PROGRAM
《D》East Asian Experimental Competition4
【TOKYO】Theatre Image Forum：10/1(SUN) 13:00、10/4(WED) 15:30
【KYOTO】The Museum of Kyoto：11/19(SUN) 11:00
【NAGOYA】Aichi Arts Center：11/26(SUN) 11:00
5 works, 85 min.
I Am a Horse
IM Chaerin / digital / 8min. / 2022
In Korea, “taemong” means a dream that indicates a coming pregnancy and gives foresight into the sex, character, and destiny of the baby that will be born. The “taemong” the filmmaker’s mother had for her and her twin sister was of a wild horse. This is a work of drawn animation inspired by this dream. The powerful, richly imaginative thick brush strokes dance wildly.
IM Chaerin
Chaerin Im (1994, Seoul) is a filmmaker from South Korea with a focus on experimental animation. With the use of craftsmanship and distinctive materials, she explores gender issues and sexual imagery. She graduated from Seoul National University’s Visual Communication Design BFA program (2017) and earned an MFA degree from the CalArts Experimental Animation program (2020). Her films have competed at major film festivals such as Annecy, Ann Arbor, Animafest Zagreb, DOK Leipzig, Ottawa. She is the 2021 GLAS grant recipient.
Brilliant A
YoungEun KIM / digital / 17min. / 2022
A piano washes up on the shore. It is bound in rope and brought through treacherous mountain roads to a factory for tuning. The process of transporting pianos brought into Korea at the start of the 20th century is recreated in moving images. The history of the 440Hz “A” to which pianos are tuned coming to be used for most modern instruments is presented in a monologue.
YoungEun KIM
YoungEun Kim’s work examines the history of sound, focusing on how modernization and colonialism have shaped our aural perception, centering around Asia. She studied Art and Sonology in Korea and the Netherlands and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media in the U.S. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland; Samsung Museum of Art, Korea; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, USA; and many others. She has been awarded at Prix Ars Electronica and SongEun Art Award.
Who owns the story?
KUNIMOTO Takashi / digital / 30min. / 2023
Having moved to Germany, the filmmaker meets a Polish man named Robert who is living in the streets there. The filmmaker goes to see him many times and their relationship deepens, but one day Robert disappears. A diary film documentary rich in implications regarding the “living place” of the filmmaker, Robert, and the viewer. A sequel to “Robert,” which was screened at IFF 2019.
KUNIMOTO Takashi
After working at a local media in Kobe, Japan, he moved to Germany in 2012. He studied under Professors Candice Breitz and Eli Cortiñas at Braunschweig University of Art, where he received his Meister Degree. His works include “Traveling with Hibakusha: Across Generations” (2010), “Robert” (2019), and “Under the Pine Tree” (2022).
Shape of the Elephant
Sam KUWA / digital / 8min. / 2023
One day an elephant suddenly starts living in a young boy’s house. But it doesn’t seem like adults can see it. A hand-drawn animation structured in four episodes that examines the breakdown in communication between a pubescent child with changing feelings about “sex” and adults who see this change but pretend not to. A colorful, pop film that develops the motif of the saying, “the elephant in the room.”
Sam KUWA
Born in 1996 in Chongqing, graduated from Tokyo Polytechnic University in 2023 with a degree in animation.
Now studying at the Department of Animation at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media.
Obscured Visions
SHIBATA Hina / digital / 22min. / 2023
Mycena chlorophos is a fungus that glows all day long, but its light can only be seen once the sun sets. The filmmaker was given the idea of a “movie” that only appears in the dark by this biological phenomenon, and from dusk into the night went hunting for “light” in a dark forest. Through careful, tranquil image-making with restrained lighting this work asks, “What are movies?”
SHIBATA Hina
Born in Chiba, Japan in 2001. Enrolled in the Media Arts Course at Tama Art University.
