Japan: Beyond the Geidai

75 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

A Crow Is White: Fake! Fake!

A Crow Is White: Fake! Fake!

  • Wataru Uekusa
  • Japan, 2014
  • 3 min.
City of Yokohama

City of Yokohama

  • Masaki Okuda
  • Japan, 2015
Datum Point

Datum Point

  • Ryo Orikasa
  • Japan, 2015
  • 6 min.

Yoshiro Ishihara (1915–1977), who burst upon the scene of Japanese modern poetry in the mid-1950s, is now remembered as a “poet of silence.”
He said “A poem is an impulse to resist writing.”
This film is an attempt to seek out the landscape from his poem.

Falling

Falling

  • Moe Koyano
  • Denmark, 2015
  • 2 min.



Female rabbit bite off male rabbit finger.
Finger is falling down. And he is reaching back into he's memory before it becomes the finger when it was dear someone's love 'shape'.
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Ho-Ho’ This Message Is Boiling Hot

Ho-Ho’ This Message Is Boiling Hot

  • Masanori Okamoto
  • Japan, 2011
  • 2 min.
Melody of Funhouse

Melody of Funhouse

  • Toshiko Hata
  • Japan, 2013
  • 12 min.
Metome: Paper Moon

Metome: Paper Moon

  • Asame Ike
  • Japan, 2013
  • 3 min.
Poker

Poker

  • Yukie Nakauchi
  • Japan, 2014
  • 3 min.

The baby bird fly around the world to transformation.

Sasano Maly: Baloney Speaker

Sasano Maly: Baloney Speaker

  • Atsushi Makino
  • Japan, 2014
  • 4 min.
Such a Good Place to Die

Such a Good Place to Die

  • Onohana
  • Japan, 2014
  • 3 min.
Sugar Lump

Sugar Lump

  • Ryo Okawara
  • Japan, 2015
  • 13 min.

This is a story of an adolescent boy living in a burning house with his parents. He can't drink black coffee yet he refuses his mother's offer of sugar lump. Rejecting his mother’s kindness and ignoring his father's concern, he struggles with his own internal conflicts and continues to perform the minor rebellions of youth.

The Fear of Dangerous Drug

The Fear of Dangerous Drug

  • Hakhyun Kim
  • Japan, 2015
  • 2 min.
The Great Rabbit

The Great Rabbit

  • Atsushi Wada
  • France, 2012
  • 7 min.

If you believe in the Rabbit, it means that you will believe anything.If you don't believe in the Rabbit, it means that you would not believe anything.

White

White

  • Alimo
  • Japan, 2013
  • 6 min.
YUKI ‘Sukitte nandarou…namida’

YUKI ‘Sukitte nandarou…namida’

  • Shishi Yamazaki
  • Japan, 2015
  • 4 min.