Synopsis
 An eye that looks through the opening. A man who sounds the bell. The people attracted to a box that emit light in darkness. A girl running through the ‘film’ in a blue dress blowing in the wind.

 Program Note
 Jumping in the Midnight and A Grannie Girl, the latest short films directed by YOKOHAMA Satoko, the most eccentric energy in today’s Japanese film industry, and Chiemi and Kokkunpacho, her graduation project for Film School of Tokyo, which announced her presence to the Japanese film industry, will be shown during 2012 International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul. NOZAKI Yoshimi who played the main character in the director’s feature-length debut film, German+Rain (2006), plays the role of Hatsue, a housewife who seems to have a loose screw somewhere while living a life in-between delusion and reality in A Grannie Girl. The lethargic madness shown through the scene of Hatsue calling her husband Takashi out of the blues shows a realm that only the YOKOHAMA-NOZAKI duo can reach. YOKOHAMA Satoko moves towards the fantastic and surreal world even more eagerly in Jumping in the Midnight than she did in her previous works. The girl who shows the film using kinetoscope becomes ‘cinema’ itself. In Chiemi and Kokkunpacho, the traces of the little girl who does not act like a child and the affection towards Aomori that continue in the director’s next feature film can be seen. These works are like gifts for the audience that has been missing YOKOHAMA, who has been absent from the screen for quite a while since Bare Essence of Life (2009). (HWANG Miyojo)