2024 | Japan | 0:09:04

Inside a Japanese animation studio. Rookie animator Mito is assigned to draw the most difficult part of the animation. However, under the director’s seemingly unreasonable demands, Mito finds himself unable to draw even a single line...

2024 | Japan | 0:05:04

We know which we can’t see lost memories and the world after dying, but sometimes can’t give up. Dead soul is swimming towards asking themselves to see the before partner again if it would be reborn.

2024 | Japan | 0:11:34

At a midnight highway rest area, the weary travelers each quietly relax their minds. A brief moment spent with complete strangers is lonely yet somehow comforting.

2024 | Japan | 0:11:00

“My Organs Lying on the Ground” is an 11 minute stopmotion animation, based on a Japanese folk belief called Womb Diving ( “Tainai Kuguri” ) or the “unknown hollow spiritual world”. In Japanese the word for womb, “tainai” , not only refers to the female organ of the uterus, but also refers to the animistic spiritual hollow space inside a Buddhist statue. This is a space of con- nection, between life and afterlife, death and life. There, the boundaries between organism and matter dissolve, and outer and inner worlds are continually inverted. The animation features certain organic materials such as rice, meat and insects. By portraying the idea of inside-out/outside-in cyclical systems, the work seeks to subvert binary structures such as subject and object, inside and outside, and visualises the muddled relationship between our bodies and the land itself.

2024 | Japan | 0:06:22

A strange interaction between a wandering man and a mysterious creature, Yapolaponky.

2024 | Japan | 0:03:28

A grand banquet attended by the gods was being held at a beachside hotel in space.At that time, the earth’s environment was in ruins due to the development of civilization.The man who saved the turtle builds a rocket to aim for space, but... A work inspired by the Japanese folktale Urashima Taro.MV for SAKANAMON

2023 | Japan | 0:02:50

”HAPPENING” is a music video created by “AC-bu” for the music group “group_inou”, which has returned to the music scene after a seven-year hiatus, in a portrait framing made to best fit smartphones. Its forced vertical scrolling is stylized as a webtoon composed of a series of GIF animations, with Japanese lyrics linked to the manga’s lines. Furthermore, In April 2024, ”Kindolphin”, web app based on the music video, was released. Designed and implemented by ”Baku Hashimoto”. The onomatopoeic words and lyrics are arranged to perfectly synchronize with the track, similar to a music game, as it scrolls vertically, which allows fans to experience the video interactively, switching between Japanese/English, change colors, stop and have a close look, or just scratch and play with it. ”Kindolphin” https://ac-bu.info/happening/

2024 | Japan | 0:07:57

One day, my appearance suddenly changed into something strange. “I” peel off my skin many times and try to return to my original form, but to no avail.

2023 | Japan | 0:11:18

A female student who is burdened with everything on her shoulder. She is in agony and suffering while she has been all alone in her room.All she needs is a few Ding-dong sounds.

2024 | Japan | 0:06:00

This film extracts elements from local historical materials related to Tomakomai City and its surrounding areas, focusing primarily on paper-based records. It captures the unique images of each material, including the physical conditions such as scratches and stains that have appeared on the paper over time. The film reconfigures these elements into a landscape movie, where intentionally preserved records and unconsciously or naturally embedded memories (physical traces, aging) intersect. The title, “Simulated Scenery Study" refers to an exploration of spatial and temporal expressions of landscapes using found footage techniques, as well as cinematic expressions reminiscent of road movies. The materials are sourced from Tomakomai City Museum.