Schizophrenia | Bearers of Memories | Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2021

Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2021

Bearers of Memories

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In this international collection, filmmakers navigate the mysteries of family life, health and history.

** All film programs during Engauge 2021 include a virtual filmmaker Q&A that is free to view through the festival’s Vimeo page. Whether you experience the festival in person or at home, check in afterwards to hear from the filmmakers! **

Self-portrait conducted in my 7th year of treatment for schizophrenia. An obsession by the name of “odd-numbers” torments me in daily life.

(Chap.1 ”The odd numbers”) A death sentence was being pronounced. With the sound of the scaffold coming down, the fear of self-destruction that “the reality” collapses into pieces from my foot (Chap.2 ”Transparent,I am.”).

Year
2016
Runtime
10 minutes
Language
n/a
Country
Japan

Director
Yuri Muraoka

8 films in package

In Emily Brontë's world, a young woman is under the spell of blind forces of compulsion that draw her towards an inescapable, unnamed darkness.

An experimental documentary about my mother, shot in Super 8mm and using found footage from family movies.

images of the mystical symposion

Somewhere in Yugoslavia, during the Cold War, on the eve of the nuclear threat, when the children fell asleep, the elders began their games in the "swinging sixties" ...

All the Leaves Are Brown

A short film about memory, loss, family, and a sugar maple tree.

Self-portrait conducted in my 7th year of treatment for schizophrenia. An obsession by the name of “odd-numbers” torments me in daily life.

What Is Nothing (After What Is Nothing) Studio Version

Using found educational films, direct laser animation, and nine projectors, I attempt to realize the multifaceted materiality of nothingness through the eyes of those who may be the most vulnerable to the void.

Reliving the Past By Sea 禪海

Made with found film strips that underwent decomposition/degradation technique. The film strips were buried for 28 days in vinegar, mud, cheese, nato beans, beer, and kimchi. The disintegrated imagery produced by the decomposition is reminiscent of the fragmentation of memory.

The Bearers of Memories

With every moment - one more memory. But memory sometimes goes blind, and what is left becomes hazy.

In this international collection, filmmakers navigate the mysteries of family life, health and history.

** All film programs during Engauge 2021 include a virtual filmmaker Q&A that is free to view through the festival’s Vimeo page. Whether you experience the festival in person or at home, check in afterwards to hear from the filmmakers! **

Self-portrait conducted in my 7th year of treatment for schizophrenia. An obsession by the name of “odd-numbers” torments me in daily life.

(Chap.1 ”The odd numbers”) A death sentence was being pronounced. With the sound of the scaffold coming down, the fear of self-destruction that “the reality” collapses into pieces from my foot (Chap.2 ”Transparent,I am.”).

Year
2016
Runtime
10 minutes
Language
n/a
Country
Japan

Director
Yuri Muraoka