A large part of the festival's latter content focused on cutting-edge music videos and short films, and directors like Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham and Jonathan Glazer all had their catalogs of work showcased at RESFEST over its 10-year run.
Low Res Digital Film Festival first took place in October 1995 at an art gallery in San Francisco’s SoMa district.
Founded by Wells and Bart Cheever, the first year’s program featured work from pioneering music video and motion graphics studio H-Gun Labs, England’s design collective Tomato, digital designer Nick Philip and filmmaker Spike Jonze, whose early skateboard short films were screened.
The New York City screening in January 1996 featured work by Rox, Emergency Broadcast Network, and Sofia Coppola.
[4][5] In 1997 the producers also created the digital film lifestyle magazine RES, which was affiliated with the online media site Sputnik 7.