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How can one get back their memories, if the places they familiar with were all gone suddenly? An experimental short trying to use urban legends to analyze the situation in modern Chinese cities. Pieced together with 35mm film stills, super 8 film roll and digital still images, “darkly negative prints” reflects the massive urbanization movements in the city Hangzhou.
When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in 2020, people initially thought the virus would be easy to eradicate, but it mutated in a way that increased infection and became resistant to all vaccines and medicines. Now this terrible, poisonous virus has invaded every corner of downtown Tokyo and is spreading. The Japanese government is resorting to drastic measures to monitor its citizens. People are not allowed to leave their homes, and face fines or imprisonment. The authorities force the population to wear gas masks at home as well. Against this dystopian backdrop, a small group of people have come together to create a return to an ideal world. This film is a touching but fleeting reminder of the small resistance they are putting up.
This is a story about a father who drifted from New Zealand to Taiwan to look for his missing son. Although his son was never found after many fruitless searches, he gained love and friendship from many Taiwanese. This documentary tries to trace a father’s journey for searching his beloved son as well as to present how he recovered from his initial pain of losing son and turned it into his love for Taiwan at the end.
The Cyan Garden considers the limits of giving form to the past which cannot cohere into memory. In part filmed on ‘Lucky', a discontinued b&w 16mm film reel stock intended for military aerial detection, the moving image revolves around a radio station that was not supposed to be detected and an Airbnb apartment ‘The Lover’, run by Peng’s friend in their hometown. Between 1969 and 1981, a Malaysian communist underground radio in exile Voice of the Malayan Revolution resided in what is now soon to be a resort. Projected on a holographic screen producing shadowy after-images, the work flickers between radio static, bursts of archival jingles, ruins of the radio station and choreographed scenes of the Airbnb apartment decorated in imagined ‘Southeast Asian’ style.
On Song-yi’s way of getting water, she bumps her private area on the corner of the desk Dong-yeong was pushing. Feeling something she’s never felt before she goes on her journey of finding that desk again.
"String Figures" (also called "Cat's Cradle") are figures created by wrapping a long string around the fingers. A traditional Japanese children's game, but not in this anime-style world. Ayaka is a string figure fighter. She designs string figures and fights rivals in a competition to save her brother's honor.
With a child in her arms, a woman is crying out for help to two men. But what comes next is mixed with good omen and misfortune, with felicity and fatality.
Live up to the wait, live up to the expectations. On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the movie series The Hollower produced by the movie channel will be officially unveiled. In the first Call of Duty, Zhang Qian received a mission and went to the Western Regions. He was captured for nearly ten years but maintained his integrity and finally seized the opportunity to successfully break out.
A young man who tries to rely on the sanctity of the amulet in order to fulfill his desire for the girl he likes.
Pandora thought there would be no other choice when it came to opening the box. Pyrrha, on the other hand, found the box itself to be beautiful and captivating. A box is given to Pyrrha as the apocalypse draws near, and Pyrrha has to make a choice now.
One day, mysterious aliens from the planet Olga arrive on Earth. Whether they are allies of humanity or their purpose is unknown. In response to this alien invasion, Naomi, Cobra, and Ghidra, who possess special abilities, rise to the occasion. Chosen by an ancient robot, they are entrusted with the survival of humanity and the future of the Earth...
Meet the former residents of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident’s Exclusion Zone, who share their experiences of the loss of home and community, and the fragility of memories.
In the fantasy worlds of Japanese filmmaker Kenichi Ugana, there are furry little alien creatures, goopy-tentacled monsters, outlandish zombies and hysterical demons. There's also wall-to-wall absurdity, a cross between Ricky Gervais, Monty Python and Sam Raimi. On the lineup are three short films (MOJA, VISITORS and COEXISTENCE) and one surprise: TWIST (the tantalizing teaser for a film to be released in 2023). Gore that makes you laugh and laughs that make you think in one bizarre package, guaranteed to send you on a gleeful trip through the frenzied mind of a world-class artist who is now single-handedly redefining genre cinema.
