From renowned Japanese graphic designer and multidisciplinary artist Awazu Kiyoshi, Furyu (1972) is a testament to the ephemeral beauty of interplaying light and shadow. This experimental 16mm film exhibits the shadows of trees arching and swaying in the wind, visible as eerie shapes on the bare walls of a white house, alongside an evolving soundscape of intensifying oral vibrato and piercing instrumental pitches. A rarely shown sensorial experience.
– Sophie Tupholme
Also in this combined programme
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You are so beautiful
This playful clash of image and music blocks the titular beautiful woman from view.
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Blushing Phantom
Exploring the margins of camouflage, this experimental collage melds transcendent dance with hallucinatory digital animation.
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Persistence & Loss
Strobing images of logging compose this hypnotic palimpsest of deforestation and movie magic
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Still Lives
Still life awakens in this experimental stop motion vignette about the mundane challenges of modernity.
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Metabolism
A thought-provoking documentary that briefly observes consumption-oriented industrialisation from farm to table.
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shifting bodies to fluid fiction
A harmoniously erotic and essential exploration of where one body ends, and another begins.
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Fort Garry Lions Pool
Echoes of splashing, shadows of faces: two women visit a public pool in this disquieting short.
Film details
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 1972
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 11"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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