PROGRAM
East Asian Experimental Competition
The “East Asia Experimental Competition” received a total of 400 submissions from Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and South Korea, and after two carefully conducted rounds of screening 32 works were selected for nomination. These nominated works will be screened at each venue of the 2023 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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DEast Asian Experimental Competition4
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The 32 works nominated for the “East Asian Experimental Competition”
ABITA nakice (OKUNO Miwa FUJISHIRO Yohei) / digital / 20min. / 2022 (Japan)
Again the Ants Reincarnate Adiong LU / digital / 24min. / 2022 (Taiwan)
An Asian Ghost Story Bo WANG / digital / 37min. / 2023 (China / Netherlands)
Belong CHEN SHUANG / digital / 10min. / 2022 (China / Japan)
Brilliant A YoungEun KIM / digital / 17min. / 2022 (Korea / US)
Confessional Somnium SHI Shengxue / digital / 4min. / 2022 (China / Japan)
Delivery Dancer’s Sphere Ayoung KIM / digital / 26min. / 2023 (Korea)
fur Zhen LI / digital / 7min. / 2022 (China / US)
Howling KAWAZOE Aya / digital (original format: 16mm) / 24min. / 2022 (Japan)
I Am A Horse IM Chaerin / digital / 8min. / 2022 (Korea)
I stitch my skin to the ground USAMI Nao / digital / 22min. / 2023 (Japan)
Juxtaposed LAND ALIMO / digital / 8min. / 2023 (Japan)
let me tell you a secret ZHAO Yanbin / digital (original format: 16mm) / 5min. / 2022 (China / US)
LETHE GOSHIMA Kazuhiro / digital / 21min. / 2023 (Japan)
my mother TAKEHARA Yu / digital / 5min. / 2022 (Japan)
Nachtmusik HOMUTA Chihiro / digital / 22min. / 2023 (Japan)
No changes have taken in our life XU Jingwei / digital / 44min. / 2022 (China)
Obscured Visions SHIBATA Hina / digital / 22min. / 2023 (Japan)
ok, you are gone. Oct 05 2022 TSENG Yu Chin / digital / 10min. / 2022 (Taiwan / Netherlands)
Sewing Love XU Yuan / digital / 9min. / 2023 (China / Japan)
Shape of the Elephant Sam KUWA / digital / 8min. / 2023 (China / Japan)
Spilliaert Lisa SPILLIAERT / digital / 29min. / 2023 (Japan / Belgium)
STRAW LIU Mingcheng / digital / 8min. / 2022 (China / Japan)
Teetering Graphite Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin LIU / digital (original format: 35mm) / 13min. / 2022 (Taiwan / US)
The Eyeball Person MURAOKA Yuri / digital / 12min. / 2023 (Japan)
The Nighthawk Is Not A Hawk WANG Junjie / digital / 9min. / 2022 (China / Japan)
The Perfect Human Lilan Yang / digital (original format: 16mm) / 13min. / 2023 (China / US)
The shooters YANG Jihoon / digital / 31min. / 2022 (Korea)
The Stream XII-II SAKURAI Hiroya / digital / 5min. / 2022 (Japan)
Tunnel Wandering LI Zehao / digital / 11min. / 2023 (China / Japan)
Who owns the story? KUNIMOTO Takashi / 30min. / 2023 (Japan / German)
ライカワアッ /laɪkawaːʔ/ NOSE Daisuke / digital / 2min. / 2023 (Japan)
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“East Asian Experimental Competition”
final evaluation jury
ENDO Maiko
ENDO Maiko (film director and artist)
HOSAKA Kenjiro
(director, Shiga Museum of Art)
Mark TOSCANO
(curator, film preservationist, and educator)
Prize
Award Ceremony:
On 6th October 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
