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Transparent, the world is.

The portrait of me and my daughters which depicts the relationship between “individual's personalities” and “the world / the society” as of 2018.
This is the story about an intense dichotomy inside / outside of me. It goes back and forth between “the personality” and “the world / the society”, my daughters become social / universal existences from personal existences. The definition of “red” extends to “life” and appears as a powerless and religious Daruma doll which loses its arms and legs. “White” and “black” rise above a simple dichotomy and start to possess the concept of “gray”. And the world which is made of a mix of various colors becomes “transparent”.
If you keep sticking to “the personality”, it changes to “the world”. This is my destination throughout my creative activities and shows what the world is.

no dialogue.

  • Yuri Muraoka
    Director
  • Yuri Muraoka
    Writer
  • Nonoho Suzuki
    Producer
  • Yuri Muraoka
    Key Cast
  • Nemu Suzuki
    Key Cast
  • Hana Suzuki
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Art
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 18 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 1, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    4,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Japan
  • Country of Filming:
    Japan
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm, HDV
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:33
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Mirada efímera: ciclo audiovisual experimental
    Mar del Plata
    Argentina
    September 26, 2019
    World premiere
  • "JAPANNUAL" JAPANISHCHE FILMTAGE WIEN
    Wien
    Australia
    October 5, 2019
    Europe premiere
    "ENDLESS WALTZ: FILME VON KOJI WAKAMATSU & VIDEOKUNST VON YURI MURAOKA"
  • 21th Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris
    Paris
    France
    October 9, 2019
    French premiere
  • 29th Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - The FESTIVAL CURTA CINEMA 2019
    Rio de Janeiro
    Brazil
    November 4, 2019
    Brazil premiere
  • ULTRAcinema
    Oaxaca
    Mexico
    November 22, 2019
    North America premiere
  • Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival 2019
    Kuala Lumpur
    Malaysia
    December 8, 2019
    Asia premiere
  • 6th PARTICLE + WAVE Media Arts Festival
    Calgary
    Canada
    January 30, 2020
    Canadian premiere
  • 16th IAWRT ASIAN WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL, 2020
    New Delhi
    India
    March 4, 2020
    India Premiere
  • Pugnant Film Series Winter Edition
    Athens
    Greece
    February 26, 2020
    Greece Premiere
  • Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
    Hawick
    United Kingdom
    May 3, 2020
    United Kingdom Premiere
  • 20th Nippon Connection Film Festival
    Frankfurt
    Germany
    June 9, 2020
    Germany premiere
  • 6th Bogotá Experimental Film Festival
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    August 19, 2020
    Colombia premiere
    Audience Award
  • 4th Festival ECRÃ
    Rio de Janeiro
    Brazil
    August 20, 2020
  • 19th International Kansk Video Festival
    Kansk
    Russian Federation
    August 23, 2020
    Russian premiere
  • Minikino Film Week
    Bali
    Indonesia
    September 6, 2020
    Indnesia premiere
  • Leiden Shorts
    Leiden
    Netherlands
    September 11, 2020
    Netherlands premiere
  • Mosaic World Film Fest
    Rockford, Illinois
    United States
    September 18, 2020
    US premiere
  • REAKTOR International Film Festival
    Vienna
    Austria
    October 9, 2020
  • 台灣國際女性影展 Women Make Waves Taiwan
    Taipei
    Taiwan
    October 18, 2020
    Taiwan premiere
  • Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    United States
    October 20, 2020
    Honorable Mentions : Emily Esperanza’s Picks
  • International Short Film Fesitval – Film Front.
    Novi Sad
    Serbia
    October 29, 2020
    Serbia premiere
  • Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2020
    Seattle
    United States
    October 30, 2020
  • Athens ANIMFEST 2020
    Athens
    Greece
    November 6, 2020
  • 32th Girona Film Festival
    Girona
    Spain
    November 7, 2020
    Spain premiere
  • Cámara Lúcida 
    Cuenca
    Ecuador
    November 7, 2020
    Ecuador premiere
  • Festival Les Instants Vidéo
    Marseille
    France
    November 13, 2020
  • Visions in the Nunnery 2020
    London
    United Kingdom
    November 17, 2020
  • The International Biennal Dona i Cinema – Mujer y Cine – Woman & Film is a festival
    València
    Spain
    January 15, 2021
  • Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    February 19, 2021
  • 43rd Big Muddy Film Festival
    Illinoi
    United States
    March 17, 2021
  • XXIV International Encounters Traverse
    Toulouse
    France
    May 20, 2021
  • Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival 2021
    London
    United Kingdom
    September 18, 2021
  • 22nd cellu l’art Short Film Festival Jena
    Jena
    Germany
    October 19, 2021
    International Competition / And Above us the Stars
Distribution Information
  • COLLECTIF JEUNE CINÉMA
    Country: France
Director Biography - Yuri Muraoka

■Biography◻︎
Yuri Muraoka was born in Tokyo in 1981.
Dropped out of the high school attached to Japan Women's University,
graduated the 26th class of Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image.
Continues to create moving images and photographic works of "self-portraiture".
All of her works are self-created and self-performed.
Her major works are Schizophrenia (2016), Transparent, the world is. (2019) and so on. Her latest film Transparent, I am. (2020) won the Grand Prix at the 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. She’s been working on poetry since 2018.
A mother of two daughters.

