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Life's a Bitch

Life's a Bitch

March 15, 2021

One day in the life of a man whose home was a bench on a railway platform.

Vadim on a Walk

Vadim on a Walk

March 15, 2021

The film is about the transformation and inner liberation of the protagonist, who found himself in the bleak sequence of everyday life of an office worker.

Twoot Newt

March 13, 2021

A musical amphibian struggles with the difficult feelings of making art.

The Photoplay Obeys the Laws of the Mind

The Photoplay Obeys the Laws of the Mind

March 13, 2021

Using the closest thing we can share for time travel--the moving image--to ask questions of time relative to light, motion, and mass. Does light create, prolong, reverse time? Does motion alter our experience of time? Does mass warp our sense of time?

La Tinta Roja

La Tinta Roja

March 12, 2021

A young writer is questioned for attempted murder at a small town police station, until she discovers that this is not the only crime of which she is accused.

Bonne Nuit petite tomate

Bonne Nuit petite tomate

March 12, 2021

Shimajiro and the Flying Ship

Shimajiro and the Flying Ship

March 12, 2021

Shimajiro and his friends help build a flying ship for the people of Greenwood who are in trouble because it doesn't rain in Greenwood.

Alone Together

Alone Together

March 12, 2021

How one doctor’s family is navigating COVID-19

Discussing the Magical Negro

Discussing the Magical Negro

March 11, 2021

Discussing the trope Magical Negro and the effect of performative representation.

I Found It in Shichigahama

I Found It in Shichigahama

March 10, 2021

A short anime with the theme of earthquake disaster and reconstruction released by Shichigahama, a town in Miyagi Prefecture.

Anima

March 10, 2021

Tales of the Outback

March 10, 2021

Three mystical characters gather in misty mountain cabin, where they start to tell stories to each other. Folktales takes viewers to Finnish landscapes where mysterious and strange incidents have occurred over time. After three stories the mist has passed and three characters leave the cabin.

Boy

Boy

March 9, 2021

Kazuyoshi Saitо made an offer to collaborate with Naoki Urasawa, with whom he has a close relationship, after he saw Urasawa's rough drawing of a boy who strummed a broom like a guitar. The image matched what Saitо completely had in mind for his song "Boy." Urasawa created a storyboard, and completed an animation on his own for the first time. Urasawa also illustrated the song's album cover.

Nautibuoys

March 24, 2022

A band of totally professional pirates attempts to fix their ship.

MUNCH MUNCH

MUNCH MUNCH

March 8, 2021

How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.

Round Trip

Round Trip

November 5, 2021

Kaibun are palidromes in which words sound the same when read backwards and forwards. Sometimes the meaning changes, and sometimes not. I brought this playful and poetic world to life.

So I Picked Up the Worm

So I Picked Up the Worm

March 8, 2021

Far away from her hometown, the little fox studies in a foreign country. The monotonous days and bare relationships make her increasingly homesick. But one day, she finds the curiosity that she had once lost and takes a new step.

Squishy Fish Eggs

Squishy Fish Eggs

March 8, 2021

When I touched the sack of cod roe for the first time, it felt exactly like my thighs. It was light pink and so soft. Maybe my whole world is made of squishy fish eggs.

The Mouse and a Prism

The Mouse and a Prism

March 8, 2021

The mouse finds a prism and it reveals to him a magnificent rainbow like he's never seen before. He tries to show his friends but for some reason it won't reappear. It seems beauty has a mind of its own.

Dear Viruses

Dear Viruses

March 8, 2021

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.