Nishikata Film Review: festivals

18 May 2017

Poetic Landscapes – Recent Gems in Japanese Indie Animation

Poetic Landscapes – Recent Gems in Japanese Indie Animation

Sunday, May 28, 17:15 Naxoshalle Kino (learn more)

Florian Höhr and I have put together a selection of some of the best animated shorts to come out of Japan in recent years. Each of these works look upon the world through a poetic lens. Whether inspired directly from poetry like Ryo Orikasa’s Noburō Ōfuji Award winning Datum Point, or poetic in manner of expression, each artist uses animation to depict their own unique view of the world.

trailer | affordance from Hayato Nove on Vimeo.

We are delighted to announce that the illustrator and graphic designer Hayato Nove, director of Affordance, will be in attendance to answer your questions about his mesmerising work. Affordance has screened at international festivals including Image Forum, where it won the Award for Excellence, VIFF, and DOTMOV 2016.

Datum Point (水準原点, 2015)

Ryo ORIKASA (折笠良, b. 1986)

website

Fragments (カケラ, 2016)

Naoyuki TSUJI (辻直之, b. 1972)

AFISA-JAPAN

Affordance (2015)

Hayato NOVE (野辺ハヤト, b. 1971)

website / vimeo / instagram / soundcloud

Float Talk (2016)

Kiyoko NAKAI (田中喜代子, b. 1982) of the art unit kesyuroom2013 (ケシュ#203)

website / vimeo / twitter / facebook

Forest this Flower Bloom

(木ノ花ノ咲クヤ森, 2015)

Tomoyasu MURATA (村田朋泰, b. 1974)

website / twitter

The Last Observer (最後の観測者, 2015)

Daisuke NAGAOKA (永岡大輔, b. 1973)

website / vimeo

Feed (2016)

Eri OKAZAKI (岡崎恵理)

twitter / CALF / Tamabi

Vita Lakayama (2016)

Akihito IZUHARA (泉原昭人, 1964)

website / twitter / blog / Musabi

Cathy Munroe Hotes 2017

Tokyo University of the Arts at Nippon Connection 2017

Special Guest: Taruto FUYAMA

Thursday, May 25, 15:15 Naxoshalle Kino (learn more)

Thanks to the support of the City of Yokohama Frankfurt Representative Office and the city of Franfurt am Main’s Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Nippon Connection is once again presenting a selection of works by recent graduates of the Graduate Program in Animation at Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai). This year's graduating class once again showcases a wide variety of animation styles from stop motion to CG animation.

The selection will be presented by Geidai professor Taruto Fuyama (布山タルト, b. 1973), who is a native of Yokohama who graduated from Keio University’s Graduate School of Media and Governance. Fuyama first came to international attention with his innovative film Visions of Frank (2004), which was an homage to Jim Woodring’s comic Frank (1996-2001). The film features on the omnibus DVD Visions of Frank: Short Films by Japan's Most Audacious Animators (2005). He then worked at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Gifu Prefecture where he developed Trigger Device with his students. Fuyama is involved in the research and development of the animation software Koma Koma. His qualitative research is concerned with “the experience created by animation.” Fuyama will be holding animation workshop for kids on the Saturday of the festival.