PROGRAM
《B》East Asian Experimental Competition2
【TOKYO】Theatre Image Forum：9/30(SAT) 15:30、10/5(THU) 21:00
【KYOTO】The Museum of Kyoto：11/18(SAT) 14:30
【NAGOYA】Aichi Arts Center：11/25(SAT) 13:30
5 works, 80 min.
Juxtaposed LAND
ALIMO / digital / 8min. / 2023
Through the juxtaposition of drawn animation inspired by the filmmaker’s personal recollections of movies, photographs, poems and novels and text that quotes from literary works and street graffiti, these elements find accord within the viewer and spontaneously create a narrative. An animated tableau from a filmmaker based in Estonia and Japan with an appealing, border-transcending style.
ALIMO
ALIMO is an artist, Estonian art historian. He obtained a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. Currently Associate Professor, Department of New Media & Image at Aichi University of the Arts. As a historian, his habit of working from a variety of sources is reflected in the process of his work. The works are based on the vision of a “magnetic field” that mixes contemporary and allegorical elements.
let me tell you a secret
ZHAO Yanbin / digital / 5min. / 2022
In a forest, myriad round mirrors suspended from the trees sway and spin. Korean and Chinese words are written on them. They make shadows on the ground, and mirrors placed there also reflect the forest. Two people draw characters on each other’s palms with their fingers, hold mirrors to their lips and whisper, and reflect the movements of their lips to each other. It is as though they are quietly trying to transcend the barriers of language.
ZHAO Yanbin
Zhao Yanbin’s film and installation works focus on the interpretation of “distance” in the sense of temporality and spatiality, as well as the ruptures and relations it creates on the historical, political, cultural, and personal level. He received an MFA in Film from California Institute of the Arts.
Nachtmusik
HOMUTA Chihiro / digital / 22min. / 2023
White waveforms shining like stars slowly scroll from the bottom to the top of a black screen. Sounds resembling the cries of insects and birds are all electronic sounds emitted by the waveforms. Eventually the waveforms transform into a concrete image…. A bold attempt to create the “music of the night” through a computer program utilizing a technology called a “spectrogram” that visualizes the frequency of sound.
HOMUTA Chihiro
An Auditory Media Artist from Aichi, Japan. A graduate of Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu, Japan, he self-taught computer music while living in Tokyo after high school.
He began his artistic endeavor in 2023 under the theme of “Critical Immersion” into Environment and Sound, having his solo exhibition “Hototogisu in May at Gifu City, Japan.
STRAW
LIU Mingcheng / digital / 8min. / 2022
An odd restaurant that has a small stage with a curtain in front of the counter. A man with a bushy beard drinks through a straw. When he opens the menu there is a round figure like a clock, and he turns the hands. Suddenly the straw lengthens and becomes as fat as a pipe. What is he going to suck up with such a fat straw?
LIU Mingcheng
My name is Liu Ming Cheng and I graduated from the Graduate School of Film and Photography at Musashi no Art University in March 2023.
My work STRAW (2023) won the Best Film Award at Musashino Art University and the Tomohiro Nishimura Award at the ASK? s Film Festival 2023 Competition, and my works Rakai (2020) and Blind (2019) were screened at the Tokyo 1ST Film Festival.
An Asian Ghost Story
Bo WANG / digital / 37min. / 2023
At the start there is talk of the history of the hit song “When Will You Come Back” and an eerie story about hair. A unique documentary that focuses on the “wigs” that played an important role in Asia’s postwar industrial development. Set in Hong Kong, gateway to China, a hair-supplying nation, it presents the hidden history of the cold war through episodes such as the importing of “communist hair” being banned in the United States.
Bo WANG
Bo WANG is an artist, filmmaker and researcher based in the Netherlands. His works have been exhibited internationally, including venues like the Guggenheim Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York, Garage Museum in Moscow, Rotterdam Film Festival in the Netherlands, Visions du Réel in Switzerland, Image Forum Festival in Tokyo, DMZ Docs in South Korea, Times Museum in Guangzhou, Para Site in Hong Kong, among many others. He received a fellowship from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in 2013 and was an artist-in- residency at ACC-Rijksakademie 2017-2018 and NTU CCA in 2016.
