Two animated films by an animator Tomomichi Nakamura from Akaiwa city, Okayama. His works have been invited to Vancouver International FF, Calgary Int'l FF, and shown at The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. An intense interest of the world is on this emerging Okayama native animation artist. Image Forum Film Festival 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival 2007 Apocalyptic [Read more...]
Internationally acclaimed photographer, artist, documentary filmmaker, Akram Zaatari from Beirut, Lebanon. Growing up in a war-zone in the Middle east, being identified as an Arab artist, he has established his unique poetic photography and documentary work style. His works have exhibited MoMA in New York and other museums around the world. He is a founding member of the Arab Image Foundation for [Read more...]
Rapresent - This film is the portrait of Bojan, a young man with a passion for graffiti and hiphop. Bojan was born in Split, Croatia. He lost his father during the civil war and escaped with his mother and sister to Serbia. When he was 11 his mother died and he was put in an orphanage. At age 18, according to Serbian laws, he lost the right to accommodation in the House and he became homeless. [Read more...]
Atlantis Unbound is loosely inspired by the utopian novel The New Atlantis, written by Sir Francis Bacon in 1627. Bacon, the philosopher of the new science of progress and technology, sets the stage for the main character Francis Galton to ponder the secrets of heredity. Via the metamorphosis of images, myth and history are interwoven through the act of drawing and erasing. Francis Galton is [Read more...]
"A search for a non-existent image, a desire to create an image where there is none," leads to Rea Tajiri's composition on recorded history and non-recorded memory. Framed by the haunting facts of the post-Pearl Harbor Japanese internment camps (which dislocated 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II), Tajiri creates a version of her family's story through interviews and historical detail, [Read more...]