JAPAN MEDIA ARTS
FESTIVAL
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The Japan Media Arts Festival has been an annual event since 1997. Its aim is to promote the creation and development of media arts.The Festival highlights creative works of art, entertainment, animation, and manga. At the same time, it also presents a broad range of creative activities.
The festival is held in February at the National Art Center, Tokyo annually. As part of the festival, in order to make a much wider audience aware of the excellence works from the Japan Media Arts Festival,we request festivals and museums here and abroad to exhibit or screen them. So far, we have collaborated and materialized events with SIGGRAPH (USA) and Annecy International Animation Festival (France) overseas as well as in Japansuch as Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, the International Animation Festival Hiroshima and so on.This year, we would like to make the opportunity for the collaboration to screen the works from the12th JMAF.


ADWARD WORKS:

SAMURAI
BUSINESSMAN
YAMADA KAZUMASA

A landscape shoot by video camera are printed out to several thousands papers per frame.The printed materials are piled up in real space and shoot as time-lapse motion picture. And then, the motion of those papers become animation.

Jury Recommended Work. ENTERTAINMENT-DIVISION.........................

THE HOUSE           
OF SMALL CUBES
                                       
KATO KUNIO

An old man lives in a room that resembles a pile of stacked up wooden blocks surrounded by water. He drops his pipe in the submerged lower floor. When he dives to pick it up, he encounters memories of his family carved in each room.
The precious memories of the people he used to know, including his absent wife and daughter, are depicted with a gentle touch, making this a fine and moving piece of work. The theme of global warming is also hidden just below the surface.

Excellence prize. ANIMATION-DIVISION

KUDAN           
KIMURA TAKU

A father cannot hear his son talking to him. After putting on a mask that was in a parcel delivered to their home, the father slips into another dimension and turns into a cow standing in a dark forest. This is a 3DCG animation in which a father reestablishes communication with his son after saving him from danger, as they come and go between reality and another dimension.

Excellence prize. ANIMATION-DIVISION