PROGRAM
《C》East Asian Experimental Competition3
4 works, 68 min.
【TOKYO】Theatre Image Forum：9/27(SAT)6:30pm、10/2(THU)4:00pm
【KYOTO】Demachiza：11/9(SUN)7:35pm
【NAGOYA】Nagoyakinema Neu：11/24(MON)1:10pm
Cyclone
MT / digital / 13min / 2024
July 1st, 2022. An ordinary day on a streetcorner in Hong Kong. Gusts of wind gradually grow stronger, however, and a voice on the radio warns of an approaching typhoon. This was the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong being returned to China by the UK. Banners for the ceremony are whipped by the wind, and attendees are lashed by rain. A record of the day in 2022 a typhoon that would claim 12 lives in southern China made landfall and a historic day in Hong Kong.
MT
A Hong Kong filmmaker who believes documentaries can preserve memories, and will persist in leaving indelible footnotes for Hong Kong through visual documentation.
dipolar bipolar
LI Quankai / digital / 9min / 2025
There are stones stuck in “my” head. I have settled down with a lazy cat who visits at night and a rambunctious dog who comes in the daytime. The cat and dog oppose each other but exist at the same time, and the biggest problem is the cat. The opposing symptoms of manic depression that plague the filmmaker’s life are allegorically depicted through animation in a colorful, pop-art style.
LI Quankai
Quankai Li was born on 18th April 1998 in Fujian Province. He received his undergraduate degree in Digital Media Art from Xiamen Academy of Arts and Design, Fuzhou University. Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University with a Master’s degree in Design. An independent animation creator.
The opposite of Tadashii is left
Yongha James HWANG / digital / 11min / 2025
The filmmaker, a student at a Japanese language school, injures his dominant right hand and practices writing Japanese with his left hand. Compared to the Korean his right hand is used to writing, his left-handed Japanese is faltering and imprecise. A day off spent with friends from the Japanese school. Poems recited in his native language are layered on top of images moving violently back and forth in the gap between ease and impatience to create a unique rhythm. A new approach to the diary film.
Yongha James HWANG
Yongha James Hwang (1997, South Korea) is currently studying at Image Forum Institute of Moving Image. He dropped out of a chemistry program in the U.S. and started writing poetry in Korea. His work explores language, boundaries, and limitations through poetic sensibility.
BILOCATION
WANG Mowen / digital / 35min / 2024《Award for Excellence》
Because of the pandemic, a shrine maiden for a god of the sea begins working at an archeology museum. This work depicts a protagonist who, embracing the question “is scientific understanding not simply collective subjectivity?”, chooses to live with both a modern and traditional “identity” at the same time. It also adopts a documentary/fiction structure in which truth and fiction exist simultaneously. The latest film from WANG Mowen, who was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2021 IFF for Trinity.
WANG Mowen
Wang Mowen is a video artist based in China, currently working and living in Beijing. With interest in the observation of social reality, female situations and individual memories. Her artistic practices reflect the individual’s subjective world with a combination of documentary and experimental video language. Her artworks focus on exploring the interchangeable expressions between reality and non-reality. Mowen’s works has been screened in several film festivals, including the 2019 Beijing International Short Film Festival, 2020 CineCina Film Festival, 2022 South Taiwan Film Festival, 2022 MAAXI Videogallery, 2022 The Warhol Museum, 2023 Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, and TRINITY won the Grand Prize for Image Forum Festival 2021.
