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Domestic Video Content Category

Mountains are alive


Image Forum Institute of Moving Image
Hinako Kikkawa
A mountain-loving grandmother spent more time lying down. When facing something changing, a sense of the unknown sticks to you. When realizing the eyes gazing at the scenery and at her are the same, it turns to relief.

Q


Graduate School, Tama Art University
Masataka Kihara
In the middle of the night, a man crashed his motorcycle alone on a mountain road. That was the trigger.
Footage that followed the man who should have appeared as a ghost, but was not a ghost.

dipolar bipolar


Graduate School, Tokyo Zokei University
li quankai
The title of this work is "dipolar bipolar," meaning "two extremes," symbolizing the two extreme states of bipolar disorder. The story is about having many stones, a cat, and a dog inside my head.

Today's traveler~katatebukuro~


Nihon Kogakuin College
Team kyoutabi Itsuki Goto
Everyone has seen a single lost glove before. This program follows a traveler who has spent 20 years searching for such gloves—over 5,000 of them. Who is this one-of-a-kind "single-glove researcher"?

I


Graduate School, Tokyo University of the Arts
HSU, Chih-Chen
The candle burns. In a dark, endless dream, where am I? Memories, emotions, and desires condense in time-spaces, metamorphosing into shifting forms.

GOOD-MOURNING


Graduate School, Tokyo University of the Arts
Nina Tsuji
Keiko Hasegawa (34) was living a ordinary life working at a funeral home in countryside. One day, she was in charge of a strange funeral. Will she manage to get through today's job without incident?

Trans


Graduate School, Tokyo University of the Arts
Nizi
This work is a journey through the inner and outer worlds I have experienced over the past decade or so. The dialogue is woven together by my multiple personalities; it is both a diary for them and a documentary record.

Ms.Understoned


Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences
Yuki Buma
Health and Physical Education textbooks say, "Women become more rounded," evoking stones shaping in a river. Words and acts confined to boundaries scratch the mirror, blocking emotional reflection.

8


Osaka University of Arts
Reo Shimotani
Hachi, 27, feels lonely as days rush by, his heart unsatisfied. In dreams, his life flashes before him. A short film that realistically portrays his inner questioning.

Mackerel-man


Kobe Design University
Rintaro Uekawa
Mail carrier Momo receives a letter every time she delivers a package to Mackerel Man's house. One day, Momo finds Mackerel Man runnings an ice cream stand by the roadside.

International Video Content Category

Breaking Language


by Sofía Castro
from Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero
(Argentina)
Breaking Language follows four Deaf artists exploring identity, resistance, and feminism through Argentinian Sign Language, dance, and documentary.

Imagine Another Life


by Yi Zhao
from China Academy of Art
(China)
Welcome, snail shell! Let's go find snails in plant landscapes and take a peek inside their shells. Imagine the first slug leaving the snail shell.

The Shyness of Trees


by Simin He
from Les Gobelins Paris
(France)
Hélène visits her aging mother in the French countryside, only to find she’s formed a mysterious bond with plants, insects, and an old oak tree.

Wormwood


by Matthieu Dupille
from Les Gobelins Paris
(France)
The day the radiation disappears, Simon rushes to the heart of the zone, taking his colleague Agathe with him, in the hope of rediscovering a lost past.

Taxidermist


by Sousan Salamat
from Iran University of Art
(Iran)
Shahbaz, a taxidermist and animal smuggler, takes a road trip to deliver a strange order to a client. A series of unexpected events turns Shahbaz from predator to prey.

MIRROR


by Lee Cui
from University of California, Santa Barbara
(USA)
Lost in a shifting nightmare of mirrors, Naraka searches for the truth. As reflections distort, she uncovers a haunting reality: she is merely a brain suspended in water, trapped in an unreal reality.

Digital Content Category (Japan Domestic Only)

YOKAI MOJIATSUME


SAPPORO CITY UNIVERSITY
NIHONGO DESIGN LAB SHIRO Ogawa Kohina
“Monster Font Collector” is a project where monsters that “eat” handwritten characters generate fonts, visualizing the joy of writing and the individuality of characters.

InThread


Keio University Graduate School of Media Design (KMD)
Innamia Indriani
InThread is an interactive fabrication tools that designed to bring digital augmentation to the traditional handloom. This approach considers the desire of weavers to benefit from the control and efficiency of digital tools while maintaining the hands-on freedom and adaptability inherent in traditional weaving practices.

Element


Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts
Yuki Kimura
Watching moving objects with your eyes is fun. <Element> is a small specimen of animation focused on primal experiences.

SENSHO


Tokyo Metropolitan University
Ryuichi Ono
An interactive work that generates real-time visual effects—color shifts and glitches—on a sculpture, which further change when touched, extending the experience into the viewer’s body.

Breathing the Chaos


Graduate School, Musashino Art University
WANG XI
An installation that visualizes the process by which life and order emerge through human intent, achieved through the interplay of soft robotics and generative AI imagery.

Glow-shapes (flowers)


Graduate School, Waseda University
Yuta Okuno
Behind arranged flowers lie cut, discarded stems. Using florist scraps and “Glow-shapes,” we illuminate them, making the flowers bloom one final time.

Performing catch


Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences
Asuka Ishii
Three people use a chat app where past posts are hidden, tasked to “make the conversation succeed.” Their attempts reveal how dialogue drifts from ideal to mere formality.

Archive of Vitality


Ritsumeikan University
Kizuki Imai
This work reimagines human-object relationships by giving objects renewed vitality and visualizing their real-world impact. The noise-distorted reality reveals the world as it should be.

InfinityGames


Osaka University of Arts
Kento Kusumoto
This interactive art explores recursive structures—a game within a game within a game—and presents successive appearances of various game genres, including the player.

"" feat. AI, Artist


Kwansei Gakuin University
Shin Hirayama
To address the loss of "aura" in AI-generated works, we propose human-AI co-creation via improvisation, showing that a new aura emerges precisely through this collaborative process.
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