Independent Animation by Women
She was abused by her father during childhood. Since he left, the pain and anger had begun to fade. One day, unexpectedly, she was struck by a revelation about her father's life that cast her feelings about him into confusion. (Source: IMDb)
A test subject is administered daily medication by a nurse in a ward where mysterious medical experiments take place. One day, when the nurse presses the switch of the test subject, it successfully transforms into a chimera. When the test subject continues to hold human desires to take on non-human forms, what spectacle will arise as a result? And what effect will this have on the subject's relationship with the nurse? (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)
Azuru Isshiki’s animated short An Instant, pares the art of animation down to its essentials: A series of images drawn in paint on paper. It begins and ends with a small dot, but in-between Isshiki explores the full range of expression possible with just simple animation tools. The film consists of just black and red paint on a variety of different papers. Dots, lines, and spirals dance across the screen, as does a cheerful female figure. (Source: Nishikata Film Review)
One day, a girl living on an island drops her precious anklet into the sea. A strange boy emerged from the sea and returned it to her. It is a nostalgic and warm story that depicts the harshness and beauty of the ocean and the small friendship born there through the girl's anklet.
A praying mantis strays into the society of ants that is organized by a mechanical queen.
"Your dream will come true if you believe in it." (Source: Maya Yonesho)
Malice comes up abruptly. As if it is blinking. Capricious like a flapping insect. One day the boy finds a winged insect and crushes it out of disgust. Meanwhile, the elephant sees the whole situation but says nothing. From that day on, the boy is chased by shadows of the winged insects. (Souce: Geidai Animation)
Things looking like cells, one drop next to the other. The cell next to me is you. When a star is born, everybody sings a song altogether. Drops looking like cells, one next to the other. The sound of a star as it gets born. The sound of a star as it disappears. (Source: YouTube)
Cornelis was standing alone at the center of the space. He closed his eyes, then he felt like being floating in the air. (Source: AniDB)
A strange piper makes following spirits a mysterious blossom.
Fill is a film fairy who lives alone in ruins. She looks lonely. One day, a projector shows up in front of her, and suddenly old films appear among the sound of rolling film. Fill is roped into the screen by a film seed named Moo, and the journey of Fill and Moo begins. (Source: Winter Film Awards)
Four housekeepers package and prepare meals for children. The children feed the livestock, which are to be used for their meals. This repeats the cycle.
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)
"Googuri Googuri" - a made up word, a secret word, shared by a girl and her grandfather. For the girl, her grandfather is at times like a mountain, at other times like a tree, or an ocean; a warm and comfortable place. Her thoughts take wing into her endless imagination. The things we have seen, smelled, thought, and everything we have experienced, extending and expanding within the infinite expanse inside ourselves.
A short film by Haruka Suzuki.
Music video directed by ONIONSKIN for the song Hakken by sora tob sakana. The song is featured on their single "New Stranger".
A little girl reflects on her last summer with her father at his funeral. Set on a small island in Japan where the director was born and raised, the film explores the relationship between the death of her father and the bomb storage in the mountain behind the family house. (Source: IMDB)
One doesn't always know where to go, but he must move forward. He has to move toward his goal. Always transforming, his heart and mind drift and run towards the goal he discovers. (Source: YouTube)
Music video directed by mareykrap that was originally featured at the My Name is Red-Haired Anne art exhibition in Seoul, South Korea, which showcases the artistic talents of Korean artists through the imaginative retelling and reinterpretation of Anne of Green Gables. This video was used for the 8th chapter of the exhibit titled "Independent Women" and was later posted on the offical Genie Music YouTube channel.
She has an unspeakable secret but the memory is gradually fading. The little girl is no longer sure if it was a dream or reality.
The scutes glisten in the corner of her mind and she starts to dig her memories up. What was like the museum director she encountered when she was lost?
