Beluga
A poor girl suffers even in her own dream.
Japan: Beyond Tama Gra
70 minutes
Tokyo University of Arts and Tama Arts University in Japan are internationally renowned as high-quality animation schools offering a specific curriculum. Animation teachers Koji Yamamura and Tatsutoshi Noruma and students from these academies present their films and outstanding projects by former students. Supported by the Japan Foundation.
This program screened as part of Haff 2016
Showing in this program
Digital
An abstract and experimental film.
A man who stood in front of me on a train, a lady who sat near me in a café, the people waiting for traffic lights on the other side of the road.
This film was born out of the sketches I drew of all these people I came across in my daily life. I explored our every day life and its peculiarities through the expression of the 'movement' I felt when I was drawing my sketches.
Happy Bogeys Episode 11-13
Strange message that strange creatures emitted.
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Happy Bogeys 1, 8, 9
The mystery of the message of the mystery of the organism.
KiyaKiya
In the animation, a girl is performing 'kamishibai' (a traditional Japanese picture-story show). Three worlds simultaneously develop in the work. The same girl lives within all three different worlds and their separate timeframes. These tracks curve slowly, eventually colliding and switching directions and she continuously circles these orbits in an endless repetition.
Small Garden
Story of a life form which wakes up in an unknown mysterious world. As he goes deeper, he slowly understands what kind of place it is. The world seems beautiful, but it lacks what real life has. He has to make a choice to stay there or leave to where he came from.
Stray Sheep Trilogy
A TV animation broadcast in a late-night timeslot on Fuji TV. The three episodes are from a dark fairy-tale series about the nightmares of Poe the sheep.
The Demon
The demon appeared in the village.
My husband went to the island to kill it.
The House of Small Cubes
The house is almost like 'blocks'.
A grandpa who lived in the house has been constantly building houses on top, as the water level rises.
This is the story about his memory with his family.
Wonder
The 365-second animation consists of 8760 sequence of pictures, all different shape and color, hand-drawn by the director everyday in 365 days. This is the ultimate analog approach by the abstract animated film creator in digital era.
