[KineJapan] Yamagata — Aichi

Wed Jul 31 06:32:23 EDT 2019

 Just to say that, although I had got 6th August from the website as the last day for hotel reservations, when I printed out the form, it said today, 31st July.Matsumoto-san confirmed by email that it's not a package - you don't have to use the overnight bus.See some of you there, hopefully,Roger

    On Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 14:04:09 BST, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:  

 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival just announced and the Aichi Triennale announced their lineups. 
Aichi's list is pretty interesting (https://aichitriennale.jp/news/2019/003415.html). A few films that have been around, like Toda Hikaru's Love and Law. Two Reifenstahl films (!?), some kind of collection of Aichi interviews from Company Matsuo (unclear if it includes all the sex), and the two Japanese films from Cannes, Kuzoku's Tenzo and the colorful experimental short Grand Bouquet. 
　　　バスマ・アルシャリフ『ウロボロス』　77分　2017年制作
　　　キャスリン・ビグロー『デトロイト』　142分　2017年制作
　　　チェ・スンホ『共犯者たち』　105分　2017制作
　　　カンパニー松尾『A Day in the Aichi（仮）』［新作］　上映時間未定　2019年制作　
　　　クレール・ドゥニ『ハイ・ライフ』　113分　2018年制作
　　　小森はるか『空に聞く』　75分　2018年制作
　　　ミロ・ラウ『コンゴ裁判』　105分　2017年制作
　　　レニ・リーフェンシュタール『民族の祭典』（「オリンピア」第一部）　138分　1938年制作
　　　レニ・リーフェンシュタール『美の祭典』（「オリンピア」第二部）　97分　1938年制作
　　　戸田ひかる『愛と法』　94分　2017年制作
　　　東海テレビ放送『さよならテレビ』　77分　2018年制作
　　　富田克也『典座-TENZO-』［日本初上映］　62分　2019年制作
　　　吉開菜央『Grand Bouquet』［日本初上映］　15分　2019年制作

I'd heard rumors that the Yamagata competition (https://www.yidff.jp/2019/program/19p1-e.html) was going to have a lot of long films. Indeed it does. It's one of the admirable things about Yamagata. Length doesn't seem to factor into selection for their competition. So this time around, they've got Anand Patwardhan's new film clocking in a 240 minutes and Wang Bing's Dead Souls at 495 minutes—over 8 hours long. They make Wiseman's Monrovia feel short at 2 hours, 20+ minutes. I noticed they list Dead Souls as a Swiss, French co-production; I guess that's one way to get around the new censorship law in China....but I note that Zhang Menqi's new film is included, most definitely not with the Dragon Seal, and it is listed as a Chinese film. Interesting. 
I was thrilled to see Makino Takashi included in the competition. Looks great. They'll also have sidebars on 311 (again), films about film (again), Yamagata and film (again).........they really need to mix things up. 
But the original programming includes sidebars on Iran, Oceana, new Japanese works, and a north Indian archives, and a reevaluation of 1930s Japanese documentary. 
Hint for those thinking of attending. There is a medical conference overlapping with the festival and it has really sucked up the prime location hotel rooms. I've had a bunch of people asking me about this. Thankfully, the festival will be announcing a package tour that includes Shinkansen and hotel. The price should be decent and the hotel should be central. I'll forward information when it's announced. Even better: maybe the YIDFF folks on KineJapan could post this themselves?
YIDFF competition list follows...
Markus
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   - Absence
      - INDIA / 2018 / 80 min   
Director: Ekta Mittal   

   - Cachada—The Opportunity
      - EL SALVADOR / 2019 / 81 min   
Director: Marlén Viñayo   

   - The Crosses
      - CHILE / 2018 / 80 min   
Directors: Teresa Arredondo, Carlos Vásquez Méndez   

   - Dead Souls
      - FRANCE, SWITZERLAND / 2018 / 495 min   
Director: Wang Bing   

   - Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
      - USA / 2017 / 90 min   
Director: Travis Wilkerson   

   - In Our Paradise
      - FRANCE / 2019 / 76 min   
Director: Claudia Marschal   

   - Living the Light—Robby Müller
      - THE NETHERLANDS / 2018 / 86 min   
Director: Claire Pijman   

   - Memento Stella
      - JAPAN, HONG KONG / 2018 / 60 min   
Director: Makino Takashi   

   - Midnight Traveler
      - USA, QATAR, CANADA, UK / 2019 / 87 min   
Director: Hassan Fazili   

   - Monrovia, Indiana
      - USA / 2018 / 143 min   
Director: Frederick Wiseman   

   - Reason
      - INDIA / 2018 / 240 min   
Director: Anand Patwardhan   

   - Self-Portrait: Window in 47 KM
      - CHINA / 2019 / 110 min   
Director: Zhang Mengqi   

   - Transnistra
      - SWEDEN, DENMARK, BELGIUM / 2019 / 93 min   
Director: Anna Eborn   

   - Your Turn
      - BRAZIL / 2019 / 93 min   
Director: Eliza Capai   

   - Yukiko
      - FRANCE / 2018 / 70 min   
Director: Young Sun Noh

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