2021 Anime
Shanhe Jian Xin Xiao Juchang
Journey to the Bosei no Mezame
I was heading to junior high school one day when my maternal instincts suddenly kicked in. After being held hostage to those urges for a decade, I started to wonder if this feeling was really about motherliness. Virgin birth, genes, pregnancy… I journey through 10 years in search of the maternal.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
Tai no Hane
REDTABLE
Mesmerizing play with a toy train set blends with bloodthirsty greed in a young boy’s playtime over a red tabletop in this whimsical animation.
Oboete Ite
Graduation work of Man Wei from Musashino Art University.
In ”I Remember” the juxtaposition of art styles was not only used as a narrative device, but also directly and organically as part of the story itself. The characteristics of animation was used to create an indirect metaphor for growth through the changes in painting style.
As the style of the painting changed, a story is told from a childhood dream of becoming a painter, and information is collected from the dream about people, places, and incidents related to these memories. As a result of this process, a childhood was painted in a style of its own incorporating the past and the gradual shift in style as they grow up.
(Source: AniList.co)
Fuan na Karada
Living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines. When these different things encounter, a new direction is born. Desiring it as the sense of touch, things keep chasing it forever. Animation of tactility you only can let yourself go with the streaming of the images.
(Source: NEW DEER)
Amane Nikki
This work is based on 15 years of entries in the diary that I’ve kept since age eight. Through creating this work I was searching for freedom from my preconceptions about animation and myself.
1st year work 2021, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
(Source: Geidai Animation)
KRASUE
In a town of South-East Asia, at night, a Yakuza is facing a bloody conflict with local gangs. During the fight, he encounters with a ghost called Krasue (pronounced Gasoo), a flying woman head with her guts exposed, and is followed by her because of his blood's taste. Their battle eventually leads them to the depth of a dark and damp maze-like jungle, where boundaries between humans, animals and ghost seem to fade. With a howling noise, ”BOY MEETS GIRL” metamorphoses into ”Encounter with another species”.
(Source: New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival)
Akai Inei
A convergence of childhood memories of World War II with the images of western Pop introduced to Japan in the years of reconstruction.
(Source: Widewalls)
