youkaiTV

Yuan Qiu（Akita University of Art）

On the shore overlooking the Japan Sea, a Namahage demon was enjoying Yokai TV, a channel broadcast by ghosts. Surprised by news on the program that Chinese ghosts are suing themselves, Namahage...

The mark of Emi

Momoka Furukawahara（Tokyo Zokei University）

My friend Emi appeared in my dream, which really took me by surprise. I couldn't look at her straight that day.

The Man on the Shore

Studio KABA:The Man on the Shore Team / Hikaru Morishige（Musashino Art University）

A man who has been working alone on an island. This video documents his daily life.

Transparent Deer

Natsumi Someya（Musashino Art University）

A teacher takes three female students on an excursion called "Seeing the Real Sky." The teacher poses the girls the question, “What do you think the sky is?”

Dawn

Keita Tsuji（Musashino Art University）

It’s night. The moon is full. A young boy and a girl who have run away from home wander the streets. As they while away the time together in unfamiliar places, memories of the place where each of them was born begin to resurface…

The Balloon Catcher

Isaku Kaneko（Tama Art University）

Axe Man lived in a city inhabited by the Balloon people. Supposedly because the Balloon people found his gleaming blade terrifying, Axe Man was under constant surveillance by the Balloon Police. Nevertheless, Axe Man made the effort to be friends with the Balloon people, but one day, a Balloon person is murdered on a dark subway platform.

Strawberry Candy

Nianze Li（Tokyo University of the Arts）

A secret that can never be told. Memory gradually fading away. The little girl is no longer sure if it was a dream or a reality.

So I Picked Up the Worm

Shuqin Li（Tokyo University of the Arts）

A fox studying abroad in a foreign city. The fox’s days are monotonous, relationships with people are bland, and the homesickness worsens. But then one day the fox finds the curiosity it had lost and discovers an answer, in its own way.

SHUKKA

Ikuto Kai（Kyoto City University of Arts）

A mandarin that has rotted make the mandarins around it rot.

OASIS

WASABIMELON / Ryusei Hashizume（HAL Osaka）

A few decades later, the frogs can no longer withstand the changes in the environment and die en masse. Humankind develop SAVIOR, an AI animal intended to clarify the causes and the ecology. SAVIOR comes across a frog of the same kind that died en masse, studies it, and moves around with it, gathering information.

3 Murs & un toit

Mathilde Dugardin, Orane Laffra, Hugo de Magalhaes, Wassim El Hammami（PÔLE 3D Digital & Creative School）France

Deep into her dreams, Ava wanders through the mysterious walls of her childhood dollhouse.

In Sight

Tlotloyarona Yolisa Letshwene（AFDA School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (Cape Town campus)）South Africa

In post-apocalyptic future Cape Town, a jaded, desperate sex worker, Annika, encounters the blind homeless Lisolethu, whose innocence erupts her plan of self-satisfaction to be a revelation of the deeper void to be filled.

Out Of Ordinary

Alicja Pahl（ZHdK/Zurich University of the Arts）Switzerland

This film is from the everyday viewer’s perspective. It explores what it might be like to travel through the frames and screens, that otherwise keep a voyeur and his or her fanciful ideas and longing experiences at a distance and, instead, turn them into a real-life journey.

Shift

Chen Sing Yap（Sheridan College）Canada

During a pandemic, a nurse decides to live in her car to protect her family. The cheesy greeting cards her son sends her in social isolation begin to take on a special importance.

Tanabata

Eirik Heggen（Volda University College）Norway

As a mysterious plague enters the magical town of Tanabata, the birds of Tanabata flies to seek help on the Sun.

The Song of Lost Boy

Daniel Quirke（National Film and Television School）United Kingdom

Ben a young choir boy, who after his voice breaks mid solo, has a crisis of faith, decides to run away from his community. He happens upon a group of nomads who take him in, though Ben hides secret about who he really is, and must decide what to do with it.

An-Min-Ensemble

Natsuki Shibuya（Akita University of Art）

This is a video installation with experimental music composed of sounds based on sleep posture while asleep, the most unconscious time while one is alive. Even as the three-person melody generates a complex and bizarre harmony, we are reminded of the gap with the fact that the source of the sound is completely unconscious.

Instant Sympathy

I/0 (Kazumi Inada + Takuto Okamoto) / Kazumi Inada（University of Tsukuba）

An interactive work that reveals realities about online society as it exists in parallel with the real world by analyzing social media. The images change in real time by the second, depicting the kaleidoscope of changing topics and the rhythms that rule society.

speculum

media design lab / Honoka Iijima（Josai International University）

A work created to project unintended sensations and an invisible sense of distance rather than as a "mirror" to reflect oneself. Through this work viewers will hopefully experience the new sense you can get just by slightly changing the angle of a familiar mirror.

“Blue Night” (a poem)

Yu Shida（Musashino Art University）

I write words and they turn into poetry. I showed the poetry to AI (entered into a program as text) and the AI generated images from its own logic (non-human). When you look at AI "brain images" do you see poetry and humanity?

UNLABELED — Camouflage against the machines

A++ / Makoto Amano（Keio University）

In a world of AI-surveillance, lenses are pointed at us on the streets without our consent and our personal information is exploited without us knowing. So, we studied and generated patterns that cause AI misrecognition and wondered what would a camouflage coat for the 21st century look like.

Sonic-Aquarium

Health Promotion Committee / Ayaka Sakakibara（Keio University）

The aim was to create a new type of interaction between fish in an aquarium and people looking at the fish by coming up with a new viewing experience that viewers can enjoy aurally as well as visually. The movements of the fish in the aquarium generate sound which is synchronized with the activity in the aquarium.

HAGIC

Team HAGIC / Yuji Fujishige（Aichi Institute of Technology）

HAGIC is a completely new board game themed on the fusion of digital and analog. It retains the advantages of physical interaction unique to analog, while utilizing digital technology to incorporate a variety of expression.

Shining Donation Box

TsukaLab / Haruka Yagyu（Kobe University Graduate School）

Hikaru Bokin-bako (Shining Donation Boxes) are donation boxes created every year making full use of sensing technology and LED devices in line with the concept of “conveying gratitude to the people who donate by giving them a fun, interesting, and moving experience.”

candy is crying

Luna Terasaka（Kwansei Gakuin University）

An installation you experience in VR. The sense of discomfort, fear, and surprise that emerges the moment you enter this strange 360-degree world. But before realizing it, those sensations are weeded out, and unconsciously we come to accept the world—just like a baby.

What are you looking at

Tomoki Yakiyama（Kyushu Sangyo University）

This is an expression of the confusion between what we actually see in the modern world and what appears to be so from its appearance by contrasting analog and digital using painting materials on the left and the right and pixels on a screen, giving them multiple representational elements.