We are comforted by facts, by the familiarity of things we know to be ‘true.’ The sun rises in the East. There are twenty-four hours in a day. I exist. These truisms simplify our lives, enable us to get through the process of living. We are not afraid to leap into the air, because we know we will land on the ground. So we get by, day by day, until that unexpected moment when we are overwhelmed by the whisper in our hearts as we are sitting in a bustling coffee shop or walking down a crowded sidewalk, or as we are lying in bed with a loved one, nestled together... Despite all of our knowing, we will never be known. All That Remains is a meditation on the fluid boundary between dream and reality, fear and desire. It is an invitation to see and be seen.
LIFE is an experimental short documentary questioning about the purpose of a life of filmmaker’s beloved people around him while using the montage of multiple shots that resonated with the answers. With a hope that the audiences would look back and find the purpose of their life too.
Midnight. A construction site. A man with a colored corn head and a woman with pink hair meet in a powerful encounter. A provocative tale of love, right and wrong over a quarter of a century between two outcasts. A sensational subject matter and a staggered ethical viewpoints are explored in this latest work of the artist's best work! We run, leaving the world behind.
2022 release
Lin Yongjie gets a call from her ex-girlfriend Yuan Qing and the two meet. Yuan Qing reveals that she's pregnant, and wants Lin Yongjie to go with her to get an abortion. What follows is a slow unraveling of the complicated emotions and feelings over the course of one evening.
A documentary following Shoji Sakurai, who spent 29 years in prison after being falsely arrested for the "Fukawa Incident."
2022 release
A heterosexual man, a bisexual woman and a woman who capable of loving and being romantically involved with either gender. The paths of these three cross and this film details the trials and tribulations they endure while attempting to build an unusual love triangle free from jealousy and resentment. Can they achieve this unusual form of love in their tiny corner of the infinite universe? A story of romance and affection where one love, against all social norms, tries to be gender, number and guilt free.
Ah Sheng, the eldest son of a dog meat shop owner in Paradise Town, and his friend Ah Liang meet Ah Li, a girl who performs a striptease at the town's traveling circus. The boys are drawn to the bizarre and free world of these itinerant performers, developing a desire to leave their families and dreaming of eloping together. However, these clumsy, pretentious boys, pretending to be in love, are powerless to sever the entanglements of their newly formed blood ties. It's as if miracles never exist; sacrificing the entire blood-soaked, stinking Paradise Town can neither save the world nor save the boy himself.
Naoto, who has been wandering in a big city for a long time, always remembers that Takumi treated him kindly throughout his painful childhood. However, Takumi faded away from his life without a trace, which was very hard for Naoto to come to terms with. Naoto returns to his hometown to look for Takumi. Standing in the place where these memories were made, his memory mingles with reality and everything seems to return to the beautiful old days.
A documentary film about conflicts in the Korean American Association in San Francisco.
Death is the end of all humans, but humans can always have choice and all these choices make the meaning of life difference. When Mok was interviewed by Lok, the trenches had been attacked by enemy air force. After surviving in the air raid, the same words changes its meaning. Then two of them choose a different way to die with a different thought.
Dongyun who is the lead soloist of the school choir might lose his spot in the choir because his voice beings to change as he enters puberty. Meanwhile, an air of tension has been building between Jungho and Miyeon for the past few months, and things seem to have taken a turn for the worse. He clings to the belief that if he performs well at the choir competition, his parents will be able to mend their relationship.
A group of men are kidnapped by a psychopath who alerts them that they are to tell him the code to a briefcase full of cash by the time he finishes 20 cigarettes or face death. Absurdity ensues.
Animated short
As coronavirus infections continue to spread in Europe, Nui, a French actress loses her male co-star to COVID-19. Just a few days earlier, she was kissing him on stage. Why did Nui survive? Unable to find an answer to these recurring questions, Nui one day loses her voice and decides to return to Japan for the first time in five years and goes to the Kinosaki Onsen for treatment. Her friends died by chance, and she survived by chance. Unable to affirm her own life, she meets Takogawa, the Insect Energy Research Institute’s director.
