Spirit Made Flesh: Works from 3 Experimental Filmmakers

This screening will be followed by a panel discussion, "Is There Still a Need for Film in a Digitising World?"

As cinema now looks set to go completely digital over the coming year, Zipangu Fest presents a series of works that interrogate and explore the very essence of celluloid and analogue technologies.

Dying moon (Shinkan Tamaki, 2006)
16mm, 3min 30sec

Uneven Image (Shinkan Tamaki, 2010)
16mm, 10min 30sec

Generator (Makino Takashi, 2011)
8mm, 16mm, 35mm → HD, 20min

Sailing Across Images (Shinkan Tamaki, 2012)
16mm (+ DVD sound), 14min 30sec

Planet Z (Momoko Seto, 2011)
35mm, 9min 30sec

Climax (Shinkan Tamaki, 2008)
16mm, 2min 30sec

Shinkan Tamaki selection
"My theme is to instigate changes in perception by coming and going across the border of images while extracting film's materiality."

Planet Z
"Somewhere in the Universe, the PLANET Z. A miracle happens. A water jet springs up and gives birth to a new life: plants. A desert planet became a green planet... Different species cohabit: liquid and sticky mushrooms. But little by little, they invade the green land, and destroy the idyllic life. The toxic spores kill the plants, and transform the planet to a mouldy land... But after destroying all the vegetation, the future of the mould seems to be fearsome. A species cannot live without other ones…"

Generator
"The images reach realms beyond our comprehension as they transform and invite us into our own personal memories. Filled with uncertain yet overwhelmingly 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."

Edit, Telecine, Direction by Takashi Makino
Music, Jim O'Rourke
Produced by Aichi Art Center

Winner of the Tiger Award for Short Film at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012