Koji Yamamura’s Kafuka Inaka Isha tops this list because of its technical brilliance – it was a big hit at all the festivals it entered (which was pretty much all of them). This year saw young animators like Kunio Katō and Yasuhiro Yoshiura reach a level of maturity in their work. Katō was rewarded with prizes at
Selasa, 13 Januari 2009
Top Animated Shorts of 2008
Koji Yamamura’s Kafuka Inaka Isha tops this list because of its technical brilliance – it was a big hit at all the festivals it entered (which was pretty much all of them). This year saw young animators like Kunio Katō and Yasuhiro Yoshiura reach a level of maturity in their work. Katō was rewarded with prizes at
KineJun Top Films of 2008
2. Gururi no koto
3. Jitsuroku Rengo Sekigun: Asama Sanso e no michi
4. Tokyo Sonata
5. Aruitemo aruitemo
6. Yami no kodomotachi
7. Kabee
8. Climbers High
9. Seppun
10. After School
11. Hyakuman'en to nigamushi onna
Best Screenplay: Kundo Koyama (Okuribito)
Best Actress: Kyoko Koizumi (Tokyo Sonata)
Best Actor: Masahiro Motoki (Okuribito)
Best Supporting Actress: Kirin Kiki (Aruitemo aruitemo)
Best Supporting Actor: Masato Sakai (Climbers High, After School)
Best New Actress: Haruna Amari (Kodomo no kodomo)
Best New Actor: Kai Inowaki (Tokyo Sonata)
Senin, 12 Januari 2009
Takashi Ishida and Yuki Kawamura Exhibition
Takashi Ishida and Yuki Kawamura were both born in Japan, Kawamura in Kyoto in 1979 and Ishida in Tokyo in 1972. Both steeped in Japanese culture, they each nevertheless left home to pursue their commitment to art in another country. Ishida now lives and works in Toronto; Kawamura chose to complete his studies at the École supérieure des Études cinématographiques in Paris, where he still lives.
Takashi Ishida began to paint at the age of fourteen, and his originality and artistic integrity were recognized at once. In 1995 he began to make films. He made his name with Gestalt, a 16-mm film shot in 1999 which he created by taking image-by-image photographs of his own paintings. He also used the traditional Japanese roller for painting, a method that enabled him to analyze the time required for the image. In 2001, he shot the 19-minute film
Art of Fugue with the idea of transforming sound into image. Art of Fugue reveals his entirely personal way of understanding and analyzing music. Takashi Ishida has also been presenting live painting performances since 2001.
After studying French at the Kyoto University of Languages, Yuki Kawamura continued his studies in film in Paris. A visual artist and filmmaker, Kawamura also creates performance art and is involved in the electronic music scene. Since 2005, while continuing to make numerous videos, he has produced three short films that demonstrate his interest in stories and in narrative film in general. His videos since then have become spaces of pure creation. Kawamura composes fleeting, floating images that mingle nature and dreams, elusive thoughts and poetry.
January 14 to March 15, 2009
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal,
Beverley Webster Rolph Hall (lower level)
map
185 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Montréal (514) 847-6226
Jumat, 02 Januari 2009
Renzo & Sayoko Kinoshita
Filmography
1969-71 shorts for Kyosen x Maetake Geba-Geba 90-pun
(Nippon Terebi comedy show)
1971 What on Earth is He?
1972 Made in Japan (Nippon Seizou)
1973 Invitation to Death
1973 Curricula Machine
1974-1978 Karikyuramashīn (Nippon Terebi series)
1977 Japonese
1978 Pica-don (Pika-don)
1986 Geba Geba Showtime
1989 The Morning
1990 'Frame of Mind' in Animated Self-Portraits, a collaborative work
1993 The Last Air Raid Kumagaya
1994 A Little Journey (Hiroshi ku wa sora ga suki)
1994 Kondo 55 Go "How that Happen?"
2004 Ryukyu Okaku: Made in Okinawa (finished by Sayako after his death)