Jun Miyazaki

Born in 1965 Video artist Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University Although he was born to a grandfather who was a painter and a cineaste who continued to make documentary films of the local area and a father who was a news cameraman for a certain television station he did not get serious about film production until after entering art school Even though Ring Android 87 was a crazy blockbuster with no story no sound and over 45 minutes it won the Grand Prix at Image Forum Festival 88 Since then while working on music video clips and TV commercials he continued to create short films that explore his unique visual world at an average rate of one a year Starting with Vacuum Ice 90 which was invited to be screened at the London Film Festival in 1992 in recent years there have been many opportunities for films to be screened at overseas film festivals Eclipse 92 which was screened in 13 cities across the United States in 1993 was featured in the Chicago Reader It received rave reviews from Americas leading film critic Fred Camper Since 1997 he had also started a joint project between Japan and France to introduce Japanese independent movies to France Every year a new film is selected as one of the Japanese experimental films in France and it is shown on tour throughout France including at the Musée dArt Contemporain in Strasbourg In March 2003 he was invited by the same project to travel to France Screenings and lectures will be held In 2004 FRONTIER won the Young Perspective Award at the 57th Cannes International Film Festival Directors Fortnight