onedotzero is highly regarded across the globe by directors, animators and designers as being at the forefront of future film. In recognition of this, onedotzero was named by Screen International as one of the Top Ten Visionary's in UK film, breaking new ground along with Mike Figgis, Tony and Ridley Scott and Lynne Ramsey. The DVD series marks seven years of innovation from onedotzero, confirming its position as the authoritative organisation championing the work of the next generation of directors. NTSC/Regional code is ALL.

ONEDOTZERO_SELECT DVD 02 FILM INFORMATION
The future of moving image, these films push digital tools to their most progressive limit from Flash to CG, live action to motion graphics.

JOHNNY HARDSTAFF / FUTURE OF GAMING [UK]
Like the cold war never happened: Future of gaming is a Playstation2-commissioned short, exploring a retro-futurist parallel world of alien invasion. Indications on the military classification of the console's chipset are brought to life with a dark narrative subtext. A blizzard of cultural and historical references abound, even Brian Sewell and Wedgewood pottery have a place in Hardstaff's visual cannon. Future of gaming was shown at onedotzero5.

ED HOLDSWORTH / ARRIVE [UK]
Rising star, Holdsworth's exquisite, abstracted Japanese odyssey. Commissioned by onedotzero and based on his first trip to the city of Tokyo this is a meditation on travel and arrival - perfectly communicating the explosion of the senses and audio-visual burst that intoxicates you on your first arrival in the multi-layered metropolis. accompanied by beautiful music from Dom Ino. Arrive was shown at onedotzero7.

UNIT9 / PARASITE [UK]
In-house project from unit9 showing off director ben hibon's sharp and distinctive style delivers a soft tale with a dark underbelly. Superb character animation plays out a flower-power plague of love that spreads from mice to cats with twisted romantic results.

DRAWING + MANUAL / PRELUDE [JAPAN]
Directed by Hishikawa Sei, whose creative talents and versatility are expressed in this new contemplative and atmospheric piece, made in collaboration with D+M. Fluidly choreographed shape and form animation, inspired by the hues of the natural world, with the flow of wind, water and air, are accompanied by piano and orchestral soundtracks which give them a timeless quality.

LOBO / DISCO ROUT: LEGOWELT [BRAZIL]
Founded by partners Mateus de Paula Santos and Nando Cohen, Brazilian collective lobo take influence from 1920s Swiss travel posters producing a seductive motion graphic trip from another time. The flat landscapes take us on a magical winter journey to the rhythms of Legowelt.

CHRIS SHEPHERD / DAD?S DEAD [UK]
A truly multi-award winning film: seven at the last count! A compelling story of friendship, mischief and denial, told through animated flashbacks. Visually stunning, this short film fuses live action and animation seamlessly to take us on an emotionally dark, thought provoking journey through a working class childhood in Merseyside. It has amassed many awards in 2003.

NAKAO HIROYUKI [PICS] / STEAM PUNK GO ROUND [JAPAN]
A quiet meal of conveyor belt sushi turns into a game of agility and speed. But who gets the last laugh? The steaming man intent on getting the best sushi or the possessive sushi chef intent on keeping him at more than arms length with his customised bar. Nakao's playful and colour-saturated style is perfectly used in this high-speed visual joke that is highly entertaining and very Japanese.

TIMO SCHAEDEL / LONDON DETAILS [GERMANY]
Newcomer to London, graphic designer Schaedel explores the London underground with a fresh eye for details most commuters would overlook. Guided on his tour by a silver ribbon of mercury, the film has an original thumping soundtrack that deserves a release of its.

XMAS / WE CHOOSE TIME: QUATERFOLD [S. AFRICA]
South African collective Xmas are more than just designer directors as Xmas is also a record label. This is an understated yet elegant graphic homage to spring. A fragile and seemingly barren tree suddenly bursts into graphic blossom.

MK12 / ULTRALOVE NINJA [USA]
Straight outta? KC [Kansas City], MK12 deliver a funked-up love affair in motion graphics to the art of the ninja, complete with a ballad by a faded 70s legend. MK12's advice for watching this self-initiated piece is: ?you must be pure in the heart, like the driven snow. You must be clear in the mind, like the driven snow. You must be hot in the pants, like a rock star.? Clear enough?

TIM HOPE / THE WOLFMAN [UK]
an early example of tim hope's awesome talent. the wolfman is an atmospheric short film in which a seemingly gentle astronomer turns into a strange and frightening beast, whilst gazing at the night sky in his observatory. the wolfman has won numerous awards including: mclaren animation prize, edinburgh film festival 2000; winner digital animation festival, japan; animation at the cutting edge and public choice award, the british animation awards, 2000.

KOJIMA JUNJI [TEEVEE GRAPHICS] / RIVER [JAPAN]
Unseen Tokyo uncovered with a greyscale beauty, in a journey down an urban river of flyovers, concrete and sky. It formed part of the TeeVee graphics video victim collection of personal and experimental shorts.

SHYNOLA / IS A WOMAN: LAMBCHOP [UK]
Contemporary country collective Lambchop allow animation wizards Shynola to once again display their incredible visual range. A contemplative piece set very much in nature as the melting snow of winter yields into the optimism that springtime brings. A subtle tale of a single red leaf's journey down a free flowing river to the end of a flowering branch.

PSYOP / COME FOR BRAZIL [USA]
New York collective, now signed to passion pictures in the UK made a personal short for Brazil inspired project. Showing their love for Brazil they produced a lusty animated piece that spurts off the screen, wet and sexy and certainly worthy of the term motion ?graphic.?

POWERGRAPHIXX / MONKEY TURN: OMODAKA [JAPAN]
Music video for Omodaka, exploring the new approach to media representation by mixing of music and motion graphics. It's describing the strong romance with the sport and is dedicated to Kyotei, the Japanese motorboat race.

POWERGRAPHIXX / LIFE WITH CONVENI [JAPAN]
Pre-packaged, convenience food consumption never looked so good. A young, collective team of design all-rounders, Powergraphixx deliver a wry take on that international food mecca for those on the go, the convenience store.

NE-O / ME AND MADONNA: BLACK STROBE [UK]
A circular narrative of brewing crime masterly set in a stylish metro to impressive effect from Ne-o duo Jake Knight and Ryoko Tanaka. Their dramatic use of reworked, re-shot digital material delivers more than a graphic punch: adding humour, character and wit to the pulsating French electronica of Black Strobe.

ALEX RUTTERFORD / VERBAL: AMON TOBIN [UK]
Rutterford's in top gear form in this ninja tune promo for Amon Tobin. It features a chameleon-like car, whose impressive multi-colour, oscillating bodywork throbs and pulses in time with the infectious Tobin beats. The thrill of the chase at triple the speed, the hyper-realistic treatment marries Tron with Grand Turismo to heart racing effect. Music: Amon Tobin featuring mc decimal r.

SATOSHI TOMIOKA / JUSTICE RUNNERS [JAPAN]
Tomioka again does not fail to deliver in his wild and unique take on the world. His multi-coloured animation talents take us on a whirlwind trip of old school trams with weird and wonderful characters. A major talent who has finally made his first commercial crossover in the UK with a Honda advert, this is a chance to see his latest personal vision unadulterated here in his best work to date.