Aya Domenig

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Aya Domenig (* 1972) is a Japanese-Swiss filmmaker and ethnologist .  

Life

Aya Domenig was born in Kameoka , Japan . Her mother is Japanese, her father is Swiss. In 1976 the family moved to Switzerland .

education

Domenig attended a grammar school in Zurich . After graduating from school, she studied ethnology, film studies and Japanese studies at the University of Zurich from 1992 to 2000 . Domenig gained practical experience through language stays in Paris and Toyko at the Sendagaya Japanese Institute . She has also been working as a translator and interpreter (German-Japanese) since 1995. Receiving a scholarship from the Japanese government enabled her to study at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.

She graduated in 2001 with the 37-minute documentary Oyakata (The Teacher). The film was shown at various international film festivals and was awarded the JVC Student Video Prize at the 7th International Festival of Ethnographic Film in London .

She then studied film directing at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) from 2001 to 2005 . Her short film Haru Ichiban (Spring Storm), which she shot as part of her diploma, was also presented at international film festivals and won the CinéCinéma Prix.

Film career

In 2001 Domenig examined the animated series Heidi from the 1970s to explain its success in Japan. In 2006 she worked as a film editor for Mehdi Sahebi's documentary Zeit der Abschieds . Together with Sahebi, Domenig carried out a study on the change in burial culture in Zurich in 2007 and showed the trend towards communal graves .

In 2015 Domenig's documentary When the Sun fell from the sky was released . Like her previous films, this one is about Japan. The feature film tells the story of her Japanese grandfather, who cared for the victims of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in a Red Cross hospital . Domenig shows how survivors dealt with the disaster and what knowledge mankind has drawn from such an event. The nuclear disaster in Fukushima on March 11, 2011, in particular , gave the film its decisive direction. Both the warning of the danger of nuclear radiation and the silence in society about the effects of such catastrophes are the focus.

The film premiered at the 68th Locarno Film Festival in 2015 its premiere . The film was shown for the first time in Japan on the occasion of the Hiroshima International Film Festival on November 23, 2015. When the sun fell from the sky, it was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize in the Best Documentary Film category and won an award for Best Film Music ( Marcel Vaid ).

Filmography (selection)

As a screenwriter

  • 2005: Haru Ichiban (Spring Storm)
  • 2011: Mürner's universe
  • 2015: As the sun from the sky

As a director

  • 1999: Oyakata (The Teacher)
  • 2001: Made Up
  • 2002: Je t'aime
  • 2004: Hitoritabi (Iio-san's journey)
  • 2005: Haru Ichiban (Spring Storm)
  • 2007: The changing culture of funerals
  • 2015: When the sun fell from the sky
  • 2022: Mako & Ken

As editor

  • 2005: Haru Ichiban (Spring Storm)
  • 2006: time to say goodbye
  • 2015: As the sun from the sky
  • 2018: The moan of the ashes

As a producer

  • 1999: Oyakata (The Teacher)

As an executive producer

  • 2007: The changing culture of funerals

Awards

Below is a selection of the awards.

Oyakata (The Teacher)

  • JVC Student Video Prize, 7th International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2000, London

Je t'aime

  • Golden Dragon for a remarkable feature film, Swiss Film and Video Festival Spiez

Haru Ichiban (Spring Storm)

  • Prix ​​CinéCinéma, Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers 2006

As the sun from the sky

  • Swiss Film Award 2016 for "Best Film Music"
  • Green Image Award 2016, Green Image Film Festival in Tokyo
  • Prix ​​Mario Ruspoli 2016, Jean Rouch International Film Festival in Paris
  • Prix ​​Anthropologie et développement durable 2016, Jean Rouch International Film Festival in Paris
  • Horizons Film Award 2016, Five Lakes Film Festival
  • Fethi Kayaalp Grand Prize - 2nd Prize 2016, Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary

Works

Aya Domenig: "Cute Heidi". To Heidi's reception in Japan . In: Ernst Halter (Ed.): Heidi - Careers of a Figure . Offizin Verlag, Zurich 2001, ISBN 978-3-907496-09-1 , p. 149-166 .

literature

Swiss Feuilletondienst (Ed.): Into the interior and beyond. Perspectives on Swiss Documentary Films - 14 portraits . Limmat, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-85791-747-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b When the sun fell from the sky - der-andere-film.ch. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Aya Domenig: Unsaid and yet always there. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ show person: FIRST STEPS. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  4. ^ Diploma films - "Haru Ichiban (Spring Storm)" by Aya Domenig. March 4, 2016, accessed December 14, 2019 .
  5. ^ Aya Domenig | filmstudieren.ch. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Basler Zeitung, Tamedia Espace AG: Decide for yourself how the funeral will one day be organized . ISSN  1420-3006 ( bazonline.ch [accessed December 16, 2019]).
  7. ^ Aya Domenig • Director. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
  8. ↑ When the sun fell from the sky - der-andere-film.ch. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  9. ↑ SWISS FILMS: When the sun fell from the sky. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b c imdb.com: Aya Domenig. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b c d e SWISS FILMS: Biography Aya Domenig. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  12. ↑ a b c alsdiesonnevomhimmelfiel.com. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Domenig, Aya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-Swiss filmmaker and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Kameoka