In order to highlight part of the behind the scenes of creation, Koji Yamamura, director of the film Anthology with Cranes, answers our dreamlike questionnaire.
Discover the dreamlike universe of the directors, the imaginary worlds that influence them, the conscious or unconscious references underlying the films.
Koji Yamamura est considéré comme l'un des maîtres de l'animation japonaise. Avec une production de films très variés, abstraits, narratifs, il réalise entièrement l'aspect technique de ses films et utilise aussi bien le stopmotion, le dessin animé traditionnel ou l'animation et montage sur ordinateur.
Son film "Le Mont Chef", est le premier court-métrage japonais à recevoir le Grand prix du Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy. Koji Yamamura a aussi illustré de nombreux livres pour enfants.
Nous sommes honorés et enchantés de pouvoir vous présenter un peu de l'univers onirique de Koji Yamamura, les mondes imaginaires qui l'influencent. Découvrez une compilation de l'oeuvre de Koji Yamamura sur Vimeo.
1- The character who touched you the most?
Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels.
2- The character that scared you the most?
The disgusting Yahoos of the country of Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels
3- The character you would most like to meet?
Monsieur Hulot by director and actor Jacques Tati.
4- The character you would like to reincarnate as (^_^)?
I thought a lot but nothing came to mind. As a child, I never thought about it.
5- The world you would like to live in?
The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges. All the possible books are there.
6- The world you wouldn't want to live in?
Laputa whose inhabitants spend entire days thinking and rethinking things (Gulliver's Travels).
7- What role would you like to play in a work of fiction?
A librarian.
8- Your earliest memory of fiction?
Around the age of 6, The Fall of the House of Usher (1839), fantastic short story written by Edgar Allan Poe.
9- Your favorite word?
I don't like to rely on words, but I like to remember this 17th century poem by Angelus Silesius: "The rose is without why; it blooms because it blooms"... "Die Rose ist ohne warum, sie blühet weil sie blühet"...
10- Music you would like to listen to now?
Baroque music.