PROGRAM
《C》East Asian Experimental Competition3
【TOKYO】Theatre Image Forum：9/30(SAT) 18:30、10/5(THU) 15:30
【KYOTO】The Museum of Kyoto：11/18(SAT) 17:30
【NAGOYA】Aichi Arts Center：11/25(SAT) 15:45
5 works, 87 min.
Tunnel Wandering
LI Zehao / digital / 11min. / 2023
A girl stands in front of a door at the end of a winding tunnel. Only vague answers come when she questions “I.” Am “I” awake or dreaming? A work of fantastical animation in which various motifs such as faucets, water, birds, and insects are drawn in blue using cyanotype.
LI Zehao
Born in 1998 in Nanjing, China. Graduated from the Animation Department at China Academy of Art in 2020. Received master’s degree from the Department of Animation at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media in 2023.
Again the Ants Reincarnate
Adiong LU / digital / 24min. / 2022
Fall, 2021. As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads throughout the world, silence falls over the Liuzhangli cemetery in Southeast Taipei where the victims of terrorism lie. A man digging in the cemetery, a headless bird, and a three-legged dog. Are these things that appear in the scenery behind the monologue a dream, reality, or a hallucination? Monochrome images that seem to spread silence beyond the screen tell the story of lives hidden in the history of prosperity.
Adiong LU
Adiong LU was born in Chiayi, Taiwan in 1984. He fixes his gaze on people and places absent from official histories. A former director of Jittoku Films LTD, he is based in Taipei. His films include “The Boiling Water LAMA”, “Once Upon a Time when Robin Hood Grew Old”, “Crazy Calligraphy”, “Iâm-tiâⁿ Khu-tiúⁿ (Yancheng District Chief), and “THE Boy Q”.
The Nighthawk Is Not a Hawk
WANG Junjie / digital / 9min. / 2022
A work of drawn animation based on Miyazawa Kenji’s “The Nighthawk Star.” The tree branches that metamorphosize into a “nighthawk” at the start leave a strong impression. The nighthawk is ugly, despised by other birds, and pushed to change its name from “hawk.” While carefully visualizing episodes from the original work, the filmmaker adds dialogue not found in the text and creates an original, sorrowful “nighthawk.”
WANG Junjie
Born in Zhejiang, China in 1996. Completed studies as a research student in the video program at Musashino Art University. Received master’s degree from the Department of Animation at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media in 2023. I make VR and animation films but I like to experiment with different styles as well.
The Eyeball Person
MURAOKA Yuri / digital / 12min. / 2023
“I” sit on a train in a sailor-style school uniform holding a violin. The man sitting across from me stares at my thighs as “I” gradually open my legs. Then a “sunflower” sprouts from my crotch. The filmmaker has written a poem with the same title, and its words weave together the work as a whole. The scene in which a sunflower blooms in time with the melody of Lange’s “Blumenlied.”
MURAOKA Yuri
Born in 1981. Graduated from Image Forum Institute of Moving Image. She has consistently made self-portrait films. Her “Transparent, I am.” (2020) won the Grand Prix at The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Her poetry collection “Sleeping Flowers” (2021) was nominated for Chuya Nakahara prize and H-shi prize Mother of two children.
The shooters
YANG Jihoon / digital / 31min. / 2022
The “Jeju April 3 incident (Jeju uprising)” occurred in South Korea in 1948. A massacre was committed by the state. When the filmmaker learns his grandfather was a victim, he visits him with his camera in hand. Drinking alcohol and eating snacks, gradually his grandfather begins to talk about what happened to him. Sixteen years old at the time, he left his father’s dead body and hid himself in a cave. Then he begins to talk about joining the suppressing forces himself…
YANG Jihoon
Yang Jihoon works on photographs and videos. He tries to find things hidden in the process of image production and consumption. He`s mainly interested in people who are categorized in front of the camera and shooters who make concrete images by chasing them.
