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Program
Focus Japan |
Tuesday 6th April, 2010 / 6 pm
Centre Culturel Irlandais
Paris
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Red –Light District Graffiti |
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Kasumi Hiraoka
Japan
2007 | DV | 0:28:00
Many women wearing colorful kimonos amuse themselves at a mysterious red-light district. The gorgeous but decadent outfits, poetic speeches, and fresh acoustics create a world full of originality.
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Jun and Ema |
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Takashi Nishihara
Japan
2009 | DV | 0:18:00
Jun and Ema are not related by blood but are brother and sister by their parents' marriage. However, one Sunday, they are informed that their parents are getting a divorce. Then, for no particular reason, they decide to go for a walk.
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Photograms |
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Seiichi Sega
Japan
2009 | DV | 0:04:00
"Phonograms" are an ideogram. These ideograms we come across everyday, found on billboards and neon signs, become meaningful only when they are linked together. In this film, the linking of such ideograms have been taken away to express the feeling of loneliness after an existing element disappears, as well as the feeling of freedom from the bonds of everyday life.
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Photograms |
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Isamu Hirabayashi
Japan
2009 | DV | 0:25:40
Wonderful beautiful forest. Descending fog. A small river.A man. A suitcase. A dance.Wild animals are barking.
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Pi-Co chan |
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Koji Eko
Japan
2009 | DV | 0:10:00
A casual jogger finds a body of a woman on the grass. Is she dead? She is wearing a pretty red dress and is pointing at a strange looking object. The jogger cautiously approaches the object and then suddenly...
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A shedding in One Summer Day |
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Masahide Honda
Japan
2008 | DV | 0:09:00
Alongside a road in the countryside, a young man finds an unattended grocery stand. Then, a small story begins slowly without anybody's presence...
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March 29th - April 11th 2010
We present film series focused on different countries and regions. This section intends to discover and explore different spaces and cultures with the aim to understand the specific regional, political and social circumstances, do reconstruct the emotional and intellectual spécificities of a special region or country. In this critical work we belief it's essencial to prefer films which rufuse, in its form and expression, the retake of sterotype ways of reality restituition, as an act of resistance in the actual period of "globalisation", which inclins to impose one dominating model of culture and habitutes..
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