An exciting selection of experimental animated works from Japan never before screened in New York City, representing a broad range of contemporary avant-garde practice. The titles range from 3-14 minutes, adopting the full breadth of styles in new animation: from visual music to raunchy music videos, digital processes to analogue filmmaking, and from minimalist atmospheric shorts to narratively rich miniature epics. All evoke completely unique worlds.
18+ These films are unrated, but may only be viewed by persons 18 years of age and older.
FILMS:
WORLD PREMIERE
Mono No Aware Hand-Drawn Animation Workshop Films 2016. Approx. 8 min. Digital. Various works from the participants of Mono No Aware’s Hand-Drawn Animation Workshop held at Japan Society on June 18.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
AGE OF OBSCURE Mirai Mizue and Onohana 2015. 4 min. Digital. A grand collision of Mizue’s signature visual music forms and Onohana’s mesmerizing impressionistic illustrations, featuring music by Twoth. North American Premiere.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Ouch, Chou Chou Onohana 2016. 12 min. Digital. Onohana’s expansive imagination and visual style here recounts the touching saga of a cabbage and pea’s friendship across bullying and interdimensional travel.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Land Masanobu Hiraoka 2013. 4 min. Digital. Shape shifting animal and geometric forms stun in this piece with music and sound by Aimar Molero.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
MASTER BLASTER Sawako Kabuki 2014. 4 min. Digital. Coital psychedelia featuring the music of Shinsuke Sugahara, a wild imaginary of physical intimacy.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
The Great Rabbit Atsushi Wada 2012. 7 min. Digital. “If you believe in the Rabbit, it means that you’ll believe anything. If you don’t believe in the Rabbit, it means that you wouldn’t believe anything.”
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
lost summer vacation Yoko Yuki 2015. 3 min. Digital. The mystical happenings of a tropical island are pictured in an animated scroll.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Don’t tell Mom Sawako Kabuki 2015. 4 min. Digital. A naughty musical sex-ed film for siblings.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
HOLIDAY Ryo Hirano 2011. 14 min. Digital. Delirious, deeply romantic tale of love and loss featuring a girl, golden nude, and akahara imori newt in a gondola resort.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
TENSAI BANPAKU Mirai Mizue 2015. 4 min. Digital. The mutating forms of Tensai Banpaku, or “Genius Expo” create a stunning abstract orchestra.
EAST COAST PREMIERE
ZDRAVSTVUITE! Yoko Yuki 2015. 6 min. Digital. "On a summer day a strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to a town.”
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
such a good place to die Onohana 2015. 3 min. Digital. Forms shift like a landscape of memory in this enchanting work featuring music by Tatsuki Tsushima.
Tickets $14/$11 Japan Society members, seniors & students
18+ These films are unrated, but may only be viewed by persons 18 years of age and older.
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