Aya Kawazoe

Birth : 1989-10-12, Yokohama, Japan

History

She studied with Shinya Tsukamoto and Shinji Aoyama as tutors at the Department of Moving Images and Performing Arts at Tama Art University and graduated in 2014. Aya then enrolled in the Master's program at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019 with Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Nobuhiro Suwa as tutors. Her short film The Elephant Died was selected by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and We Don’t Go Home was screened at Brive Film Festival.

Profile

Movies

Howling

Director

Aya adapts Hyakken Uchida’s eponymous short story in which characters wonder whether they are alive or dead, as the reality of their existence is swept from under their feet.

Humongous!

Director

Eiko has repeated flashbacks from childhood. In that place where she is enveloped by a huge noise, a boy starts running and Eiko falls off a swing. Are they memories or dreams, or are they the present day, or do they belong to someone else? The sound expands. That’s really something huge.

The Night Train

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I thought I would only sleep at night, but I can always go anywhere, far away from here to there. A study for the first entrance examination of the graduate school of Tokyo University of the Arts.

We don’t go home

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“The Earth with be obliterated in 2012”. “That sucks”. A man carrying a black lump. A screaming male high-school student. A prophet. A throng of children. Sound that sticks out of the shot, sound that comes in, sequencing and cutting off of images, and editing that undermines the independence of the shot make explicit the uncertainty of “now/here”.

Elephant Died

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Kirimajimete, hana wo mumu.

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"Kirimajimete, hana wo mumu." (Kiri first flowering in summer) represents "dahatsu" in the seventy-two weather patterns that divide the seasons in Japan. The sun burns through the skin... Winner of the Grand Prix in the Japan Tomorrow category at the 26th Image Forum Festival.