PROGRAM

East Asian Experimental Competition

The “East Asia Experimental Competition” received a total of 461 submissions from Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, and after two carefully conducted rounds of screening 24 works were selected for nomination. These nominated works will be screened at each venue of the 2022 Image Forum Festival. The final evaluation will be conducted during the screenings at the Tokyo venue by the three jurors listed below, and 6 of them will be awarded prizes.

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The 24 works nominated

A Bite of Bone YANO Honami / digital / 10min. / 2021 (Japan)
A Long Walk Elysa WENDI & LEE Wai Shing / digital / 15min. / 2022 (Singapore, Hong Kong)
A Pile of Ghosts Ella RAIDEL / digital / 70min. / 2021 (Taiwan)
A SHORT STORY BI Gan / digital / 15min. / 2022 (China)
Anxious Body MIZUSHIRI Yoriko / digital / 5min. / 2021 (Japan)
Bird in the Peninsula WADA Atsushi / digital / 16min. / 2022 (Japan)
Dozens of Norths YAMAMURA Koji / digital / 64min. / 2021 (Japan)
End Time and The Trajectories of Ancestors Edwin LO Yun Ting / digital / 34min. / 2022 (Hong Kong)
Flos Pavonis MOMOSE Aya / digital / 30min. / 2021 (Japan)
Grandma’s Scissors Erica SHEU / digital / 6min. / 2021 (USA / Taiwan)
Humoresque ISOBE Shinya / digital / 46min. / 2022 (Japan)
I’m Late KABUKI Sawako / digital / 10min. / 2021 (Japan)
Kaigan MAEDA Aozora / digital / 12min. / 2022 (Japan)
Melting Icecream HONG Jinhwon / digital / 70min. / 2021 (Korea)
MOLTING BOWDA Katsushi / digital / 14min. / 2021 (Japan)
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean WANG Yuyan / digital / 12min. / 2021 (China / France)
Rehabilitation of Synthetic Human SERIZAWA Yoichiro / digital / 49min. / 2022 (Japan)
Silver Cave CAI Caibei / digital / 14min. / 2022 (China)
Sleepin’ager Waking FUJII Anna / digital / 11min. / 2021 (Japan)
Thawing Katsuki Nogami / digital / 3min. / 2021 (Japan)
The cleaning lady after 100 years : Spectre SHICHIRI Kei / digital / 19min. / 2022 (Japan)
The House of Loss JEON Jinkyu / digital / 10min. / 2022 (Korea)
The Lighting Musquiqui CHIHYING / digital / 21min. / 2021 (Taiwan / Germany)
TUNOHAZU TEZKA Macoto / digital / 32min. / 2021 (Japan)
※Title Director / Format / Duration / Year (Director’s region of birth / current region of residence)

 

“East Asian Experimental Competition”
final evaluation jury

 


IP Yuk Yiu
(filmmaker, media artist, curator)

HAMA Haruka
(director of Tokyo Office, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival)

MA Jungyeon
(researcher in film and new media studies)

 

Prize

Award Ceremony:
On 23rd September from 6:30pm at Theatre Image Forum

 ●Grand Prize (1): ¥300,000 + Prize certificate
 ●TERAYAMA Shuji Prize (1): ¥100,000 + Prize certificate
 ●SHIBUYA SKY Prize (1): ¥100,000 + Prize certificate
 ●Excellence Prize (3): ¥30,000 + Prize certificate
 ●Audience Prize (1): Prize certificate

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