Shorts from Japan: Mirrors
Combined programme
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IFFR 2008
In Japan, experimental film is still a flourishing genre. All the sub-genres still exist. From hand-drawn animation to performance video. And all those variations are practised with great intensity.
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The Festival in the Cage
A colourful procession of images tells in just a few minutes the whole post-war history of Japan. Virtuoso jewel. -
Goujonnette and the Witch of the Windmill
A film with very idiosyncratic sound. As if it doesn’t belong with this film but with another. An English voice keeps talking and gets a… -
Film of the Sea
Animation film by an animation master who can do anything. He can make his film and his projection disappear and reappear later. Drawing as a… -
Mirror for Eyes
A colourful small experimental film that is superficially cheerful and happy. A homage to a friend who died. Missing someone in colour. -
Real Access Discommunication
The film maker thinks she’s normal and doesn’t understand the world that considers her masochism abnormal. She doesn’t make a normal film about it.