Film of the Sea
Umino-eiga
Last year, the festival showed Emaki 2, three films by the animation master in which he experimented with the physical presence of a film as drawn work. In a playful and surprising way, the film maker here continues a similar experiment. The screening of an animation film itself seems to be the subject of this animation film. Everything flows and moves. In a drawn and painted world, just about anything goes, and more.
Also in this combined programme
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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… -
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.
Film details
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 12'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam Digi PAL