Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St
312.846.2600
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Still from animation by Wada Atsushi, Courtesy Siskel Film Center
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Thursday Dec 3, 2009 (6pm)
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$10
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The 80-minute, nine-artist New Nippon is an eclectic and spirited jaunt through contemporary Japanese film and video art. Tomonari Nishikawa's silent, Super-8 Sketch Films #3-5 reflexively examine filmmaking concepts, explicating the challenges of color projection and depth of field. The film grains and splotches in Hiroshi Kondo's dazzling Live Material 001 juxtapose against new-wavey geometrics and, in 002, shifting symmetries of Tokyo neon. In Akino Kondoh's Ladybirds' Requiem, sparse, black-and-white pencil illustrations react in sublime understatement against morphing After Effects landscapes. The program concludes with Makino Takashi's 19-minute Still In Cosmos. Featuring a score by Jim O'Rourke, the new film explores how even varying perspectives ultimately yield order from perceived chaos.
