Sight and Sound: Films with Live Soundtracks
AH SOU DESUKA: IS THAT SO!
2012, Tatsu Aoki, USA, 42 min.
Sun, Apr 8th at 5:30pm
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago IL
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/sight-and-sound
Chicago-based avant-garde jazz musician/composer Tatsu Aoki, a School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumnus, joins special guests in performing a live soundtrack for his new film AH SOU DESUKA: IS THAT SO! Aoki describes this transformative exploration of displacement and Diaspora as “an experimental visual journey of chances.
experimental film maker
"Gate" sample scenes from Tatsu Aoki on Vimeo.
Tatsu Aoki first began making films in regular 8 gage in early childhood. His biological father, Wahei Hoshino was a movie producer at Shin Toho Movie Studio in the 60's and was the reason for Tatsu to get into small gage filmmaking. He studied experimental filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently an adjunct Associate Professor at the Film, Video and New Media Department, and teaches film production and history courses. He has made many experimental short films. As much as his musical activities, Tatsu Aoki's films are shown internationally. His super 8 diary films and experimental films with optical printing has always been the main attraction of his screenings around the world.
Filmography
Origins of Now (work in Progress - 2009)
- "Gate" 16mm/Digital, Color, Sound, 30 min. 2009
- "FLUX Project" Digital Movie, Color, Sound, 15 min. 2008
- "Recollection Cycle" Digital Movie, Color, Sound, 25min. 2007
- "Invocation and Resonance" Digital Movie, Color, Sound, 9min. 2007
- "Beneath the Skin" Digital Movie, Color, Sound, 8min. 2007
- "Free Hand: Re-Mix" Digital Movie, Color, Sound, 8min. 2007
- "OCTOPUS: Re-Mix" Digital Movie, Color, Sound, 7min. 2006
- "Traveling spirits" 16mm, Color, Sound, 20min. 2005
- "Passing Though" Super 8, Color, Silent, 8 min. 2004
- "Rapturous - Digital Version 2004" DVD, Color, 18 min. 2004
- "Decades Passed: Re-Edit" 16mm, Color, Sound, 25 min. 2003
- "Puzzle - Part III" 16mm, Color, Silent, 30 min 2003
- "Puzzle - Part II" 16mm, Color, Silent, 45 min 2002
- "Decades Passed" 16mm, Color, Sound, 28 min. 2002
- "Puzzle - Part 1" 16mm, Color, Sound, 50 min. 2001
- "Puzzle - Part 1" 16mm, Color, Silent, 55 min. 2001
- "Local Color - Revisit" 16mm, Color, Silent, 11 min.2000
- "Turn Over" Super 8, Color, Silent, 20 min. 1999
- "It's own vision" Super 8, Color, Silent, 25 min. 1998
- "Free Hands Part 1" 16mm, Color, Silent, 10 min. 1997
- "Shape" 16mm, Color, Silent, 8 min. 1996
- "Tingle" 16mm/Super 8, Color, Silent, 16 min. 1995
- "Light" 16mm, Color, Silent, 8 min. 1994
- "Moderate Life" 16mm, Color, Sound, 28 min. 1993-95
- "Solution" Super 8, Color, Silent, 25 min. 1991
- "Harmony" 16mm, Color, Sound, 12 min. 1991
- "Discovery" Super 8, Color, Sound, 28 min. 1991
- "Local Color - 90 Version" 16mm, Color, Silent, 10 min. 1990
- "89" Super 8, Color, Silent, 16 min. 1989
- "88" Super 8, Color, Silent, 15 min. 1988
- "Local Color 1" 16mm, Color, Silent, 10 min. 1987
- "Life Line 87" Super 8, Color, Silent, 10 min. 1987
- "Waiting Room" 16mm, Color, Silent, 18 min. 1985
- "Hallway" 16mm, Color, Silent, 10 min. 1985
- "Car #3" 16mm, Color, Silent, 3 min. 1985
- "Niiki 85" Super 8, Color, Silent, 15 min. 1985
- "Timing Tape Twice" 16mm, Color, Silent, 3 min. 1984
- "AnDee's Painting" 16mm, Color, Silent, 4 min. 1984
- "Sound in Synch 1 & 2: Festival Version" 16 mm, Color, Sound, 19 min.1984
- "Sound in Synch 1" 16mm, Color, Sound, 13 min. 1984
- "Sound in Synch 2" 16mm, Color, Sound, 7 min. 1984
- "84" Super 8, Color, Silent, 15 min. 1984
- "Car" 16mm, B&W, Silent, 4 min. 1983
- "Car #2" 16mm, Color, Silent, 4 min. 1983
- "Rapturous" 16mm, Color, Silent, 8 min. 1983
- "Daily Chronicle" 16mm, Color, Silent, 12 min. 1983
- "Number Series 1: Sewing" 16mm, B&W, Silent, 3 min. 1982
- "Number Series 2: YOGA 16mm, Color, Silent, 3 min. 1982
- "Recording" Super 8, Color, Silent, 11 min. 1982
- "Image 81" Super 8, Color, Silent, 23 min. 1981
- "Dream Works" 16mm, Color, Sound, 14 min. 1981
- "Journal 80" Super 8, Color, Silent 20 min. 1980
- "3725" 16mm, Color, Sound, 11 min. 1980
- "BALI" 16mm, Color, Sound, 5 min. 1980
- "Coo Film" 16mm, Color, Sound, 9 min. 1980
- "Body Exercise" 16mm, Color, Silent, 4 min. 1979
- "Apple Lips Now" 16mm, Color, Sound, 4 min. 1978
The Silent Minority
Jazz musician Tatsu Aoki is making a documentary film about the experience of Chicago’s nisei, many of whom settled here after the internment camps of World War II - "Origins of Now: Stories of the Chicago Nisei".
By Ed M. Koziarski, Chicago Reader
April 2, 2009
[read the article]
Film Event: Tatsu Aoki @ Festival Animator 2009, Poland.
The 2nd International Animated Film Festival
ANIMATOR - POZNAN', Poland
July 6-11, 2009
www.animator-festival.com
ANIMATION & MUSIC -- Tatsu Aoki -- films with live music by the animator
Tuesday, July 07th 2009, 09.00 pm
Flux Dance (2008) 9 min.
Origins of Now (work in Progress - 2009) 15.min
Gate (2009) 25 min. with Live Music
Solution (1998) 23 min. with Live Music
The 1st International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR
7- 12 July 2008 in Poznan, Poland
www.animator-festival.com
Tatsu Aoki - retrospective with live music performed by the artist
Tuesday, July 08th 2008, 09.00 pm
"Puzzle" (Live Music)
"Decades Passed" (Sound Track by Jeff Parker)
"Travelling Sprit" (Live Music)
"Recolleciton of Memories" (Live Music)
