Mock Angel Dir. Tomomichi Nakamura, Japan, 13min, 2014, digital, color, 2D animation drama.
(This short film will be shown with “June Bride”)
A girl wanted a change in her bland and uninteresting daily routine. She keeps a bird as a pet to create some change, and finds herself dreaming of having a child with it. The child of a bird and a woman is called a “mock-angel” and is angelic in appearance, but…
Line of sight, and the circumstances in which a person is placed, sometimes make that person ask themselves what an “individual” is. In the midst of this interrogation they stare straight at themselves, and sometimes they reject or change themselves, and sometimes they give up. (from “Image Forum Film Festival catalog)
Mock Angel is the newest work by Tomomichi Nakamura, an animation artist from Okayama all of whose early work UPAF has recognized and screened. His past films have been screened at the Image Forum Film Festival, Oberhausen, and the Okayama Film Festival. And Mock Angel has been selected for the International Competition at the Tampere Film Festival (Finland), Image Forum Film Festival, and won Second Prize at the Okayama Art and Cultural Award. Three works including this film will open theatrically at the Tollywood Theatre for Short Films in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo this August! Mr. Nakamura has also been helping us by taking amazing photos at past UPAF screenings. We will miss Mr. Nakamura this year, but want to celebrate his success and wish him the best of luck in his screenings in Tokyo!
Staff:
Created and Produced by: Tomomichi Nakamura
Music: Masahiko Ishida/Yoko Ikeda
Voice: Chinatsu Onishi (the girl)/Mitsuo Aoki, Tomomichi Nakamura (crowds)
Art: Mitsuko Ishii/Tomomichi Nakamura
Recording: Toru Matsushita
English Subtitle: Kohei Kawabata
For more info: visit his blog:
http://gahaku.x0.com/