[KineJapan] 13 at A2FF

[Markus Nornes]

I should have mentioned that if you run to the Ann Arbor Film Festival
website you can watch the films online (for a reasonable ticket price).

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*



On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 5:52 AM Hilson Reidpath via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> *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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