- Screening
Waterpieces
The contemporary and media art festival Waterpieces celebrated its 18th edition on this year. Considered the oldest media art festival in Latvia, it is held every August on its capital city, Riga. Waterpieces introduces a wide range of works, aiming to present to best animation, video and installation productions from all over the world. It provides audiences with a comprehensive insight of the latest works of contemporary art related to moving images.
This year, they held screening of two programs, ”21st Japan Media Arts Festival Award-winning Program” and ”Tomoyasu Murata Program”.
Screening
”21st Japan Media Arts Festival Award-winning Program”
This program comprises award-winning works of the Animation, Entertainment, and Art Division from the 21st Japan Media Arts Festival.
”Tomoyasu Murata Program”
This program comprises award-winning works of Tomoyasu Murata from the Japan Media Arts Festival. Murata employs puppet animation in an expressive way, allowing viewers to experience it with their eyes, ears, sense of touch and even through the air. He has consistently strived to express the idea of “mujo”（impermanence）, which is a very beautiful concept to the Japanese.
Screening works
| Venue | AB Dambis, Riga – 2200 |
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| Dates |
2018. 8.9（Thu）- 8.10（Fri）, 8.23（Thu）, 9.14（Fri） |
