ShiShi Yamazaki
Directing
Biography
ShiShi Yamazaki is a filmmaker and visual artist known for her original style of creating Rotoscope animation using Watercolor painting, with a pallet of pale pinkish colors known as "ShiShi-Pink". Her works have been used in promotions for CHANEL, PRADA, Shiseido and have gained recognition internationally for her artwork. Her original animations, YA-NE-SEN a Go Go, and YAMASUKI, YAMAZAKI have also screened at numerous festivals. In 2018, ShiShi has been officially selected for Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list – Class of 2018. ShiShi continues to express her creativity in various forms like Dance Performances, Music, Ceramics, Sculptures, Silk screen printings and also "Mask", an art project of drawing a new Mask every single day, which has been carried on for the last 10 years. (2010~present)
Known For
"YANOYA" project of Akiko Yano and Tokyo University of the Arts
YANOYA
A variety of beautiful blossoms (over 100!) are painted by members of ShiShi's online masterclass "シシヤマザキのオンラインお絵かき教室".
Bloom
When you feel it, get it started / Even if you don’t, just somehow get it started / Whatever it may be, however it may be but / Anyhow let's just get it started.
Let’s Just Get It Started
Half asleep with my eyes closed, my conscience flies beyond time and space and I transform myself to all the life forms existing. I become the universe and the universe becomes me, until I fall asleep.... It is a song to pray for the existence of heart and soul at an awakening.
Moonlit Night and Opal
When the mind says aah, the body says hee. I dance around the confusion and the consensus, and my whole life is getting composed of these dances.
aaH / Hee
Animated dancing through Tokyo.
YA-NE-SEN a Go Go
A hand-drawn experimental film about a woman dancing with her feet.
Now Now Feet, No No Feet
When you're insanely happy, you're so happy to be happy, that you forget what made you happy. Shishi Yamazaki's film for her graduation show on January, 2013.