■Award / Prize◻︎︎︎
2023
Porto Femme - International Film Festival 2023 / EXPERIMENTAL Special Mention

2022
26th AVANCA Film Festival / The video award Special Mention

2021
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2021 / Award for the Best Film for Tolerance
67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen

2020
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival Honorable Mentions(Emily Esperanza’s Picks)
6th Bogotá Experimental Film Festival Audience Award

2018
SICF19 ,judges'award(selected by Takashi Ishida)

2017
19th Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema ,Honorary and non-hierarchical award
12th Sapporo International Short Film Festival ,Special Mention by Warren Sin
New Jersey International Film Festival , Honorable Mentions

2016
ALTERNATIVE FILM/VIDEO 2016, Selection of Important Works from the Festival
ASK? Moving Image Festival 2016 , Accepted
Image Forum Festival 2016 Japan Tomorrow , Excellence Prize
14th 1_WALL Photography Competition , Jury's Special Prize, (Awarded by Koutarou Iizawa )

2014
9th Tagboat Award , Second Grand Prix

2005
SENDAI ART ANNUAL 2005 , Grand Prix (smt Prize ) & Jury's Special Prize (Awarded by Koutarou Iizawa etc.)
5th 21st Century Asia Design Competition , Accepted
ASK? Moving Image Festival 2005 , Accepted

2003
Broadband Art and Contents Award Japan(BACA=JA)2003 , Excellence Prize,etc
Image Forum Institute of Moving image 26th Graduation Exhibition , Grand Prix

■Selected screenings / exhibitions◻︎︎︎
2023
69th The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Oberhausen/Germany)
Porto Femme - International Film Festival 2023 (Porto / Portugal)

2022
Kinoskop - Analog Experimental Film Festival (Serbia / Belgrade)
Saigon Experimental Film Festival IV (Ho Chi Minh City / Viet Nam)
KHUSUSNYA FESTIVAL FILM DOKUMENTER (Yogyakarta / Indonesia)
Ngilngig Asian Fantastic Film Festival (Davao City / Philippines)
BIDEODROMO Internacional Experimental Film and Video Festival 2022 (Bilbao / Spain)
REAKTOR International Film Festival 2022 (Vienna/Austria)
INDIE CORK 2022 (Cork / Ireland)
26th AVANCA Film Festival (Avanca / Portugal)
On-art (Warszawa / Poland)
Suspaustas Laikas (Vilnius / Lithuania)
Golden Ger International Film Festival (Ulaanbaatar / Mongolia)
26th Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival (Barcelona / Spain)
Golden Ger International Film Festival 2022 (Ulaanbaatar / Mongolia)
13th Taiwan International Documentary Festival (Taipei / Taiwan)
Festival Accès Asie 2022 (Montreal / Canada)
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2022 (Scotland / United Kingdom)
Nomadica at LABA 2022 (Brescia / Italy)
Buenos Aires Festival Internacional De Cine Independiente 2022 (Buenos Aires / Argentina)
FILMFEST DRESDEN 2022 (Dresden / Germany)
Athens International Film + Video Festival 2022 (Athens / United States)
Athens ANIMFEST 2022(Athens / Greece)
PUNTO DE VISTA 2022 (Navarra / Spain)
FLEXfest 2022 (Florida / United States)
34th Minimalen Short Film Festival (Trondheim / Norway)

