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)
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)
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.
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)
Doron Coron
An amusing 3-minute clay animation that Yuuichi Itou (Harbor Tale, Knyacki!) produced for "The Earth and Children of Tomorrow - Pray for Happiness" campaign by TVK (Television Kanagawa).
Doron Coron comes to life after a child angel tinkles off a cloud. This unusual heavenly elixir rains down onto a dark city street and brings to life the titular boy character made of dirt who rolls off to explore the city. He has a pleasant interaction with a worm, and a not so pleasant interaction with bird excrement, but is cheered by the growth of a plant on his head. The plant grows and grows and Doron Coron heads to the countryside where he enjoys pleasant interactions with the natural world.
(Source: Nishikata Film Review)
Kakurenbo
The film covered a residential area with superb view of both ocean and mountain. From that day this town became dark as pitch. Hidden in this darkness were lights in the town, my way home, my mother, and my expected baby in my belly. This animation depicts the truth hiding behind the facts.
Graduate Work 2012 from Keiko Shiraishi, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Fojiao Donghua: Dashi Zhi Pusa Nianfo Yuantong Zhang
Short Chinese animation about Buddha.
Great Rabbit
Once we called the noble, profound and mysterious existence The Great. We have moved with the time, our thought and consciousness has changed. And yet what makes us still keep calling it The Great?
(Source: kankaku.jp)