KCVIII appreciation

[Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano]

I'd like to add my congratulations to Axel, Mark, Aaron ant the rest of the
team for his great job in Frankfurt. For me it was the first time I was
attending Kinemaclub Conference and it has been a great experience I'd like
to repeat in the future.

The discussions were very interesting, but I'd like to share with you one of
the questions that came out (from a Japanese man whose name I don't know,
but that may be someone there can remember...). It was the last day in
70/80/... Panel: He noticed how in Japanese animation you can recurrently
find the question about "human being". Well, I've been thinking about that,
and didn't find an answer but may be a clue: animation, at the end, is a
kind of text with a higher level of abstraction that, for example, real 35
mm image doesn't have (it's the same for documentary). 

>From this point of view, if we agree that "human being" is a philosophical
question, and being Philosophy too a kind of thinking with a higher level of
abstraction, we can concur that animation is, a sort of text that, given its
facility to represent abstract thoughts, maybe, it's a good medium to think
about human being.

I would say, to incorporate more subjects to the debate, that animation
works very well too with unconscious, dreams, etc., as we saw in one
fantastic animation movie in Nippon Connection: Paprika.

And one proposal to Kinejapan owners, that may be has been asked before:
Could it be possible to ask all panelists to send their papers and make them
accessible to all of us in a virtual site, HD, etc.?

 

Lorenzo J. Torres

Tenure Profesor (int.) 

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Fac. Comunicación Audiovisual

Madrid (Spain)

 

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De: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] En nombre de Aaron Gerow
Enviado el: martes, 24 de abril de 2007 10:48
Para: KineJapan
Asunto: KCVIII appreciation

 

Just got back from Frankfurt today and would like to again convey my 

thanks and appreciation to Alex and all the members of the KCVIII and 

Nippon Connections staff for their hard work and support. Gokurosama! 

KCVIII was very well run and quite stimulating--and it was great we 

could then see films in the afternoon and evening! I was quite 

impressed with the selection at Nippon Connections (especially in 

Nippon Digital, where I spent a lot of time)

 

As always, I do invite others who attended KCVIII and/or Nippon 

Connections to tell the list their impressions for those who could not 

attend.

 

Aaron Gerow

KineJapan owner

 

Assistant Professor

Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures

Yale University

 

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