{"id":2470,"date":"2020-09-23T13:50:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T04:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/?page_id=2470"},"modified":"2023-10-19T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:01:06","slug":"program-b","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/en\/program-b","title":{"rendered":"\u300aB\u300bEast Asian Experimental Competition2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Japan<\/span><\/p>\n

Juxtaposed LAND<\/h2>\n

ALIMO \/ digital \/ 8min. \/ 2023<\/h3>\n

Through the juxtaposition of drawn animation inspired by the filmmaker\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\"\"ALIMO<\/strong>
\nALIMO 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.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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China \/ USA<\/span><\/p>\n

let me tell you a secret<\/h2>\n

ZHAO Yanbin \/ digital \/ 5min. \/ 2022<\/h3>\n

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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\"\"ZHAO Yanbin<\/strong>
\nZhao Yanbin\u2019s film and installation works focus on the interpretation of \u201cdistance\u201d 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.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Japan<\/span><\/p>\n

Nachtmusik<\/h2>\n

HOMUTA Chihiro \/ digital \/ 22min. \/ 2023<\/h3>\n

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 \u201cmusic of the night\u201d through a computer program utilizing a technology called a \u201cspectrogram\u201d that visualizes the frequency of sound.<\/p>\n

\"\"HOMUTA Chihiro<\/strong>
\nAn 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.
\nHe began his artistic endeavor in 2023 under the theme of \u201cCritical Immersion\u201d into Environment and Sound, having his solo exhibition \u201cHototogisu in May at Gifu City, Japan.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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China \/ Japan<\/span><\/p>\n

STRAW<\/h2>\n

LIU Mingcheng \/ digital \/ 8min. \/ 2022<\/h3>\n

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?<\/p>\n

\"\"LIU Mingcheng<\/strong>
\nMy name is Liu Ming Cheng and I graduated from the Graduate School of Film and Photography at Musashi no Art University in March 2023.
\nMy 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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China \/ Netherlands<\/span><\/p>\n

An Asian Ghost Story<\/h2>\n

Bo WANG \/ digital \/ 37min. \/ 2023<\/h3>\n

At the start there is talk of the history of the hit song \u201cWhen Will You Come Back\u201d and an eerie story about hair. A unique documentary that focuses on the \u201cwigs\u201d that played an important role in Asia\u2019s 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 \u201ccommunist hair\u201d being banned in the United States.<\/p>\n

\"\"Bo WANG<\/strong>
\nBo 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 R\u00e9el 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.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japan Juxtaposed LAND ALIMO \/ digital \/ 8min. \/ 2023 Through the juxtaposition of drawn animation inspired by the filmmaker\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"program.php","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/?page_id=472"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2470"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2470\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}