Japan: Geidai Student Films

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 Black Cat

A Black Cat

  • Mika Seike
  • Japan, 2015
  • 2 min.

It consists of only woman who keeps caressing a resisting cat.
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A Gum Boy

A Gum Boy

  • Masaki Okuda
  • Japan, 2010
  • 3 min.
A Place to Name

A Place to Name

  • Ataru Sakagami
  • Japan, 2015
  • 4 min.

This place is where my grand parents, my parents, and I once lived. Even though I lose my memories and feelings of it, it does exist there and keeps to be in existence.
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Color Blots

Color Blots

  • Saori Suzuki
  • Japan, 2015
  • 3 min.

'A game to find image in a chance. In this Aleatoricism there are much more potentials than what I have moved.'
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Fox Fears

Fox Fears

  • Miyo Sato
  • Japan, 2015
  • 7 min.

In the evening of a village festival, a young boy named Bunroku goes to the festival with his friends and visits a clog shop on the way. There he learns an old superstition about the fox.

Imamura Store

Imamura Store

  • Aya Tsugehata
  • Japan, 2011
  • 5 min.

There is an elderly woman who has run a store in a Japanese town for sixty years. She marries into the Imamura Store and cares for the shop by herself, as she lived each day as the present.

It’s Time for Supper

It’s Time for Supper

  • Saki Muramoto
  • Japan, 2013
  • 8 min.
Kicking Rocks

Kicking Rocks

  • Yutaro Kubo
  • Japan, 2013
  • 5 min.
Melting Down

Melting Down

  • Takuto Katayama
  • Japan, 2015
  • 3 min.

The fear to be ruined calmly without any conscience. Everybody is getting distorted soundly and gently.

My Milk Cup Cow

My Milk Cup Cow

  • Yantong Zhu
  • Japan, 2014
  • 11 min.

Father tells his 4-year-old daughter Nunu that there's a cow at the bottom of her cup of milk. Nunu believes him and drinks all of her milk, but there is no cow. Nunu gradually stops believing her father, who constantly tells her various lies.

See ya Mr. Banno!

See ya Mr. Banno!

  • Yoko Yuki
  • Japan, 2014
  • 4 min.

One day out of blue Prof. Banno of next class came to school with his hair shaven. Students made fun of his baldhead. Prof. Banno flew in a hot-air balloon the other day. Nobody knows anything about him afterwards.

Sunset Flower Blooming

Sunset Flower Blooming

  • Yuanyuan Hu
  • Japan, 2012
  • 10 min.

The film is set in China, in the 1960s. An old woman cools herself in the garden. The sunset makes the sky orange. Sunset flower starts to bloom. The flower guides her to daydream. The woman dreams the childhood memories and when she was young and beautiful.

The Woman Who Stole Fingers

The Woman Who Stole Fingers

  • Saori Shiroki
  • Japan, 2010
  • 4 min.

One day, a boy who separated from his mother's hand is deprived of his fingers. When mother's love shows another side, His fingers become a larva and part from his hand. The house stands as concealed a relationship between the two from anyone. How does the boy who is deprived of his finger grow up?