[KineJapan] Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival, London: 29 June-8 July

[Jasper Sharp]

The new Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival, of which I am co-founder, covering all areas east of the Urals up to Hawaii, will be starting in London on 29 June with two programmes of short films at the Horse Hospital near Russell Square.



The first programme, ‘Women in the Frame’ is a selection of titles by and about women, from countries including Armenia, Georgia, Bhutan and Vietnam.



The second is called UnorthoDocs, and features short documentary and experimental works exploring ideas of geography, territory and landscapes, both natural and manmade, through vision and sound, with films from India, Hawaii, New Zealand and Armenia, among others.

This section features a quite stunning contribution from a Japanese filmmaker, Hiroya Sakurai’s STREAM VIII (2016), a film that really has to be experienced on a big screen.



https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/aperture-asia-pacific-film-festival



The main day of the festival will be on Sat 30 Jun at The Cinema Museum, where films will include the first Afghan feature directed by a woman in the post-Taliban era, Roya Sadat’s LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT, and Malaysian director Edmund Yeo’s AQERAT (WE THE DEAD), a powerful and timely drama about human trafficking and the Rohingya refugee crisis.



Of most interest to Japanese film fans however is the long overdue UK premiere of Tatsuya Mori’s documentary FAKE, about the self-taught deaf musical prodigy Mamoru Samuragochi, once dubbed “Japan’s Beethoven” but later denounced a fraud by the Japanese media, which plays at the Cinema Museum day from 7pm: http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2018/aperture-asia-pacific-film-festival/





Complete details about the festival can be found here:  http://www.day-for-night.org/aperture/

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Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival - Day for Night<http://www.day-for-night.org/aperture/>
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Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival is a new UK-wide film festival devoted to screening some of the boldest, most daring, challenging, and striking films from the Asian and Pacific regions.




Hope to see some of you at the screenings!


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Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival<http://www.day-for-night.org/aperture/> is a new UK-wide film festival co-founded by Sonali Joshi and Jasper Sharp, dedicated to screening the boldest and most striking films from Azerbaijan to Vanuatu and everything in between, touring across the UK Summer/Autumn 2018.


The Creeping Garden<http://www.creepinggarden.com/> - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.
Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films<https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>.
The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing<http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
"A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>.
"An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>.
"Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>.

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