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Between Regularity and Irregularity Masahiro Tsutani: Director, Cinematography, Editing, Music, Programming, etc.
- Trailer (youtube) - Trailer (vimeo)
- Press Kit (pdf, 652kB)
AWARDS
Special Mention by Critics - 25FPS Festival
Award - Visual Music Awards


7min50sec, 1920x1080, 16:9, Colour, Stereo, HDCAM/ProRes/H264 etc, 2012, Debut

SYNOPSIS
The filmmaker improvises and through a conversation with himself, he has a chaotic worldview evocative of the firing of nerve cells, clustering sounds of convulsiveness. Finely-detailed images filled with light are synced to sound. Nature creates the glow of light and the beauty of a shape lying between regularity and irregularity. Sounds and images with a granular texture. These things grasp the depths of the brain.



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FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
Berlin International Film Festival
/ Berlinale Shorts / DE
Mediawave International Film and Music Festival / Hungary
WRO Media Art Biennale / Poland
River Film Festival / Italy
Leiden International Short Film Experience / Netherland
Hamburg International Short Film Festival / NBC/ Germany
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival / Portugal
Jagran Film Festival / Berlinale Selection / India
Lucania Film Festival / WRO M.A.B. Selection / Italy
Ars Electronica / Animation Festival / Austria
Sapporo Short Fest / Japan
25FPS FESTIVAL / Croatia
Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma / Int'l Comp. / CA
BFI London Film Festival / Experimenta / UK
Paris Festival of Different and Experimental Cinema / FR
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus / Cyprus
Braunschweig FilmFest / Short Film Music Award / Germany
Cork Film Festival / Free Radicals Shorts / Ireland
KLEX / open programme / Malaysia
Semana Internacional de Cine de Madrid / Spain
Slamdance Film Festival / Experimental Shorts / USA
Minimalen Short Film Festival / Int'l Panorama / Norway
Atlanta Film Festival / Experimental Shorts / USA
ANIMAFEST Zagreb / Visual Music / Croatia
L'Étrange Festival / Short Competition / France
Athens Video Art Festival / Information-DeFrag... / Greece
Beginning Film Festival / Night Screening / Russia
Dongtaidu Music Fest / KLEX Selection / Malaysia
Transmissions / India
ARKIPEL / Impermanence/ KLEX Selection / Indonesia
Asolo Film Festival / Taiwan Videa & Imagining... / Italy
Bideodromo Int'l Experimental Film and Video Festival /ES
Visual Music Award / Germany
Curtocircuito Int'l Film Festival / Sonix Lux / Spain



DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

I have experienced intense pleasant sensations when the timing of the sounds made by others who are improvising slightly deviates from the timing I have had in mind. I have also felt a similar pleasant sensation from the timing of sounds when a large volume of data is sent to a sound module equipped with a buffer and the machine is not able to process it. I have thought viscerally that these are one type of pleasant sensation that has been given to humans and it is a very important feeling.

Although such a phenomenon that occurs in the space between regularity and irregularity may be seen in Nature, non-linear systems in many cases remain unexplained.

Moreover, even among the varieties of pleasure, it is not something that can be translated into language per se, such as memory, story, and attitude can, and I want to create a new sense of pleasure that combines with other pleasures, extracting and amplifying pleasurable feelings that work directly on the portions of the brain that takes in pleasant sensations.


REVIEWS / Thank you so much for all these words.
Critics / 25FPS Festival
"a piercing audiovisual experience of exciting rhythm exchanges, inseparable from a powerful background, synaesthesia par excellence!"

Tamas / Ninja Fantail Production
https://hannah-tamas.wixsite.com/ninjafantail/blog

Victor Martin-Pozuelo / Videodromo
http://videodromo.es/festivales-y-muestras/berlinale-2013-dia-9-una-leccion-de-cine/27202


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OTHER SCREENINGS
The New Zealand Film Archive/ Berlinale Selection / NZ
Screening event @spazio rita / Japan
Summer Shorts @Strelka Institute /Berlinale Sel./ Russia
Art Kino / 25FPS Selection / Croatia
Animation Screening @FH Hagenberg/Ars Electronica/AT
Austrian Cultural Forum London / Changing Nature / UK
Vaska Emanouilova Gallery / Imagining Crisis / Bulgaria
Kronika / Imagining Crisis / Poland
Flixation @ The Hob / UK
Belgrade Cultural Center / Imagining Crisis / Serbia
Animation Screening@Theater Cafe /Ars Electronica Sel./JP
Double Bill @Lostgen / KLEX Selection / Malaysia
MoCA, Taipei / Imagining Crisis / Taiwan
Screening @tight rope / Japan
Moments of Movements / KLEX Selection / USA
Frame & Frequency 2 / Imagining Crisis / Colombia
Talk on Experimental Cinema / KLEX Selection / Malaysia
Test Tone Music, listening Vol.5 @ Bar Scivias / Japan
Impermanence / Port Actif / KLEX Selection / Belgium
Lab X Series / Club eX / KLEX Selection / Korea

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