Bird in the Peninsula

Synopsis

Seven boys are rehearsing a dance for their traditional initiation ceremony into adulthood under the guidance of their teacher. A girl observes the scene but is not allowed to join in. When one of the boys chases after a strange bird, she follows him without knowing why. One day, the boy will see the bird no more. An experimental, silent short which makes numerous comments through metaphors and an somewhat iconoclastic approach. 

Bio/Filmo

Atsushi Wada (Japan, 1980) studied visual image at Osaka Kyoiku University, the Japan Institute of the Moving Image and the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. He started producing his own animation work in 2002. He is inspired by the minimalism and music of Nō theatre. His short film In a Pig’s Eye (2010) won awards at the Fantoche Festival in Switzerland and at the London International Animation Festival; his film The Mechanism of Spring premiered at Venice the same year. The Great Rabbit (2012) won a Silver Bear at Berlinale Shorts and was screened at that year’s l'Alternativa.