Special Program - Wada's World: Wrestling with Existence

Showings

Screening Room - Michigan Theater Sat, Mar 30, 2019 9:00 PM
A 15 minute Q&A with filmmakers in attendance will follow the screening.
Film Info
Runtime:63

Description

Wada Atsushi is one of the top animators in Japan. This is not the highly conventionalized and capitalized animation known as anime. Rather, Wada presents his own strange, wonderful, and instantly recognizable world through his .3mm sharp pen. In Wada’s world, humans enjoy a peculiar relationship to the living things around them. His drawings of the animal kingdom may look relatively realistic, but his creatures emit an uncanny sense of anthropomorphization from deep inside their feral forms. Curated by Markus Nornes.

Included Shorts

Day of Nose (Hana no hi) (10min) Osaka, Japan | 2005 | 10 | ProRes
Well, Thats Glasses (So iu megane) (5min) Osaka, Japan | 2007 | 5 | ProRes
In a Pigs Eye (Wakaranai buta) (10min) Osaka, Japan | 2010 | 10 | ProRes
The Mechanism of Spring (Haru no shikumi) (4min) Osaka, Japan | 2010 | 4 | ProRes
The Great Rabbit (Gureto rabitto) (4min) Osaka, Japan | 2010 | 4 | ProRes
Anomalies (3min) Japan/UK | 2013 | 3 | ProRes
Autumn from Antonio Vivaldi “The Four Seasons” (Aki Antonio Vivaldi “Shiki” yori) (11min) Osaka, Japan | 2018 | 11 | ProRes
TV Commercials Collection (0min) Osaka, Japan | 2014–18 | 6–30 seconds each | ProRes
Education Television Collection (0min) Osaka, Japan | 2012–13 | 20 seconds each | ProRes
A Man, His Son and the Donkey They Set off to Sell (Roba o uriniiku oyako) (2min) Osaka, Japan | 2014 | 2 | ProRes
My Exercise (Mai ekusasaizu) (0min) Osaka, Japan | 2019 | ProRes
My Marsh (Watakushi no numa) (4min) Osaka, Japan | 4 | 2018 | ProRes

Additional Information

In Partnership with
University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies

Community Partner - AMP!