Visual Effects
An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names in animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).
This is a story of PLUG and his friends, who live in the Zero Emission world, sharing energy each other, harmoniously.
Stop motion animation using gypsum.
A fusing of the human body and the mechanical, expressing the impulse of sex, energy, and the vibrancy of life. The opening text, in ancient Japanese, recounts the mythic coupling of the gods Izanami and Izanagi.
