Asian Film Database

Yanari (1997)
4min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Maissa Alameddine (Australia)
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Summary:	The English title for this experimental computer animation is "Oh my passion! Oh my fire!". Drawing on images and sounds from the film maker's youth, Yanari portrays a forgotten side of Arab culture that has been overshadowed by war and destruction. (Reel Asian)
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Yang-Xun the Peasant Painter (1981)
25min. Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Deepa Mehta and Paul Saltzman (India)
Production Company:	Sunrise Films
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Setting:	China
Summary:	Fifteen-year-old Nee Yang-Xun, a resident of Huihsien, China, studies painting in the new peasant style. He learns to paint on the basis of how people feel, and carries this out by both sketching and helping in the building of a bridge. (femfilm.ca)
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Year of the GIF (2013)
6min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s):	No sound
Director/Filmmaker:	Paul Wong (Canada)
Production Company:	Paul Wong Projects
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	The everyday is captured in a series of GIFs. Over 350 Graphic Interchange Format files are mashed together in this visual party. Drawing from an archive of hundreds of smart phone GIFs made by the artist over a year, this new work commissioned for Surrey Urban Screen functions like a mosaic of virtual flipbooks simultaneously exploring themes of new media, the RGB colour model, colour bar test patterns, the formal shape of the circle, architecture, art, and portraits of family and friends. (paulwongprojects.com)
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Yellow (1998)
90min. Fiction, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Chris Chan Lee (USA)
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Setting:	USA
Summary:	The film is about the harrowing graduation night of eight Korean-American high school youths in Los Angeles that culminates in a violent crime that will forever change their lives. (Wikepedia)
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Yellow Sticky Notes (2007)
6min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Jeff Chiba Stearn (Canada)
Production Company:	Meditating Bunny Studio
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Awards:	Prix du Public Labo (Audience Award Lab Competition), 31st Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival (2009); Cineplex Entertainment Award for Best Short Animation, Victoria International Film Festival (2009); Golden Pencil Award for Best 2d Animation, 2d or not 2d Animation Festival (2009); Best Animated Short Film, Beloit International Film Festival (2009); Best Animated Short Film, Calgary International Film Festival (2008); Golden Sheaf Award for Best Animation and Nominated for Best Director Fiction, 61st Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival (2008); Best Animated Short Subject, Canadian Awards for the Electronic & Animated Arts (2008); Platinum Remi Award Winner for Best Animated (Classic Cel Animation), 41st WorldFest - Houston Remi Awards (2008); Special Mention for Animated Short, Fantasia Film Festival (2008); Animasian Award for Best Animated Film, 11th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (2007)
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Summary:	After realizing that "to do" lists on yellow sticky notes were consuming his life, the filmmaker decided to reflect on his journey as a filmmaker by animating on the very same sticky notes that distracted him from the major world events over the last nine years. Animation-meditation is blended with image, text, and an original musical score through the creation of a classically animated experimental film that was drawn straight ahead with only a black ink pen on over 2300 yellow sticky notes. (IMDb)
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Yellow Sticky Notes \| Canadian Anijam (2013)
8min. Animation, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Jeff Chiba Stearn (Canada)
Production Company:	Meditating Bunny Studio
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	For the first time in Canadian history, 15 of Canada's most award-winning and celebrated independent animators come together to create a collaborative animated film using only 4x6 inch yellow sticky notes, a black pen and animation meditation. (IMDb)
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Yin Yin/Jade Love (2002)
28min. Documentary, Colour, Black and White
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Carolyn Wong
Production Company:	Hungry Eyes Film & Television
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Awards:	Outstanding Canadian Short Film Award, Reel World Film Festival, Toronto, ON, 2003
Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Yin Yin/Jade Love is a documentary about a granddaughter's discovery of her grandmother after she has died. The film simultaneously explores the emotional impact of the filmmaker's last visit with her grandmother, her death, what was subsequently discovered about her extraordinary life, and childhood memories surrounding her and her home. The narration, by the filmmaker, is supported by past (VHS, 8mm, historical stills), present (16mm) and recreated (Super 8) images that are woven together creating a rich, densely layered, reflective collage. (www.jadelove.ca)
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Ying (2011)
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Director/Filmmaker:	Yi Cu (China)
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Yoga Practice (2004)
4min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Heesoo Kim (Canada)
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Summary:	Breathe in... breathe out. Yoga is the rage, but there are other means of huffing and puffing.
Source:	Reel Asian

Yolk (1998)
3min. Uncategorized , Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Augustine Ma (USA)
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Summary:	A quite man tries to take a walk on the wild side, only to find self confidence in a pair of golden boxer shorts. A comedy about personal dating, obsession, self discovery and undergarments. (Reel Asian)
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Yokai & Other Spirits (2011)
-min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker:	Cindy Mochizuki (Canada)
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Summary:	Paranormal phenomena are common in Asian films, literature, and popular culture. In Japanese folklore, for instance, yokai are a class of supernatural creatures that often shape-shift and play tricks on humans. This interactive, animated, and sound-based installation repeats a key moment in the 35mm film Happy Ghost 3, when the lead ghost calls "home" through various phone booths throughout the city. The animated projection is an accumulation of hand-traced frames of the original film through rotoscoping. The film explores the interiority of the archive and, like an X-ray print, uses light as a means to make visible what we cannot normally see. This work uses the presence of audience members to trigger the projections and sounds; without their actions, the film lies unseen and unheard, leaving only the stark presence of the scenic and museological props.
Source:	Reel Asian

You Take Care Now (1989)
11min. Experimental Documentary, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ann Marie Fleming (Japan)
Production Company:	Sleepy Dog Films
Trailer/Excerpt/Film:	Film
Awards:	Winner, B.C. Student Film Festival; Winner, Canadian Student Film Festival, Montreal; Winner, Ann Arbor Film Festival; Winner, Fifth Annual Festival of Films by Women Directors
Setting:	Canada
Summary:	A story of being raped and run over is an acknowledgement of common human experience and the grace and humour that lets us go on. (Sleepy Dog Films)
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You're Dead After School (2003)
6min. Drama, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Mishann Lau (Canada)
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Summary:	You're Dead After School is a blood-soaked B-movie slasher flick. A sadistic child and her favourite doll take matters into their own hands to deal with a schoolyard bully. (Vtape)
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