Poetic Landscapes – Recent Gems in Japanese Indie Animation

Poetic Landscapes – Recent Gems in Japanese Indie Animation
  • Sunday, May 28, 17:15 Naxoshalle Kino
  • Datum Point
    水準原点
  • by Ryo ORIKASA, Japan 2015, Quicktime, 6:41 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Fragments
    カケラ
  • by Naoyuki TSUJI, Japan 2016, Quicktime, 8:21 min, no dialog, DP
  • Affordance
  • by Hayato Nove, Japan 2015, Quicktime, 18:26 min, no dialog
  • Float Talk
  • by Kiyoko NAKAI, Japan 2016, Quicktime, 13:58 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Forest this Flower Bloom
    木ノ花ノ咲クヤ森
  • by Tomoyasu MURATA, Japan 2015, Quicktime, 11:05 min, no dialog
  • The Last Observer
  • by Daisuke NAGAOKA, Japan 2015, Quicktime, 12:00 min, no dialog
  • Feed
  • by Eri OKAZAKI, Japan 2016, Quicktime, 6:53 min, no dialog, DP
  • Vita Lakayama
  • by Akihito IZUHARA, Japan 2016, Quicktime, 7:35 min, no dialog
  • in the presence of the curator Dr. Catherine Munroe Hotes and director Hayato Nove

This year’s selection of Japanese indie animation, curated by film scholar and journalist Dr. Catherine Munroe Hotes, features works that look upon the world through a poetic lens. Whether inspired directly from poetry like DATUM POINT or poetic in manner of expression, each artist uses animation to depict their own unique view of the world.

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