YIDFF: News

2002-10-03

“Post Fiction!” <YAMAGATA+plus> in Kansai Programs

The <Yamagata+plus> Film Festival “Post Fiction” which screened to favorable reviews in Tokyo is coming to Kobe, Kyoto and Osaka. We hope you’ll take this chance to rediscover the magic of documentary.

Time and place:

Admission:

Pre-booked ticket (1 screening): 1,200 yen
Pre-booked ticket (5 screenings): 4,500 yen
Tickets available at the box office of each theater, and at Ticket Pia (P-code: 677-604).

Day of screening:

1,500 yen (adult, 1 screening)
1,300 yen (student, 1 screening)
1,000 yen (senior, 1 screening)
5,000 yen (5 screenings)

Tickets are good at all three theaters. Multiple screening tickets can be shared between several people.

Post Fiction! Manifesto

(KOBE-OSAKA-KYOTO Three-City Program)

Find (post-fiction) films here! Documentary film is... boring, heavy, stiff and depressing. Our lineup of (post-fiction) cinema sends that image of documentary film flying straight out the window. Here are cinemas on the vanguard of international film from the Yamagata Documentary Film Festival, known worldwide for a lineup that includes experimental works and cinema that doesn’t fit inside the old definition of documentary film.

Mysterious Object at Noon: KOBE: Oct. 12 Sat., Oct. 13 Sun. 20:20 each
OSAKA: Oct. 30 Wed. 19:20, Oct. 31 Thu. 16:20
KYOTO: Nov. 2 Sat., Nov. 3 Sun. 19:30 each
thirdworld and Haunted Houses: KOBE: Oct. 13 Sun. 18:40
Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers: KOBE: Oct. 12 Sat. 18:40
KYOTO: Oct. 27 Sun. 20:40, Nov. 1 Fri. 20:40
6 Easy Pieces: KOBE: Oct. 7 Mon., Oct. 9 Wed. 18:50 each
OSAKA: Oct. 26 Sat. 16:15
KYOTO: Oct. 29 Tue. 20:40
London Brief: KOBE: Oct. 7 Mon., Oct. 9 Wed. 20:00 each
OSAKA: Oct. 26 Sat. 14:10
Plain Talk & Common Sense: KOBE: Oct. 7 Mon., Oct. 9 Wed. 16:25 each
Danchizake (Homemade Sake), Phases of Real and Variant Phases: KYOTO: Oct. 28 Mon. 20:40
Chlorine Addiction and King of Dreams: KYOTO: Nov. 6 Wed. 20:40
Blessed: OSAKA: Oct. 27 Sun. 18:50
KYOTO: Oct. 26 Sat. 20:40
This Winter: OSAKA: Oct. 26 Sat. 17:40, Oct. 27 Sun. 13:00
KYOTO: Oct. 30 Wed 20:40 (Shown with Child of Mermaid)
Soshin: In Your Dreams, A True Story about Love and More than One Is Unhappy: KYOTO: Nov. 2 Sat., Nov. 3 Sun. 20:40 each
Child of Mermaid: KYOTO: Oct. 30 Wed. 20:40 (Shown with This Winter)
Along the Railway: KYOTO: Oct. 31 Thu. 20:40

Robert Kramer “Now,” “Here,” and “About the World”

(KOBE-OSAKA-KYOTO Three-City Program)

Known for films that look at the true nature of contemporary society from a critical standpoint, highly independent filmmaker Robert Kramer passed away suddenly in 1999. Films and videos that talk to and seek out “the world” even more now, after his death.

