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The Unlucky Butterfly. A early Japanese animation short.

Graduation work of Sawako Nakagawa and Yoshino Kosaka at Kyoto Seika University.

As the long-awaited summer holidays begin, Candy and her friends go hiking in the mountains. However, a heavy rainstorm interrupts their leisure, making them hide in the forest. After the rain has stopped, the friends are ready to proceed, but Candy gets herself into some serious trouble when she encounters a cute bear cub.

This work is a missive to the life form we call viruses in the hope that we can coexist. The relationship between humans and viruses is poetically expressed from a different perspective.

There was a man with a hole in his belly. The reason was not certain but he just kept eating the food that grew on the tables as if to fill his hole. All of a sudden the food disappeared, something came up from the table and ran away. He was at a loss but killed it to fill the hole with the dead body. The hole was filled half by the dead body

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In the pursuit of her dream, Protagonist Lin worked alone at an animation company in a big modern city, which was too busy to answer her father's message. She was given an important role in a new project. However, her inspiration dried up under the pressure of the schedule. she fell into a low point where she could not hold a pencil again...Losing confidence, Lin go back to her hometown. She found out a sketchbook when drawn with her father in childhood. Encouraged by the memory, she rediscovered her first love to painting and devoted herself to creating and embracing her dreams.

The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words.

The borderline of water, a body, or a bathtub gets more and more unclear. All are mixed together in the lukewarm water.

Halloween has arrived at Ayanagi Academy, bringing copious amounts of pumpkins, decorations, and delicious seasonal foods with it. Yuuta Hoshitani and his classmates enjoy preparing for the festivities until Kouki Nanjou tells a creepy ghost story, putting all of them on edge. As night draws closer, the lights in their dormitory go out and ghosts begin to appear, making the group believe that Nanjou's eerie tale is actually rooted in truth! While Hoshitani and a few others cower in fear, the rest of them investigate the supernatural occurrence to find the truth behind what is really going on.

An one-armed mountaineer encounters a lost arm on a mountain of salt. Who did it belong to? Why was it left there?

A weird and wonderfully bizarre Japanese cartoon from the '30s. A young boy lives with his grandmother in a city where people use small airplanes to get from place to place. He drives a taxi plane, and during one of his travels he bumps into a bird that has been shot by the boy's latest customer. The bird, as well as a hungry bear he meets next, offer him a reward for his help. Men cause many problems for animals - is there a way to help them stay out of trouble?

Experimental short film featuring artwork by Daisuke Ichiba.

There are three "Motifs". The complete differences between them make themselves self-doubt. The melody begins, and the music motif could not resist the impulse to dance, but the others also catching up ... Am "I" also a "Motif"? This film uses a Fugue from Bach, tries to unify similar concepts that exist in different forms, including music, visual arts, and narrative.

Plot unknown.

A wimpy crow and a carefree pigeon end up having to go on a trip to the moon after a little ruckus with the stones. What awaits the foolhardy duo at their destination?

The motif in this animation is the memories of my dog which lived 17 years.

This video installation is an experiment that imagines the canvas as a box and animates images within that space.

During the period of the 'Provinces at war', many lives were lost. A castle architect discovers the possible role of a tea room as a place for warriors to regain humanity.

Hands / flicker / morphing animation suggests sexual organs in a frantic dance.

Tightrope tells the tale of the reluctant heir of a yakuza family and his childhood friend, and follows their love relationship that started budding in their school days and keeps developing slowly but surely.

Abstract animated short uses unsettling imagery and haunting music to explore themes of human life, school, and bipolarity. Its hypnotic visuals gradually draw viewers in, creating a sense of unease and disconnection—a work that might make one question not only school but the very act of living.

Off the Hook performed during the Japanese Splatoon Koshien 2018 tournament at Tokaigi. Check out the show!

A girl who lost something important meets a rabbit.

A film about the Battle of Okinawa during the last days of World War II.

Animation, in which a couple nurture a giant plant, and cultivate it into a bomb shaped blossom which threatens to destroy them.

Directed and key animated by Yukiko Kai, music by Urban Garde. Graduation work in Tama Art University Department of Graphic Design.

