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Program 35
Directors Guild of America • 1:00 p.m. • Theatre 3
 
ILLUSION, ABBERATION, IMAGINATION (RT: 39 minutes)
If there is one constant in filmmaking, it’s all about the story, whether fabricated, inspired by experiences both real or imagined, or manipulated. The result is a visit, however brief, into a world (or worlds) we never knew existed.

E=MC2
(Hong Kong, 2001) Dir./Scr.: Alina Chau Hin Fan
E=MC2 tells a mythological version of the creation of the universe as told by young Albert Einstein to his little Maja. It is about how power tears the friendship of a seemingly inseparable pair, leading to a tragic battle and ending with the inevitable Big Bang.
Video, 8 min., color, Animated


 
BOWDA’S WORK
(Japan, 2002) Dir./Scr.: Bowda Katsushi
BOWDA’S WORK is inspired by the director’s fascination with puppet animation. Reminiscent of the director’s previous work, the working environment is a stage during which much action takes place.
Video, 5 min., color, Experimental
 




BLUE RAIN
(USA/Taiwan, 2003) Dir./Scr.: Hsin-Ping Pan
A girl sitting in the top of the city is crying. Her sadness bursts out from her eyes endlessly and floods the whole city. One little resident can’t stand the leaking problem in his room anymore. Grabbing his bag and umbrella, the little guy decides to step out and go on a journey. A magical and bizarre adventure therefore begins.
Video, 9 min., color, Animated
 




KAIDAN
(Japan, 2002) Dir./Scr.: Iki Norihito
Iki’s “animation without continuity” derives from photographs he took near his rented room, and from the folktale of a girl in love with a ghostly frog.
Video, 8 min., color, Experimental




 
SHE WRITES A POEM
(Hong Kong, 2002) Dir./Scr.: John Ho
A gift is offered to a theoretically blissful girl. When she feels sad and loses attention, he gives her footage of animation. And she gives him a prose poem in return, and her works are collected into a book, “She writes a poem.” The pair is romantic but does not mean the same to their relationship. The girl continues to write, and he continues to draw.
Video, 7 min., color, Animated




 
DREAM OF A CACTUS, A
(USA, 2003) Dir./Scr.: Robert Chang Chin Lin
This colorful computer-generated short animation raises a moot question of the state of the reality: What is real and unreal, visible and invisible, material and mind? Then, and only then, can one walk into the inner mind of a cactus.
Video, 3 min., color, Animated

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