It’s an underground world. Up on the ground there are many people coming and going. There lives a garbage bag in underground. He has no work, no home and no family. This is a story that a dirty black garbage bag gains a new life through the various experiences.
1st Year Work 2010 by Aki Kono, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
The primary schoolboy "Kuchao" is hated person in his class. Even if everyone fly balloons, only he doesn't part with his it. When he immediately begins to chew a bubble gum, he enter the imagination world after school. When his balloon becomes the face and begins to chew a bubble gum, it changes into various things. His imagination makes rapid progress more. Then, the bird approaches while flying and...
1st Year Work 2010, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Music video directed by Mitsuyuki Ishibashi for Crystal Sea Ver. 69 by Intelligent Jazz, a collaborative project formed by Kay Nakayama with drummer Akira Jimbo.
There is a stone pillar that continues long and long. Climbers are climbing it. Each climber keeps climbing the stone pillar spending time. They are the symbols of accumulation.
(Source: Tokyo University of the Arts)
"Googuri Googuri" - a made up word, a secret word, shared by a girl and her grandfather. For the girl, her grandfather is at times like a mountain, at other times like a tree, or an ocean; a warm and comfortable place. Her thoughts take wing into her endless imagination. The things we have seen, smelled, thought, and everything we have experienced, extending and expanding within the infinite expanse inside ourselves.
Graduate Work 2010, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Girl who watches something in glass. Young person who looks into in from the outside to house. Bear that held fishbowl.
(Source: Taro Shinkai)
The protagonist is with friends but bored with the conversation. His mind often slips away to his own imaginary world and comes back to them. So their conversation doesn’t go along very well. In several trips to his own imagination he gradually feels it void and became interested in chain of conversation and the development of the relationship with other people. Then he decided to com back to the conversation.
1st Year Work 2010 by Naoaki Shibuta, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
A short animation from Ariyoshi Tasuhiro for the NHK Five dreams in 2010.
There is a fusuma (paper sliding door) work based on the Hannya Shingyo (Prajna-paramita Hrdaya Sutram) by woodblock print artist Shikou Munakata. He wrote the sutra in one go without any rough drafts or scketches and the result is a very powerful and compelling work. Ever since I first saw this fusuma I have had a special interest in the Hannya Shingyo... ' (extract of the commentary by Keiichi Tanaami)
(Source: TMDB)
Music video directed by Aya Takano for the performance of An Enormous Delta by Joseph Nothing.