PROGRAM
《D》East Asian Experimental Competition4
4 works, 85min.
【TOKYO】Theatre Image Forum：9/20 (SUN) 11:00 , 9/22 (TUE) 13:30
【KYOTO】Demachiza：10/20(TUE) 19:40
【NAGOYA】Nagoyakinema Neu：11/11(WED) 19:30
【HIROSHIMA】Hiroshima City Cinematographic and Audio-Visual Library：11/28(SAT) 11:00
South Korea
Korea’s Funniest Home Videos
KIM Guki／digital／15min／2025
The filmmaker has no proper “home” in their background. Determined to nevertheless make a home video, she goes to meet the grandmother who is her “only family.” She tries to make up for the absence of images with rough looking footage from a used 2010s digital camera she purchased and generative AI. Applying social media filters, this extremely personal narrative is made into a “story” that reflects the history of media since the 2010s.
KIM Guki
Born in Incheon and raised in Yeongdong, Chungbuk, KIM Guki lived briefly in Busan before settling in Seoul. She writes about those who cannot find a place to settle, wandering across Korea or even this vast universe. While it was not her initial intention, she realized her stories naturally gravitate toward these wanderers. Driven by her enduring love for cinema, she continues to make films today.
Japan
little boarlet
WADA Atsushi／digital／4min／2026
The newest work by WADA Atsushi, an internationally renowned animator whose works have been screened at the world’s four biggest animated film festivals. The unique “space” and delightful movement he is known for are again in evidence. Elements of everyday life such as a dog on a walk, youths doing formation gymnastics, and people arguing at a convenience store are tangled up and transformed into something fantastic by a “boarlet” running around and crashing into things.
WADA Atsushi
Born in Hyogo, Japan, in 1980. He studied moving image at Osaka Kyoiku University, Image Forum Institute of Moving Image, and Tokyo University of the Arts. His short films include In a Pig’s Eye (2010), The Mechanism of Spring (2010), The Great Rabbit (2012), and Bird in the Peninsula (2022). His practice has also expanded beyond short films to include games, video installations, TV animation series, VR, and other forms of media.
Mainland China
Redland Hooves
Kaiwen REN／digital／27min／2025
Figures of people and animals emerge in the dark of night, and there is an atmosphere inside the room evocative of someone who has been lost. Bai Guang singing the popular Chinese song “Left My Soul in Dreams Bygone” and various noises are layered like a collage atop 16mm film footage with muted colors. Incomplete fragments of text of a personal nature evoke complex and deeply unsettling emotions.
Kaiwen REN
Kaiwen REN is an artist and filmmaker. His recent works focus on distance, collective anxiety, and personal memories through 16mm/digital filmmaking and photography.
His films have screened at Toronto International Film Festival, Beijing International Short Film Festival, San Diego Underground Film Festival, Prismatic Ground Film Festival, RPM in Motion Film Festival. Kaiwen obtained his bachelor’s degree in film studies at Monash University, Australia, and holds an MFA degree in the Film/Video program at California Institute of the Arts.
UK／Hong Kong
Compact Disc
Rico WONG／digital／39min／2026
When close friends who were arrested after taking part in Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations when they were sixteen years old are reunited many years later, they turn their cameras on themselves and play recordings made at the time of the demonstrations on CDs. A personal documentary that addresses the difficulty of confronting memories and records that have been stored away and offers a frank portrait of a changing society and the place these young people inhabit today.
Rico WONG
An artist filmmaker based in London, currently a fine art student at Goldsmiths. He wanders between documentary and sound. Growing up in the troubled time of Hong Kong shaped his creative focus on the human experience of individuals navigating larger political and social forces. His latest film Compact Disc has won the New:Vision Award CPH:DOX, Grand Prize for TIDF Visionary Award, selected for DokuFest and VideoEX 2026.
