SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2015

Time flies, and the very last day of SSFF&ASIA 2015 came.

First of all we’d like to thank all the audiences who came to see the screenings for the past 11days! It has been a wonderful moment to share the inspiration through the shorts.

We had our final guests Mr. Jossie Malis, the director of “ Bendito Machine V – Pull the Trigger” in “CG Animation Program B” form Spain, as well as Japanese director Mr. Yuta Sukegawa with the short “Drifting Cloud”.

Mr. Jossie was actually our first guest here in iTSCOM STUDIO & HALL, and I was so glad that he came by and had a talk about the shorts on the very last day as well. Apparently it was his first visit to Japan and he said he was so in love with our country.  Happy to hear that he even said he has waited for 35 years to be here!

His short is about an exotic traveler trapped in conflicts and wars on the earth which shows anxiety though it is an animation. One of the audiences asked him among the Q&A session “Why did you use Hawaiian kind of back ground music on the shorts though the whole theme is about wars and violence?” he answered “IT IS about human conflicts and I wanted to make it clear, but I did not want it to have the dark atmosphere for the whole time. So I made it peaceful and happy with the back ground music.”

We had another guest Mr. Yuta Sukegawa, the director of “Drifting Cloud”. It is a cute animation of a lost cloud wondering around the sky experiencing and exploring the new life. It is interesting that though the cloud has no face expressions, we can somehow tell if he’s happy or sad just to see him moving around. Mr. Yuta told us that he actually made the characters with woolen cloths which was quite surprising to know! He also explained it took a good whole year to finish up the short.

Overall it has been amazing to have our wonderful guests throughout the fest, but non of it would have been possible without all the support from the audiences. Thank you very much for coming to SSFF&ASIA 2015, and we’ll definitely see you next year!

Cheers!

Report & MC: Keiko Fujiwara