The third screening of Aniwave '08 will take place at the Cameron Art Museum, located at 3201 South 17th Street, in Wilmington, NC. Click here for a map of this address (please be advised that Google maps does not always accurately represent this location). The date and time for the event is Thursday, October 30, at 7:00 PM.
The screening opens with Fata Morgana, a short by local artist Saben Kane, and is followed by the first episode of Serial Experiments: Lain, titled "Layer 01: Weird." Lain's DVD cover describes it as...
There is the world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is the wired world, inside the computer, of images, personalities, virtual experiences, and a culture all of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide, Lain, a thirteen year-old girl, discovers how closely the two worlds are linked when she receives an e-mail from the dead girl: "I just abandomed my body. I still live here..." Has the line between the real world and the wired world begun to blur?Fata Morgana is approximately 5 minutes long, and is suitable for all audiences. "Layer 01: Weird" of Serial Experiments: Lain has a runtime of 25 minutes, and is rated for "Teenagers" and may contain bloody violence, bad language, or nudity (though I admit that this episode in particular contains very few of these aspects).
Our feature presentation is of Grave of the Fireflies, directed by Isao Takahata and animated by Studio Chibli. A powerful war-themed and critically acclaimed film, it is described on the DVD cover as follows...In the aftermath of a World War II bombing, two orphaned children struggle to survive in the Japanese countryside. To Seita and his four-year-old sister, the helplessness and indifference of their countrymen is even more painful than the enemy raids. Through desperation, hunger and grief, these children's lives are as heartbreakingly fragile as their spirit and love is inspiring. Grave of the Fireflies is a tale of the true tragedy of war and innocence lost, not only of the abandoned young, but of an entire nation.Grave of the Fireflies has a runtime of 88 minutes. It is rated for "Older Children," and may contain mild bad language, and bloodless violence.
