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A boy and a girl draw pictures on the wall with sticks made of black fish. One day a blue fish drifts ashore to them. (Source: Geidai Animation)

By changing the overlapping of sections in the time axis / space axis, the laminate based on the die cut of the hand transforms into various shapes.

In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded with light.

A short film by Haruka Suzuki.

Station IDs featuring the Popee The Performer characters that aired as bumpers between programs on the Japanese Kids Station satellite station sometime during the early 2000s. Released on the Popee the Performer Vol.1 DVD.

Sink is set in Tomioka's brightly coloured yet worn and grubby surreal world, where on this occasion we see commuter trains packed with deep sea divers reading pornography. Sealed off behind their protective shells from any real human contact, the commuters are clearly inspired by Tomioka's experiences on Tokyo's underground but perhaps represent everyone who shuts themselves away behind iPods, computers and books, afraid of real face-to-face human interaction. (Source: Letterboxd)

An early film by Keiichi Tanaami.

The film is about a family, [that] runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs. The mother loves somebody else. In the family fixture, each member stays there with bias or secrets.

A man walks in a crowd. He cannot stand the crowd but to cover his ears. Then it disappears and he gets lost in a white void space. In that space there is no other man but himself. He had nothing to identify himself and his existence was to come to naught. He starts to struggle to get away from there.

Not much is known about the piece compared to its award-winning "Real" counterpart made 4 years later.

A pilot film for Ikimono-san that is not included in TV series.

The fifth entry in Kurosaka's Henkei Sakuhin experimental short film series.

A short film by Haruka Suzuki.

Light animation by TOCHKA. Takamori Saigo was born in Kagoshima in 1828 and has been dubbed the last true samurai who is still loved by the people of Kagoshima. Saigo committed harakiri in the Battle of Shiroyama in 1877. Nobody knows what he actually looked like since he only appears in an etching and drawings. No photos of him at all. The directors visited Saigo's descendants to ask for his facial features and characteristics for this film. Now Saigo has come back to life in animation, and he wanders around in towns and Sakurajima, an active composite volcano in Kagoshima. This is an experimental animation done by using penlights. (Source: The Guanajuato International Film Festival)

A woman is pronounced to be ill, but it is too much for her to accept. Her thoughts and worries continually change to makes a strange and mysterious world. 1st year work 2016 by Yume Ukai, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)

The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father. (Source: Geidai Animation)

The Sea Slug Sisters will perform a puppet show "The Tale of Tanabata", using puppets with their figure in a small theater. (Source: Yuko Asano)

A short film by Takehiko Takashi from The Village of Marchen. A man attempts to write but constant distractions keep him unfocused.

Dark Mixer makes the rotoscoping function as "Motion dépaysement" that means to move a motion from a footage, combine, juxtapose, and transform into a new motion. The generated motion are not clear in meaning, but attempt to create new continuity. (Source: Vimeo)

Words bring to life the radiance of mornings by pairing with simple shapes, free-flowing patterns, and playful sounds. Such a colorful accompaniment of gentle movements and lighthearted poetry will undoubtedly make anyone's morning a little brighter. [Written by MAL Rewrite]