IN KYOTO

Screening "Award Winning Titles of Hiroshima International Animation Festival"

Fri. October 20th, at 18:00 -

(1) Futon
Directed by:Yoriko Mizushiri 2012 / 6:02 / Japan
HIROSHIMA 2012 Renzo Kinishita Prize

Wrapped in the futon... memories coming up to the mind, imagining the future, recapturing senses, and sexual feelings deeply inspired... everything melts pleasantly all together. In the futon, the body wonders seeking for the sense…


(2) Copy Shop
Directed by:Virgil Widrich 2001 / 11:33 / Austria
HIROSHIMA2002 Special Prize

A man (Alfred Kager) wakes up, arranges his hair and goes out into the street on his normal way to work. After he arrives, he xeroxes his hand (his identity) and the world goes to pieces....


(3) Frantz Kafka
Directed by:Piotr Dumala 1991 / 18:00 / Poland
HIROSHIMA1992 First Plrize - Category G

A film inspires by Franz Kafka's "Diary" as well as his novels and letters. An attempt to show his physical life; his artistic way throughout his life and the world seen through his eyes when he was a child, a teenager, through the time of his sexual initiation and maturity until his complete isolation. We see characters from Kafkaユs novels, scenes from his home life and his world of dreams and imagination.


(4) A Little Farther
Directed by:François-Marc Baillet  2007 / 2:00 / France
HIROSHIMA2008 René Laloux Prize

"A Little Father": when imagination recreates the food chain.


(5) Balance
Directed by:Wolfgang Lauenstein, Christoph Lauenstein 1989 / 7:40 / F.R.G.
HIROSHIMA1990 First Plrize - Category F

Five figures are moving upon a floating platform. It only can be kept in balance, when all persons apportion their weight on the platform evenly…


(6) The Employment
Directed by:Santiago 'Bou' Grasso 2008 / 6:19 / Argentina
HIROSHIMA2010 Audience Prize

A man performs his usual trip to work, immersed in a world where the "use" of people is an everyday thing.


(7) La Maison en Petits Cubes
Directed by:Kunio Kato2008 / 12:08 / Japan
HIROSHIMA2008 Hiroshima Prize、Audience Prize

Houses are built like stacks of blocks. As the sea level rises higher and higher, the houses must grow taller and taller. An old man lives inside one of these houses. This is a story about his memories.


(8) The Memories of Dogs
Directed by : Simone Massi / 2006 / 8’02” / Italy
HIROSHIMA ’06 / Renzo Kinoshita Prize

My cheeks brush against the stones, I look out from a break in the wall.


(9) Flux
Directed by : Chris Hinton / 2002 / 7’40” / Canada
HIROSHIMA ’02 / Special International Jury Prize

A whimsical piece abaout life, entropy and the inexorable march of time that plays with the mundane interactions and events of two generations of a family and natural order.


(10) Screen Play
Directed by : Barry J.C. Purves / 1992 / 11’10” / U.K.
HIROSHIMA ’94 / Category F(5-15min.) 1st

A multi-layered film about an old Japanese man who becomes rather too involved in reminiscences of his own dramatic youth. A tragic love story.