Ghosts of Electricity and Against Forgetting: KOBE: Oct. 5 Sat., Oct. 10 Thu., Oct. 11 Fri. 13:00 each
OSAKA: Oct. 26 Sat 19:30
KYOTO: Nov. 8 Fri., Nov. 9 Sat., Nov. 10 Sun. 20:40 each
Route One / USA: KOBE: Oct. 6 Sun. 17:30
OSAKA: Oct. 30 Wed. 12:50
Cities of the Plain: KOBE: Oct. 5 Sat. 15:30

In Tribute to 9.11

(KOBE-OSAKA-KYOTO Three-City Program)

What did we see before that day, and what have we seen since? What have we learned? What has changed? A program that expresses our hopes for love and co-existence between people “here” and “there.” For the world that is changing so quickly, and for the suffering—ethnic warfare, rebounding hatred, armed retribution—that exists within it.

Crazy: KOBE: Oct. 17 Thu., Oct. 18 Fri. 18:15 each
OSAKA: Oct. 31 Thu. 18:05, Nov. 1 Fri. 12:50
Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi: OSAKA: Nov. 1 Fri. 14:50
KYOTO: Nov. 4 Mon., Nov. 5 Tue. 19:30 each
Manufacturing Concent: Noam Chomsky & the Media: KOBE: Oct. 6 Sun. 12:50, Oct. 10 Thu. 15:15, Oct. 11 Fri. 15:15
OSAKA: Oct. 28 Mon. 14:30
KYOTO: Nov. 6 Wed., Nov. 7 Thu., Nov. 8 Fri. 19:30 each
Title Deed from Moses and News Time: KYOTO: Nov. 14 Thu., Nov. 15 Fri. 20:40 each
Canticle of the Stones: OSAKA: Oct. 29 Tue 19:05

Music Makes the World Happy

(KOBE-OSAKA Two-City Program

What would we do without music? There’s always music playing somewhere, so we can be happy even when unpleasant things happen. A selection of popular works that convey the sheer joy of music.

Carmen Miranda: Banana Is My Business: KOBE: Oct. 17 Thu., Oct. 18 Fri. 20:20 each
OSAKA: Oct. 30 Wed. 17:25
Musicians: KOBE: Oct. 14 Mon., Oct. 16 Wed. 20:20 each
The Underground Orchestra: KOBE: Oct. 14 Mon., Oct. 16 Wed. 18:15 each
Texas Tenor: Illinois Jacquet Story: OSAKA: Oct. 31 Thu. 20:00

Kobe Selection

(KOBE only)

Jia Zhangke, Robert Kramer, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jon Jost and Frederick Wiseman has carved out a new field for documentary. We take a look at filmmakers who continue to provide us with new values. The widely-varied program also includes documentaries about music, which brings joy to us all, Chichi, the Monster, which shows how children’s drawings changed after the1999 Earthquake in Taiwan, and the Grand Prize winner from the YIDFF International Competition.

Plain Talk & Common Sense: KOBE: Oct. 7 Mon., Oct. 9 Wed. 16:25 each
thirdworld and Haunted Houses: KOBE: Oct. 13 Sun. 18:40
Cities of the Plain: KOBE: Oct. 5 Sat. 15:30
The Land of the Wandering Souls: KOBE: Oct. 10 Thu., Oct. 11 Fri. 18:15 each
Days in Those Mountains: KOBE: Oct. 7 Mon., Oct. 9 Wed. 13:00 each
Private Chronicles: Monologue: KOBE: Oct. 10 Thu., Oct. 11 Fri. 20:10 each
Chichi, the Monster and Farewell: KOBE: Oct. 6 Sun. 15:45
Musicians: KOBE: Oct. 14 Mon., Oct. 16 Wed. 20:20 each
The Underground Orchestra: KOBE: Oct. 14 Mon., Oct. 16 Wed. 18:15 each

Osaka Selection

(OSAKA only)

A lineup that concentrates made on works on film and not video, beginning with Amsterdam Global Village by the Netherlands’ director Johan van der Keuken, who died suddenly last year. This program also includes films like Metal and Melancholy and Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. whose popularity has spread even more since they were introduced at YIDFF. An intriguing program, rich in variety, including works that deal sharply and finely with issues like racial discrimination and ethnic tension.

