Movie Anime
Shousei Shikisai Gensou
Created in 2014 within the framework of the Digital Spring, produced by the NFB and the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership and incorporating the following Normand McLaren film extract of "Begone Dull Care" in 1949.
(Source: yamamura-animation.jp)
Captain Gekijouban
Nonki na Tou-san Ryuuguu Mairi
One of the first examples of the tale is Hakuzan Kimura's Dreamy Urashima (Nonkinatousan Ryugu Mairi, 1925), in which a lazy man wakes up from his sleep and heads off to the seaside to spend the day fishing. There is a brief live-action shot of the sea swelling before the film returns to its animated fantasy world when a beautiful girl appears on the beach and lures him into the waves, transforming into the legendary turtle and carrying him beneath the surface to an undersea kingdom of fish and squid. Here he is welcomed by a bevy of kimono-wearing lovelies who lead him to a stately court full of musicians and dancers. As a ballerina pirouettes on the palace floor in front of him, he is plied with alcohol and handed a small gift box, before being escorted to a giant scallop shell that rises through the water taking him back to the surface. When he returns home, he finds he has aged so much that his wife and son no longer recognise him. He opens the gift box and a hideous demon springs from it and squashes him beneath its fists, at which point the man wakes up, and realising that the events of this story have all been a terrible nightmare, hurries out to work, alerted to the potential dangers of a life spent in idle daydreaming.
(Source: midnighteye.com)
DREAMLAND
Short animation from Mirai Mizue. Simple rectilinear figures assemble into surprisingly complex “cities” that pulse along to Scarlatti Goes Electro’s hyperkinetic score.
(Source: JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film)
Noise
An experiment concerning the attempts at creating a ‘moving image’ long before the invention of cinema. A re-experiencing of the history of ‘magic with light’ unfolds through the use of various devices and techniques, including flip-book animation and Muybridge’s photographs in motion zoopraxiscope. (IFFR)
Tosca
Based on an old Russian folk song. This film was created in blackboard animation.
Shuranosuke Zanmaken: Shikamamon no Otoko
Shurannosuke Sakaki is a masterless samurai with a razor-sharp katana and a cold-hearted personality. Whenever you see the mark of two crossed scythes on his back, death is sure to follow. Because of his exceptional swordsmanship, Shurannosuke is hired by the Nakura Clan to rescue Princess Mayu from the Seki Ninja. In this mission, he must use his full potential to survive the Seki Ninja's notorious henchmen.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Nobara
Stop-motion animation utilizing puppets, narrating the relationship between two European border patrol officers.
Candy.zip
Aoko is confident about the documents she creates at work, but doesn't get any positive feedback. Then, she witnesses her colleague secretly changing the documents she created. Aoko is turned into a piece of candy to keep her quiet...
1st year work 2017, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation
(Source: YouTube)