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ISHIBASHI EIKO "IMITATION OF LIFE"
Artist: TAKCOM
Japan
Copyright: SPACE SHOWER NETWORKS INC./ felicity / ISHIBASI Eiko / TAKAFUMIi Tsuchiya
Jury Selections
Entertainment Division

A music video that imitates life, made for an album that singersongwriter ISHIBASHI Eiko made with the Mou Shinda Hitotachi [Already Dead People] band, produced by Jim O’ROURKE. The tension-filled music and pointillist animated landscape unfold dynamically in complete harmony.

SALYU×SALYU "HANASHITAIANA
TATO"

Artist: TSUJIKAWA Koichiro
Japan
Copyright: OORONG-SHACO.,LTD.
Jury Selections
Entertainment Division

This one is a music video for a song from the salyu × salyu project by salyu and Cornelius. The objective was to take a structure consisting of cuts of countless performance shots and music edited from multilayered vocals, and convert it directly into video imagery.

Made for the song Dynamics of the Subway in Hasuinonasa’s first album, Body of the Animal [Zankyo Records], the animated geometrical forms correspond to the movement and texture of each musical sound and literally give shape to both the subway and the composition.

SUIDOBASHI HEAVY INDUSTRY
"KURATAS"
Artist: KURATA Kogoro / YOSHIZAKI Wataru
Japan
Copyright: Suidobashi Heavy Industry
Excellence Award
Entertainment Division

The KURATAS project was born in June 2010 from a simple desire on the part of artist KURATA Kogoro: “I want to ride on a giant robot, but it seems no one has made one for that purpose. I may as well build it mysel f.” after about two years in production, KURATAS was unveiled on July 29, 2012, and KURATAS went on to become a sensation in the media and social networks both at home and abroad.

Bye Buy mixes archive footage from the post-war age of consumerism with present-day symbols. Familiar but anachronistic, this is a play on outmoded representations of the consumer ethos. The over-large eyes are for desire; the bar codes, hidden knowledge. We consume and are consumed.

OPEN PLAY, FORGETTING EYE

Artist: ALIMO
Japan
Copyright: ALIMO/Tokyo
University of the Arts
Jury Selections
Art Division

Employing the “exquisite corpse”of surrealism, this work is a playful linking of forgotten images. Drawing day after day, it’s natural sometimes to forget what we drew just a few days before. A sliding black support connects pictures at random to produce new images.

BETWEEN YESTERDAY &　
TOMORROW
Artist: SOL CHORD [MAEDA Shinjiro / OKAZAWA Rina]
Japan
Copyright: SOL CHORD
Excellence Award
Art Division

The web-based movie project BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW was launched two weeks after the Great East Japan Ear thquake, which occurred on March11, 2011. Based on a set of instructions provided by MAEDA Shinjiro, each filmmaker produced a five-minute film that was released on the Internet as soon as it was completed. In the first year [until March 2012], 32 artists par ticipated in the project, producing a total of 60 works.

In bed at night, our thoughts turn the past and future and sexual desire, and all merges together as a warm feeling. The body seeks sensation. This animation owes its soft texture to drawings traced from paper. Futon [Quilt] examines how movement and the senses are linked.

A short animation about job hunting. A very ordinary college student finds that her friends have recently begun to behave strangely. It turns out they are in the throes of job-hunting fever. She never quite gets it but is sucked into the vortex of Japanese-style recruitment even so.

Co-produced by French firms Sacrebleu Productions and CaRTebLaNChe, this animation features a gang of children, humanoid rabbit, bespectacled child, marten, bird and hungry rabbit god and a ball. Using thin lines and subdued colors, it’s all about disobedience really.

Oh Willy... is a stop-mot ion film made with puppets that were animated frame by frame on sets ranging from 10 x 10m to 2 x 2m for interiors. All props and characters were made out of wool and fabric. Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savager y. The filmmakers were inspired by Diane ARBUS’s photos of people living in nudist colonies.

