Asif Mian for 1st Ave Machine: ReRun

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Like a bat out of hell, Asif Mian laces up, and breaks away with ReRun. Hatched straight from the lab at 1st Ave Machine, ReRun is an abstract film with a nitty-gritty fusion of cinematography and top-notch CG. While not overly conceptual, the film follows a slum-dwelling basketball player who weaves through the streets of a desolate ghetto. In his wake, and with every passing step; a shoe is left behind in suspended animation. Amid the course, the ball dribbling night-walker takes a spill, and with him, one by one, the trail of shoes come crashing down. Brushing himself off, the main character rises, and so too do the shoes. With the shoes now serving as a path, the man soldiers on, and continues along his shady trek of personal discovery.

Undeniably, ReRun is an odyssey of visual and audio. The Sound Design of the film is particularly electronic, with an ebb and flow that chauffeurs the narrative along at a fluctuating tempo. The visual, or CG for that matter, is done in good taste, and does not overshadow the plot, however ambiguous in nature it is. With its world premiere at OneDotZero_Adventures in Motion 2009, the film will fit snugly into the catalog of hits for both 1st Ave Machine, and Director Asif Mian.


Director: Asif Mian
Director of Photography: Zak Mulligan
Art Department: Sean O’Connor, Dustin Highbridge
Live-Action Producer: Rich Hutchins
Production Company: 1st Ave Machine
Executive Producer: Serge Patzak
Post Producer: Crystal Campbell
Editor: Asif Mian
Lead CG Artist: Mike Merron
3D Artists: Ajit Menon, Tyquane Wright
Original Music: HPrizm

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onedotzero: just one week away


onedotzero_adventures in motion returns to London’s BFI Southbank from September 9th to 13th, presenting international moving image work from an international lineup of pioneers and innovators.

Highlights include new work by Johnny Hardstaff; a retrospective of work by French collective H5 (which also includes an exclusive preview of their much anticipated film), Logorama; production company Partizan showcases its new talents; exclusive preview of the break-dancing documentary film Turn It Loose; breathtaking shorts by Keith Loutit and Reza Dolatabadi, whose animated film Khoda consists of over 6,000 individual paintings that were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minute masterpiece and work from directing collective, Zeitguised.

More info and tickets on the onedotzero site.

NOTE: The onedotzero trailer (above) is part of the festival branding efforts from Weiden+Kennedy UK, created with the help of computational designer Karsten Schmidt. Schmidt authored a generative engine for producing random visual systems, which were recorded for use in the trailer and festival posters. You can also check out the interactive component that was presented at the NFT here.

Client: onedotzero
Agency: Wieden+Kennedy, London
Motion Director: Eze Blaine
Creative: Eze Blaine, David Bruno, Tom Seymour
Computational Designer: Karsten Schmidt
Sound: Tokyolab
Producer: Sermad Buni

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