Yoko Yuki

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.

One day out of the blue Prof. Banno of came to school with his hair shaven. Students made fun of his bald head. Prof. Banno flew in a hot air balloon the next day. Nobody knows anything about what happened to him after that

On a summer day an strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to a town. The familiar town looked totally fresh from a different point of view. The man should be there at the beach tomorrow.

Yoko Yuki reflects on her experience at her family home in Aichi during the COVID-19 state of emergency prior to returning to Tokyo. The multimedia animation approach and innovative use of audio recordings in her previous works 100percentElectrical and A Snowflake into the Night (JC 2019), and ZDRAVSTVUITE! and lost summer vacation (JC 2016) are again on display in this moving work. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

The mystical happenings of a tropical island are pictured in an animated scroll. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

The interconnected natural world is rendered newly tactile through stop-motion animation in Yoko Yuki’s transcendent tale of changing seasons.

Will I one day be separated from my beloved town and cat? Yon, a 8-year-old girl living in a condo, spends her days feeling uncertain and anxious about parting with her cat Kiku, and about keeping her confined in a small human home. One day, Yon and her mother visit a house in the woods to view a potential new home. That house once belonged to an old man and a cat named Namari... What does a comfortable home mean—for a family, for a cat, or even for a red mite? Set in Nagoya, this animation traces childhood memories of growing up with a cat, and through a variety of materials, depicts the thoughts of living creatures as they continue their search for a place to call home.

A trip to Thailand unwinds across multiple channels of media during a casual bathhouse conversation between the filmmaker and Foodman, who also provided music.