Kohei Ando
出生 : 1944-02-01, Beijing, China
略歴
Born in 1944, Kohei Ando received bachelor’s degree from Waseda University then went on to study at L'Ecole Centrale in Paris. Ando acted in Shuji Terayama's theatrical production "Les Enfants du Paradis" and traveled with Terayama in Europe. Using a 16mm camera he purchased with Terayama, Ando produced first film, Oh! My Mother (1968). Ando is the recipient of awards at numerous international film festivals, including Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Oh My Mother, 1969) and Thonon-les-Bains International Independent Film Festival (The Sons, 1975). His works are included in collections at major art museums and film libraries in London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. His high-definition video On the Far Side of Twilight, which he wrote and directed, was transferred to film and received the Silver Maile Award at the Hawaii International Film Festival and the Astrolabium Award of the International Electronic Cinema Festival in 1994. Thematic subjects of space, time, memory, and reincarnation appear repeatedly in his works. Ando is also a leader of HDTV production at Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS, a broadcasting company). Retrospectives of his works have recently been presented at Oberhausen (1994), Paris (1995) and Tampere International Film Festival (1996). After Twilight received the Astrolabium Award (1996), and Ando himself received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Electronic Cinema Festival (Montreux) in 1997 and the Hivision Award in 1998. Wispers of Vermeer also received the Astrolabium Award of the International Electronic Cinema Festival and the Hivision Award in 1998, and was invited from festivals in the U.S. including the Margaret Mead Film Festival in NY in 1999.
He was invited from numerous international film festivals as a jury or a lecturer including International Wildlife Film Festival in the U.S. (1999), Festival International de Audio Visual in France (2000), and Guanajuato International Film Festival in Mexico (2016). Ando was selected as a Special Exchange Artist from the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan in 2001. In both 2001 and 2006, his retrospective exhibition was held in Paris.
He taught at Waseda University from 2003 to 2014, and now is its professor emeritus. He is the Programing Adviser of the Tokyo International Film Festival. (Source: CCJ)
Executive Producer
Daryn, a seventeen-year-old girl, fed up with her life in a greenhouse, ran into a human smuggler and learnt the way to escape the town. She had not known at the time that this plan would change her life and those around her in the worst way possible.
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A young woman returns to her birthplace for an ex-classmate's funeral. She and a friend lose themselves in melancholy.
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Unhappy farm worker Mei borrows some money from her boyfriend Seng, boards a ship to Japan and leaves him broken-hearted. But when she is deported, it is Seng that greets her at the harbour for a night of bitter reflection.
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A university professor decides to go for a tour in Akihabara, guided by a young woman dressed up like a French maid. As they both walk through the streets of modern Tokyo, the man and the young woman gradually speak of a past they both share, and ultimately a painful love triangle that continues to haunt them. A poetic rumination in love, memories and loss told almost entirely with split screens.
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Futaro, now 14 years old, is an only boy. His mother, an actress, raised him on her own. She herself is innocent, just like a child. It seems almost incredible to Futaro that she was brought him up by her self. One day, in the garden, Futaro seems a man dressed like a samurai. He must be one of mother’s actor friends, Futaro thinks, but then he resembles Futaro’s father. The stranger is called Kusanojo. He was a true samurai and now he is a true ghost. Strangely, Kusanojo seems to have forgotten the fact that he is a ghost. A strange life of 3 people with Futaro, his mother and his father who is a ghost starts.
Writer
He pulls out a pair of scissors that tends toward the sky. So begins his journey through time, space and memory. Seasons change, years pass. Wrapped in a mysterious box of sunset, the boy grows older, becomes adolescent, young man, adult, old, but - strangely - the memories are beginning to lead their own lives. "What memory, what reverie, what is real and what is imaginary? I do not know ... "
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He pulls out a pair of scissors that tends toward the sky. So begins his journey through time, space and memory. Seasons change, years pass. Wrapped in a mysterious box of sunset, the boy grows older, becomes adolescent, young man, adult, old, but - strangely - the memories are beginning to lead their own lives. "What memory, what reverie, what is real and what is imaginary? I do not know ... "
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An experimental film in which a young man chases the shadow of love in a dream-like world of childhood memories.
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Memory and reincarnation. The catalog and the anthology is an essential aspect of the art of Ando. His memories are assembled an oblique self-portrait. Ando explores his room and admits that he loves the goods correspond to an image of himself. He suggests that the objects once owned turn. They are associated with memories, and can be juxtaposed.
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Time. In HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes a long process a year it takes to cross a railway station. The film consists of an image of a train crossing a bush in the garden Ando. The film was shot from the same angle fixed for six months, through the seasons.
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Japanese stars screaming: War!
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Space. Inspired by photographs of Winston Link (Night Trick), this film is composed of images of trains passing by a house. Trains are seen from inside the house in a variety of viewing angles. The film lists all possible perspectives on the passing train and becomes a metaphor of cinema.
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The whirl of the dance is like a reincarnation. From time to time, the dancer sits down to drink tea. But when the music starts, the waltz recalls.
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A conceptual film in which Ando has assembled plans, and duration of his friends as they are listed in the address book. This is a gallery of happy friends of the filmmaker.
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A gay poem, clearly inspired by Cocteau, about the ambiguous relationship between a man and his two adopted sons. A meditation on sublimation, repetition, and death. The characters' images and movements are faint, but the mood is sensual.
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The illusion of the present-day with the time signal. Prix d'or 1971, APA Film Festival, Tokyo.
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Writes Ando, "Oh! My Mother was the first work I made using a newly bought 16mm camera I had purchased with the writer Shuji Terayama in Paris. This piece was selected for the Oberhausen International Film Festival. In 1969, there were, of course, no video cameras like ones we see now, and color TVs were only found at broadcast television studios. I had just been employed at the TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System), and I often snuck into the studios after hours to experiment with the equipment. Oh! My Mother was made using the feedback effect, which is produced by infinitely expanding the image by looping the video."
