{"id":4804,"date":"2023-10-15T16:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T07:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2023-11-28T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T08:20:15","slug":"%e6%9d%b1%e3%82%a2%e3%82%b8%e3%82%a2%e3%83%bb%e3%82%a8%e3%82%af%e3%82%b9%e3%83%9a%e3%83%aa%e3%83%a1%e3%83%b3%e3%82%bf%e3%83%ab%e3%83%bb%e3%82%b3%e3%83%b3%e3%83%9a%e3%83%86%e3%82%a3%e3%82%b7%e3%83%a7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/en\/archives\/4804","title":{"rendered":"Prize-Winning Works of East Asian Experimental Competition 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s \u201cEast Asian Experimental Competition\u201d received a total of 400 submissions from Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and South Korea, and after two carefully conducted rounds of screening 32 works were selected for nomination. The final evaluation was conducted during the screenings in Tokyo by the three jurors listed below.<\/p>\n<p>On 6th October, award ceremony has held at Theatre Image Forum, and 6 works were awarded prizes and 1 work was selected by the audience\u2019s voting, it\u2019s as below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4795\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4795\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4795 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IFF2023\u6388\u8cde\u5f0f\u5199\u771f01-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IFF2023\u6388\u8cde\u5f0f\u5199\u771f01-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IFF2023\u6388\u8cde\u5f0f\u5199\u771f01-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IFF2023\u6388\u8cde\u5f0f\u5199\u771f01-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IFF2023\u6388\u8cde\u5f0f\u5199\u771f01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IFF2023\u6388\u8cde\u5f0f\u5199\u771f01-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&gt;&gt; from left to right: ENDO Maiko (Jury) \/ Mark TOSCANO (Jury) \/ XU Yuan (Director &#8220;Sewing Love&#8221;) \/ NOSE Daisuke (Director &#8220;\/la\u026akawa\u02d0\u0294\/&#8221;) \/ HOSAKA Kenjiro (Jury)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u25a0\u00a0Prize-Winning Works and Jury\u2019s comments<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em><u><strong>Grand Prize<\/strong><\/u><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>No changes have taken in our life<\/strong>\u3000\u3000XU Jingwei \/ digital \/ 44min. \/ 2022 (China)<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4789 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/A5_no-changes-have-taken-in-our-life-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"No changes have taken in our life by XU Jingwei\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/A5_no-changes-have-taken-in-our-life-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/A5_no-changes-have-taken-in-our-life-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/A5_no-changes-have-taken-in-our-life.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>This film impressed all of us with its nuanced and patient observational approach to depict the psychologically affecting landscape of a contemporary young person&#8217;s perspective in contemporary China. The film uses a memorable combination of lushly painted backgrounds and unstable, emotive character animation to express the existential confusion of the main character with dark humor and poetic pathos. The touches of surrealism and absurdity also effectively contribute to the film&#8217;s strange and memorable power, creating a world in which an individual is both disturbed and curious about the uncertain world around him.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em><u><strong>TERAYAMA Shuji Prize<\/strong><\/u><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Delivery Dancer&#8217;s Sphere<\/strong>\u3000\u3000Ayoung KIM \/ digital \/ 26min. \/ 2023 (Korea)<\/h5>\n<h6><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4792 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/E3_delivery-dancers-sphere-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"Delivery Dancer's Sphere by Ayoung KIM\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/E3_delivery-dancers-sphere-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/E3_delivery-dancers-sphere-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/E3_delivery-dancers-sphere.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It was as if looking in to the world, spinning the sphere that appears in the beginning of the film. Inside the sphere is a labyrinth, the flow of time is uncertain. An only a true dancer can make a crack in the world as it goes around and around. In order to escape from the world and to break free of that karma, self-annihilation is necessary. The story told in this film was very classic and poetic, while seeking a new way of expression using the newest technology. The juries decided it was appropriate for the name of Shuji Terayama.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em><u><strong>SHIBUYA SKY Prize<\/strong><\/u><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Sewing Love<\/strong>\u3000\u3000XU Yuan \/ digital \/ 9min. \/ 2023 (China \/ Japan)<\/h5>\n<h6><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4791 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/E2_sewing-love-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Sewing Love by XU Yuan\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/E2_sewing-love-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/E2_sewing-love-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/E2_sewing-love-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/E2_sewing-love.