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A photograph of a seated heterosexual couple, naked apart from their long necklaces, is rephotographed with a fixed camera that zooms outwards in one take. The colors subtly shift as the camera zooms out from their arm to eventually reveal their bodies over twelve minutes. Screened at the 3rd Sogetsu Animation Festival 1971. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

Short film by Hirano Ryou.

One day out of blue Prof. Banno of next class came to school with his hair shaven. Students made fun of his baldhead. Prof. Banno flew in a hot-air balloon the other day. Nobody knows anything about him afterwards. (Source: YouTube)

Music video for the song Ocean Bby by Mili.

I have lost my interest in any kind of social activities after my nose leave me. Am I enjoying loneliness as I thought, or the ugliness of the people around me makes me feel being alone is actually not bad at all? (Source: Vimeo)

A visceral depiction of the circle of life. Made by The Village of Marchen's Worku Team and directed by Masahide Kobayashi and Keita Funamoto.

Music video for the song Fly High by THE MAD CAPSULE MARKETS.

It's the day before the last performance by THE PARADISE. Three fans who have never met get trapped in an elevator. They talk about their favorite band member, Unicorn, while they wait to be rescued. For some reason, the air is tense. Then, a notification goes off on their phones. (Source: Geidai Animation)

A short animation drawn on washi paper and cel with a marker and animex. Some kanji (they are used in the Japanese poem "Iroha Uta") metamorphose into various creatures. (Source: KRAUT FILM)

Music video for the song ACA by Maruosa.

A strange piper makes following spirits a mysterious blossom.

Music video for the song Nareai Serve by ZUTOMAYO.

Anthology film by animation collective G9+1 about various interpretations of heaven.

Graduate Work 2021 by Seo-Yeon Choi, Tama Art University.

A film by Keiichi Tanaami.

Without using a camera, this film was made on an optical printer with a countdown leader as its primary visual subject. Tanaami gave frame-by-frame color printing instructions to his film laboratory by phone to create the film. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

A short film by Haruka Suzuki.

Animation by Ryo Orikasa, based on Roland Barthes' writings on Cy Twombly.

People can't bear all kinds of suffering in the world, and they struggle to rise up on the path to peace and tranquility. In the end, people pay a huge price to get peace and tranquility.

Experimental short film about animal exploitation from Chinese animator Liu Zuofeng.

Graduate Work 2021 by Minori Matsuoka, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. Yui has become estranged from her boyfriend, who doesn't even wish her happy birthday. Her friend Aya introduces a fortune teller said to be the real deal. What does destiny hold for them? This is a romantic comedy made during self-quarantine. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Described by filmmaker Nobuhiro Kawanaka as ‘sexier than sex itself’, the film intercuts between close-up images of a naked heterosexual couple and long shots of a bamboo forest taken from above using a helicopter. The edited cut was projected and rephotographed using high contrast black-and-white film, which was printed in 80-100 types of color gradations at the laboratory, creating what looked like a posterization effect. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

A series of geometric shorts by Mirai Mizue.