NOMINATED WORKS
Domestic Video Content Category
Melody
Luo Jiali
Image Forum Institute of Moving Image
An animation about self-awareness in communication in virtual spaces, based on the changes in people's interactions. Small pieces of everyday life are depicted with music in a TikTok-like social network interface.
A new understanding and perception of "who you are" will emerge from online interaction.
In full bloom
Miho TAKAHASHI
Tama Art University
An animation that reconstructs all the pictures from countless parts of my late grandmother's oil paintings, divided by colour and touch. The relationship between an indoor cat and a wild little bird has given the cat a universal awareness.
The cat brings the "outside" into the room without understanding where the bird has disappeared to.
The 'outside' that the room welcomes intertwines with the cat's feelings for the bird and makes it flap its wings in another world.
The landscape seen by the chasing cat scatters with flowers.
About you
CHOI SeoYeon
Tama Art University
This is an animated film about 'beings who are there all the time, even when we forget them'.
Parents, friends, lovers, admirers. Religion, music, literature, art... Each of us has existences that have supported us. It is thanks to that presence that we have been able to live.
I have shaped this piece as a way of expressing my gratitude to them, so that I can continue to remember their devoted love and the kindness that has passed me by.
I Remember
WEI MAN
Musashino Art University
"Remember" is a story that revolves around my personal memories. The moment I happened to see a painting from my childhood, as a real object, it led me to recall the past.
NINE NINE
LIU RUIJIANING
Musashino Art University
A mythical experimental visual poem, a dance of the underworld, a mourning ritual for the dead and a defiance of the rulers, depicting the fierce spiritual world conflict between the indigenous beliefs of the Mongols, Shamanism, and the Christianity that encroaches on it, in a mystical location and scale.
Survive
Morita Nori
Bunkyo University
The loneliness I felt when I was a child was the most frightening thing I could ever imagine.
I felt like I was being overwhelmed by something, trying to find hope in days that seemed to be dead ends no matter how I tried to move forward. The past comes back to me every now and then and all the memories that I see and hear attack me at great speed, changing their shape.
I just kept moving forward, hoping that if I found something at the end of my loneliness, it might change something. What is the thing that overcomes loneliness? Mt Fuji?
Kids behind the doors
Akino Nishio
Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences
When I was a child, I was strangely afraid of the gap in the slightly open fusuma window in a Japanese-style room at home. I had the feeling that someone was calling me from behind the dark opening. My memories of my childhood, when the boundary between the everyday and the imaginary was blurred, are a little eerie and nostalgic. Japanese-style rooms, rice fields, country streets. This is an animated collage work that attempts to re-experience these familiar scenes by reconstructing them.
sharing and eating cake
Sumiki Risa
Ritsumeikan University
Shiori, a student in the clothing department, was invited by a university friend to enter an LGBTQ-themed competition. The reason was "because it's a hot topic in the world. They ask Mishima, a boy who is rumored to be gay, to model for them, and decide on clothing and sets based on the LGBTQ motif of "rainbow colors," but encounter students who can't accept gay people, and the students are worried about the "typical" expressions they create........
My Ointment Mother
Shoma SAKAUE
Osaka University of Arts
Mouth ulcers that are so common that you lick them because they hurt. That's really uncomfortable, isn't it? But as soon as it heals, you start licking it as if to confirm that it exists, right? Why is that? That's what this anime is about.
WACHA WACHA THE MOVIE
Reimi Arakaki
Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts
This is a collection of four short stories documenting the chattering lives of tiny foods.
International Video Content Category
The Quiet
by Radheya Jegatheva
from Curtin University
When an astronaut ponders on the quietude of space, he comes upon a startling self-realisation. The truth is written in the stars, but what will he uncover?
Alternate
by XING Tong
from City University of Hong Kong
"Alternate" is an experimental animation, composed from footages of Hong Kong's scenery. In the flow of this animation we feel the reality of daily life, the fiction of order and their internal contradictions. Behind this reality, should we not reflect on what kind of space we actually live in?
Dispute
by Ivanova Gulnara
from All-Russian State University of Cinematography
A young couple, argued for a box of lemonade, about who will call first. Pride did not allow the first to make concessions. For many years, they thought about calling, but hesitated. As a result, in old age, when they decided to call. The line was busy.