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The film employs a highly creative animation style, combined with an eclectic and perfectly suited soundtrack, to express the spectacular, dramatic emotions of a young romance that evolves into something much more insidious. The use of color and texture is unique and effective, the film is full of visual surprise and creativity, and the emotional resonance of the film&#8217;s themes is vividly communicated by the artist.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em><u><strong>Award for Excellence<\/strong><\/u><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>An Asian Ghost Story<\/strong>\u3000\u3000Bo WANG \/ digital \/ 37min. \/ 2023 (China \/ Netherlands)<\/h5>\n<h6><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4790\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/B5_an-asian-ghost-story-300x219.jpeg\" alt=\"An Asian Ghost Story by Bo WANG\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/B5_an-asian-ghost-story-300x219.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/B5_an-asian-ghost-story-768x560.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/B5_an-asian-ghost-story.jpeg 1480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The film takes up the fact that wigs were deeply involved in the economic development of postwar Asia, a fact almost forgotten perhaps by most of the people. While a film can represent things easily as a mere fact, this work sometimes includes scenes can be taken as fiction. This work reminds us the uncertainess and the decieving quality of the film media. The work shows us the effectiveness of what could be called the &#8220;research-based art with fiction\u201d. The director has also created installation works, and this work was also exhibited as an installation in Hong Kong. In the future, we look forward to seeing more works by the director that appeal to the viewer&#8217;s body sensation.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>The Perfect Human<\/strong>\u3000\u3000Lilan Yang \/ digital (original format: 16mm) \/ 13min. \/ 2023 (China \/ USA)<\/h5>\n<h6><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4793 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F3_the-perfect-human-300x204.png\" alt=\"The Perfect Human by Lilan Yang\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F3_the-perfect-human-300x204.png 300w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F3_the-perfect-human-2000x1360.png 2000w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F3_the-perfect-human-768x522.png 768w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F3_the-perfect-human-1536x1044.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F3_the-perfect-human-2048x1393.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We were amazed by the structure of the film, as it visually translates (or paraphrases) the ironic notion &#8220;perfect human&#8221; of the 1968 film using unsupervised machine learning, an AI technology that is expected to be \u201cperfect\u201d at all times. Perhaps the appeal of this work, which more than makes up for the weakness of its inability to convey the true meaning of the work without comparison to the original film and its making process, comes from the monochrome and tactile texture of the images. We look forward to the future of this artist&#8217;s work, which boldly tackles the new visual language.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>\/la\u026akawa\u02d0\u0294\/<\/strong>\u3000\u3000NOSE Daisuke \/ digital \/ 2min \/ 2023 (Japan)<\/h5>\n<h6><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4794 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F5_laikawa-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\/la\u026akawa\u02d0\u0294\/ by NOSE Daisuke\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F5_laikawa-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F5_laikawa-2000x1125.jpeg 2000w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F5_laikawa-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F5_laikawa-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F5_laikawa-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Practicing scales is boring. But watching this film, maybe the very fact of it could be a precious thing in itself, and that someone somewhere exists so peacefully in such a meadow, and that it is our earth, which makes us feel a little warm. And then we realize the trick of those eyes from \u201cthe heaven\u201d, and then we are left just astonished.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em><u><strong>Audience Award in Tokyo<\/strong><\/u><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Sewing Love<\/strong>\u3000\u3000XU Yuan \/ digital \/ 9min. \/ 2023 (China \/ Japan)<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em><u><strong>Audience Award in Kyoto<\/strong><\/u><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>I stitch my skin to the ground<\/strong>\u3000\u3000USAMI Nao \/ digital \/ 22min. \/ 2023 (Japan)<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em><u><strong>Audience Award in Nagoya<\/strong><\/u><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LETHE<\/strong>\u3000\u3000GOSHIMA Kazuhiro \/ digital \/ 21min. \/ 2023 (Japan)<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u25a0 Final Evaluation Jury<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><b>ENDO Maiko\u00a0<\/b>(film director and artist \/ Japan)<br \/>\n<strong>HOSAKA Kenjiro<\/strong> (director, Shiga Museum of Art \/ Japan)<br \/>\n<b>Mark TOSCANO\u00a0<\/b>(curator, film preservationist, and educator \/ USA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s \u201cEast Asian Experimental Competition\u201d received a total of 400 submissions from Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and South Korea, and after two carefully conducted rounds of screening 32 works were selected for nomination. The final evaluation was conducted during the screenings in Tokyo by the three jurors listed below. 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