Special premiere screening event from Japan
Calf
Friday April 22 | 8 PM – 12 AM | $8 – 10 sliding scale
Please join us for an evening of Japanese Contemporary Animation from Calf featuring:
Mirai Mizue
Tochka
Atsushi Wada
Kei Oyama
Recently there are many Japanese Independent filmmakers who have been playing a very active part in festivals all around the world, but most of their films are not easy to get as a DVD. CALF, a newly established indie label, is an attempt to resist this situation by making their masterpieces available not only in JAPAN but also all around the world.
JAM (Mirai Mizue, 2′ 45″, 2009)
PLAYGROUND (Mirai Mizue, 3′ 50″, 2010)
MODERN (Mirai Mizue, 6′ 45″, 2010)
Lightning Doodle Project “Pika Pika” (Tochka, 4’00″, 2006)
Pika Pika in INDONESIA (Tochka, 2’28″, 2008)
Pika Pika 2007 (Tochka, 5’00″, 2007)
Well, that’s glasses (Atsushi Wada, 5’40″, 2007)
In a pig’s eye (Atsushi Wada, 10’00″, 2010)
The mechanism of spring (Atsushi Wada, 4’20″, 2010)
Total time 45’48″
Kei Oyama was born in 1978 in Tokyo and graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 2005. His method of making animation is very unique: using a collage of photographs shot in close-up. Consultation Room (2005) was shown in Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes and won the Honorary Mentions in Ars Electronica. HAND SOAP (2008) was awarded the Grand Prize at Holland Animation Film Festival, the Grand Prize at Animated Dreams and the Prize of The Festival at International Short FIlm Festival Oberhausen. He is staying in Vancouver from Sep 2010 to Sep 2011 under the Japanese government program.
NAMI (Kei Oyama, 3’00″, 2000)
Consultation Room (Kei Oyama, 9’00″, 2005)
YUKI-CHAN (Kei Oyama, 5’00″, 2006)
HAND SOAP (Kei Oyama, 16’00″, 2008)
Making of HAND SOAP (Kei Oyama, 5’00″, 2008)
After School –Pilot Version- (Kei Oyama, 3’00″, 2008)
Total time 41’00″
Call 604 872 8180 or info@blim.ca for information.