From the dazzling digital filmmaking tricks of Nagi Noda and Norihiro Yamamoto to quirky animated music videos by indie artists like Shugo Tokumaru; from award-winning short films to highlights from the country's rich experimental film and hand-drawn animation traditions, this special program commissioned for the 2009 Oulu Music Video Festival explores the inventive, otherworldly, and sometimes perplexing work of Japan's brightest emerging filmmakers, artists, and musicians.

Package Deals: Japan premiered on August 22nd, 2009 at the Oulu Music Video Festival in Finland, and was accompanied by a Q&A by Package Deals curators Kelly Shindler and Deirdre Corley.

The program includes:

1. Hiroshi Kondo, Live Material 01 (2006, 1 min)
2. Hiroshi Kondo, Live Material 02 (2008, 1 min)
3. Maya Yonesho, Kyoto Remix (2008, 5 mins)
4. Yuki, Sentimental Journey (DIr. Nagi Noda, 2003, 6 mins)
5. Tomonari Nishikawa, Sketch Film #3 (2006, 3 mins)
6. Hiroshi Kondo, Mirror For Eyes (2007, 4 mins)
7. Naoyuki Tsuji, Children of the Shadows (2006, 18 mins)
8. Shugo Tokumaru, Clocca (Dir: Masako Noda, 2009, 4 mins)
9. Norihiro Yamamoto, D.A.R. (2006, 2 mins)
10. Tomonari Nishikawa, Sketch Film #4 (2007, 3 mins)
11. OOIOO, Umo (Dir. Shoji Goto, 2007, 3:40 mins)
12. Wada Atsushi, Well That's Glasses (2007, 5:40mins)
13. Tomonari Nishikawa, Sketch Film #5 (2007, 3 mins)
14. Kiiiiii - 4 Little Joeys [Dirs. Kiiiiii (Utako Tayama and Reiko Tada), 2007, 3 mins]
15. Tsuki Inoue, The Woman Who Is Beating the Earth (2007, 21 mins)

TRT: 85 mins