PROGRAM
《E》East Asian Experimental Competition5
【TOKYO】Theatre Image Forum：10/1(SUN) 15:30、10/4(WED) 18:30
【KYOTO】The Museum of Kyoto：11/19(SUN) 14:30
【NAGOYA】Aichi Arts Center：11/26(SUN) 13:30
5 works, 79 min.
Belong
CHEN SHUANG / digital / 10min. / 2022
In a yurt on the Mongolian steppe, a girl in traditional clothing says to her mother, “Tomorrow I am going to Japan to look for my father.” The girl has never met her father. She goes to Mount Osore, where a mysterious girl leads her to him. Her father was carrying a clock tied up in rope and wearing the uniform of a student. Is this a dream? An idiosyncratic work studded with elements reminiscent of Terayama Shūji.
CHEN SHUANG
CHEN SHUANG, from Fuxin Mongolian Nationality Autonomous Prefecture, Liaoning Province, China. Mongolian ethnic minority in China. She came to Japan in 2018 and completed her graduate studies in film-making at Nagoya City University Graduate School of Design and Architecture in March 2023.
Sewing Love
XU Yuan / digital / 9min. / 2023
By happenstance a woman takes refuge with an isolated man. It is as though they were destined to meet, and love grows between them. However… The story deals with the constraints of love such as selfishness and possessiveness and develops non-stop through a form of expression only possible with this kind of drawn animation that freely shifts between the concrete and the abstract. A powerful, ambitious work by a rising filmmaker.
XU Yuan
Born in Shanghai, China in 1995. Received the undergraduate degree in visual design from East China Normal University in June 2017, and the graduate degree in graphic design from Tama Art University in March 2023.
Delivery Dancer’s Sphere
Ayoung KIM / digital / 26min. / 2023
The protagonist is a delivery person for the courier service “delivery dancer.” Every day she speeds through the flickering neon of near-future Seoul on her motorbike. In these labyrinthine streets, she meets another version of herself and her identity gradually breaks down. The latest work full of visual stimulation from this filmmaker who is active as a visual artist employing various forms of digital expression.
Ayoung KIM
Ayoung KIM (South Korea) is a visual artist as well as a filmmaker. Kim adopts the devices of speculative storytelling to evoke unfamiliar forms of reading, listening and thinking about the conditions of the world by focusing on unlikely encounters of ideas. Her projects take the forms of video, sonic fiction, VR, text, performance and game simulation and are presented as exhibitions, performances and publications. Kim exhibited and screened at Venice Biennale (2015); Palais de Tokyo (2016); Korea Artist Prize (2019); Sharjah Film Platform (2019, 2020); Berlinale (2020); Asian Art Biennial (2021); Videobrasil (2021) and Sharjah Biennial (2023).
my mother
TAKEHARA Yu / digital / 5min. / 2022
A composite work of live action and animation. Images of falling, shots of cars moving, and so on are portrayed with live-action photography, and line-drawings of babies and children are then superimposed on this footage. A mysterious eye peers out from the drain of a bathroom…Surprising shots develop toward the image of a mother holding a baby with a speed that makes it impossible to look away.
TAKEHARA Yu
Born in 2000. Currently enrolled in the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. A filmmaker who uses animation to express internal/external complexes with the theme of eeriness.
Spilliaert
Lisa SPILLIAERT / digital / 29min. / 2023
Léon Spilliaert (1881 – 1946) was a Belgian symbolist painter. Is Lisa Spilliaert an artist because of her bloodline? She traces her lineage and elucidates her own connection to her painter ancestor through consultation with an art historian and DNA testing. A meta/self musical documentary that follows hip hop rhythms and develops its narrative through rap.
Lisa SPILLIAERT
Lisa Spilliaert (1990, Tokyo) grew up in Japan and Belgium. Her fascination for genealogy and the constant shifting between her cultural backgrounds are recurring motifs in her autobiographically inspired work. Other works include N.P (2020).
