Saturday, July 19, 2008
The annual Image Forum Festival showcases new works by international experimental film makers. The traveling festival moved to Yokohama after stops in Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka and Nagoya earlier this year. Today's programs, collectively presented as "Japan Tomorrow" consisted of award-winning works by young film makers from Japan. I caught Programs G and I, and left quite unimpressed. Images of the everyday and hand-held video recording apparatus offered in a view into the kind of film-making that begins at home, with you and me, not limited to the dreams and machines of big bad studios. The effect today... kinda daring, sorta heart-warming... and way too banal to make it anything but dumpy. Nothing dumpy chic about this. Better luck next year.
On a more positive note, the little installation outside the theater titled Portable Duchamp by Ryusuke Ito was cute, and in the spirit of Duchamp in the ipod age. Viewers were invited to peek through a pair of classy old binoculars mounted on a tripod. Attached to the binoculars were two ipod touches each showing an image of Duchamp's Given 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas. So bastardly. Finally a worthwhile use of the ipod touch (image of Duchamp installation below).
Program G
- SUNDAY［ 金東薫 (Kim Donghoon)／ビデオ／10分／2007］奨励賞
新年10日間［ 栗原みえ (Kurihara Mie)／8ミリ／62分／2005-2007］奨励賞
- 合縁奇縁他生之縁 ここは山根四号組
［ 青山佳世 (Aoyama Kayo)／ビデオ／58分／2007］入選
Mermaid［ 高田苑実 (Takada Sonomi)／ビデオ／4分／2007］入選
しあわせ［ 徳本直之 (Tokumoto Naoyuki)＋鎌田綾 (Kamata Aya)／ビデオ／22分／2007］寺山修司賞
- LINE［ 大仁田弘志／ビデオ／14分／2007］入選
回帰［ 孫于景／ビデオ／34分／2007］入選
もここ［ 佐藤健人／ビデオ／27分／2007］奨励賞
UNCONSCIOUS［ 中島雄介／ビデオ／5分／2007］大賞
Best Obession With Nikes of Different Colors, and Commitment to Weird Obsession for 3-year Duration:
Kurihara Mie for Shinnen Toka
Best Birth-of-a-Calf Scene
Aoyama Kayo for Aien Kien Tasei no En
Best Crush on Hot Sister-in-Law Film (with Unacceptable Music):
Tokumoto Naoyuki and Kamata Aya for Shiawase
Chiaroscuro Award:
Kim Donghoon for SUNDAY
Best Feet Given to Mermaid with the Dregs of Information Society Award:
Takada Sonomi for Mermaid
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