From [+] Screening Project Japan
Samstag, 06. Oktober 2012 - 21:00 Uhr
Topkino
[+] creates opportunities to introduce experimental films domestic and abroad, especially those which have seldom or never been shown to Japanese audience.
[+] has no particular space for screening. We look for the most suitable venue for each project in order to display our selected works in their best conditions. We also hope to make our event more accessible to wider-range of the public.
[+] issues magazines in relation to our screenings. We are hoping that our critique and research on experimental films will contribute to open up a new possibilities of new film culture.
further information: plusscreening.org
SAILING ACROSS IMAGES
by Shinkan Tamaki (2012, 15min)
Music by Tetuzi Akiyama + Toshimaru Nakamura
from "Semi-Impressionism"(Spekk KK020)
Aspect ratio 4:3 B&W, Original format 16mm
I went on a journey by water. I had been gazing at the calm sea for hours on the back deck. Before my eyes was endless sky, the nearly leaning sea horizon, strong sunlight shining on the surface of the water, and trails on the sea traced by the ship. The sound were of the engine and waves, vibrations propagated through the ship hull, and a pleasant breeze. I`m trying to sense every moment. I am here to watch the sea. Thinking this, I will daydream even before I know it. Occasional whistles make the scene in front of me clear.
Shinkan Tamaki
Filmmaker.born in 1982, in Japan. At the age of 20, I met the film works of Stan Brakhage who is the experimental filmmaker in the USA. I received a big impact. I picked up old 8mm camera by chance in the dump site the several days later. After that, I started production with 8mm?16mm films. The work is chiefly silent. However, I try to expand not only the eye-sight but hearing. Moreover, to extract the materiality of the film to its maximum, I develop it by myself. I might be making a film as material rather than producing the cinema.
EMBLEM
by Rei Hayama (2012, 16min)
Music by Rei Hayama
Aspect ratio 16:9 color, Original format HDCAM
Like animals are originally one of their main motifs of emblem, image for researching threatened bird species was used in EMBLEM as a fiction but not a documentary.
transforming of our viewpoint against the world is occur to us especially when we deeply thinking the relation between us and the other lives. light of [EMBLEM] is completely projected on to the audience. it is dedicated to the act of searching relations. and it will let us re-picture the world.
Rei Hayama
Born in Japan, 1987. Rei had started filmmaking since 2008. Her big interest and theme are the relations between wildlife and human in present. She`s also one of a co-founder and organizer of [+]. (one of the most provocative and active Experimental film screening project in Japan.)
WHILE WE ARE HERE
by Makino Takashi (2009, 15min)
Music by Colleen (Cecil Schott)
The film version of the installation exhibition "while we are here" which Takashi Makino and Ryota Aoyagi performed in 2007. The feeling which emerges when I heard the sentence "while we are here". Finally I found a lot of stories of life and death, and these stories looked moment and eternity.
Makino Takashi
Filmmaker born in 1978, lives and works in Tokyo. In 2001, Makino moved to London by himself to study music and lighting design at the atelier of the Brothers Quay. In 2009, his work "Still in Cosmos" won the Grand Prix at the 25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival, the world`s largest experimental film festival. He continues to produce and exhibit films that make full use of the various techniques and methods harnessed from the twin media of film and video, treating both the image and its accompanying music as elements of equal importance.
total 45.5min
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MAKINO TAKASHI
EVE (2002 3min)
Music by Makino Takashi
aspect ratio 4:3, Orginal Format 16mm B&W
I represented light and life coming out of the darkness. I aimed the fusion of the multiple exposure and animation.
STILL IN COSMOS (2009 17min)
Music by Jim O`Rourke
aspect ratio 16:9, Original Format HDCAM
do not think that the word ‘chaos’ means ‘confusion’ or ‘disarray’ , rather I believe it refers to a state in which the name or location of ‘objects’ remains unknown. For instance , If a bird escapes from its cage , the world it discovers outside will appear to be chaos , but if it joins with a flock of other birds , it will gradually learn to apply ‘names’ to various places?a safe place , a dangerous place , etc., thereby creating cosmos (order). None of the creatures that exist in the world are born of there own volition ; when they first archive awareness , they find themselves adrift in chaos. It is only by creating cosmos that they are able to overcome the fundamental meaningless and fear of existence. When watching a film , the viewers all sit in the same darkness and receive the same light and sound but each sees a different dream. I believe that this symbolizes a reversion to their initial state , that when they look at total chaos through newborn eyes , they give birth to a new cosmos. Though this process they are able to reconfirm their existence which is an act of true creativity. Human being have produced a world of speech that we are taught is real , but I believe the truth is that we carry many important things with us though our lives that cannot be satisfactorily expressed in words or images. i sincerely hope that the violent chaos that exists in ?still in cosmos?will give rise to the same number of new cosmoses as there are viewers.
EMAKI/LIGHT (2011 16min)
Music by Makino Takashi& Ishida Takashi
aspect ratio 16:9, Original Format GDCAM
Emaki is a Japanese traditional narrative form in picture and text created from 11th to 16th century. The film is collaboration work between filmmaker Makino Takashi and painter and filmmaker Ishida Takashi. Ishida has been interested in live-picture, the process of paint, and Makino’s interest is to make a new image with extremely high speed random images. With Makino’s skills in telecine, Ishida’s painted lines were rolled and scrolled, and became “the living line”. The film is maybe a chance, or maybe it is a fight. Perhaps, this film will show you both elements.
GENERATOR (2011 19min)
Music by Makino Takashi
aspect ratio 16:9, Original Format HDCAM
Produced by Aichi Art centor
The images reach realms beyond our comprehension as they transform and invite us into our own personal memories. Filled with uncertain yet verwhelmingly reminiscent images, the film opens up before our eyes. When the unfixed transformations of light eventually shift into aerial shots, images capable of mutual recognition, we are able to transcend ‘the body’ and ‘personal recollections’ into inter-personal memories that reach back into our ancestral imagination.
We may be able to feel as living beings a part of our star for the first time if we recognize our ‘body’ as a small universe, realise our city as an enormous living body and ourselves as merely one cell.
total 55min