Design Film Festival 2010
January 8th, 2010 YandaA Design Film Festival
featuring Herb & Dorothy,
Milton Glaser, Beautiful
Losers, Rem Koolhaas,
Visual Acoustics,
Craftwork, Extended Play and J-Star.
20 – 30 January 2010 at
Sinema, Old School.
Next January, Anonymous presents A Design Film Festival 2010. This will be the first film festival in Asia dedicated to design. Audiences can expect an eclectic selection of films dedicated to architecture, graphic design, art, motion graphics, photography and guerilla culture.
A biennially festival, A Design Film Festival is the first of its kind in Asia. Selected films hail from around the world – New York, Japan, London, Berlin, Bangkok and many more. The selection of documentaries, features and short films, animations and music videos are curated by noted local art director, Felix Ng. Together with Anonymous, Ng aims to use A Design Film Festival as a platform to develop content for the creative industry and expose audiences from various design disciplines and even non-design audiences to international works.
Ng has curated many design exhibitions around the world and his works have been featured in design journals from Berlin, Tokyo and New York. This is Ngʼs first time curating a film festival and he is very excited about the line-up of films as “all of the films are seeing its debut screening in this part of the world!”, he states. The concept is simple: “Itʼs not often what we create as designers or artists get captured in film. Itʼs either in a museum, a gallery or talked about in some small independent press. Now weʼve found this 8 films that celebrate the design process and through a medium that speaks to the non-designers as well.”
A Design Film Festival established a special partnership with onedotzero, the highly regarded international motion art festival from the United Kingdom. The three films, Extended Play 09, Craftwork and J-Star 09 will be onedotzeroʼs only edition in Southeast Asia. The festival will also feature bonus content by some of the worldʼs most innovative thinkers and creators. 9 individuals from New York, London, Sheffield, Helsinki, Bangkok and Stockholm, the bonus content will be screened like how film trailers are shown prior to movies – as a glimpse to the curatorial teamʼs personal favorites of the year.
The film festival will run from 20 – 30 January 2010, with 15 screenings of 8 different films. It will be held at Sinema Old School located at 11B Mount Sophia, Old School, B1-12, Singapore 228466.
Ticket prices range from S$12 – $15, excluding ticketing charge. Tickets can be purchased through the festival’s official website, or at Sinema Old School.
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