JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

PARTICIPATION IN OVERSEAS MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

Screening Program

The Q of moving-image


This program introduces six works strongly displaying the narrative and documentary qualities unique to video expression that ceaselessly question history and reality.


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For Land Creation

CHOI Jisu (South Korea)

Art Division 2012 Jury Selections 2 min.
Video work

For Land Creation is a set of tools specifically designed for Mehran Karimi NASSERI. It focuses mainly on his fragile mental state of living at the airport without nationality, family or friends, while soil becomes a metaphor for the non-existing homeland and the tools become a conduit for NASSERI to not only collect but distribute these “lands” in different locations in order to create his own attachments within the transient space.


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WISTFUL AFFECTION FOR THE PAST

Mani MEHRVARZ (Iran)

Art Division 2013 Jury Selections 3 min. 6sec.
Video work

In this video the artist deliberates our historical background. Through this investigation he was interested in the question of how he defines his historical memories with images and sounds. He tries to provoke viewers to reconsider their oral history and urge them to have a new vision about both past and future moments.


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Bye Buy

Neil BRYANT (UK)

Art Division 2012 Excellence Award 2 min. 42sec.
Video work

Bye Buy is a video work that mixes archive footage from the high point of the consumer and consumerism of the 1950s and 1960s, and composites th is wi th contemporary imagery, signs and coding of the present. The scenes, objects and images seem familiar but are distorted, out of time, f rom a world that is no longer ours. The work playfully explores how the mediated representations of capitalism and consumerism were seen in the past and now can be seen as naïve, outmoded and inadequate.


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Communicating Vessels

Andres TENUSAAR (Estonia)

Art Division 2013 Jury Selections 3 min. 45sec.
Animated short film

The biosphere is full of dense interconnections. The addition of something in one place corresponds to the disappearance of something in another. If something new is added, of ten changes that no one could have expected occur. A paper animation depicting mechanisms of coexistence in our natural environment, orchestrated with a hypnotizing soundscape.


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nijuman no borei (200000 phantoms)

Jean-Gabriel PERIOT (France)

Art Division 2007 Grand Prize 10 min. 50sec.
Video work

A documentary footage which spun out a history by connecting an enormous quantity of documentary photography related to the A-bomb of Hiroshima with great care. A calm monolog in the background, pictures with the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima in their center are collaged and unrolled.


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Archipelago Science Fiction 

Tellervo KALLEINEN, representative of Archipelago Science Fiction Production Team (Finland)

Art Division 2013 Jury Selections 24 min. 55sec.
Video work

The Turku archipelago islands located in the Baltic Sea provide the framework for four different future scenarios. These hilarious and sometimes chilling episodes were scripted and performed by the islanders. The surprisingly contemporary and universal stories derive from their own fears and hopes.