PROGRAM
《B》East Asian Experimental Competition2
【TOKYO】Theatre Image Forum：10/12(SAT) 3:30pm、10/16(WED) 1:00pm
【NAGOYA】Aichi Arts Center：11/2(SAT) 1:30am
【KYOTO】Demachi za：11/9(SAT) 7:05pm
4 works, 76 min.
(all films have original language with English and/or Japanese subtitles.)
Queen’s Crochet
CHO Hanna / digital / 35 min / 2023 《TERAYAMA Shuji Award》
Hanna learned to crochet from her grandmother when she was a small child. For Hanna, who grew up with doubts about her own sexuality, crocheting was not only a girls’ hobby but a routine through which to face herself. Don’t miss the surprise ending that awaits Hanna after kniting together “mandala madness” as a compilation of crocheting!
CHO Hanna
Born in 1997. She won the Korean Competition for Shorts Grand Prize at the 24th Jeonju International Film Festival with Queen’s Crochet(2023).
Too Long Ago, Not Far
YAN Wai Yin / digital / 23min / 2024
Everyday scenes in Hong Kong from 2019 to 2023 captured on Super 8 film. In the four corners of the screen there are English words and direct translations from the Huaying Tongyu, a 19th century English/Chinese phrasebook (top and bottom left corners) and Cantonese words showing the pronunciation and their literal translation back into English (top and bottom right corners), and confusing shifts in meaning arise. A work that express a personal perspective on Hong Kong’s “present” through an experimental method.
YAN Wai Yin
YAN Wai Yin works and lives in Hong Kong and London. Yan excels at the juxtaposition and insertion of literary texts in narratives. Through shifting personal observations and the temporal, emotional distance in different texts, Yan inscribes quotidian fragments of memories lingering in space and objects.
Jouhatsu Letters
KUDO Masa + CHANG Johan / digital / 30 min / 2024
A back-and-forth correspondence between two filmmakers living in Beijing and Tokyo. It began during the COVID-19 pandemic when it was difficult for them to meet in person and continued until 2024. The resulting work, employing various forms such as animation, collage, and 8mm film, develops through quoting each other’s images and sounds, and the result shimmers with the joy of “this is personal cinema!”
KUDO Masa
Born in Chitose, Hokkaido in 1993. She mainly creates films using frame-by-frame illustration and animation techniques.
CHANG Johan
Born in Tainan, Taiwan in 1990. Using diary films and archival footage, she creates personal works that explore the relationship between memory, the individual, and the society.
Miserable Miracle
ORIKASA Ryo / digital / 8min / 2023
A work of animation inspired by artist and poet Henri MICHAUX’s essays and drawings about his own mescaline experiences. The combination of poetry being rhythmically read aloud (by actor Denis LEVANT in the French language version) and the movement of illustrations that make these images come to life creates the atmosphere of being at a live event.
ORIKASA Ryo
Born in 1986. Studied at the Faculty of Education, Ibaraki University, Image Forum Institute of Moving Image, and the Graduate School of Film and New Media at the Tokyo University of the Arts . From September 2015 to August 2016, he resided in Montreal as a recipient of the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Overseas Study Program for Emerging Artists. In 2018, he was selected for the NEF International Residency for Animated Films and stayed in Fontevraud, France. In 2020, he stayed in Paris with the support of the Pola Art Foundation. In 2023, he directed an animated short film “Miserable Miracle”, co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada, MIYU Productions (France), and NEW DEER (Japan).
