2019 Anime
Pupa (2019)
How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.
Graduate Work 2019, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Kujira no Yu
Mizuki Kiyama’s short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl’s visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her mother with dazzling sensuous wonder. Evoking child-like fascination at daily rituals, this quotidian act amidst feminine intimacy becomes a space of otherworldly fantasy.
Bath House of Whales won the Lotte Reiniger Promotion Award for Animated Film at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film in Germany.
This film was made as a graduation project at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts.
(Source: AniList.co)
My Exercise
The animated short film that inspired the artist’s first PC and mobile game. Like its predecessors, the film shows distinctively satisfying timing and motions. A boy does sit-ups with a dog standing over him. Another dog runs across a boy’s back as he bends forward. The boy and the dog run out of breath, and so on—really. The plain yellow background accentuates the characters’ comical movements.
(Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)
Story of Krishna
A short animation from Tomori Komazaki for the Joshibi Art Museum in Japan
Souzou Teki Shinka
Where do I come From? What am I? Where am I going? Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Life keeps traveling across the universe.
(Source: Official Website)
Castle
During the period of the 'Provinces at war', many lives were lost. A castle architect discovers the possible role of a tea room as a place for warriors to regain humanity.
(Source: Vimeo)
Untei
It’s summer vacation and all the kids in the neighborhood have left to visit relatives. But there in the relentless glare of the sun, is a boy looking up at the sky.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Nando Demo Wasureyoo
Why do you want acceptance? If it's not going to happen, then forget about what it was you wanted acknowledged and just have some soup, like always.
Graduate Work 2019, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation
(Source: Geidai Animation)
My Luxury Night
A music video animated by Yoriko Mizushiri for NHK's "Uta Techne" program.
Mukidona Sen-tachi
Lines drawn with a pencil on paper begin to wriggle of their own volition. Then, regardless of the filmmaker's intention, they begin to move inexorably towards a new horizon. The film consists of seven chapters: generation, accumulation, silence, revival, transformation, amplification and diffusion.
