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Program
Focus Japan |
Wednesday, 16th October, 2013 / 7 pm
Maison du Japon
Cité Universitaire / Paris
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Shadowing |
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Mayumi Nakazaki
Japan
2012 | 0:20:00
Inspired by the art critic John Berger's essay 'Seker Ahmet and the forest' (1979), the work deals with the subject of memory. The structure of the film is episodic, each scene is repeatedly interrupted by another in a disorienting manner. It explores a notion of fragmented narrative within a cinematic context. Relating to the issue of 'the building of the Burma-Siam railway' during WWII, the story mixes with reality and fiction, documents and illusions where past and present co-exist. The film consists of a sequence of different visual materials; a painting, drawings, archive photographs, scenes with actors and animals. These various textures are combined in the timeline, observed and interpret the subject, as well as questioning the sense of time and space. Supported by Amsterdam Funds for the Arts. |
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Layers of Memory |
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Kunitoshi Okuno
Japan
2012 | 0:26:00
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Melting Red |
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Ayaka Nishiuchi
Japan
2012 | 0:12:00
'Hana' and 'Shima' are 16-year-old girls. Sometime ago, Hana had a traffic accident, and then she received Shima's blood. It has special significance for Hana. It is the story of two girls whose magical spell is almost ready to break. |
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Part me Faraway |
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Yoi Suzuki
Japan
2012 | 0:04:10
I Will live in pure world of image, sound, and actuality. Of each is as in a parallel world. I run away from time and reality, the time of the Movie. I get out of the movie frame. I could pull me apart. And then, I became just a Film . |
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Patched, Piled |
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Sota Takahashi
Japan
2012 | 0:25:00
'I still remember the day, 'that' happened.' This is a documentary film which I tried to overcome my personal trauma through making it. I started shooting places and people about "that", my experience. As I continuing shooting, I realised one thing. I would not get to the goal, getting over it, by doing retracing. Then another idea came out. If I could start something because I had "that" experienced, I possibly could overcome.
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| INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE |
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October 10th - 20th 2013
We present film series focused on different countries and regions. This section intends to discover and explore different spaces and cultures with the aim to understand the specific regional, political and social circumstances, do reconstruct the emotional and intellectual spécificities of a special region or country. In this critical work we belief it's essencial to prefer films which rufuse, in its form and expression, the retake of sterotype ways of reality restituition, as an act of resistance in the actual period of "globalisation", which inclins to impose one dominating model of culture and habitutes..
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