ResFest

Today was long and exhaust­ing but very sat­is­fy­ing. I am now sit­ting up in my bed having rubbed beau­ti­ful L’Oc­citane foot cream into my tired, sore feet. Just got back from the after-party after-party at Cherry. The after-party at Zar­gatt was good but fin­ished too soon. The open­ing Res­Fest ses­sion of Michel Gondry clips and ads was great (if you don’t know him as the guy who does clips for Bjà¶rk, The White Stripes, Chem­ical Broth­ers and Daft Punk, you may know the Smirnoff ad with the guy and the girl on the train where everything keeps chan­ging… that’s his too).

I’m look­ing after Fest­ival Dir­ector Jonathan Wells, who is sweet but vague and I feel like his mother (Have you left your­self enough time to eat? Go and get changed NOW, you have an inter­view in 20 minutes and then I want you on stage imme­di­ately after that…)

I was intro­duced to two people “Bill” and “James”. I’m pretty sure these were Bill Gosden (dir­ector of the New Zea­l­and Film Fest­ival who’d just arrived from the Return of the King Première) and James Hewison (dir­ector of Mel­bourne Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival). Clare Stew­art, the ACMI Cinema Pro­gram­mer, got very excited when Calex­ico turned up to our after-party.

Anyhow, you all have to come down to ACMI and see at least one ses­sion of fab­ulous digital shorts. Ses­sions from tomor­row night until Monday. It’s all very excit­ing. The Michel Gondry is repeated on Monday…

More crazi­ness tomor­row, but hey, I thrive on it. Wish it was a per­man­ent job…