Kihachiro Kawamoto's puppet animation to tour UK from March

[Jasper Sharp]

Just wanted to give a bit of advance warning for an event/tour I've been putting together that will begin at the Bristol Watershed in March and then tour a number of venues which I shall publicise a little later when they are ready to announce the dates.

We're making the most of having such brilliant animation talent in Bristol - notable Aardman and the Bolex Brothers - by framing the Kawamoto screenings within a program of Birtish animation, and there'll be panel discussions and intros with Barry Purves, Suzie Templeton, Aardman's Peter Lord and Bolex's David Borthwick.

I'll be putting more info up on my Myspace and Facebook pages as it comes in, and when the full program and venues are announced, I'll post the info again here.

Hope to see some of you there!

Jasper




Sat 15 & Sun 16 March Watershed

We are delighted to present this unique season of films and talks celebrating the work of Japanese stop motion animator Kihachiro Kawamoto. In terms of style, technique and spiritual concerns, Kawamoto represents the crowning achievement of an artistic vision that has been refined over a canon of eleven hauntingly beautiful titles made over a period of four decades. His films derive much of their power from their stories based in traditional Japanese folklore, an aesthetics rooted in the theatrical forms of Kabuki, Noh and Bunraku, and an overarching philosophy based in Buddhism. This Watershed season, programmed by Japanese film expert Jasper Sharp (co-founder of the specialist Japanese film website www.midnighteye.com) includes the UK premiere of Kawamoto?s latest feature The Book of the Dead (2005) and offers a rare chance to discover his unique body of work from his playful debut, Breaking of Branches is Forbidden (1968) through the surreal cut-out (kiri-gami) animation of The Trip (1973) to the bewitching House of Flame (1979). Kawamoto?s films will be presented within a broader framework that celebrates the energy and the diversity of this particular form of animation, with a particular emphasis on British practitioners of the form including Barry Purves, Ray Harryhausen, Aardman and the Bolex Brothers as well as newer names such as Chris Randall, Suzie Templeton and Joe Tucker. 
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