[KineJapan] 13 at A2FF

[Hilson Reidpath]

Thank you for sharing this information. I am seeing that the Shoko Hara
Youtube link is unavailable because it is private. Any idea if it is still
viewable in any capacity?

Thank you,

Hilson Reidpath

PhD Student in Japanese

East Asian Language and Literature

University of Hawai'i at Mānoa



On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 8:11 AM 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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