An old woman rests in her garden in sixties China. It’s sunset and the evening primroses have started to come out. The flowers remind her of her own youthful dreams and beauty. The animation uses Chinese cutouts to accentuate the soft texture of the paper and brilliant colors.

Owaka, a merchant’s daughter in 18th century Edo (Tokyo), loves Matsukichi. The boy is disowned, though, by his family because he wants be a fireman, and Owaka’s family is looking for a suitable boy. Distraught, Owaka reacts by burning down the town. The two lovers meet in the middle of the blaze.

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		NAGANO RYO HAJIMEYOU Artist: ARAI Fuyu Japan Copyright: CHAPTER New Face Award Entertainment Division Levitation without wires or synthetic tricks. Made for NAGANO Ryo’s single HAJIMEYOU [Let’s Begin], the DIY spirit of this music video embodies the song’s message. A web-only version which takes us behind the scenes has come to seem inseparable from the finished work.

		ISHIBASHI EIKO "IMITATION OF LIFE" Artist: TAKCOM Japan Copyright: SPACE SHOWER NETWORKS INC./ felicity / ISHIBASI Eiko / TAKAFUMIi Tsuchiya Jury Selections Entertainment Division A music video that imitates life, made for an album that singersongwriter ISHIBASHI Eiko made with the Mou Shinda Hitotachi [Already Dead People] band, produced by Jim O’ROURKE. The tension-filled music and pointillist animated landscape unfold dynamically in complete harmony.

		NEW CREATURES (Living in your house) Artist: EUPHRATES Japan Copyright: NHK(Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Jury selection Entertaiment Division This work was broadcast as a segment of PythagoraSwitch , an educational program on NHK ' s ETV channel. In addition to showing young viewers how fun it can be to liken everyday objects to living things, the series explores completely new animation territory by showing how each object ' s distinctive qualities are integrated into a unique "ecology".

		SALYU×SALYU "HANASHITAIANA TATO" Artist: TSUJIKAWA Koichiro Japan Copyright: OORONG-SHACO.,LTD. Jury Selections Entertainment Division This one is a music video for a song from the salyu × salyu project by salyu and Cornelius. The objective was to take a structure consisting of cuts of countless performance shots and music edited from multilayered vocals, and convert it directly into video imagery.

		HAISUINONASA "DYNAMICS OF THE SUBWAY" Artist: ONISHI Keita Japan Copyright: ONISHI Keita New Face Award Entertainment Division Made for the song Dynamics of the Subway in Hasuinonasa’s first album, Body of the Animal [Zankyo Records], the animated geometrical forms correspond to the movement and texture of each musical sound and literally give shape to both the subway and the composition.

		SUIDOBASHI HEAVY INDUSTRY "KURATAS" Artist: KURATA Kogoro / YOSHIZAKI Wataru Japan Copyright: Suidobashi Heavy Industry Excellence Award Entertainment Division The KURATAS project was born in June 2010 from a simple desire on the part of artist KURATA Kogoro: “I want to ride on a giant robot, but it seems no one has made one for that purpose. I may as well build it mysel f.” after about two years in production, KURATAS was unveiled on July 29, 2012, and KURATAS went on to become a sensation in the media and social networks both at home and abroad.

		BYE BUY Artist: Neil BRYANT UK Copyright: Neil BRYANT Excellence Award Art Division Bye Buy mixes archive footage from the post-war age of consumerism with present-day symbols. Familiar but anachronistic, this is a play on outmoded representations of the consumer ethos. The over-large eyes are for desire; the bar codes, hidden knowledge. We consume and are consumed.

		ON PAUSE Artist: Mikhail ZHELEZNIKOV Russia Copyright: Mikhail Zheleznikov Excellence Award Art Division The artist was going home unwillingly when he met a man who’d been at Moscow Airport for a week. The man kept on buying plane tickets but couldn’t bring himself to fly. There was something poetic and irrational about him. But what’s so rational about doing things you don’t want?

		OPEN PLAY, FORGETTING EYE Artist: ALIMO Japan Copyright: ALIMO/Tokyo University of the Arts Jury Selections Art Division Employing the “exquisite corpse”of surrealism, this work is a playful linking of forgotten images. Drawing day after day, it’s natural sometimes to forget what we drew just a few days before. A sliding black support connects pictures at random to produce new images.

