Chihiro Tazuro
Chihiro Tazuro
CHIHIRO TAZURO
A Tasty Fish
Short animation film, 7:38 min, 2020
Animation, Story writer, Director, Character Design, Editor: Chihiro Tazuro
Award
WACOM PRIZE: WIRED CREATIVE HACK AWARD 2020
Critics' Award: ugia Film Festival - Proiezione e Premiazione Cortometraggi
Finalist
Huntington Beach Cultural Cinema Showcase
Semi Finalist
Box Short Film Festival
EQAD film festival
Selected
The Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival
Frame Rave Short Animation Festival
360 degrees festival
First-Time Filmmaker Sessions 2020
The Lift-Off Sessions 2020
Art Gallery Q Collective
Best of Latin America Short Film Festival
Yosturim Babait Festival
FLICKFAIR
LIVING TOGETHER AGAIN – Venice Architecture Short Film Festival
Bucheon International Animation Festival
SVT
Make Art Not War Teaser Future Film Festival
21st Video Public Forum Online
MOSCA - Cambuquira Short Film Festival
ICONA 2020 Animation Festival
Cine Voyage International Film Festival
THEATER ENYA×LiveS Beyond
16th Anim!Arte
Midwest Sci-Fi Short Film Festival
Lanterna Mágica - International Animation Festival
Volterra Fantasy Film Festival
Fillum International Storical and Short Film Festival
Davis Feminist Film Festival
Craft Animfest
Bugia Film Festival
Synopsis
A baby, the firstborn, comes into this world. Though her parents are human, the baby is a fish - and into the lake she is thrown.
Another baby is born.
This little girl knows not of her older sister, but the two will meet, over shared blood and history, and through the future generation.
This is the story of a common occurrence - a stillborn - told in an uncommon way,
and the journey a sister will make to meet her kin.
Director's Statement
“A Tasty Fish” is a stop-motion animated short film, created initially after the memory of my aborted older sister.
I wanted to make this film because I have always harbored guilt towards my big sister, as she couldn’t be alive but I could. Since childhood I have been carrying this feeling. Despite that, I didn't want to imagine my sister as a scary figure in my head or portray her that way. My wish was to get to know her and spend a nice time with her. Deep down I hoped she supported and loved me. Through the film I hoped to make my wish into a visible thing, as a story I could shape and pour my thoughts, fears and hopes into.
I chose the technique of paper-cut stop-motion animation, because it fits with my childhood memories: when I was a child I played with paper a lot, cutting, pasting and folding origami.
The technique also conveys the blurry nature of old memories. It allows me to reminiscence about the memory of my sister, while using the visual tools to allow the viewer to experience the point of view of a child.
Credit List
Animation, Story writer, Director, Character Design, Editor: Chihiro Tazuro
Actor: Yuli Stein, Yukon Stein
Voice: Chihiro Tazuro, Elik Harpaz
Musician:
Viola: Elik Harpaz
Contrabass: Shira Harpaz
Drum set: Adin Peskoff
Percussion, Ukulele: Inbar Heyman
Composition, Vocal: Chihiro Tazuro
Music mixer: Eliyahu Zehavi
Recording: Yellow Submarine Jerusalem
Background drawing: Nohav Keren
Sound track: Rotem Meyers, Chihiro Tazuro
Sound Master: Max Gas
Cinematography: Chihiro Tazuro,
Yonatan Swed
Costume: Gili Rahat, Reut Shayba
Produce: Adie Catarivas, Roni Golan
Guide: Orna Levi, Osi Wild, Guy Sherf, Amit Man
Thanks to:
Lital Shalit, Tal Avraham, Boaz Beja Gilad, Hallel Maliniak, Batsheva Mandelbaum,
Yan Ardashnikov, Tomoko Stein, Lia Stein, Ruth-Johanne Andersson, Yael Sady,
Maya Ben David, Adi Helman, Tal Avraham, Tal Kronkop, Iris Shamshon, Daniel Enoch Melzer, Reinhard Sato, Gilli Shani, Romy Ginsburg, Brit Einstein, Ayal Nahari, Yasmin Stenmetz, Ronen Fridman, Taku Okamoto, Maya Adar Walling, Fika Magarik
Support: The School of Visual Theater
Foundation: Keren Jerusalem
