Event Overview
1.Live Music and Movie -“Nu Re Chi Ru O” By Erico Wakamatsu
2.Film Screening By Ken Yoshioka
3.Talk Session/Q&A By Ken (and Erico)
SCREENING
“A WEEK”
( Directed/Produced/Written by Ken Yoshioka, 25min 2012, USA, English)
a week trailer from Ken Yoshioka on Vimeo.
Short Synopsis
Inspired by the Japanese earthquake in 2011, A Week is about the father who has lost half of his family because of an accident. He tries to go one step at a time, starting a new life with his daughter.
– Brooklyn FIlm Festival Official Selection
– Santa Monica Independent Film Festival Honorable Mention
Details:
http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=1380
“Who Plays The Game? (director`s cut)”
( Directed/Produced by Ken Yoshioka, 10min 2013, USA, English)
Short Synopsis
People in the dark room bet money for the fight between 2 blind people in the blight room. Who is playing the game truly?
Short Synopsis
People in the dark room bet money for the fight between 2 blind people in the blight room. Who is playing the game truly?
About the Artist
Ken Yoshioka
Movie Director
He was born in Japan and graduated from Waseda University with B.A. in Media, Body, and Image. He mainly studied Film (Yasujiro Ozu: ,Vim Venders John Casavettes and Robert Bresson), Photography (Jean-Eugene Atget,Shoji Ueda and Andre Kertesz), Art (Francis Bacon,Takashi Murakami and Yayoi Kusama) and Theater (Ishin-ha and S.Becket).
After the graduation, He entered New York Film Academy in New York in 2011 to study film directing and filmmaking.
His thesis short film, "A WEEK" is selected in Brooklyn Film Festival2013 (Official Selection), New Filmmakers NY 2013 Spring, and Santa Monica Independent Film Festival 2013 (Honorable mention). He also did a radio interview with Voice Of America about that film and myself as an young independent filmmaker.
Erico Wakamatsu
Musician
Born in Tokyo, Japan.
Create
sound and drawing.
Loves picking up the sounds from any field
then re-construct by her reading then develop it as like audio-cinematgraphy
her sounds not really has the perticuler way to out also loves e x perimental stuff.