		STRATA #4 Artist: Quayola Italy Copyright: Davide Quayola [courtesy of the artist] Excellence Award Art Division Strata #4 is a multi-channel immersive video-installation commissioned by Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille, the second largest painting collection in France. The subject of this work is a series of iconic pieces from the Flemish collection, focusing specifically on RUBENS’ and Van DYCK’s grand altarpieces. It is a precise process aimed at creatingnew contemporary images based on universal rules of beauty and perfection.

		BETWEEN YESTERDAY &　 TOMORROW Artist: SOL CHORD [MAEDA Shinjiro / OKAZAWA Rina] Japan Copyright: SOL CHORD Excellence Award Art Division The web-based movie project BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW was launched two weeks after the Great East Japan Ear thquake, which occurred on March11, 2011. Based on a set of instructions provided by MAEDA Shinjiro, each filmmaker produced a five-minute film that was released on the Internet as soon as it was completed. In the first year [until March 2012], 32 artists par ticipated in the project, producing a total of 60 works.

		I'M ALSO A BEAR Artist: GODA Tsuneo Japan Copyright: NHK/dwarf Jury Selections Animation Division Makuma-kun examines an encyclopedia of the animals. There is a different animal on each page, and then he comes to the bears. “Hey, I’m a bear, too,” he thinks, and is sad. This coming-of-age story features a character who first appeared in UTADA Hikaru’s song, “I’ m a Bear.”

		FUTON Artist: MIZUSHIRI Yoriko Japan Copyright: MIZUSHIRI Yoriko New Face Award Animation Division In bed at night, our thoughts turn the past and future and sexual desire, and all merges together as a warm feeling. The body seeks sensation. This animation owes its soft texture to drawings traced from paper. Futon [Quilt] examines how movement and the senses are linked.

		RECRUIT RHAPSODY Artist: YOSHIDA Maho Japan Copyright: Maho Yoshida / Tokyo University of the Arts Jury Selections Animation Division A short animation about job hunting. A very ordinary college student finds that her friends have recently begun to behave strangely. It turns out they are in the throes of job-hunting fever. She never quite gets it but is sucked into the vortex of Japanese-style recruitment even so.

		THE GREAT RABBIT Artist: WADA Atsushi Japan Copyright: Sacrebleu Productions - CaRTe bLaNChe - Atsushi Wada Excellence Award Animation Division Co-produced by French firms Sacrebleu Productions and CaRTebLaNChe, this animation features a gang of children, humanoid rabbit, bespectacled child, marten, bird and hungry rabbit god and a ball. Using thin lines and subdued colors, it’s all about disobedience really.

		OH WILLY… Artist: Emma de SWAFE / Marc James ROELS Belgium Copyright: Emma de SWAEF / Marc James ROELS New Face Award Animation Division Oh Willy... is a stop-mot ion film made with puppets that were animated frame by frame on sets ranging from 10 x 10m to 2 x 2m for interiors. All props and characters were made out of wool and fabric. Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savager y. The filmmakers were inspired by Diane ARBUS’s photos of people living in nudist colonies.

		SUNSET FLOWER BLOOMING Artist: HU Yuanyuan China Copyright: HU Yuanyuan Jury Selections Animation Division An old woman rests in her garden in sixties China. It’s sunset and the evening primroses have started to come out. The flowers remind her of her own youthful dreams and beauty. The animation uses Chinese cutouts to accentuate the soft texture of the paper and brilliant colors.

		COMBUSTIBLE Artist: OTOMO Katsuhiro Japan Copyright: SHORT PEACE COMMITTEE Grand Prize Animation Division Owaka, a merchant’s daughter in 18th century Edo (Tokyo), loves Matsukichi. The boy is disowned, though, by his family because he wants be a fireman, and Owaka’s family is looking for a suitable boy. Distraught, Owaka reacts by burning down the town. The two lovers meet in the middle of the blaze.