I sprung for a Resfest RESPASS this year (~$80) since they added some panel sessions that looked quite interesting (also, Prefuse 73 on Saturday night). Once I committed, however, I decided I might as well take advantage of the festival, and I’ve been quite pleased so far.

Yesterday, I caught most of Mark Romanek’s keynote, where he spoke about his artistic process intercut with screening of selected videos (seeing Devil’s Haircut, Hurt and 99 Problems on the big screen would have made the session worthwhile by itself). This was followed by the first set of shorts, which included some great ones, including La Vie D’un Chien (my favorite of the night), The Raftman’s Razor (also outstanding) and a number of other great shorts. I unfortunately couldn’t make the second set tonight (which won’t be repeated either…), but I did manage to catch Just for Kicks (movie site), a great little doc on the fascinating story of sneaker culture (preceded by the Quasimoto Rappcats montage and another great little motion graphics story on shoe culture)
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I’m really looking forward to the “A Scanner Darkly” preview and the premiere of Doug Pray’s new doc, Infamy. Based on what I’m reading through in the Program Guide, it looks like I’m going to be vegging out for the whole weekend in the Egyptian.