Shorts One: State of the Art
State of the Art, RESFEST’s flagship showcase of short form work, mixes live action, animation, motion graphics and documentary. As always, there’s a truly international feel to this collection, with films coming from South Africa and Spain, the UK and Korea, the Netherlands and the US....more 
Shorts Two: Out of the Box
Maintaining the festival’s international flavor with work from Germany, Colombia, Croatia, Sweden and Brazil, Out of the Box gathers filmmakers who seek to push beyond accepted boundaries of form and subject, and films with themes ranging from rats to losing your virginity, to consistently spectacular effect....more
Shorts Three: Fear and Trembling
Whether it’s our current cultural mood or the increasing frequency of natural disasters, filmmakers lately have been increasingly intent on scaring their audiences silly. There were certainly more than enough outstanding chills and thrills among this year’s submissions.... more
By Design
When wading through the thousands of submissions received this year, one fact was more apparent than ever before: filmmakers are increasingly pushing themselves to respond directly to the complexities of modern life....more 
Cinema Electronica
As always, this popular program showcases the ability of talented filmmakers from around the world to elevate the past year’s most exciting electronic and hip-hop songs through the ingenuity they bring to short form video.... more 
Videos That Rock
RESFEST’s relentlessly eclectic rock-oriented music video program has never been a place to find traditional performance videos, though this year it does offer one radical retake on that style, in the form of Nima Nourizadeh’s winking, behind-the-scenes parody for Hot Chip’s song....more
Unsung Heroes: Gems from the Archive
‘Tis better to give than to receive, as they say, so on the occasion of RESFEST’s 10th birthday, we’re giving you a present: a decade-long survey of some of the best music videos ever to play the festival.... more
A Decade of RESFEST: 10 Seminal Short Films
Since its inception as a one-off screening of new digital work at a San Francisco gallery, RESFEST has consistently championed the hand-tooled, the DIY, the brave and the boundary-pushing.... more
Radiohead, the Visionaries: A Decade of Breaking New Talent.
Is Radiohead the best band in the world? Well, possibly. But beyond their considerable musical gifts, Messrs. Yorke, Greenwood, Greenwood, O’Brien and Selway deserve additional notice for breaking in an astonishing amount of new filmmaking talent with their carefully constructed, always artful music....
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Everything Under the Sun: Filmmaking with a Purpose
When wading through the thousands of submissions received this year, one fact was more apparent than ever before: filmmakers are increasingly pushing themselves to respond directly to the complexities of modern life....more
ROCK THE BELLS (Feature) - NL Premiere
What does it take to get an event to happen—particularly one as challenging as reuniting the nine notorious no-shows who formerly comprised hip-hop’s legendary Wu-Tang Clan? Directors Denis Henry Hennelly and Casey Suchan’s thrilling Rock the Bells offers a fast-paced insider’s account of concert promoter Chang.....more
I KNOW I'M NOT ALONE : MICHAEL FRANTI
Michael Franti, world-renowned musician and human rights worker, travels to Iraq, Palestine and Israel to explore the human cost of war with a group of friends, some video cameras and his guitar.....moreThe VICE Guide to Travel - sneak preview
Anyone even vaguely familiar with the wacky world of VICE, will know what they’re in for ! but let me not spoil that surprise and let the VICE folks try to tell you. Oh all I’ll still say is that these are the places the good VICE folk visited - Chernobyl, Pakistan, Paraguay, Rio, Beirut, Congo, Bulgaria.....more
Dutch Mix : Kroonjuwelen (documentary)
“Kroonjuwelen-Hard Times,Good Times,Better times” is an unique timedocument which pictures the history of graffiti in Amsterdam from late ‘punk’70’s till mid ‘subway bombed’90’s.The reconstruction of an upcoming subculture where the viewer is led through Amsterdam by many interviews with writers ......more
Dutch Mix Shorts : Tits asses and knees
Exclusive to Holland, the second edition of the Dutch Mix brings together famous Dutch video-makers and young and fresh talents in a kaleidoscopic selection of visionary short films, provocative music videos, creative documentaries, experimental artworks, innovative animations.....moreREDNOSE in Cuba : Waiting for the key
Amsterdam’s wacky Rednose Distrikt (Aardvarck & Steven de Peven) journey to Cuba with a bag full of samples, and the open spirit to connect with local musicians and flavors - from the conservatorium to especially the ‘streets’ (soon come on Kindred Spirits)....moreSoy Cuba / I Am Cuba
This astonishing and under-rated film is blessed with some of the most extra-ordinary camerawork in film history. It's no surprise then that Francis Ford Coppola & Martin Scorcese are responosible for it's rediscovery and presentations to huge critical acclaim at Cannes and Sundance film festivals.....more