Sumi, who is tired of Ki-seok's perverted sex life, decides to divorce her and rips the divorce papers when Ki-seok, who has won the lottery consecutively, appears. In order to get money from her Ki-seok, Su-mi invites her Seong-ho, whom she had cheated on her in the past, into her house. Seong-ho also invites Chae-yeon, a flower snake from Sinsa-dong, who is delighted with money, and launches a huge scam. Chae-yeon, Seong-ho, and Su-mi deceive each other to win Ki-seok's money. But the counterattack of the formidable Ki-seok is also getting stronger...
The girl ran away after the kite, and the grandmother went to look for the girl, but always missed her. When the girl grew up and found the kite, the grandmother became old and mute, but she still remembered the girl and the girl's kite.
Misuzu, a second-year junior high school student who confessed to the most handsome boy in school and decided to go on a date. Misuzu, who runs a fishmonger in her family's home, helps her with the housework, and she believes that the smell of fish permeates her body. Misuzu tries to get rid of the smell of fish before her date, but an unexpected rival appears...
A girl reads a book titled “The Anatomy of Feelings” in a room floating on the sea.
In the 1980s, Dongducheon base village. Hong spends a pleasant time with her older sister Yeon-ok. But the hostess disturbs Hong’s perfect daily life.
One day, the wife has changed. She becomes more forgetful, gets herself lost on the streets, and finds it hard to recognize people she meets every day. She used to cook full meals for many guests but now struggles to even make fried eggs. Like so, her time goes backward.
just one of those things is part of a new series of work made at the relaunch of High Heel Project in 2022. Katayama layers cut-out legs and high heels on top of her self-portrait, animating them to create a moving collage. She comments, 'The most important thing is not that everyone should wear high heels, but that, first and foremost, we should have the freedom to say what we want and what we don't want. With the goal of freedom of choice open to all, I must continue to walk and speak up wearing symbolic and extreme high heels:
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a second-year high school student who has the power to reveal the secrets and lies of others when she looks in the mirror. Ever since she got her power, she has become extremely distrustful of people, and one day she meets Shora, a girl who has never lied. Through her interactions with Shora, Sarima gradually opens up to him, but...
Several days have passed since kaiju, or a giant monster, appeared in Tokyo. When Himika, an eighth grader, and Mizuki, a misfit in her class, share the same dream of the monster attacking their town, their friendship begins. But Himika holds a secret that she can't confide in Mizuki. A tale of the girls' journey of growth.
Three years ago, Daichi Matsumura lost his beloved family in an unreasonable incident. From then one, he lives with a helpless sense of remorse for himself. However, as time passes, the incident is easily forgotten and faded. Deeply lonely, Daichi wanders around the city...
Facing a debilitating illness, a former dancer recounts her life of movement—onstage, travelling and now through remembrance.
A daughter accompanied her mother to visit her old friends on an island in South China. Subtle emotions that had been long hidden gradually emerged during the trip. As she uncovered them, the daughter chose to record them on her phone.
This performative lecture by Boram Soh is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' short story, Blue Tigers. Like the Argentine writer, she explores the dynamics between hunter and prey, human and beast. Tracing the hunting practices of the era and making ten stops along the trajectory of imperial history, Soh transforms what we know into articulate geometric objects through the auxiliary of her own body.
Lonely Jung-wook is looking for a woman to talk to even when he goes out for a walk in the neighborhood. Then, the back of a beautiful woman caught my eye. As she approaches her, the woman is none other than her ex-girlfriend, Ji-hyeon. Ji-hyeon is happy to see Jung-wook like that, which she has never seen before, and she begins to talk after a long time. The two, who were immersed in memories and enjoyed, eventually have sex. Jung-wook wants a new relationship with Ji-hyeon for a moment, but Ji-hyun clearly draws her line. Jung-wook, who is heartbroken, tries to talk to the woman he met on the way home again.
The story takes place in a Fruitful forest that is showered with colorful seeds where a flying house has landed. The richness of heart and mind brought about by harmony with nature and food culture. A bright red soup filled with many ingredients and little ideas is a wonderful magic that brings everyone together. The delicious smell becomes a new color and spreads around the world.