In the evening of a village festival, a young boy named Bunroku goes to the festival with his friend and visits a clog shop on the way. There he learns an old superstition about the fox. (Source: haff.nl)
The term "KiyaKiya" comes from the old Japanese expression "mune ga kiyakiya suru." I first encountered it in Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's book Introductory Essays on Girls, in the chapter about "childhood experiences." The expression, which describes “an enigmatic, nostalgic, disturbing feeling,” or an impression of “deja-vu”, is at the origin of my "KiyaKiya" series. In our everyday routine, there are moments when suddenly we feel like something is different; this unexpected change, like in my memory, feels like it has a kind of reality. This impression is at the core of “KiyaKiya” and the related painting and drawing series. (Source: Official website)
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. (Source: Anilist)
When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me. A charming animation rhyme that weaves together the many days of observing, recording, and experimenting. (Source: Official website)
Animated with oil on glass music video by Shiroki Saori for the song Monotonous Purgatory by Matryoshka from their album Laideronnette.
For this nonsensical animation,30 pictures per second were produced with only pencil tool.A man stretches out his arm and grasp the night view of a distant city NEW TOKYO. He and female companion rush down the length of his arm toward the city lights.The work is defined by a speedy style and comical pictures that express the sense of omnipotence derived from coming into a large sum of money and folly of letting happiness slip through your hands. Short film by nuQ (Misaki Uwabo). (Source: Official Page)
An abstract short film by Mika Seike depicting the tense conversation man and a woman.
A boy finds a magical pen. When he draws in a notebook with the pen, something happens. (Source: Aichi International Women's Film Festival)
A Handmade Animated Cat! Stop and Look at Me for just 4 minutes! It's the first time for the Cat to be all by itself at home. This Cat does not have a name yet and nobody knows whether it is female or male. And it has two faces, one is very sensitive and the other is rather naughty. We try to make sensitive animations, and do not want to bombard children with too much noise and too many images. (Source: N&G Production)
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Hilly is a 10-year-old silent Taiwanese girl, nobody was concerned about her depression and the pressure she suffered from everyday life. Hilly hates that she always oppresses herself, and also hates the world controlled by adults. What does Hilly really want to speak out to the adults? (Source: IMDB)
Satomi Maiya's graduate work at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. A mother secretly threw a letter written by her daughter into the snow-covered ocean. The suspicious daughter follows her mother by sneaking on a rowboat with her.
Graduate Work 2017 from Chinami Taniguchi, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. The story of Nosferatu vampires glimpsed by a boy who gets lost in a forest. (Source: Geidai Animation)
Marie Yasui's graduation film.
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)
Music video for Southpaw by Kuricorder Quartet.
Music video directed by ShiShi Yamazaki for the song Suki tte Nandarou... Namida by YUKI (Yuki Kuramochi). The full version of the music video was officially released on YouTube for a limited time before the single's drop on July 29, 2015. It was also included on DVD with a limited edition release.
Okinawa is ominous right before the arrival of a typhoon. At first, Anri is excited by the unusual turn of events, but gradually she becomes fearful of the threatening typhoon. Then, her big sister tells her that typhoons have an eye... (Source: Geidai Animation)
Music video directed by Saki Iyori for the single Takaramono by Japanese rock band FLOWER FLOWER.
Music video animated by coalowl for the song Telecaster B-Boy by Surii featuring Len Kagamine.
One summer, 27 seconds on a street corner. We always forget something.
Music video for the song Tokyo OP by Quruli.
The day I dream, everything is different. (Source: TIAF)
The woman does the decision to coexist with the past. Returning to one person was not an answer. It is a new image. (Source: Official You Tube channel)
I’m the only one who can't live without an oxygen tank in the underwater world. No matter how suffocated I feel, I preserve peace and harmony by pretending the selfish girl and my friends with complicated family backgrounds don’t bother me.
The two of them, all alone at home. All alone with her father's corpse. Memories, ideals, and reality all sink beneath the muck. Everyone is alone. Everyone is in solitude. (Source: Geidai Animation)
Music video of the song Yoru ni Kakeru by Yoasobi.
Set in China in the 1960s, the story opens with an old woman cooling off in her garden. As the sky turns orange with the setting of the sun, an evening primrose begins to bloom. Prompted by the sight of the flower, the woman recalls her childhood and dreams of the time in her life when she was at her most beautiful. Using Chinese-style cutout pictures, the work consciously accentuates the soft texture of the paper and the brilliant colors. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival Archive)
When elephants are about to die, they will leave their herd and die alone. When a person knows that he is about to die, what will he choose? It's lung cancer, and it has already metastasized. There are probably 6 months left. It's a story about a man's last few steps in his life. It's probably quite different from the elephants.
