Kei Oyama
Directing
Biography
In 2005, Shinsatsushitsu (Consultation Room), his graduation project at Tokyo Zokei University, won the Gold Prize for the Campus Genius Award, as well as Best Picture for BACA-JA. Oyama has been formally invited to international film festivals such as the Directors' Fortnight of the Cannes International Film Festival. In 2008 he made HAND SOAP for Aichi Arts Center which won him many awards including the Grand Prix for the Holland Animation Film Festival and the Special Prize for the International Animation Festival Hiroshima. In the live motion movies Watashi wa neko sutoka (I'm a cat stalker, 2008) and Gegege no nyobo (Gegege's wife, 2010) Oyama was in charge of making the animation clips. He is now a member of CALF, which he founded with his partners, making Hokago (After School) while producing, distributing, and selling animation works.
Known For
Haru works at a part-time job for a bookstore. Her dream is to become an illustrator and she also loves cats. One day, after a cat named Chibutomu disappears from the bookstore Haru canvasses the neighbourhood in search of Chibutomu.
I’m a Cat Stalker
A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.
Tokyo Loop
A joyfully psychedelic animation inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
Adventures in Beauty Wonderland
A compendium of independent Japanese animation, featuring a wide range of experimental techniques from drawn animation to pixilation.
Japanese Independent Animation, Volume 1
A woman is masturbating when a swarm of fish bursts out from all over her house to disturb her.
Nami
Everybody is excited to see the arrival of spring. This film tries to depict the excitement spring brings.
The Mechanism of Spring
The walls of video rental shops in Japan are lined with hundreds upon hundreds of animation DVDs, but experimental and art animation on DVD are rare. To remedy this situation, Image Forum put together this showcase of the work of contemporary avant-garde animators trained in Kyoto and Tokyo.
Thinking and Drawing: Japanese Art Animation of the New Millennium
A quiet and disquieting story about a boy who reaches puberty and his family.
ハンドソープ
In Kei Oyama's grim Consultation Room, a medical diagnosis triggers a wave of traumatic fantasies, portrayed in greyish pencil drawings that waver as if left out for too long in the rain.
Consultation Room
A young boy becomes interested in the bodies of living things and starts to develop phobias after seeing a dog's corpse. Before long all manner of things begin to appear grotesque to him.
The Thaw
A new wave is building within the Japanese independent animation scene. In Vol.3, discover the most promising stars of the next generation, with a particular focus on powerful female talents, who will dazzle you with their exhilaratingly original perspectives!
Japanese Independent Animation, Volume 3
Short film made by Kei Oyama, featured in Tokyo Loop.