ARTS THREAD will be at Student Film Festival London next Friday 3 February to Sunday 05 at London College of Communication – drop by our stand to say hello! We are alongside our partners Prime Cuts with whom we will also be handing out an award – more on that later! In the meantime, we preview the festival and the work of up and coming international student filmmakers, set designers, animators and more – and highlight the key events that bring together industry experts and young creatives.

Bonnie Gregg, 'Grow'/ Domenico DeRosa, 'The Sleep of Reason'

ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) is a special place for anyone into film. Located in the heart of Melbourne, the centre aims to celebrate and showcase the moving image with an endless program of film screenings, exhibitions, festivals, workshops and many other special events. This month, ACMI was also the location for RMIT’s 2011 Animation and Interactive Media graduate show, Easing Out.

Extended Play was ARTS THREAD’s last taster of onedotzero’s Adventure in Motion festival, which ran for five days last week. The programme of nine films looked at the potential of visual narrative to create dramatic effect, pushing the boundaries of traditional storytelling.

Wow+Flutter is onedotzero’s signature programme at the Adventures in Motion festival, and this year’s showcase included 34 films that challenge the idea of what ‘moving image’ means. ARTS THREAD popped along on Thursday to discover some innovative explorations in motion graphics, characterisation, narrative and typography by established and emerging talent from all corners of the globe. The selection was brilliantly curated, spanning a diverse spectrum of styles and topics, with a welcome dose of good humour thrown in. Here are some of our favourites:

This year’s Adventures in Motion festival, which kicked off on Wednesday, celebrates 15 years of onedotzero being at the forefront of cutting edge innovation in digital design, motion graphics, animation and short filmmaking. Aptly, New British Talent was ARTS THREAD’s first taster of the festival this week, which runs until Sunday.

Not many hosts at a dinner party actively encourage you to spill your wine, drop pasta sauce on the tablecloth, or cover everything in crumbs, but Swedish-born conceptual artist Melissa Henderson invites her guests to do just that as part of her on-going Conversation Cloth project.

50 years of Dutch media and technological art are represented in a fully immersive retrospective at this year’s STRP Festival in The Netherlands. Featuring the likes of Bart Hess, Matthew Herbert, Dick Raaijmakers, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand the ten day long event encompasses live music, film, performance art, exhibitions and workshops.

PSFK’s conferences never fail to disappoint as they bring together a mixture of some of the world’s most celebrated, innovative and trend-setting thinkers and creatives – and their recent event in San Francisco was no exception. Speakers at the conference included the likes of Wieden and Kennedy, Common and Ariel Waldman. ARTS THREAD shares with you a few videos of some of the best talks of the day!

Interweave

Some of the industry’s leading designers, social scientists, engineers and curators will join together to offer the general public an insight into their professions at Interweave, a free event taking place at the V&A Sackler Centre this Thursday.

Koen Beljaars, Jacqueline van Kampen, Joost Aanen & Marianne den Akker, 'Axon Interactive Suit'

Ten years have passed since the Department of Industrial Design was founded at the Eindhoven University of Technology. To celebrate their anniversary, the University is inviting the general public to come and experience the work of their MA and BA students at ‘ID’11′ during Dutch Design Week.