Produced for "Gebocon I", a convention organized by Fanroad magazine, an anime/manga/doujin magazine in the 80s and 90s.

The noise of the badly projected cathode ray tube image cleared up and a news program called "Ficfyon 7" appeared on the monitor. Professor Kim Wilson, an expert on the mysterious genre of "Ficfyon" was introduced as a guest, and the host asked him questions about the current state of "Ficfyon." The professor's answer was not in words, but a mysterious gesture. With the presenter's astonished expression, the images on the monitor split and repeat like a matryoshka. Eventually, the program ends as if nothing had happened, but the strange loop continues afterwards...

A seven-episodic experimental animated short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

A short animation from Tomori Komazaki for the Joshibi Art Museum in Japan.

Kosaku Sarutahiko is a miniscule manager of a mysterious café. He tries many ways to treat his customer with the coffee he brewed but…

The beautiful girl Cinterrier (like the terrier version of Cinderella), was proposed to by many dogs. Who finally got her heart?

Kurayukaba is set in an alternative world, in a town where people have begun to fear falling shadows and the coming of the evening as a result of strange, mass disappearances that occur at night. After a chance encounter with a young woman named Tanne and her armored train, Shoutarou, a good-for-nothing detective, attempts to solve the case once and for all.

"Anthology with Cranes" is a 17th Century scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, measuring over 13 meters long. Koji Yamamura attempts to decipher this painting by interpreting it as animation.

This original video animation summarizes the entire TV series.

A love triangle between three very different people. Has interjections of anime, a child sized mannequin, and lots of strange goings on throughout. Hard to pinpoint exactly what it's all about.

A dark surreal film of several creatures metamorphosing inside a room.

A dazzling story of rivalry and growth between characters from both sides, centered on the Prism Show Champion "Shin".

Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

A fairy-tale telling the story of a wealthy, spoiled princess Katharine who got changed into "normal" girl by a Witch and now have to live among common village folks adapting to their modest lifestyle.

Graphic research inspired by photos and travel souvenirs made with oil pastels.

Maru-san and Kaku-san have grown complacent in the long peace. They go to view a military parade, but it turns into a comparison of the military strength of countries around the world. In the end, they listen in on an arms control conference to find out what each country is really thinking.

Dekao, a lonely whale, was swimming dejectedly in the ocean, desperately wanting a partner, when he met a very beautiful whale right in front of him. However, the whale that Dekao fell in love with was actually a submarine built by the Japanese Navy...

"YANOYA" project of Akiko Yano and Tokyo University of the Arts

Dwarfs in red, blue and green colours have been working in each dark cabinet in a factory called television. They have kept working without questioning their own identities. Midori, a green dwarf, becomes aware of himself. . .

Short animation by Komazaki Tomomi.

Short directed by Noburô Ôfuji.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

A Music Video made for Lucky Old Sun’s song ‘马马虎虎‘ (Ma Ma Hu Hu) from their new album ‘‘うすらい“. A group of young girls and boys having their summer fantasy with a few daydreams, romance and kungfu actions!

The energetic little rice ball boy, Konigiri-kun, with his triangular body and sesame-seed-sprinkled head, meets a cracked egg one day. After trying to patch it up with some tape, he's unsure what to do next. Just then, he stumbles upon a scene where a hot plate is being used to solve everyone's problems! When Konigiri-kun asks for advice on the cracked egg, he's met with a confident ‘No worries!’ What kind of solution will they come up with?

A promotional video of the exhibition ‘ArtPath 2011’ by Tokyo University of the Arts Musical Creativity and the Environment. The excitement before ArtPath starts.

A young girl visits her grandparents’ Pokémon-filled home and bonds with a shy Slugma!

Akira is in the midst of the final battle between the human race and vampires. He only has 47 days until Japan is turned into an island of vampires.

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

A short movie based on the children's story by Momoko Ishii.

‘Mrs. KABAGodZILLA had a daughter whose feet and arms looked just like her own.’ Mother and child were always together, but the mother's hospitalization makes the daughter remember the past, and think a little about what lies ahead.

Is it possible to create a work using a single giant chimney as a video material? Consider variations in angles and movements, experiment as much as you can think of, and use 8mm film I tried baking it. The title is named from the chimney color of "red" and "white".