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Japan Shorts 1

Thu, 16. 3., 18:00Sun, 19. 3., 19:30

The festival directresses Waltraud Grausgruber and Birgitt Wagner would like to thank for making this focus on Japan possible the filmmakers, particularly Sayoko Kinoshita (International Animation Festival Hiroshima), the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, the Japan Media Arts Festival, the Japan Foundation, Maya Yonesho, Tokyo University of the Arts: Koji Yamamura, Mitsuko Okamoto, Hiromitsu Murakami, Ilan Nguyen; Tama Art University: Tatsutoshi Nomura, Yukie Nakauchi, RyoyaKaga; Tokyo Polytechnic University: Yukio Yamanaka; Laputa Art Animation School: Fumiko Magari; JAA: KojoFumiyasu; Director Kei Iwabuchi (Japan Information & Culture Center, Austria), Yuri Hayashi, Aki Nakasawa, KazukiHitoosa and Cathy Munroe Hotes.

rourou

rourou

Nagano Sakurako
JP
2015,
03'53

A journey to find myself. To love my body and my soul. To live my body and my soul. 

23/85

23/85

Nagano Sakurako
JP
2012,
02'45

The average age at this moment is 85. My age at this moment is 23. I knew anything. I didn't know anything.

Bugburg / Bugburger

Bugburg / Bugburger

Ohtakara Hitomi
JP
2015,
03'08

In a dimly lit kitchen, bugs creep out when a chunk of meat is sliced. An ordinary act like cooking turns into something weird and creepy.

Omokagetayuta / Calling You

Omokagetayuta / Calling You

Ohtakara Hitomi
JP
2016,
09'23

This is the first letter addressed to you. A voyage to trace the vague images of memories.

Starting Over

Starting Over

Seike Mika
JP
2016,
08'22

You fall down every time before you reach your goal. At each fall, the glass you held shatters, and everything starts all over again. But there are things you can only discover through repetition. The answer lies within yourself.

Special Program

Special Program

Kihata Sayaka
JP
2015,
02'32

A pig escapes from the circus kitchen. The cook runs after it. A wild chase ensues.

mind scape

mind scape

Kaori Ryo
05'35

Imaginations are born in the mind from casual scenes of daily life. They accumulate and form a fantasy world.

Dozing on Doomsday

Dozing on Doomsday

Kaori Ryo
JP
2016,
09'52

If the world ended tomorrow, what would we want on the last day of grace? A beam of light embraces a woman and a man, then the world closes its eyes.

While The Crow Weeps

While The Crow Weeps

Sukikara Makiko, Matsumura Kohei
JP
2013,
08'00

The crow’s funeral takes place in the pre-dawn fog. A flock of crows circle over the dead body and offer black feathers. A silver crow flies up to the sky – the spirit of the dead crow. 

Rebuild

ReBuild

TOCHKA = Nagata Takeshi & Monno Kazue
JP
2012,
05'30

After the great earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, many things changed. Children living in Fukushima couldn’t just go out and play. Using the reflection of sunlight we drew pictures into various landscapes to capture people’s emotion for ‘energy’.

Hairy Heaven

Hairy Heaven

Yamada Minori
JP
2015,
05'52

I love you, but I hate you, but I love you.

Moonlit Night and Opal

Moonlit Night and Opal

Yamazaki ShiShi
JP
2014,
03'22

Half asleep with my eyes closed, my consciousness flies beyond time and space and I transform myself into all the life forms existing. I become the universe and the universe becomes me, until I fall asleep. 

Bloomed Words

Bloomed Words

Kubo Amika
JP
2006,
02'40

We bloomed words.

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