KCVIII appreciation

[Dean Bowman]

I was also sorry that i couldn't attend the final party. I was thoroughly
exhausted after all the panels and films, and so spent much of Sunday
wandering around Frankfurt, which is a beautiful city. The festival was
beyond my expectations. What a fantastic event. I think its very inspiring
that Alex, Marion and Holger were able to set this up and develop it over
the years whilst they were students.

It was also great to meet everyone and put names to faces finally. The
conference was very stimulating and gave me a lot to think about. I spoke to
a lot of you there about the new journal that Intellect seeks to publish on
Japanese films, and was very happy to get all of the feedback from you all.
It was hard to speak to everyone, so if i missed anyone who is particularly
interested in the project then please get in touch with me off list at
deanbowman.uk at gmail.com

I also interviewed Shinya Tsukamoto for Firecracker, and will let you know
when it is online.

Regards,
Dean

On 24/04/07, Akiko Sugawa-Shimada <akiss00999 at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>
> I really enjoyed myself both in the conference and the festival.  I
> would like to thank Alex, Markus, Aaron and other organisers for all
> the arrangement.  It was a great opportunities to attend a
> conference in the morning, and enjoy watching films, experiencing
> all the events that I rarely access from here in Madrid.  And I
> would like to thank all the volunteer helpers as well.
>
> As for Lorenzo's comments,
>
> > 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".
>
> > 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.
>
> The man you mentioned is Mr. Yomota.  I agree that animation is a
> good means to convey those philosophical issues.  And I also think
> that although various topics are dealt with by the use of animation,
> probably the one that have most popularity is animation films which
> are dealing with human beings.  Clone humans, cyborg bodies, complex
> gender/transgender representations, dysfunctional communication
> skills etc. are more deftly depicted in animation.  But most
> animation directors have got hints from live action films, so it is
> interesting to trace origins of their ideas and techniques.
>
> I noticed that there are many films about dreams and trauma in the
> selection of Nippon Connection: *Paprika*, as Lorenzo said, is one
> of them and *Nightmare Detective*, *Tekkonkincrete*, *Uncle's
> Paradise*,*Beyond Aomi's Second Ward* in Musashino Fireworks etc.
> Probably it's just a coincidence, but it's quite intriguing how each
> director uses dream as a mysterious site to consider who you are and
> why you are here.
>
> Finally, I could not attend the final party, so here I would like to
> tell all of participants of Kinema Club and Nippon Connection that I
> would like to thank them for all the comments and information they
> gave me and am really looking forward to seeing them in our next
> conference.
>
> Akiko Sugawa Shimada
> Madrid
>
>
>
>
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Dean Bowman
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