Kohei Ando Trailers
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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)
Most Popular Kohei Ando Trailers
Total trailers found: 21
16 December 2010
A young woman returns to her birthplace for an ex-classmate's funeral. She and a friend lose themselves in melancholy.
03 December 2009
A university professor decides to go for a tour in Akihabara, guided by a young woman dressed up like a French maid.
01 January 1979
Time. In HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes a long process a year it takes to cross a railway station.
18 September 2010
Unhappy farm worker Mei borrows some money from her boyfriend Seng, boards a ship to Japan and leaves him broken-hearted.
01 January 1988
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.
01 January 1978
Space. Inspired by photographs of Winston Link (Night Trick), this film is composed of images of trains passing by a house.
01 January 1994
He pulls out a pair of scissors that tends toward the sky. So begins his journey through time, space and memory.
24 July 1998
An elderly Japanese man witnesses the subjects from the paintings of Dutch Baroque artist Johannes Vermeer (1632 - 1675) come to life.
01 January 1976
The whirl of the dance is like a reincarnation. From time to time, the dancer sits down to drink tea.
01 January 1997
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.
24 July 2003
A documentary film on the art of French painter, printmaker, caricaturist, illustrator, and draftsman Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 - 1901).
01 January 1978
Japanese stars screaming: War!
28 April 2017
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.
01 January 1994
An experimental film in which a young man chases the shadow of love in a dream-like world of childhood memories.
01 January 1973
A gay poem, clearly inspired by Cocteau, about the ambiguous relationship between a man and his two adopted sons.
03 December 1971
The illusion of the present-day with the time signal. Prix d'or 1971, APA Film Festival, Tokyo.
27 March 1969
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.
25 July 2023
A documentary film on the life of French Post-Impressionist Henri Rousseau (1844 - 1910) as told through animated recreations of his signature primitivist paintings, high-definition artwork reproductions, dramatic interpretations, and focused shots of key locations from the artist’s life and career.
01 January 1991
A cinematic rendition of Shuji Terayama’s poem, The Summer I Turned Four. Coastal images, thresholds, waves, expanses, are folded in to those of a statue of a young boy, who looks impassively onto the wide vista, frozen in time.
01 January 1991
A cinematic rendition of Shuji Terayama’s poem, Astronomy of Love. The sweeping mood of the poem is mirrored in the cosmic landscapes Ando weaves together: lush sunsets, moonlit oceans and twinkling nocturnal cities.
01 January 1974
A conceptual film in which Ando has assembled plans, and duration of his friends as they are listed in the address book.
