ISCA INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CREATIVE AWARD 2022

There was a green girl. Her father was a big tree and mother was a river. One day, she met a red girl in the forest. As the green girl saw red hair for the first time, she was so curious about the red hair. In the large forest, the green girl thought about "differences" between herself and others.

This is a collection of short stories depicting the bizarre daily lives of waitstaff and customers in a cafe. Strange things often happen there, but no one cares. The author depicted a surrealistic everyday life in a fantastical world, where strange things happen but everyone goes about their daily lives as if nothing happened.

This is an animated film about a man who is addicted to the hallucination of a "crab" and the emotions of the woman who watches him. By developing rotoscopes in an absurd 3DCG space, the artist explored an animated expression of the body with an emphasis on two-dimensionality and yet with a grotesque quality. In addition, by using a virtual camera in the creative process, the artist attempted to synchronize his subjects with the lively texture of a reality camera and people's gazes, and to bring it into the animation space.

The main character is the "helpless I" who lives in a messy room.　This is a film that comically and sometimes cynically depicts the "warm world" that surrounds me and my life.
Everything I have encountered, both good and bad, has made who I am. When I think that way, I somehow love my life that doesn't work out so well. I would like to introduce "my" life to everyone in our beloved world. And I would also like to become the source of energy for someone who watches my work....
This is an essay video about what "I" felt. My work is an omnibus piece that connects 12 videos based on spring, summer, fall, and winter.

The scene I saw at my grandfather's funeral and my father unusually smoking cigarettes inside the house on that day have left a strong impression on my childhood. My father should have been happy about being allowed to smoke in the house, but for some reason he has a dark expression on his face. There was a flickering smoke that seemed to express his sadness. The story goes on from my viewpoint, tracing my memories of that day. This story expresses the air, the wind, smells and emotional swings with smoke and pencil particles.

I found a lump in my breast. It rolls over under the skin, and I cannot get a grasp of its appearance. I can only imagine the shape, size, and color because the skin covers it. The lump is definitely growing in my body. I think about the lump being harmful and taking advantage of my nutrients. I emphasized the physicality of hand painting by using crayons, pencils, and paints on paper. I abstractly portrayed the lump as an imaginary figure, and a symbol of elusive sensation. This work is based on my personal experience.

This film is about conversations between strangers walking in Shibuya at night. After I came to Japan, I often eavesdropped on other people's conversations to learn how to communicate in Japanese. I then gradually began to find it fascinating to listen to conversations by strangers in public. What is the background of each person in the crowd of Shibuya? Their conversations are like windows into the complex universe that inhabits us.

I lost my father when I was in middle school. The video of my father on a trip, taken by my mother, just two months before his passing left a big impression on me. In the video, my father is walking as usual, but now back to my parents home, I can't see him walking anywhere I look for. I captured what I felt in a documentary film by making the narrative about the home video and my father. My father passed away in the evening, and "he is Kawataredoki". This film is to make viewers wonder who the person in the video might be. This work is a record of my journey to find out what my father has become to others.

This is a story about the distant future.
There was a war between humans and the "Black Knight," an aggressive weapon from outside the earth.
After a fierce battle, the humans who got the upper hand in combat carry out the final operation to clean up the Black Knight. In order to open up the way to the future, the main character "Haru" goes to the battlefield with the thoughts of his friends in his heart...

This is a story about a shy girl who likes to draw. The girl, who lived alone in her painting world, was extremely afraid of people. She stubbornly refused to show her artwork to her classmates. One day she heard one of them saying, "There is no point drawing if she doesn't want to show it." After this incident she became reluctant to continue drawing. Time passed and she met new people, and she finally resumed drawing.

A delivery man dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film. Directors statement: Our film is a musical hybrid that mixes actors with real delivery workers as they tangle in between the raw reality and possibilities that Brazilian music and dance could bring to us through cinema.

"Tear Off'' is a documented alternative and scary movie. In this film, a young bee must overcome her condition to survive the destructive hornet that has invaded her hive. This adventure allows us to discover the dark side of a colony at first sight utopian and explores more deeply the world of bees, with a story that highlights the fear of the unknown, the dark, the claustrophobia, pushed in this by a macro camera that always follows the character. This film tries to show the incredible capacity of adaptation of this species and the capacity of adaptation of bees. The monstrous hornet can do nothing against the bees who sacrifice themselves for the hive."

"On my Bicycle" is a naturalist film inspired by the work of Robert Doisneau and Cartier Bresson. -Through this film we wanted to take the viewer with Guy to those last moments of life in the countryside of Northern France.

Oscar's late. In the surrounding skyscrapers hands are shaken and contracts are signed. That's the last thing he needs right now. Where do these damned snails come from?

The road has not yet reached the end, so it is called ‘unnamed’. In the film, the four elements of earth, water, fire and wind express the various encounters of individual life in the world.

After watching her gallant knight die before her wedding day and ending the film in tragedy, it's up to the determined Princess Hilderose to take matters into her own hands and get back her happily ever after.

This work is an interactive artwork in which the contents inside the kaleidoscope can be set and experienced by the viewer using a camera at hand.

I propose an input device using magnetic adsorption. It consists of a board and a switch, and enables three types of operations. The device also provides us with feedback when we operate it with a magnet.

A video installation work uses a microwave oven in order to let the audience listen to the voices of hundreds of vienna sausage. The sound of ruptures is recognized phonetically and translated into text. This is an attempt to extract linguistic rhythms from the little individual differences of the vienna sausages and bring to light a consciousness that the audience do not realize before.

This tweezers makes various objects easy to pick up with the biomimetic of Caledonian crow’s beak. They are round and cut. Also the shape easy to hold makes comfortable usability. Users has suggested using Kuchibashi not only for work tool but also as table ware.

A method of fabricating three-dimensional characters that distorts the shape of two-dimensional characters by expressing them as three-dimensional objects and collapsing them back into two-dimensions, imbuing those familiar characters with a sense of incongruity that exists in the borders of the known and unknown.

This an educational toy that allows children to learn about various shapes using color-changing glowing threads. Following the instructions on the board, the user can lace the optical fiber threads through the holes to create various shapes. Creativity and geometric shapes can be learned while having fun through the creation of complex shapes and collaborative work by multiple children.

The AKS is a pedal that turns a bicycle into a musical instrument. Pedaling is a physical movement when we use bicycles, and AKS adds sound to the pedaling. AKS re-creates the world by enabling the environment around itself to be a sonic performance.

This is a digital game that uses the Button whirligigs, a traditional handmade toy played around the world, as a controller and challenges the expansion of Button whirligigs play.

‘Korizakura’ (ice cherry), a mysterious plant discovered in a cave.
The experience-based attraction in which visitors step and immerse themselves in the world of a laboratory of researchers who study cherries made of an ice-like material.

There are plentiful paintings displayable on the Internet screen. However, what is displayed on the screen is rather limited to color. When it comes to texture, it is difficult to perceive visually on the screen. Are we really appreciating paintings only by looking at either texture or color?