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JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
Curated Program: Tenacious, gracious
By means of animation, a medium divorced from physical, temporal and spatial constraints, women are seen to prance with true freedom across the screen. Their expressions are simultaneously those of innocent girls and mischievous little devils who love to play tricks on people. These are women with the power to draw on the diversity innate to them from birth and use it to respond more flexibly to whatever external situation they encounter. In this program, I tried to compile expressions of female existence as described by female writers living in Japan. I want viewers to appreciate this intensely feminine freedom to the full.
Supervisor: Mitsuko OKAMOTO (Professor, Department of Animation, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan)
© Akino Kondoh / Courtesy
of theartist and Mizuma Art Gallery Music
THE EVENING TRAVELING
KONDOH Akino
Japan
Inspired by the eponymous song, the film features the artist's trademark protagonist: a girl with a pageboy haircut, who is performing a strange dance as she undergoes a transformation presented through the fantastic perspective typical for Akino Kondoh.
6th Excellence Award
tag: animated short film
© Shinjuko
PAPILLON YOSHIKO
Shinjuko
Japan
It is the most important work that Shinjuko produce in 2014.
tag: animated short film
© 2016 Sawako Kabuki
SUMMER'S PUKE IS WINTER'S
DELIGHT
KABUKI Sawako
Japan
Painful events become memories over time. Still, we vomit and eat again. Life is Eco.
20th Jury Selection
tag: animated short film
© Ayasa Kugenuma
THE BLOOMS
KUGENUMA Ayasa
Japan
Deep down in the forest there lived flower fairies in flower gardens, waking up with the sunrise, eatings weets, and chatting with each other. One day they had a visit.
tag: animated short film
© Hu Yuanyuan
SUNSET FLOWER
BLOOMING
HU Yuanyuan
Japan
Set in China in the 1960s, the story opens with an old woman cooling off in her garden. As the sky turns orange with the setting of the sun, an evening prim rose begins to bloom. Prompted by the sightof the flower, the woman recalls her childhood and dreams of the time in her life when she was at hermost beautiful. Using Chinese-style cutout pictures, the work consciously accentuates the soft texture of the paper and the brilliant colors.
16th Jury Selection
tag: animated short film
© 2016 Saki Mmatsumoto/ondo
SPRING SLEEPER
MATSUMOTO Saki
Japan
On New Year's Day, the heroine visits her grandmother in hospital. Grandmother does not seem to have changed. She looks very fine but forgets old memories.
tag: animated short film
© YorikoMizushiri, 2013 Director &
Animation. Mizushiri Yoriko. Music TOKUSASHI
MIZUSHIRI Yoriko
Japan
An artwork created with the image of a hut made from the snow covering a rice field. It gently expresses absurd motifs and movements within a space wrapped in whiteness and tranquility. It conveys the sensation of feeling both warm and cold while waiting quietly within a snow hut for the coming of spring, and those irreplaceable moments of freedom.
17th Jury Selection
tag: animated short film
2013 KunoYoko AllRightsReserved.
AIRY ME
KUNO Yoko
Japan
A test subject is administered daily medication by a nurse in a ward where mysterious medicalexperiments take place. One day, when the nurse presses the switch of the test subject, it successfully transforms into a chimera. Taking inspiration from the song of the same name by Artist Cuushe, this is an animated work consisting of 3,000 still images drawn over almost two years. Incontrast to the scenery in the ward where time seems to have stopped, through the continually swaying camerawork and soft colors an original narrated world is depicted.
17th New Face Award
tag: animated short film
©AkinoKondoh / Courtesy of theartist and Mizuma Artgallery ©KONDOH
KIYA KIYA
KONDOH Akino
Japan
The film's title derives from an old Japanese expression that the artist came across in a collection of short stories about girls by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa. It describes a sense of "inexplicably nostalgicanxiety", or a kind of déjà-vu.
16th Jury Selection
tag: animated short film
©2012 KeikoSHIRAISHI &TokyoUniversity ofthe Arts
HIDE-AND-SEEK
SHIRAISHI Keiko
Japan
They live in a residential town surrounded by the ocean and mountains. Since that day, this town has been in complete darkness. Hidden in the darkness now are the streetlights, roads home, a mother,and a baby in her womb.
tag: animated short film
©CHILDPOKKE
BIRTH WEAVING LIFE
WAKAMI Arisa / ARAI Chie / KOGUMA Atsuko
Japan
There are as many child delivery stories as there are people. Despite all the progress of medicineand science, lives still get lost during childbirth. We speak with mothers about the intimate experience of giving birth – an event that is both unique and an everyday thing.
tag: animated short film