The jury members and works nominated for the “East Asia Experimental Competition” have been decided!

The “East Asia Experimental Competition” received a total of 446 submissions from Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea, and after two carefully conducted rounds of screening 22 works were selected for nomination. These nominated works will be screened at each venue of the 2019 Image Forum Festival. The final evaluation will be conducted during the screenings at the Tokyo venue by the three jurors listed below, and 5 of them will be awarded prizes.

The 22 works nominated for the “East Asia Experimental Competition”

A Fly in the Restaurant 　CHEN Xi, AN Xu / digital / 6min. / 2018 / China
Air.ratio　LEE Seunn / digital / 5min. / 2019 / Czech
Anything Worth Noting Never Happens Before Your Eyes　KIM Jiyoung / digital / 13min. / 2019 / Korea
Bath House of Whales　Kiyamamizuki / digital / 7min. / 2019 / Japan
Café Togo　Musquiqui Chihying,Gregor Kasper / digital / 27min. / 2018 /Germany, Taiwan
Castle　MIYAJIMA Ryotaro / digital / 5min. / 2019 / Japan
Chiyo　SHIMADA Chiemi / digital / 12min. / 2019 / Japan, UK
House Rattler　SOEJIMA Shinobu / digital / 6min. / 2019 / Japan
Japan, The Beautiful or Ambiguous, And Ourselves 　TOMOTOSI / digital / 19min. / 2019 / Japan
Keep Forgetting　SHIBATA Takahiro / digital / 10min. / 2019 / Japan
Kinta and Ginji　DAIRIKI Takuya, MIURA Takashi / digital / 84min. / 2019 / Japan
Last Year When the Train Passed by　HUANG Pang Chuan / digital / 17min. / 2018 / France
Mythical Boy Mikado　ITO Saya / digital / 50min. / 2018 / Japan
Night Horse 　Jeroen VAN DER STOCK/ digital / 19min. / 2019 / Japan, Belgium
Nothing Pleases Like Maltesers 　Wong Hiu Ching/ digital / 15min. / 2019 / Hong Kong
Otohime 20000　NIIYA Naoyuki / digital / 36min. / 2018 / Japan
Robert　KUNIMOTO Takashi/ digital / 18min. / 2018 / Germany
Seeing The Same Moon TAKEMURA Nozumu / digital / 54min. / 2019 / Japan, Myanmar
SPLASH　SHEN Jie / digital / 9min. / 2019 / China
Square　Karolina Bregula / digital / 72min. / 2018 / Taiwan, Poland
The Dawn of Ape　MIZUE Mirai / digital / 4min. / 2019 / Japan
Tsuchinokomorita　Ken-Ken-Jo / digital / 10min. / 2018 / Japan

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“East Asia Experimental Competition” final evaluation jury

KIM Jiha ( researcher, film curator / Korea )
Tabaimo ( contemporary artist / Japan )
Fransiska PRIHADI ( film programmer / Indonesia )

Application

“The Image Forum Festival,” the largest festival of moving image art in Japan, is accepting submissions of original moving image works. There are no restrictions whatsoever on genre (art films, documentaries, animated works, dramas, and so on), techniques used, or length. We are looking for works that go beyond existing concepts to expand the horizon of visual expression.

Application period: February 8th (Friday) to April 1st (Monday), 2019

Application section: East Asian Experimental Competition
▶ Application guidelines

What is the Image Forum Festival’s “East Asian Experimental Competition”?

The Image Forum Festival is a festival of moving image art that brings together for screening works with a high degree of expression, artistry, and creativity. A successor to “New Works of Underground Cinema” (1973-1975) and “Experimental Film Festival” (1981-1985), this festival, which expanded to include more international content and an open competition section, began in 1987 and is being held for the 32nd time this year.
The festival’s open competition section has come to be known as a gateway to success for groundbreaking young filmmakers in Japan, and in previous years has featured works by filmmakers and artists who have gone on to international success such as YAMAMURA Koji, KAWASE Naomi, IGUCHI Noboru, ISHIDA Takashi, and WADA Atsushi. Last year we have expanded this section (formerly known as the “Japan Tomorrow” section) that had been restricted to Japanese works and relaunched it as the “East Asian Experimental Competition.”

▶ Previous year : Image Forum Festival 2018
▶ Previous year : The awarded films and Jury comments

What does it mean to be nominated?

The (approximately 20) works that make it through the first and second rounds of selection will be screened at this year's festival along as works nominated for prizes. The final selection will begin when the festival opens and the following prizes will be awarded.

　●Grand Prize (1): ￥300,000 + Prize certificate
　●Terayama Shuji Prize (1): ￥100,000 + Prize certificate
　●Excellence Prize (3): ￥30,000 + Prize certificate
　●Audience Prize (1): Prize certificate

Image Forum will also recommend nominated works for selection at various film festivals both in Japan and overseas and include them in programs it curates for overseas festivals.

Schedule・Outline

Image Forum Festival 2019

■Venue, Date：
・Tokyo: September 14th ( Sat ) to 23th ( Mon ), 2019 / Spiral Hall, Theatre Image Forum
・Nagoya: November 8th ( Fri ) to 10th ( Sun ), 2019

■Main Program：
East Asian Experimental Film Competition
Experimental Panorama
Filmmakers In Focus
■Organizer：Image Forum
■Venue collaborator: Wacoal Art Center

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