{"id":3012,"date":"2013-07-10T04:11:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2016-06-26T04:34:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T04:34:43","slug":"%e3%80%8e%e3%81%8b%e3%81%8f%e3%82%8c%e3%82%93%e5%9d%8a%e3%80%8f-%e7%9b%a3%e7%9d%a3%ef%bc%9a%e7%99%bd%e7%9f%b3%e6%85%b6%e5%ad%90%ef%bc%88%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%ef%bc%89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/archives\/3012","title":{"rendered":"”Hide-and-Seek” Keiko Shiraishi (Japan)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hide-and-Seek<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dir: Keiko Shiraishi<\/p>\n

Japan\/2012\/ Japanese with English subtitles\/B&W\/8min\/animation<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey 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. This animation attempts to depict the truth hiding behind the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Director Keiko Shiraishi\u2019s deeply thought-out thesis project for Tokyo University of the Arts MFA program dealing with the Tohoku Earthquake. Animation artwork was hand-drawn based on the photographs she took of the affected areas and the interviews with her close friend who was to give birth in the Tohoku region<\/p>\n

Vancouver\u00a0International Film Festival,\u00a0Image Forum Young Perspective Award, Ibaraki Digital content Software Award\u00a0First prize, Tokyo International Animation\u00a0Fair 2013 Tokyo Anime Award, among\u00a0others.<\/p>\n

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Director\u2019s\u00a0Statement:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Earthquake\u00a0came when I was planning for my thesis film. The \u201creal\u201d images I saw on\u00a0television and on the internet were all so unexpected and\u00a0unimaginable–the\u00a0unknown reality. I thought that reality had gone beyond fiction. In that kind\u00a0of reality, what can I create with animation, and\u00a0what can animation, as an art\u00a0form, offer?<\/p>\n

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First, I went to the affected areas\u00a0in northern Japan and took photographs. I visited a friend whom I have known for 20 years and her husband, who works at the\u00a0Hitachi Metal Works in Hitachi City in\u00a0Ibaraki prefecture. I listened to their stories. And without digitally processing\u00a0the photographic images that I\u00a0took, I drew by using\u00a0tools such as the rotoscope, adding and subtracting based on those images of \u201creality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Take the image of shadow and darkness as an example. Shadows can symbolize worries of the mother as well as the\u00a0materialization of her unborn\u00a0child. Darkness is the image of being covered by\u00a0clouds, taken by tsunamis, or radiation spreading.<\/p>\n

Moving image is the medium of our sight and\u00a0hearing, but even things that cannot be captured by our cameras, microphones, eyes or ears do exist in our \u201creality\u201d. Especially since\u00a0the Tohoku Earthquake, I think people in Japan have started to realize that even things we\u00a0cannot feel with our five senses do exist. Then I noticed that \u201creal\u201d\u00a0photographs and films can reflect the \u201creality,\u201d but animation can depict a \u201csense of reality\u201d that reality-based media often cannot.<\/p>\n

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Credits:<\/p>\n

Directed\/animated\/edited by: Keiko Shiraishi<\/p>\n

Soundtrack: Natsuko Yokoyama & Andres Duarte Loza<\/p>\n

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Screenings and Awards:<\/p>\n

\u201cVancouver International Film Festival 2012\u201d Official Selection<\/p>\n

\u201c16th Ibaraki Digital content Software Award 2012\u201d First prize<\/p>\n

\u201c11th JCF Student Film Festival\u201d Second prize<\/p>\n

\u201c55th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film\u201d Prize<\/p>\n

\u201cTokyo International Anime Fair 2013, Tokyo Anime Award\u201d Prize<\/p>\n

\u201cImageforum Young Perspective \u201d Prize<\/p>\n

\u201c18th Campus Genius Award\u201d Nominate<\/p>\n

\u201cYokohama France Animation Festival 2012\u201d Official Selection<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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