Interest Stacks

This work, the title of which refers to a species of venomous snake, focuses on interactions between troops and sex workers near Naval Air Facility Atsugi (Kanagawa Prefecture), animated from a child’s perspective. Aihara’s works of this period often incorporate a documentary viewpoint of Japanese society at the time of his childhood. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

Man often yearns of a past more innocent and pure. This film disregards that sentimentality and depicts a constant, permanent transformation of the landscape of mountains and rivers. A beautiful and intense image poem made from thousands of pencil drawings.

When you're insanely happy, you're so happy to be happy, that you forget what made you happy. Shishi Yamazaki’s graduation film featuring the tracks Yama Yama and Kashi Kofima by musical group Yamazaki.

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A story set in a world before ours. A world in chaos where forces of good and evil fight and mingle. By doing so, it creates the chance to give birth to the new world. A couple of winged beings make love and fly away. They bear a child in an egg, and when the child opens its eyes they are immediately destroyed, one consumed by fire and the other by water. Mythical, elemental and mysterious, the world created by Tsuji is dangerous, menacing and suffuse with signs of apocalypse, but somehow simultaneously tender and compassionate. A Feather Stare at the Dark captures simple gestures and primal feelings and amplifies them, realising the non-verbal and non-literal with remarkable grace.

A lot of wrong may happen, but no problem. A whistle, a bird, a stone, a human, they are gentle. (Sorce: Official website)

An animation mixing hand-drawn and cut-out techniques depicting the daily rituals of weekday morning that is occasionally interrupted by flights of fantasy delivered in stroboscopic flashes. Showing scenes of brushing teeth and face washing, Tanaami describes the film to be like a self-portrait on his favorite day of the week. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

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)

Three short films by the Japanese avant-garde illustrator and animator. Regarded (unfairly) as the Japanese equivalent of Andy Warhol, these films showcase a distinctively commercial illustration look reminiscent of the current pop art movement of that decade (1960s).

One day, the snow metamorphosed into an earthworm, when it sensed danger for melting. The earthworm, who longed for aboveground, metamorphosed into a tree. It continues metamorphosing and... Someday, it will remember her old self. (Source: Vimeo)

"Yoru no Okite" takes us to the sky (or to hell) to accompany the delirium of a man who is assassinated. A different take on a spirit who is adrift after being murdered. This restless spirit takes us on a surreal journey through death, the after life, and back to the land of the living again.

An experimental film created from 3 years worth of abstract pencil drawings with the goal of being a catalyst for unveiling a new mental landscape in viewers.

The first "Yokoso Boku desu" animated short film, featuring four surreal, humorous song performances: "Fancy Shirts", "Antenna Chon-Mage", "The Tea Time", and "Strange Genius".

Film by Tanaami Keiichi.

I have lost my interest in any kind of social activities after my nose leave me. Am I enjoying loneliness as I thought, or the ugliness of the people around me makes me feel being alone is actually not bad at all? (Source: Vimeo)

An experimental film by Tarafu Otani about hands.

One day, a boy who separated from his mother’s hand is deprived of his fingers. His fingers become a larva and part from his hand. The house. . . conceals a relationship between the two from anyone. How does the boy who is deprived of his fingers grow up? (Source: TMDB)

The short film tells the story of a young boy, who as a result of seeing a dog's corpse, becomes interested in the bodies of living things and starts to develop phobias. Before long all manner of things begin to appear grotesque to him. (Source: Wochi Kochi)

A visualization of how dreams mush up unrelated events together to make up a single story.

Tanaami Keiichi and Aihara Nobuhiro collaborate to put together recording of their dreams.

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Is the path I am walking on now part of a dream or reality? This is the first animation film that is largely motionless. (Source: Official website)

A short animation by Ryoji Yamada combining dreams and pictures.

An impotent husband, an unsatisfied wife and a megalomaniac policeman. A perfect ecosystem in the concrete jungle. The jungle where you can truly face your lust with no moral laws. (Source: Vimeo)

Completed psychedelic anime. As a personal work, it will be the last film work.

On a summer day, a strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to the town. The familiar town looked totally fresh from a different point of view. The man should be there at the beach tomorrow. (Source: Geidai Animation)

A man returns to his apartment at the end of the day completely disheartened. As he goes to light a cigarette, the flame takes on a life of its own.

Based on a poem by Kenji Miyazawa. A worm in this river looks shiny to me. 8 γ e 6 α (Source: Official website)

Graduate Work 2022 by Natumi Ueta, Musashino Art University, Imaging Arts and Sciences.

A boy comes to terms with the loss of his brother.

A boy and a girl wander through a town at night.

A girl reflects on her memories of her grandfather.

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum. The stories are: Tokyo Strut (Sato Masahiko, Ueta Mio) Tokyo Trip (Tanaami Keiichi) Fishing Vine (Seike Mika) Yuki-chan (Oyama Kei) Dog & Bone (Shiriagari Kotobuki) Public Convenience (Tabaimo) TOKYO (Uda Atsuko) Black Fish (Aihara Nobuhiro) Unbalance (Ito Takashi) Tokyo Girl (Shimao Maho) Manipulated Man (Wada Atsushi) Nuance (Murata Tomoyasu) Hashimoto (Furukawa Taku) Funkorogashi (Kuri Yoji) Fig (Yamamura Koji) 12 O’Clock (Iwai Toshio)

The film portrays the author's fear of how Hong Kong has changed and how she faces her emotions. It feels like the soul is broken into many pieces, but if we survive, depths of night will eventually pass. (Source: Goldenhorse)

A series of 9 animated shorts based on the Frank comics by Jim Woodring, featuring computer/CGI, traditional cel, stop-motion, and even sand painting techniques. Contributing animators and musicians include COCOA, Eri Yoshimura, Naomi Nagata, TAMAPRO/DROP, Taruto Fuyama, Masaki Maito, Kanako Kawagushi, Masaya Sakaue, Bill Frisell, Dame Darcy, and Woodring himself.

A young woman describes her father and his relationship with his many pets that he never managed to take care of. This is a story of those clumsy people whose tactless expression of love ends up pushing their loved ones away. (Source: Goldenhorse)

We are always going faster on the way back home. In the experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the protons apparently only exist for a billionth of a second, travelling at approximately the speed of light. Feelings are broadcasted like the passing of time. (Source: Letterboxd)

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.

The juxtaposed movements resonate with each other, filling the conflict between continuity and fluctuation. (Source: Official Website)

This animation was based on a scene I dreamt, where white smoke was rising from a bed. I was influenced by one of Zhuangzi’s thought, The butterfly dream, and visualized the contrast between dream and reality. While I was creating this piece, I was never aware of whom the man sleeping in the movie was, but somehow, he ended up looking just like my grandfather. (Source: Official Website)

An animation work based on rituals filmed during fieldwork in Bali, Indonesia. Among the hundreds of ceremonies known as 'Sangyan' in Bali, the motif is 'Sangyan Dudari', which is said to be the most effective for exorcism. Sangyan Dudari is a ritual in which two premenstrual girls are possessed by Dudari (celestial maiden spirit) and danced continuously. (Source: Official Website)

Among the tall buildings of the city, a lonely guard hides a beautiful field where he meets an egret. However, the expansion of the city never stops, and one day the field is destroyed. The egret escapes without a trace and the guard begins to see mysterious illusions. (Source: Official Site)

A simple story of a the fairy Bonyo Bonyo being born from a lotus flower and making friends with frogs.