Documentary short film
| 11’42’’ | Japan | 2023
DIRECTOR: Yuri Muraoka
CAST: Yuri MuraokaKey Cast, Nonoho SuzukiKey Cast, Nemu SuzukiKey Cast Y Hana Suzuki
PREMIERE: Valencia
SYNOPSIS
This film is about gazes and goodbyes. An attempt to weave images with words and to weave a poem with images. I realize that living is suffering to see that Nemu, one of my daughters, squirms with the struggle, and that sunflowers squirm to try to bloom. The work reflects on human emotions, internal struggles, and efforts to find beauty in daily life, all encapsulated in the poetic form of the film. In this context, the poem The Eyeball Person encapsulates the ephemeral nature of existence, where each moment of struggle is framed by a gaze, a sigh, a goodbye.
FESTIVALS
- 69th The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2023
Encounters Film Festival 2023
37th Image Forum Festival 2023
Women Make Waves International Film Festival 2023
ULTRA cinema XII 2023 - 33rd IFF Message to Man – 2023
- Short Waves Festival – 2023
- 13th Aesthetica Short Film Festival – 2023
- 21st Bogotá Short Film Festival – 2023
- Beijing International Short Film Festival – 2023
- 5th Saigon Experimental Film Festival – 2024
- 19th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival – 2024
- 11th International Video Poetry Festival – 2024
- art + film + vienna – 2024
- 5th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival – 2024
BIO DIRECTOR
Yuri Muraoka was born in Tokyo in 1981. She dropped out of the high school attached to Japan Women’s University and graduated from the 26th class of the Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image. She continues to create moving images and photographic works of “self-portraiture,” with all of her works being self-created and self-performed.
Her major works include Schizophrenia (2016), Transparent, the world is (2019), and her latest film Transparent, I am (2020), which won the Grand Prix at the 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. She has been working on poetry since 2018 and is a mother of two daughters.