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New Koji Yamamura Short Film Will Be Screened in Leeds, London and Online

posted on by Andrew Osmond
Yamamura's film Extremely Short will be screened at Leeds International Film Festival and London International Animation Festival

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Image via www.yamamura-animation.jp
The new short film by Koji Yamamura, the Oscar-nominated director of Mt. Head, Muybridge's Strings, The Old Crocodile and Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor, will be screened at festivals in Leeds and London.

Yamamura's five-minute film Extremely Short will be shown at the Leeds International Film Festival in the World Animation Competition 1 program, with screenings on Friday November 8 at 6 p.m., and on Monday November 11 at 1.45 p.m. Both of these screenings will be at the Vue Leeds the Light cinema. There will also be a free screening on Wednesday November 13 at 7.30 p.m. at the St. Luke's Cares Charity Shop.

The film will also be shown in the London International Animation Festival in the From Absurd to Zany programme, showing at Garden Cinema on November 24 at 3.20 p.m. This screening can also be viewed online from the same time.

The film is described on Yamamura's website:

"A man who was looking for the shortest thing in Tokyo uttered the word 'da' at the last moment of his life. This work, produced as the first installment of the 'Bungaku Bideo' collaboration project between contemporary Japanese literature and animation, is a recitation of 'Totemo mijikai,' an original work by Hideo Furukawa, by the author himself, and Koji Yamamura handled the animation."

The film has been selected for 39 festivals as writing and has won two prizes: the "Best Contemporary & Experimental Short" at the 19th Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market in Japan and the Grand Prix "Golden Jabberwocky" at the 31st Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival in Krakow, Poland,

The London International Animation Festival is also screening some other Japanese short animations. All of the following films will also be available online from the same time at their physical screenings

The stop-motion film "My Organs Lying on the Ground," by Shinobu Soejima, will be shown in the Stop Motion Panorama programme at 9 p.m. at the Puppet Theatre Barge (Little Venice) at 9 p.m. on Thursday November 28.

"Shape of the Elephant" by Sam Kuwa will be shown in the Best of the Next 1 student animation programme at Horse Hospital (near Russell Square) at 6.30 p.m. on Friday November 29.

Tarafu Otani's music video for Hoshimya Toto's song "Mind Replacer" will be shown in the Music Video Session programme at Horse Hospital at 7 p.m. on Saturday November 30.,

The South Korean/Japanese film "Desk Bugs" by Hakhyun Kim, and Kannosuke Enomoto's "Sleep Sleep Sheep" will both be shown in the Late Night Bizarre programme at Horse Hospital at 9 p.m on Saturday November 30.

Grateful thanks to Jordan Scott for the information.


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