Image Forum Festival: A PAUSE, SPACE IN BETWEEN
Image Forum established itself in its current form in February 1977. However, its original activity of screening and distributing experimental/ independent/ alternative films and videos started a few years earlier, in 1971, under the name “Underground Film Center”. Image Forum is a non-profit organization and doesn’t receive any grants from national or local governments. The running cost is solely covered by admissions to the cinematheque programs and festivals, rental fee of the collected films and videos, and tuition for the film-making and video-making school.
The Image Forum Festival was first held in 1987 and tours over seven cities, including Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Fukuoka and Nagoya every year. The festival introduces innovative new works from Japan as well as other countries. It is Japan’s largest art film festival, and the largest dedicated to the screening of new experimental films, both in Japan and around the world.
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
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| SAB/SAT 5 | 20:30 | UMA SEMINYAK |
| JUM/FRI 11 | 21:15 | MASH DENPASAR |
| Note: | WITA (+8 GMT) |
 A PAUSE, SPACE IN BETWEEN | Duration: 68:57 | AGE RATING: 17+
A selection of works which was presented in Image Forum Festival 2019 East Asian Competition Section, including the grand-prize winning work NIGHT HORSE. We are now more aware of the distance these days. Distance and space gives a different view and new look on everyday things and relationship. |
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NIGHT HORSE
Jeroen Van Der Stock / Japan, Belgium / 2019 / 18:35 An eyeball reflecting a sleeping horse? A peephole into the black night? A found footage work created out of numerous live surveillance camera feeds. |
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ROBERT
Takashi Kunimoto / Germany / 2018 / 18:38 A homeless Polish man named Robert only appears during the summer in Brunswick, Germany, where the filmmaker lives. Three summer memories of their encounters. |
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CHIYO
Chiemi Shimada / Japan, UK / 2019 / / 12:59 The filmmaker, who is living in the UK, comes home to Japan with a 16mm camera to visit her grandmother whom she has not seen in a long time. |
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JAPAN, THE BEAUTIFUL OR AMBIGUOUS, AND OURSELVES
Tomotosi / Japan / 2019 / / 18:45 Six different performances by the filmmaker. Through his actions, the temporarily changing behaviors of big city dwellers is recorded. |