Mt. Head

Atama-Yama

Koji Yamamura | Japan | 2002 | 10' |

| IFFR 2003

An ideal point of departure for an animation film: a traditional Japanese story about a stingy man who eats some cherry seeds. A cherry tree starts to grow from his head and he gets into a lot of trouble.

Also in this combined programme

A Silent Day
main programme short
Portrait of a young woman on the brink of suicide.
Childhood
main programme short
Refined optical illusion of a girl who uncurls paper.
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.
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: 2002
Festival edition: IFFR 2003
Length: 10'
Medium/Format: 35mm
Language: Japanese
Premiere status: -
Director: Koji Yamamura
Producer: Koji Yamamura, Yamamura Animation Inc.
Editing: Koji Yamamura
Sales / World rights holder: Yamamura Animation Inc.