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Thirteen/WNET:
Reel New York 8: film & video features (WNET)
ND/NF:
Short Films Make it Big, Where You'll Find the Next Spike Jonze
(www.indiewire.com) by
Anthony Kaufman
...Masayo Nishimura's
contributes the only computer-generated film in the program, "Dream"
(USA), a brief lyric about a young woman transported by music.
DAILY
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New
Haven Advocate: Film Fe(a)st New Haven - The
Reviews, Year 2000..(newhavenadvocate.com)
Dream
Low-cost computers are revolutionizing the film/animation industry. They
allow just about anybody the opportunity to make animated films, which
can germinate South Park as easily as "Dream," and they
have the ability to spawn a creative awakening inspired by nothing less
than the brilliant Toy Story series. "Dream" doesn't
have the sass of South Park, or the high-budget inventiveness of
Pixar studios. But it's a surreal little film in which a man in a subway
station sings an aria to a beautiful woman. The song carries her,
dream-like in an empty subway car, out of the New York City tunnels,
into the mountains, and finally into outer space. It's mellow and sweet,
and a tad too much like a segment from an adult version of Sesame
Street. Which isn't such a bad thing at all. -- Joshua Mamis
-Louisville Film and Video festival "...very
meritorious and deserving of additional recognition beyond acceptance
for screening in the festival"
-New York EXPO Short Film & Video "...Intriguing
use of computer animation"
-Telluride IndieFest "A
*delightful* animated short film, with a unique storyline and *beautiful*
musical scoring! An audience favorite at our 1999 event!"
-Cinequest "Dream is
exactly what it sounds like. Masayo Nishimura takes us on a strange
journey that will leave you wondering, was that really a dream?!"
-Black Maria Film & Video festival "Lyrical"
-Rochester International Film Festival "...a
fine tone poem. This film had a nice cohesiveness, seamlessly
transitioning from the real world to the dream world and back again,
carrying the woman's emotions to extremes along with it..."
The New York Daily News Dec, 99
(New York EXPO Short Film & Video )
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