[KineJapan] 13 at A2FF

[Asian Docs]

thank you for sharing Markus, Just a Guy was....fascinating and disturbing
to say the least...

matteo



On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, 03:11 Markus Nornes via KineJapan, <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> *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.
>
> [image: image.jpeg]
>
> 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
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