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Lapin noir
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11:30 in 24-hour time is 11:30 am. Why would Leeds Film have programmed a family movie to begin at 11:30 pm?
Ujicha's technique as used to make Violence Voyager, as stated in the description and made clear in its trailer, is called geki-mation by him but is live-action. By definition, animated films are made by photographing one frame at a time to create an illusion of movement; live-action films are made by having the camera automatically record frames at regular intervals in order to record actual movement. Whether what is in front of the camera is drawings or paintings or real humans or other animals is irrelevant; there is animation of dead animals (see Ladislas Starevich) and living people (see some of Norman McLaren and Paul Bush's works) and live action of painted cut-out characters: programmes made this latter way were a staple of '50s–'70s British children's TV, and from Japan one particularly close precedent in theme and style as well as medium is the TV series of Cat Eyed Boy. Well, that's my take on it. Which is not, in any way, to say that news about Violence Voyager should not be covered by ANN – that its voice cast (as listed on its website) includes Aoi Yūki, Daisuke Ono and Saki Fujita alone makes it relevant enough – nor that Ujicha's works are somehow not of interest because the medium of them is not a new thing. Gosh, I don't think you tend to find people in this community (the western general public is unfortunately a different case) wondering what the point is making any more drawn animation after Émile Cohl completed Fantasmagorie. However, actually animated and Japanese and not covered by the article is Tomoyasu Murata's A branch of a pine is tied up. (松が枝を結び Matsu ga Eda o Musubi) (trailer), which is set to play in World Animation Competition 2, on November 1 at 8:30 pm at Everyman Leeds. There could also be more to be come, when the full list of shorts in each programme is confirmed at some point between this week's initial reveal and the festival itself. I've now had it confirmed in email by the Leeds Film team (and they've since, thankfully, also added this information to their website) that Mirai's screening on November 3 at 12:00 noon at the Hyde Park Picture House is dubbed into English and that on November 4 at 2:30 pm at Leeds Town Hall is Japanese-language with English subtitles. Everything else Japanese is also with the original voices, if any, and English subtitles, as none of the others have an English dub known about as of yet. Not mentioned in the news article and not obvious from the pages it links to directly either is that Leeds Film have an offer for 25-and-under-year-olds for this LIFF (they've had others for younger people in the past few ones but the form it takes has varied from year to year) whereby a group of one or more people of this age can together get 10 tickets for one or more events for £30, making them £3 each. Which, when one thinks about it, is a rather ingeniously sneaky way of getting them to post about the festival to all their local friends on SNS in order for them to find some to share the cost of a set of tickets with. But, nevertheless, a very good value way of seeing things for people that age – even if one weren't to use all 10 tickets, it's still less than 5–6 normal student-rate tickets would cost. There are some more details on this here though nothing on such potential confusions as what if someone turns 26 at any point in the process; if this could affect you I'd suggest emailing them on the address in the bottom section of the same page. Disclaimer that I've been a volunteer for Leeds International Film Festival and the Hyde Park Picture House, so I make no personal profit from the information about these screenings being correct but feel some personal disappointment in seeing it misrepresented. |
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