Canticle of the Stones: OSAKA: Oct. 29 Tue 19:05
Paragraph 175: OSAKA: Oct. 31 Thu. 12:50., Nov. 1 Fri. 20:00
Father, Son, and Holy War: OSAKA: Oct. 28 Mon. 17:35
Divorce Iranian Style: OSAKA: Nov. 1 Fri. 16:30
La Devinière: OSAKA: Oct. 31 Thu. 14:30, Nov. 1 Fri. 18:10
Grandma’s Hairpin: OSAKA: Oct. 28 Mon. 19:55
The Masters and the Slaves: OSAKA: Oct. 27 Sun. 14:50
Buenaventura Durruti, Anarchist: OSAKA: Oct. 26 Sat. 13:00
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.: OSAKA: Oct. 29 Tue. 17:15
Metal and Melancholy: OSAKA: Oct. 28 Mon. 12:50
Amsterdam Global Village: OSAKA: Oct. 29 Tue. 12:50
Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story: OSAKA: Oct. 31 Thu 20:00

Kyoto Selection

(KYOTO only)

A popular program of cinema that shows the realities of Asia now from the sharp, smart directors of “New Asian Currents.” Revel in the pleasure of breaking with preconceptions about Asia and documentary with our Asian-style “Post Fiction!” manifesto. The Kyoto program also presents the Kansai premiere of Chomsky 9.11, a documentary from Noam Chomsky, known for his comments since September 11, 2001, for a lineup that brings the “Now” of Israel, Palestine, the USA, Asia and the countries of the world into focus.

Chlorine Addiction and King of Dreams: KYOTO: Nov. 6 Wed. 20:40
Soshin: In Your Dreams, A True Story about Love, and More than One Is Unhappy: KYOTO: Nov. 2 Sat., Nov. 3 Sun. 20:40 each
Danchizake (Homemade Sake), Phases of Real and Variant Phases: KYOTO: Oct. 28 Mon. 20:40
Child of Mermaid: KYOTO: Oct. 30 Wed. 20:40 (Shown with This Winter)
Title Deed from Moses and News Time: KYOTO: Nov. 14 Thu., Nov. 15 Fri. 20:40 each
My Friend Su and Pansy and Ivy: KYOTO: Nov. 7 Thu. 20:40
My Mother’s Home, Lagoon, The Eclipse, Life beyond the Noise, and Water and Atefeh: KYOTO: Nov. 4 Mon. 20:40
Vanished with Water and Jari Mari: Of Cloth and Other Stories: KYOTO: Nov. 5 Tue. 20:40
My Migrant Soul and The Falling Kite: KYOTO: Nov. 13 Wed. 20:40
Sowing Seeds and Koryu: Southern Women, South Korea: KYOTO: Nov. 11 Mon. 20:40
Along the Railway: KYOTO: Oct. 31 Thu. 20:40
Mixed Fruit Banana Split and Sales: KYOTO: Nov. 12 Tue. 20:40

Kobe Special Program “Nippon, War, Me—2002”

For this program, the organizers first called for works under three minutes, which dealt with the words; “Nippon,” “War,” and “Me.” Then, they made the submitted works into one unjuried work.

Time and date: Oct.5 Sat. 18:00
Guest speaker: Tsuchiya Yutaka (VIDEO ACT!)

The special program will feature screenings of the Tokyo “Nippon, War, Me—2002” and a new Kansai edition of “Nippon, War, Me—2002” composed of submissions from a new call for entries in Kansai as well as a talk by Tsuchiya Yutaka.

For more information, please see the website: “Post Fiction!” <YAMAGATA+> in Kansai

> News

Post Fiction! Manifesto

Robert Kramer “Now,” “Here,” and “About the World”

In Tribute to 9.11

Music Makes the World Happy

Kobe Selection

Osaka Selection

Kyoto Selection

Kobe Special Program “Nippon, War, Me—2002”