Viborg animation festival(VAF) celebrates connection of japan and denmark

The Viborg Animation Festival is kicking off in only underneath a month, bringing a week of exciting, enticing activities to the important Jutland city. The 2017 edition, walking Sept. 25 to Oct. 1, will have fun 150 years of diplomatic members of the family between Denmark and Japan with the subject “Kawaii & Epikku” and applications exploring the importance of animation in those disparate however connected cultures.

Japanese classics in addition to current international favorites will screen, from a Studio Ghibli marathon, to Polygon Pictures’ sci-fi Netflix Original Blame!, to Makoto Shinkai’s three-time Japan Academy Prize-winner Your Name. And Sunao Katabuchi’s powerful WWII image In This Corner of the World (in restricted US release now). There can also be a Manga Artist Battle, the Viborg Manga and Anime Museum — presenting portions from the Kyoto Seika University series and Kyoto International Manga Museum — and a seminar with Japanese and Western artists on “Manga and Comics: Inspiration and Isolation.”

Additional highlights encompass a unique live enjoy, Solar Walk, which mixes animation by means of award-triumphing director Réka Bucsi with song from composer Niels Marthinsen, jazz singer Susi Hyldgaard and the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra to create an interdisciplinary creative journey into the perplexing, sizeable solar machine. Uri Kranot’s award-winning VR short Nothing Happens will function within the Expanded Animation Art Spaces exhibitions, which explore the borders between era, animation and installation art. And fan art with the aid of Danish cartoonists will carry colour to the walls on the VAF Sum-Up exhibitions.

Animation experts can also look forward to some of informative meetings, centered on new approaches to utilize those inventive and technological abilties in the healthcare, science and education fields.