Talks and Screenings at Fantoche 2014 – The 12th International Animation Film Festival

August 19, 2014

Animators Taku Furukawa and Atsushi Wada will present talks and works will be screened at Fantoche 2014, the 12th International Animation Film Festival from September 2nd-7th.

The annual Fantoche festival in Baden, Switzerland, was started in 1995 as a contest for 2D, 3D, mixed live action and other short animations within 40 minutes in length. It is known as an animation festival that shows special appreciation for bold ideas, new modes of depiction and radical story lines.

2014 is the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Switzerland and this year’s program marks the occasion by offering a comprehensive overview of Japanese animation during the past few years. Japan Media Arts Festival will present talks by Taku Furukawa, a leading figure in Japanese short animation since the earliest days, and Atsushi Wada, the globally renowned animator, together with screenings of works.

Fantoche 2014 – The 12th International Animation Film Festival
http://fantoche.ch/en
Term: Tues. 2nd – Sun. 7th September
Venues: Cinema Trafo, Cinema Sterk, Trafohalle etc. (Baden, Switzerland)

■  From the Beginning – Talk and Screening by Taku Furukawa
Taku Furukawa has selected animated works from the sixties to the present day for screening. As a creator long involved in the hands-on work of making Japanese animations, he considers how manga and cartoon expression has changed according to the period and why from the sixties to the present.

Speaker: Taku Furukawa, Japan Media Arts Festival Organizing Committee / Animator
Date: Thurs. 4th September 18:30-20:00
Place: Cinema Sterk, Bahnhofstrasse 22, 5400 Baden
Entry: 10 Swiss francs (single ticket) or festival pass

Screening works:
『Human Zoo -clap vocalism-』, KURI Yoji, 1962
『Demon Love Song (KIRENKA)』, HAYASHI Seiichi, 1971
『PHENAKISTI-SCOPE (ODOROKIBAN)』, FURUKAWA Taku, 1975
『Cofee Break』, FURUKAWA Taku, 1977
『Broken Down Film』, TEZUKA OSAMU, 1985
『The Tender March』, UEKUSA Wataru, 2011 (New Face Award for Japan Media Arts Festival 2011)
『NEW TOKYO ONDO』, NuQ, 2012 (Jury Selections for Japan Media Arts Festival 2012)
『POSSESSIONS』, MORITA Shuhei, 2012 (Jury Selections for Japan Media Arts Festival 2012)
『COMBUSTIBLE』, OTOMO Katsuhiro, 2012 (Grand Prize for Japan Media Arts Festival 2012)
『It’s time for supper.』, MURAMOTO Saki, 2013 (Jury Selections for Japan Media Arts Festival 2013)
『Airy Me』, KUNO Yoko, 2013 (New Face Award for Japan Media Arts Festival 2013)

■  Atsushi Wada Retrospective – Talk and Screening by Atsushi Wada
Wada won the Excellence Award in the Animation Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival and was the first Japanese Silver Bear for Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival. Wada will present a talk together with a screening of his work.

Speaker: Atsushi Wada, Excellence Award for Animation Division of Japan Media Arts Festival 2013 etc.
Date: Thurs. 4th September 20:45 -22:15
Place: Cinema Sterk, Bahnhofstrasse 22, 5400 Baden
Entry: 13 Swiss francs (single ticket) or festival pass

Screening works:
『A Clerk in Charge』, 2004
『Yellow』, 2003
『Gentle Whistle, Bird and Stone』, 2005
『Day of Nose』, 2005
『Well that’s Glasses』, 2007
『The Mechanism of Spring』, 2010
『The Great Rabbit』, 2012 (Excellence Award for Animation Division of Japan Media Arts Festival 2012)
『Anomalies』, 2013 (Jury Selections for Animation Division of Japan Media Arts Festival)