2013 Anime
Adventures in Beauty Wonderland
One of Japan’s foremost pop artists, Keiichi Tanaami, presents a joyfully psychedelic animation inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, unveiling an underworld of kaleidoscopic cosmetics in the form of perfectly made-up third-eyes and chirping lipstick butterflies.
(Source: NOWNESS)
Kojiki: Hyuuga-hen
A festival cut/compilation of the animated segments made by Yamamura Kouji for a TV documentary by NHK, Kojiki Girl Travelogue (古事記ガール 日向路を旅する).
The 4 episodes that compose The Hyuga Episode of Kojiki are:
#1: The Cleansing (禊/ Misogi, 3’17”)
#2: Sun Goddess Amaterasu (天照大御神/ Amaterasu Ookami, 2’11”)
#3: Flowering Tree (木花之佐久夜毘売/ Konohananosakuya-bime, 2’31”)
#4: Umisachi and Yamasachi (海佐知山佐知/ Umisachi Yamasachi, 3’30”)
tayutaum
Graduation work of Namiko Ishidate at Tama Art University.
This is a dream of a girl who is imagining to be a bird. The title "tayutaum" is a combination of the words: "tayutau yume (floating dream)", "hakuchuumu (daydream)", and "aquarium". I want the audience to feel the physical sensation of flying in the sky or floating in the water.
(Source: Official Site)
Bbororo's English Show
A musical style season like Pororo-wa Noraehaeyo but the cast speaks entirely English with the original English dub cast as a way to teach English to native Korean Children.
Ishi kara
Four years ago while out for a walk in Ome, I picked up an intriguing stone of 30cm across. Then I wanted to pursue its image until its ultimate end.
Graduate Work 2013, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Double Hard
Unbeatable Fist-Fighter Daiki Hayami and Professional Knuckler Jin Takayama ram into the incredible fight against Shibaura's craziest bike gang Midnight King and its head Shinjo Brothers!!
Unfair and underhanded Midnight King takes one of Daiki's classmates Mai as its hostage. That makes Daiki and Jin's anger get to the high peak!!
(Source: Crunchyroll)
Asa
Words bring to life the radiance of mornings by pairing with simple shapes, free-flowing patterns, and playful sounds. Such a colorful accompaniment of gentle movements and lighthearted poetry will undoubtedly make anyone's morning a little brighter.
(Source: MAL Rewrite)
Kamakura
"A snow-covered house is situated in the middle of a rice field.
What should one do, in a space of white and quietude?
By spring, the snowy hut melts and loses its appearance.
The Japanese MA, the in-between state of time and space –
an animation, a haiku"
(Source: Berlinale 2014 programme)
MAZE KING
We cannot stay here any longer. We must leave tomorrow morning. A clown convinces and hurries the residents of an amusement park, a girl, a gay, a soldier, a dog, to be in time for the merry-go-round.
Graduate Work 2013, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidei Animation)