Viewing Information

Date
July 5 (FRI) ~ July 14 (SUN)

Venue
Bucheon Art Bunker B39
2F ELECTRIC CABINET

My Inner Ear Quartet

YAMAMURA Kōji|Japan|2023|33min |6DoF |G |Japanese, English

Viewing Information

Date
July 5 (FRI) ~ July 14 (SUN)

Venue
Bucheon Art Bunker B39
2F ELECTRIC CABINET

Synopsis

The lonely boy spends his days digging in the earth, collecting the items he finds in a cookie jar and documenting their lonely voices in a notebook. As he grows into adulthood and becomes a hearing aid salesman, he no longer gathers lonely voices. However, one day, he becomes fascinated by a handmade bird brooch discovered in a Japanese-American internment camp, prompting him to embark on a journey to collect lonely voices once again.

Director

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YAMAMURA Kōji

Born in 1964. During the 1990s, He was making films for children, Pacusi (1994~1995), Bavel's Book (1996) and so on. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short, ,Mt. Head (2002) had 6 grand prizes and selected 100 Films for a Century of Animation. Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor (2007) had 6 grand prizes, his directed films has received over 140 awards. He has been selected as the 2 place at 25 top short animated films directors over the last 25 years in 2021. His first feature film Dozens of Norths(2021) won the Grand Prize for Feature Animation at the 46h Ottawa International Animation Festival Contrechamp Crystal Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Extremely Short (2024) is officialy selected Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes.
He is also an active picture book author with 100 titles published, including that is published 472,500 copies and. He was awarded the Kawakita Prize and the Art Encouragement Prize in Japan and received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2019. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a sub-chairman of the Japan Animation Association and a member of ASIFA Japan. He is visiting professor of Tokyo Zokei University, China Academy of Art, Aichi University of the Arts and a professor of Tokyo University of the Arts since 2008.

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Executive Producer
YOSHINOBU Noma
Producer
ISHIMARU Kenji
Screenwriter
YAMAMUR Kōji, YOKO Ogawa
Sound Designer
MASATAKA Ota
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