Psychological Anime
Enen
"Someday, this will end. I hate it. I wanna live forever," murmurs a girl over and over again. Does she repeat the same moments, or does she move forward? It looks and sounds either way. A wordplay animation.
1st year work 2015, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Otome Kaibou
Music video for the Vocaloid song "Otome Dissection" featuring Hatsune Miku.
experiment
A short film by Tsuji Naoyuki that blends stop motion with 2D drawn animation.
Tsuiseki
Experimental animation by Manabe Hiroshi, member of the Animation Sannin no Kai pioneer group of independent animation.
On the way home
The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.
FLICKER LOVE NO.1
After seeing Velvet Underground perform in Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitables in New York, Tanaami became interested stroboscopic effects. This flicker film was conceived as the first of many but this was the only one that was realized.
(Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)
Frogtoise
Music video directed by Katsuki Tanaka for the Exploitation Edit of Frogtoise by German musician Schneider TM (Dirk Dresselhaus).
fruits
At some point, children diverge from the ideal path set forth for them by adults. The trigger is usually a trivial incident.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Nu Ta
In a totalitarian and male chauvinist world, a female high-heeled shoe named Mulan Hua rebels against the baby shoe factory to protect her baby girl from being transformed into a male shoe. To raise her daughter, she later has to disguise herself as a male sturdy shoe and works day and night in a capitalist cigarette factory. The story is not only about a mother’s sacrifice and a feminist’s revenge, but also has a political undertone of the intoxication of power.
(Source: mulanfestival.com)
awaiting
A man is waiting for someone in a small boat. In loneliness he keeps waiting for someone. For whom or why he is waiting is not very important. He wishes to see the sight of formless “happiness”, which can vanish in the blink of an eye, as long as possible.
1st year Work 2012, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Ninja & Soldier
Two eight-year-old boys compete in a game of childish bravado. Ken is a Ninja, Nito a child soldier from the Congo who was forced to kill his own mother. Their naïve game addresses cruel realities, and they talk about their differences and what they have in common. Accompanied by contrasting graphics, the film explores the types of acts of which humankind is capable.
(Source: Berlinale)
Ningyo no Uta
A boy and a girl draw pictures on the wall with sticks made of black fish. One day a blue fish drifts ashore to them.
1st year work 2017, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Fusuma no Oku
The theme came from the Japanese unique folklore, Red Uncleanness or defilement with blood. A girl, whose thinking pattern jumps at a leap without any train of thought, confines her various thoughts in the other side of the mirror and inside the sliding doors to go outside.
1st year Work 2012 by Yumi Kawai, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Neverland
“It’s a happy ending, ha-ha-ha”
Music video directed by 1024 for the song Neverland by DECO*27 featuring vocals by Hatsune Miku.
Unmei
Music video for the song Unmei by Harumaki Gohan and NILFRUITS, featuring vocals by Hatsune Miku and v Flower.
Untei
It’s summer vacation and all the kids in the neighborhood have left to visit relatives. But there in the relentless glare of the sun, is a boy looking up at the sky.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