Exit The Matrix
by Alexandra Bogucharskaya
from Krasnodar State University of Culture
In the Apsheron region of the Krasnodar Territory, among the majestic Caucasus Mountains and impassable forests, the tiny villages were lost. They are connected to the rest of the world only by a thin thread of a narrow-gauge railway winding through gorges - and this is the only way from and there. A small old trolley car-raiser, nicknamed by the locals "Matrix", delivers food, fuel and other benefits of civilization every day. People who for one reason or another prefer loneliness and unity with nature to noisy city life, make their journey by “Matrix”.
Floating Memories
by Seyoung Ok
from Korea National University of Arts
Floating Memories is an experimental animation that maximizes the use of cell, which is a classic material for animation. It is also an autobiographical work that combines photographer Edward Muybridge's photographs of the early 20th century, which I was influenced by learning animation, with basic movements when I first learned animation.
I hope this work will be a hint of new possibilities for animation.
childhood beyond war
by Kahi Titab
from Bahcesehir University
The story of an Iraqi child whose family abandoned Mosul after the Islamic State took control of it in 2014, and war broke out in their area. The family lived in the displaced persons camp. After liberating their area, the child’s father returned to check their home, when he enter the house exploded, it was mined as a result of the war. The father was killed, the family became without a breadwinner. The child was forced to leave his from his family and work in Erbil streets to be able to support his family.
The child works daily for eight hours and earn less than five dollars a day. Because of that, he also stopped studying. The film shows the suffering of refugees and displaced children after the wars.
The film warns of the dangers of the future for this generation of children who work and do not enjoy the most basic rights.
Digital Content Category (Japan Domestic Only)
Perception of
The Charm of Bronze mirror
Masaki Nakatsu
Sapporo City University
This is an installation art in which I actually made a bronze mirror used in ancient times, and after analyzing "what is the appeal charm" of it, I composed it in such a way that its appeal charm can be easily conveyed.
Mirror Frame
NIK
Sapporo City University
The purpose is to provide a deeper viewing experience when viewing art you being in front of art. The facial expression of the portrait changes in response to the expression of the viewer standing in front of it. This makes it possible to experience a deeper emotional understanding and a sense of immersion.
sniffing flow
Kotone Kobayashi
University of Tsukuba
This is an interaction work in which the movement of the particles changes according to the smell. When the viewer makes the work the device smell, the particles flow to avoid the smell, and the flow changes dynamically through the interaction between the work the device and the viewer.
The Contour of Surface
Atsushi Yamakawa
Tokyo University of the Arts
A stretchy cloth attached to a "frame" fixed to the wall. By pressing and releasing abstractly shaped objects from the back of the frame at various angles and speeds, the artist expresses the way various contours appear and disappear on the surface of the cloth.
Blooming
Rinnosuke Yoshida
Tokyo Polytechnic University
This interactive art work is based on the theme of expressing the sensation of "growing fireworks" by combining flowers and fireworks. When light is given to a flowerpot in the box as if pouring water into it with a light-radiating jug, the "fireworks" bloom like a plant.
Doppel
T. Mizuho &
S. Yamaguchi from Cyber Interface Lab, Takato Mizuho
The University of Tokyo
This work depicts the interaction between real and virtual people that develops involving you, the viewer. The idea that the virtual and the real are not equal, but that the real is always superior, is expressed in a variety of ways.
frame
Fuko Ichiseki
Musashino Art University
"By separating the flowing things with human hands, we can perceive them. The frameworks keep overlapping." This is an interactive work that reflects and displays in real time the program that keeps cutting the scene.
Breaths of the Country
Sota Tanaka
Keio University
I expressed the per capita CO2 emissions of each country by likening it to breathing. Although much attention is paid to the environmental policies of major countries, global warming is an issue for all countries. I hope that this work will lead to new discoveries and a fair perspective.
VR Kanazawa
Lightup Scene Tour
KANAZAWA TSUKIMI GATE 2020/Otsubo&Kametsuta
Kanazawa Institute of Technology
This is a VR SNS experience content that allows you to stroll through the traditional streets of Kanazawa and experience the atmospheric nighttime scenery even when you refrain from going out. You can experience the local cultural events such as lantern floating and projection mapping in front of the station with a real-time avatar in VR space.
Zufall
Adachi Saya
Osaka University of Arts Junior College
The machine in the center contains water and oil, which are mixed together in real time by the movement of the participant to create a pattern. By projecting the pattern onto your feet, you will feel as if it is flowing towards you.
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