Childhood

Musunde hiraite

Tabata Shizuko | Japan | 2001 | 3' |

| IFFR 2003

Tabata Shizuko: `The material of this piece is a sheet of paper, which is twodimensional. However folded or crumpled, its image is recorded on the flat surface of the film, to be projected on a flat screen.’

Also in this combined programme

A Silent Day
main programme short
Portrait of a young woman on the brink of suicide.
Scrap Diary
main programme short
About a hundred short scenes unfold at dizzying speed in black & white.
A Little Planet
main programme short
Taking a stroll with a gleaming, floating ball.
Dizziness
main programme short
About the broken psyche of a young Japanese woman.
Mt. Head
main programme short
A traditional Japanese story about a man with a cherry tree growing out of his head.
Hanashi Guy
main programme short
Japanese animated men in humorous Super-8 film made with alcohol and sweat.
Goldfish Fetish
main programme short
A fetish collection of goldfish, drawn over a period of twenty years.
A Gaze in Summer – 1942
main programme short

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Film details

Country of production: Japan
Year: 2001
Festival edition: IFFR 2003
Length: 3'
Medium/Format: bijzondere asp.ratio NTSC
Premiere status: -
Director: Tabata Shizuko
Sales / World rights holder: Image Forum