When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me.A charming animation rhyme that weaves together the many days of observing, recording, and experimenting.
(Source: Official Website)
Jumping out of the cupboard, Chi-cha and Ikeho ask for Misuke's help, saying that they have to answer a quiz that the god Don-dan has given them to save their mother. Misuke then heads for a country in the south passing right through the cupboard.
(Source: Official Website)
The town of Milky Town has a problem. All of the animals are drinking the milk from the company Milking, and are slowly turning into cats who have lost all motivation. The cat Milking hatched the evil plan in order to take over the world. By chance, Ippon, a tiger cowboy who used to work on the Charmy ranch, returns from his wanderings to Milky Town. There, he realizes the truth of what's happened to Milky Town, and works to save it alongside his friends.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Takeru Daigo is a boy living in Tokyo who doesn't like milk. During summer vacation, he decides to go to Ushiojima by himself to visit his grandmother Tomi. To his surprise, there is a talking milk carton named Kevin in her refrigerator. Kevin encourages Takeru to drink milk, but he refuses. Along with the help of his other milk friends who live on the island, Kevin makes it his mission to get Takeru to drink milk!
(Source: Official site, translated)
Directed by Japanese filmmaker Ryo Orikasa, the animated short Miserable Miracle was inspired by Henri Michaux’s book of poetry and drawings of the same name, about his experiences with mescaline. The film explores the limits of language and perception, creating connections between sound, meaning, shapes and movement.
(Source: NFB)
The filmic version of a city in which all surface beauty has rotted away. In order to find images of death like landscapes of the city from which people have vanished, and buildings from which the decorations have been stripped away and the inner organs exposed, I walked all over Tokyo taking photographs, then animated them.
(Source: Takashi Ito)
Compilation of episodes 1-4 of the OVA.
Photos taken with pinhole camera, sky + clouds. Swirling animation like smoke against a black background.