"The Resfest programme is an eye popping expos� of the most startlingly creative moving image making in all its glorious forms. Resfest is truly international in both scope and reach, and it's very exciting for us at the BFI to be so actively engaged with it. Resfest is essential viewing."

Anthony Minghella

Resfest, the globetrotting festival that presents the very best of innovative film, music, art, design, fashion, culture and technology, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with a programme recognising the very latest in creative talent, as well as revisiting some of the most loved pieces that have appeared over the festival's ten year history. Starting in Chicago in mid-October and then rolling out across the globe, Resfest 10 will take in over 41 cities on six continents. In the UK it will open Bristol's Watershed before heading to London's National Film Theatre.

Shorts One: State of the Art, Resfest's flagship collection of short form work, mixes live action, animation, motion graphics and documentary. As with the entirety of the festival it has a truly international feel, with films from as far and wide as the USA, Korea, South Africa, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK. Included this year are three exciting world premieres from three Resfest alumni. Johan Kramer's 0.08 is a heartfelt visual journey into the life of a 12-year old who loves football, but is practically blind. Stefan Nadelman's excellent, if slightly queasy-inducing Food Fight is an abridged witty history of war WWII onwards, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Home grown talent is also featured, including Chris Shepherd's twistedly funny stand-out piece Silence is Golden.

Shorts Two: Out of the Box continues the quality, world premieres and international flavour with representation from Germany, Colombia, Croatia, Sweden, Brazil and the UK.  Including the visual feast that is Guilherme Marconde's mixed media and very Brazilian short take on William Blake's poem Tyger.

Shorts Three: Fear and Trembling: The Dark Side of Film-making is a late night programme of Resfest's darker offerings. Shorts will include the world premiere of Polish director Marcin Pazera's Moloch, symbolising the symbiosis between the factory and man, is well-rendered but sadly unengaging. However the rest of the slot promises well, with contributions such as the Sundance Jury Prize winner BugCrush.

By Design is the festival's annual compilation of the latest and best in motion graphics, computer-generated imagery, innovative animation techniques and broadcast design. Returning for its sixth year, the programme promises to cover the full spectrum of themes, imagery and techniques � from state of the art CGI to stop frame animation using nothing but Post-It Notes. Work includes the world premiere of long-term collaborator Ben Stokes' Dub Projector, a celebration of film projection in all its glory.

Videos that Rock & Cinema Electronica programme's return with innovative and often witty riffs on the music video from acts like Mogwai, Massive Attack, Basement Jaxx and Gnarls Barkley.

This year's festival is given a greater depth by the fact that while one eye is firmly straining into the bright digital future, the other is glancing back misty eyed on past successes and finds. Anniversary highlights include the must see A Decade of RESFEST: Ten Seminal Short Films. Resfest has consistently championed the hand-tooled, the DIY, the brave and the boundary pushing. So here we have ten films that were landmarks of their day. Rightfully included are Terminal Bar, one-time Resfest identity creator Stefan Nadelman's stunning flash animated docu, and Daniel Askill's expressionist tour de force We Have Decided Not To Die.

Unsung Heroes: Gems from the Archive picks perhaps the less obvious, but no less deserving music video highlights from the last 10 years of programming, including H5's amazing Remind Me for Royksopp and British video kings Hammer & Tongs classic clip for Bentley Rhythm Ace's Theme from Gutbuster'. Plus many more�

In Radiohead, the Visionaries: A Decade of Breaking New Talent Resfest and Dilly Gent, Radiohead's long-time commissioner, have cooked up a definitive and wide-ranging retrospective of the band's promos including never before seen footage. The band's highly distinctive body of visual work has seen them collaborate with many now-legendary British promo directors Jonathan Glazer (Street Spirit and Karma Police), Chris Hopewell (There, There) and Shynola (Pyramid Song). As well as the big-hitters No Surprises and Paranoid Android there will be plenty of rarities including the OK Computer Blips, videos from Radiohead TV, and Harrowdown Hill from Thom Yorke's solo project The Eraser.

After many screenings there will be indepth Q&A sessions with the filmmakers behind the work. Other extras include the Bristol and London premiere of Rock The Bells, a rapid-fire, multi-strand documentary delivers all the chaos, insanity and excitement you expect from a gig attempting to re-unite hip-hop mavericks, the Wu-Tang Clan. While pioneering electronic duo Coldcut launch their DVD collection Coldcut 'Sound Mirrors Videos & Remixes' with a special screening, DJ set and Q&A in London.

BRISTOL 25�29 October @ Watershed and Arnolfini
LONDON 14�19 November @ National Film Theatre
(More UK cities TBA in January / February 2007)

Late additions to the programme
 
RESFEST VICE Guide To Travel � BRISTOL & LONDON PREMIERE

VICE 2006 - A series of short documentaries about places that nobody else wants to visit. Trips to countries where news is happening, where strange people and stories lie and where history is being made every day. This is the VICE idea of a vacation.

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash � BRISTOL PREMIERE/ LONDON (TBC)
Dirs: Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack I Switzerland 2006 I 83 minutes
 
This compelling, intelligent and highly entertaining documentary looks at what will happen to the world when the oil supplies run out.

The Host � Bristol Premiere
Dir: Bong Joon-Ho I South Korea 2006 I 118 minutes

From the director of 2003�s acclaimed Memories of Murder comes this, well, monster movie. After a toxic dumping into the river Han, a vicious Nessie-type critter emerges, terrifying Seoul�s residents, and sending one dysfunctional family on a harrowing quest to rescue its youngest member. Think creature feature, family drama, edge-of-seat-thriller, graphic novel and black comedy, all bundled up with unbelievable CGI-effects.