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Minimalistic abstract hand made animation from the award winning Mirai Mizue.

A city as a pulsating organism. Repetitive movements are made by drawing on graph papers. Mirai Mizue's first time experimenting with geometric animation. (Source: TMDB)

A new series of anime shorts based on Atsushi Wada's original short film and game My Exercise. (Source: ANN)

A series of 9 animated shorts based on the Frank comics by Jim Woodring, featuring computer/CGI, traditional cel, stop-motion, and even sand painting techniques. Contributing animators and musicians include COCOA, Eri Yoshimura, Naomi Nagata, TAMAPRO/DROP, Taruto Fuyama, Masaki Maito, Kanako Kawagushi, Masaya Sakaue, Bill Frisell, Dame Darcy, and Woodring himself.

Film by Takashi Ito.

A huge pig is lying down in front of a house. Father, mother, grandmother, six children and a dog live in the house. Everyone is aware of the huge pig, and the pig is aware of the family. But nobody knows how and what the other think. The mother doesn't understand the father… It depends what you imagine when you hear about normal family life. (Source: Fresh Film Fest Website)

Animated to the song ‘Manatsu no dekigoto’ (Midsummer Happening) by Miki Hirayama, the film is a playfully erotic animation with appropriated images that include Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, Superman, Roy Lichtenstein prints and the Glico chocolate icon of a man running through the finishing line of a race. Screened at the 3rd Animation Festival at Sogetsu Art Center in the same year that Tanaami participated in the exhibition ‘Watashi no Marilyn Monroe’ (My Marilyn Monroe) at Gallery Décor, Tokyo. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

A new official music video for American singer and songwriter Billie Eilish's song "you should see me in a crown" animated by Takashi Murakami. The music video was available for purchase on iTunes Japan and US on the same day.

The primary schoolboy "Kuchao" is hated person in his class. Even if everyone fly balloons, only he doesn't part with his it. When he immediately begins to chew a bubble gum, he enter the imagination world after school. When his balloon becomes the face and begins to chew a bubble gum, it changes into various things. His imagination makes rapid progress more. Then, the bird approaches while flying and... (Source: Official website)

Film by Takashi Ito.

A short animation by Yutaro Kubo.

Tanaami Keiichi and Aihara Nobuhiro collaborate to put together recording of their dreams.

Painful events become memories over time. Still. we vomit and eat again. Life is Eco. (Source: Vimeo)

Symbolized an urban man with a triangle figure, a country woman with a circle, and represented the encounter between the two by movement. Director Shigenji Ogino tried to naturally color the movie via the kinema color technique. Due to being an early work, the technique isn't smooth. Because of this the film has a photosensitive epileptic seizure warning as there are high frequency flashes of red and green frames for the duration of the entire film. Please be careful while viewing.

Short animation by Yutaro Kubo.

Film by Takashi Ito.

The two of them, all alone at home. All alone with her father's corpse. Memories, ideals, and reality all sink beneath the muck. Everyone is alone. Everyone is in solitude. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Experimental anime from animation pioneer Yoji Kuri from 1960.

This film is based on a very simple idea: the increasingly varied the sounds, the greater is the number of creatures... My intention in this film was to fill the screen with chaotic movements. (Source: Mirai Mizue)

An atmospheric and dark vision of adolescence and family life.

Graduate Work 2017 from Chinami Taniguchi, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. The story of Nosferatu vampires glimpsed by a boy who gets lost in a forest. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Four short vignettes in this early animated film. In the first, shadows pull away to reveal a puddle, and automobile and bicycle tires pass through it. In the second, cutout shadows of a variety of shoes of people walking are seen. The third is a flurry of geometric forms. In the fourth, the playing card spade courts the heart and pushes away the club, but eventually the club returns, beats up the spade, and wins the heart. (Source: AniDB)

Short film from animator Tsuji Naoyuki, who is known for his use of both charcoal and puppet animation. Wake Up is a dark and brooding animation epitomizing his story telling style by combining serene worlds and childlike images with darkness and nightmarish scenes.

Mirai Mizue's debut animation short film.