Japanische Experimentalfilme und -videos

präsentiert von Koyo Yamashita Festivaldirektor Image Forum Tokyo

Programm 1 (Emperor Tomato Ketchup)
19:00 Filmhauskino Spittelberg

EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP
by Shuji TERAYAMA 1970 / 16mm / b+w / 75 min
Opressed children rise up to become “emperors” of the country. They start hunting for adults. Shuji TERAYAMA’s satirical-parody feature film before his structualist approach on film.

Programm 2 (Searching for the Children of the Emperor)
20:30 Filmhauskino Spittelberg

SOLDIER SCHOOL
by Saya ITO 2012/digital/color/14 min A boy is sent to a military school to be brainwashed to be a super-soldier. An absurd animation film which reflects on the pre-war totalitarian regime in Japan.

ALL DAY
by Goichi MINE 2011/digital/color/25 min
Just after the WWII a boy dreams to be a novelist but is always denied by a stubborn and alcoholic father. The boy dreams to fly away from his family and hometown.

YOCCHAN RUSSIA LEFTOVERS
by Shinichi TAMANO 2001/8mm/color/18 min
A strange actionist film starring the filmmaker. He rolls down the stairs made of stone on his bare body and licks tombstones in the grave yard… but what for?

MOTHER OF THE MOTHER OF THE MOTHER AND ALSO THE MOTHER OF THE MOTHER’S MOTHER, AND HER DAUGHTER
by Miki SETOGUCHI 2005/digital/color/11 min
A voodooistic self-documentary which tries to summon the dead and lost memories. It becomes a collage of comments on social pressure to women in Japanese culture and ancient myths about mothers.

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