Directing
A collection of the best entries shown at the annual Inter-College Animation Festival from 2001 to 2006. For many animation students in Japan participating in the festival is a chance to start their professional careers. The entries include works made using various animation techniques, including CGI and stop-motion. Taku Furukawa, Katayama Masahiro and Kihune Tokumitsu can be found among the judges of the festival.
The visual accompaniment to Coldplay’s No 1 album Moon Music, created by over 150 different visual artists from 45 countries. Each artist was given a handful of music snippets from Moon Music and asked to create corresponding visuals. There were no rules or guidelines, and no knowledge of other artists’ creations.
Iwasaki’s ink oscillates like an evil lava lamp that might actually be alive and its progression into more and more disturbing images create an impressive sense of dread in a film that is basically just some pencil drawings on a blank background. (Film School Rejects)
The motif in this animation is the memories of my dog which lived 17 years.
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.
This is a hand-drawn animation depicting a moment of human behavior in the rain, in a simple, monochromatic style. A person on the horizon, the umbrella that person opens, a manual zoom-in, then the tip of the umbrella transforms into another person on the horizon. These people, drawn in a flowing style, eventually melt like liquid, mix together, then retake the form of humans. Although rain is never actually depicted, this is a piece in which we can experience the bodily sensation of a rainy day in poetic form.
The theme in this animation is doppelganger. This is story of one man and myself. Their memory, dream and hallucination are talked about in turn and their past and future go to gradually mix
Animation film based on fieldwork in Bali, Indonesia, and rituals filmed there. Of the hundreds of rituals known to exist in Bali as 'Sangyan', the film takes as its motif the beautiful ritual 'Sangyan Dudari', which is said to be the most effective in exorcising demons.
The juxtaposed movements resonate with each other, filling the conflict between continuity and fluctuation.
