2012 Anime
Ga Kan
An Escher-like metaphor for introspection: a woman and her reflection in a forest pool, plus moths.
(Source: douban)
Kara no Tamago
The film is about a family, [that] runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs. The mother loves somebody else. In the family fixture, each member stays there with bias or secrets.
Graduate Work 2012, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Futon
A futon, a traditional Japanese mattress, as seen by Yoriko Mizushiri, becomes the vehicle of dream fantasies combining the most pleasant sensations such as the morning coffee, the warmth of bedding and a soft rice carpet under one’s feet. Lazy stretching serves as a start of sensuous, sleepy gymnastics. With a fluid movement, the passive body will turn once again from the left to the right of the mattress to dive into the fantasies of even deeper unconsciousness a little while later.
(Source: Krakow Film Festival)
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)
Thermae Romae: Thermae Romae x Asahi Shimbun Digital Collaboration
Lucius ends up at a local electronics store, where he sees an ipad 2 for the first time.
Thermae Romae: Thermae Romae x LOFT Collaboration
Lucius ends up at the Japanese chain store called LOFT, where he realizes the fun found in modern-day shopping.
Shukatsu Kyosokyoku
An ordinary college girl is sucked into the frenetic job hunting, where all her friends dive into with dog-eat-dog vigor and crazed ambition. A potent look at one of Japanese social phenomenon with a dose of black humor.
Graduate Work 2012, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Fojiao Donghua: Dashi Zhi Pusa Nianfo Yuantong Zhang
Short Chinese animation about Buddha.
MIRROR
The theme in this animation is doppelganger. This is story of one man and myself. Their memory, dream and hallucination are talked about in turn and their past and future go to gradually mix.
Dasshutsu Gasshapon
The story revolves around Shouta, a regular high school boy whose life is suddenly changed when a creature called a Gasshapon appears in front of him, and claims to come from the future. (The Gasshapon is shaped like Bandai's Gashapon prize-dispensing machines.) The Gasshapon was sent to the past by the future Shouta, from an era in which an alien group called CC (or Cold Cosmo) have made it their mission to change all stars and planets that have light and warmth into dark, cold places like their own. The Gasshapon had intended to take young Shouta to 2080 to save the future, but because time travel had not been fully perfected yet, Shouta is thrown into a completely different time, the era of the Honnouji Incident (1582), where Shouta actually becomes the famous warlord Oda Nobunaga.
(Source: Anime News Network)
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)
