[KineJapan] 13 at A2FF

[Markus Nornes]

*The 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival just announced this year's awards and a
Japanese filmmaker took the top prize. *

Isobe Shinya won the Ken Burns for Best of the Festival award. He's a grad
of Zokeidai and the school at Image Forum. The film is 13 and filled me
with awe. It starts out with a dot that drops into the upper left corner of
the screen and for 13 seconds it streams to the lower right corner. It's
the sun setting in time lapse. Then another dot and another and another and
they start appearing in groups, moving across the same track. He shot the
same view of the sunset in stop motion for 5 years. In the course of the
film he uses a lighter neutral density filter and you see features and
clouds along with the sun, and if your mind isn't already melting that does
it. Wonderful, cosmic film.

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In addition to this, a German originally from Okayama won The No Violence
Award. It's a short that's been taking awards at the big animation
festivals and is nominated for best animated short at the Oscars. It's  *Just
a Guy *by Shoko Hara, an animated doc about serial killer Richard Ramirez's
groupies. It's wild and disturbing and I watched it with my 90 year old
parents. I had warned them that they were about to see some weird films,
but that didn't prepare them for this madness. Really brilliant animation.
It's actually online now: https://youtu.be/rMtkdFJTmFk


Markus



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*Markus Nornes*
*Professor of Asian Cinema*
Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and
Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design

*Department of Film, Television and Media*
*6348 North Quad*
*105 S. State Street*
*Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285*
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