Hiroshima-Nagasaki, August 1945 Dir. Erik Barnouw Camera: Akira Iwasaki, 16min. B&W, 1945/1970, 16mm film The earliest (and the only) film record of the immediate atomic bomb devastation was shot in September 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Japan Film Co., but was later confiscated by the U.S. Occupation Army. It was kept as a top-secret file until 1967, then for some bureaucratic [Read more...]
KURAYOSHI, 2010, 24 min, color In this work, Tomomichi Nakamura, an Okayama native painter and animator, departs from his signature animation style as seen in his previous works such as "Ant" and "My Town," and explores a new path using the "real" images. Synopsis Nakamura stayed in Kurayoshi, a typical unspectacular provincial city of Japan, for a week, and assembled all kinds of images [Read more...]
2008, 19 min. Synopsis: This film is an elegy to the youth of the whole generation born in the 1970s ...Ten years after graduation, four collage classmates who live far apart are reunited. (Old lovers played by Guo Xio Dong and Zhao Tao; Wang Wei and Hao Lei.) They have not drifted apart with the passage of time, nor do they feel so. New arguments begin on the same topics they argued about [Read more...]
UPAF 2011 Film#3 (short program): “Solitary Life of Cranes” by Eva Weber, 2008, documentary, HD, 27min. Part city symphony part visual poem, ‘The Solitary Life of Cranes’ explores the invisible life of a city, its patterns and hidden secrets, seen through the eyes of crane drivers working high above its streets. Within the loose structure of a day, starting with the drivers [Read more...]
Topo Gigio is Dead Dir.: David Miranda (Narrative, Chile/USA, 23 min, 2011, HD4k/16 mm, 1:85, Color, Dolby 5.1) Synopsis: Two Chileans meet in Philadelphia: Daniela is the daughter of a former political prisoner; Tomás is the son of the physician that tortured Daniela’s father. Contemplating revenge, she discloses all about Tomas' father's dark past opening a Pandora's box. Director's [Read more...]
Mirage Dir. Srđan Keča, 2011, 42 mins , HDCAM, 16:9, Colour, Dolby Surround Synopsis: At the edge of a city growing from the desert, a man plays alone on a golf course. Another, sleepless, sends a letter from a labour camp to his wife in Kenya. A sand storm hits a construction site, and the locals hold a strange dance ceremony. Dubai, usually seen either as miracle of development or failed [Read more...]
“Ten years” 2007, 8 min, color Synopsis A train traverses spring and summer, and it also passes through the realest city, field and land in China; the faces of passengers are the most ordinary faces in China. Two women meet each other on the train every day, but they never converse. At the time of the SARS, they sit together and look at each [Read more...]