Yu Araki
Yu ARAKI (1985, Japan) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Washington University in St. Louis and completed his Master of Film and New Media Studies at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2007. He met Daniel Jacoby in 2010 during a residency at Tokyo Wonder Site. Both their works have been highly influenced by their travels. Fiction is often used by them as a tool to comprehend the puzzling cultural and socio-political differences between destinations. Their first film made as a duo was Mountain Plain Mountain (2018). The film won the Ammodo Tiger Short Film Award. In 2019 he was shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize.
Filmography
Deep Search (2009, short). Baguette Walk (2010, short), Waiting (2011, short), Almost Down (2012, short), The New Flag (2012, short), The Politics of Sausages (2012, short), Terra Incognita (2012, short), Entrevoir (2013, short), Angelo Lives (2014, short), Motherlands (2014, short), Road Movie (2014, short), Olafur (2014, short), Penelope’s Hand (2016, short), Searching the Original (2016, short), The Temple of the Templet (2016, short), Wrong Revision (2018, short), Mountain Plain Mountain (2018, short, co-dir), Lost Highway (Sweded) (2018, instal), The State of Light (2019, instal), Transcreation (2019, short), The Last Ball (2019, instal), Fuel (2020)
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Fuel
Yu Araki | 16' | Japan | World premiere
A quiet observation of an expert griller working at one of the oldest Robatayaki restaurants in Japan. Slow cooking matched with slow-paced editing. -
Wrong Revision
Yu Araki | 16' | Greece | World premiere
Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story The Devil and Tobacco (1916), Wrong Revision introduces a curious account of the devil’s introduction to Ja -
Mountain Plain Mountain
Yu Araki, Daniel Jacoby | 21' | Japan | World premiere
Sound and rhythms take centre stage in this observational documentary on Ban’ei, a rare kind of draft horse race that takes place only in Obihir