4th Australia-Japan Student Film Forum

4th Australia-Japan Student Film Forum

This popular annual forum provides a unique platform for emerging filmmakers from Japan and Australia to share their visions through short film.

Each year an expert panel selects films from graduates of the Japan Academy of Moving Images; the Australian Film, Television & Radio School; the University of Technology, Sydney' s Media Arts and Production School; and Adelaide University' s Discipline of Media to screen at the forum. This year' s program will include a total of nine short films from the two countries.

The forum, which last year screened the highly successful short animation, Birthday Boy (d. Sejong Park), always manages to enlighten and entertain with its selection of high-calibre films. This year we hope to introduce more wonderful films from young filmmakers to a wider audience.

When:	Friday 14 October 2005 6:00pm *Bookings essential. Places strictly limited.
Where:	The Japan Foundation Multipurpose Room
Enquiries/Bookings:	(02) 8239 0055 / reception@jpf.org.au

* This is a free event.

P R O G R A M

Part 1

6:00 pm - 7:10 pm

Welcome
Film Screenings

The Rabbits that Fell from the Moon	Animation/JAMI/17 mins

The First Thing that I Remember	Documentary/AFTRS/8 mins

Crossing Cultures	Documentary/UA/8 mins

Yellow Tail	Drama/UTS/9 mins

A Silence Full of Things	Documentary/AFTRS/6 mins

Intermission

7:10 pm

Part 2

7:30 - 8:45 pm

Film Screenings

Colliding Temporalities	Experimental/UA/6 mins

Motor truck Greengrocery Band	Comedy/JAMI/30 mins

Boys Grammar	Drama/AFTRS/8 mins

Earworm	Experimental/UTS/7 mins

Award Presentation

Forum News

Many of the film directors will be present at the forum, including the two directors from Japan, Ryuji Nishitani and Kosuke Ugajin, who will travel to Australia specifically to attend the forum. Forum attendees will be able to view first hand the hand-made washi (Japanese paper) models used in Ugajin's film Tsuki kara ochitekita usagi, (The Rabbits that fell from the moon) which will be on display at the Forum.

Kodak Japan Prize for the Outstanding Australian Student Film
Once again, the best Australian film from the Forum as determined by the panel of judges will receive a $500 prize awarded by Kodak.

2005 Cine Vis Cinema International Film Festival
All films from the Forum will screen to an international audience at the 2005 Cine Vis Cinema International Film Festival to be held in Japan on 21 - 23 October 2005

Australian Film Television and Radio School Films

	Boys Grammar
	Set in an exclusive boys school, Gareth learns that his feelings can be validated and expressed only through violence.

	The First Thing I Remember
	What is your first memory ever? In this experimental documentary, 12 people answer this question in stories that are funny, moving and full of wonderment. Shown as animated characters in Super-8 worlds, the subjects explore the emotions and revelations of these precious moments.

	A Silence Full of Things
	Political torture continues. As spectators, most people can look away or turn it off. Others live with marked bodies and memories triggered by everyday smells, sights, and sounds. A Silence full of Things is a short, stylised documentary that travels sensuously inside one woman' experience of being tortured for her political beliefs.

University of Technology, Sydney Films

	Earworm
	Experimental film about a woman who gets some strange hi-tech prosthetic hearing aids.

	Yellow Tail
	An old man and a young girl develop a rapport in this quiet, elegant film.

University of Adelaide Films

	Colliding Temporalities
	Experimental music video clip using the images and sounds from the computer game, Live for Speed.

	Crossing Cultures
	A short documentary about the experiences of two Chinese overseas students at Adelaide University.

Japan Academy of Moving Images

	The Rabbits that fell from the Moon (月から落ちてきたうさぎ)
	In a time when samurai still existed, rabbits fell down from the moon, landing in the town centre. After being trapped by the humans the rabbits are saved by a kappa (mythological water imp). Will the kappa and his other spirit helpers succeed in returning the rabbits to the moon? Audiences will be amazed by the elaborate hand-made Japanese paper dolls.

Cine Vis Cinema

	Motor truck Greengrocery Band (モートラ物産音楽隊)
	Band member Rokuchan starts to panic after misplacing his drumstick. As well as being reprimanded by the band conductor he is constantly made fun of by the other band members. When will the Motor truck Greengrocery band’s performance begin?

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