Share Festival 2014-2015 Screenings

SCREENINGS

Japan Media Art Festival

24th March, 07:00/10:00 pm

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The Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive festival of Media Arts (=Media Geijutsu) that showcases outstanding works from a diverse range of media—from animation and comics to media art and games. The festival gives awards in each of its four divisions: Art, Entertainment, Animation, and Manga.

It also provides a platform to appreciate the award-winning and other notable works. Since its inception in 1997, the festival has recognized significant works of high artistry and creativity, and in addition to a yearly exhibition of award-winning works it has held other events, such as symposiums, screenings, and showcases.

Award-winning works are exhibited both within Japan and abroad through various projects and events organized by The Agency of Cultural Affairs, which aims to promote the creation and development of Media Arts.

At Share Festival 2014/2015, the Hapan Media Art Festival presents three video screenings: The Q of Moving-Image; Animated Short Film programme 2014; and Beautiful Drawing: Drawing’s Timeless Allure.

The Q of Moving-Image (44′)

“Ordinary” subjects appearing in the works presented in this programme?a photograph, a fistful of dirt, a nondescript landscape?come to appear as “unordinary” vehicles for expressions through the unique and critical perspectives of the artists. This programme introduces six works strongly displaying the narrative and documentary qualities unique to video expression that ceaselessly question history and reality.

By reflectively encouraging new values and critical thinking towards our “ordinary” everyday lives and realities of which we are unconscious, this group of works enables an “unordinary” perspective that only art could provide.

Animated Short Film programme 2014 (63′)

This program of 10 highly distinctive short animations has been compiled from award-winnig works and jury selections of the Animation Division from the Japan Media Arts Festival 2014. This festival calls for works from professionals and amateurs, home videos and commercial productions, with the goal of discovering the contemporary in the diversity of expressive activity that emerges from IT and the media.

The three works selected for the best newcomer award all highlighted the creative process through stylistic freedom and experimental expression. YOKOSOBOKUDESU Selection (Welcome It’s Me Selection) suggests new expressive possibilities. Airy Me is a fun look at movement through the drift in space and tactile sensitivity. While the Crow Weeps conveys a profound respect for living creatures through the astonishing material texture and precision of its painstaking representations. In addition to these, there are also works revealing the sheer energy of contemporary young creators and potential of animation as a mode of expression. We readily sense the diversity, strength in depth, and breadth of vision of this current generation’s animations.

Beautiful Drawing ? Drawing’s Endless Allure (86′)

Looking back at past prize winners at the Japan Media Arts Festival, one group of works stands out in particular for their sheer number—hand-drawn animations. Each picture is drawn painstakingly as a dedicated crystallization of the creator’s concept and the viewers, too, are then drawn into the microcosm which emerges.

The potentialities are infinite for these unique, incomparable worlds. This programme introduces works of 2D animation giant Koji Yamamura’s My Bridge no Ito, Katsuhiro Otomo’s COMBUSTIBLE, Atsushi Wada’s Wakaranai Buta and dynamic hand-drawn works by young Japanese cartoon directors. We see the perfection of expression which hand-drawn animation makes possible.

DJ SET

Andrea Taddei

24th March, 10:00 pm

Amantes

 

SCREENINGS

Art Futura

25th March, 07:00/10:00 pm

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ArtFutura reaches its twenty-fifth season, with main activities in Sao Paulo and presentations in more than twenty cities: Bangkok, Barcelona, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Granada, Guayaquil, Madrid, Montevideo, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Santiago de Chile, Tenerife, Torino, Vigo, and Vitoria…

 

This year, ArtFutura premieres the documentary “The Digital Promise”, directed by Jos Manuel Pinillo, exclusively at all the ArtFutura cities. A Bun Media documentary, co-produced by TVE and TV3, on the impact of digital culture and its parallelism with ArtFutura through its 25 seasons.

At Share Festival 2014 Art Futura presents three programmes: 3d Futura Show, Artworks, 25x3D and the documentary The Digital Promise

3D Futura Show (55′)

Each year, the 3D Futura Show includes leading international works in computer animation and reflects the evolution, both technical and in content, of this new creative expression.
Portrait (Donato Sansone) The Crew (Belle, Boidin & Kozyra) Paper World (Lzl Ruska, Ringeisen Did), Dark Noir (Red Knuckles) and others.

3D x 25(55′)

A fascinating retrospective including very special works, presented at ArtFutura over these 25 years. The milestones that mark the evolution in 3D graphics.
From the most important works produced by large companies to the small wonders created by independent artists from around the world.

The Digital Promise (70′)

The Digital Promise is a documentary directed by Jos Manuel Pinillo and produced by Bun Media, TVE and TV3 on the impact of Digital Culture and its parallels with the development of ArtFutura through its 25 seasons.

It was 25 years ago that the cyber revolution promised a new world and an alternative reality of infinite possibilities. But what were the real changes through these years, and in what direction are we going now?
What we expected, what we didn’t expect, what surprised us… Where we’re going … or where we think we’re going.

With the participation of: William Gibson, Nicholas Negroponte, Clay Shirky, Rebecca Allen, Sherry Turkle, Tiffany Shlain, Montxo Algora, Marcel.l Antunez and other big names.

DJ SET

Andrea Daddi

25th March, 10:00 pm

Amantes