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Abita

Shoko Hara and Paul Brenner’s graduate thesis animation Abita, poignantly tells the story of Fukushima children who dream of being able to play in an

Animation, Asides, Music

Julien Mier: Super Tropic Tramp

Japanese filmmaker Koji Aramaki animates a glorious medley of shapes and colours in this promo for Julien Mier’s Super Tropic Tramp.

Animation, Art & Fashion

Koukou

“Koukou is a visual work based on an abstract animation synchronized with a song comprising the unique syllabic sounds of the Japanese language, without

Animation

Hug

No matter the species, sometimes you just need a Hug as Saki Iyori demonstrates in this gorgeously heart warming animation.

Animation, Asides

Yamasuki Yamazaki

Discovering the work of Japanese filmmaker Shishi Yamazaki was a definite highlight of last year’s film hunting, so six months on it’s great to

Animation, Art & Fashion

New Tokyo Ondo

What the hell is going on in Misaki Uwabo’s graduation film New Tokyo Ondo? No on second thoughts, even if you can explain it (weirdo!) I’d rather

Animation, Asides

Shishi Yamazaki

Japan's Shishi Yamazaki combines crayons, watercolours and her own free spirited dance routines to create the sweetest animated films you’ll ever see.

Animation

On The Table

The latest member to join French animation studio Je Regarde, Japanese animator Masanobu Hiraoka applies his interest in metamorphosis and strange or

Animation

Toob: Wavaphon

With animated visuals inspired by a desire to create “a graphical representation of the mathematization of motion, showing only a small amount of the

Art & Fashion

SyncBody

How about we kick the week off with the mind blowing, glitchy excellence of Syncbody from Daihei Shibata?

Art & Fashion

FIGURE

Uniting under the banner of *Asterisk, MEISAI (Dance), MANUKE (Direction) and Kenji Kariu (Sound) created the experimental dance piece FIGURE “a short

Live Action

Blind

Japanese director Yukihiro Shoda’s post-nuclear short Blind see’s a salaryman haunted by surreal visions in a dimension not so distant from ours.

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