2021
Wathann Film Festival #10
TOKYO Documentary Film Festival 2021 (Tokyo/Japan)
Festival Internacional de Videoarte 10 (Buenos Aires / Argentina)
ALTERNATIVE FILM/VIDEO 2021 (Serbia, Belgrade)
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2021 (Berlin /Germany)
10th ULTRA cinema (Oaxaca/Mexico)
11th Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (Bucharest/Romania)
16th Sapporo International Short Film Festival (Sapporo/Japan)
11th Aesthetica Short Film Festiva (York/England)
40th UPPSALA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Uppsala/Sweden)
22nd cellu l’art Short Film Festival Jena (Jena/Germany)
Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Washington/USA)
Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht (Berlin/Germany)
23rd Paris Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas (Paris/ France)
35th Image Forum Festival 2021 (Tokyo etc.,Japan)
*/ 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens/Greece)
7tth Bogotá Experimental Film Festival (Bogota/Colombia)
JAEFF:Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival (London/UK)
DELETE TV (London/UK)
Minikino Film Week 7 (Bali/Indonesia)
6th Moscow Experimental Film Festival (Moscow /Russian Federation)
Pugnant Film Series : A homeless mobile cinema (Athens/Greece)
WASTE/D FILM (Athens/Greece)
Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht (Berlin/Germany)
XXIV International Encounters Traverse (Toulouse/France)
67th The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Oberhausen/Germany)
43rd Big Muddy Film Festival (IL/USA)
Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video (Mexico City/Mexico)
The International Biennal Dona i Cinema – Mujer y Cine – Woman & Film is a festival (València/Spain)

2020
Visions in the Nunnery 2020 (London/ United Kingdom)
Festival Les Instants Vidéo (Marseille/France)
Cámara Lúcida (Cuenca/Ecuador)
32th Girona Film Festival (Girona/Spain)
Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2020 (Seattle, WA/USA)
International Short Film Festival – Film Front. (Novi Sad/Serbia)
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI/USA)
台灣國際女性影展 Women Make Waves International Film Festival 2020 (Taipei/Taiwan)
REAKTOR International Film Festival (Vienna/Austria)
Mosaic World Film Fest (Rockford, IL/USA)
Leiden Shorts (Leiden/Netherlands)
Minikino Film Week (Bali/Indonesia)
19th International Kansk Video Festival (Kansk/Russian Federation)
4th Festival ECRÃ (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil)
6th Bogotá Experimental Film Festival (Bogotá/Colombia)
20th Nippon Connection Film Festival (Frankfurt/Germany)
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (Hawick/United Kingdom)
Athens ANIMFEST 2020 (Athens/Greece)
16th IAWRT ASIAN WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL, 2020 (New Delhi/India)
6th PARTICLE + WAVE Media Arts Festival (Calgary/Canada)

2019
Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival 2019 (Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia)
Tokyo Documentary Film Festival (Tokyo/Japan)
International Short Film Festival VISION (Kemerovo/Russia)
ULTRA cinema (Oaxaca/Mexico)
29th Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - The FESTIVAL CURTA CINEMA 2019 (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil)
21th Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris (Paris/France)
"JAPANNUAL" JAPANISHCHE FILMTAGE WIEN (Wien/Australia)

2018
MINIKINO FILM WEEK (MFW) – Bali International Short Film Festival (Bali/Indonesia)
Pugnant Film Series : FUCK NARRATION (Athens/Greece)
MARFICI (Mar del Plata/Argentine)
Film Series:Close-up to Yuri Muraoka(yuRi=paRadox) (Athens/Greece)

2017
12th Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market (Japan, Sapporo)
19th Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema (France, Paris)
Aichi International Women’s Film Festival 2017 (Japan, Aichi)
16th International Kansk Video Festival (Russia, Kansk&Moscow)
15th Female Eye Film Festival (Canada, Toronto)
AVIFF Art Film Festival (France, Cannes)
17th Media Art Biennale WRO 2017 DRAFT SYSTEMS (Poland, Wrocław)
Bogota Experimental Film Festival / Cineautopsia (Colombia, Bogota)
Experiments in Cinema (USA, NM)
Athens International Film + Video Festival (USA,OH)
The 2017 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival (USA, WV)
CLOSE-UP (UK, London)
13th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival (India, New Delhi)
39th Annual Big Muddy Film Festival (USA, IL)
Cicago Feminist Film Festival (USA,IL)
Richmond International Film Festival (USA,VA)
8th Cairo Video Festival (Egypt, Cairo)
New Jersey International Film Festival (USA,NJ)

2016
ALTERNATIVE FILM/VIDEO 2016 (Serbia, Belgrade)
HIKARU ONNA -The Luminous- (Japan,Tokyo)
2nd KuFF – the Kumu Art Film Festival (Estonia, Tallinn)
Staunton International Film Festival (USA,VA)
Image Forum Festival 2016 / Theater Image Forum (Japan,Tokyo)

2014
9th TAGBOAT AWARD / Galerie F&F (Taiwan)

2008
Yuri Muraoka Solo Exhibition "Origin of Flowers" / SHINJUKU GANKA GALLERY (Japan,Tokyo)

2006
SENDAI ART ANNUAL 2005 smt prize exhibition "yuRi=paRadox 〜sleep is equal to awake〜" / Sendai Mediatheque (Japan,Sendai)
FLEXFEST (Florida experimental film/video festival)2006 (USA,Florida)

2005
ASK? Moving Image Festival 2005 (Japan,Tokyo)

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