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Anthology produced by Adobe Creative Cloud's Japan division to promote their software suite. It showcases the talents of various Japanese experimental animators.

A music video by Koji Yamamura.

Short animation by Ryu Kato.

Music video for Southpaw by Kuricorder Quartet.

Crying is an act often associated with infancy, but that does not mean adults do not share the urge to mewl. Whether it be for love, sadness, excitement, fear, relief, or disgust, everyone has an inner-infant that wants to let out their emotions once in a while. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Music video for the song Rapport by Tatsuya Kitani. The song was used as the first ending theme of the anime Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen.

An erotic animation made for the late-night television program 11PM with a reference to Marcel Duchamp’s work of the same title. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

Film by Takashi Ito.

Legs and shoes float across the screen in this short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

A short animation by Nobuhiro Aihara.

Film by Tanaami Keiichi.

A simple world of sound and picture, composed by NAKAI Yuu from the paintings of major Japanese artist YOH Shomei and pure, simple sounds, comes out in Ga-nime. Great pictures that will make you feel the life of the earth, with the horizon stretching ever farther… Get inside a minimalist world modeled before your eyes, with the sounds of wind and rain, of air and thunder that stir emotions in every viewer’s heart, through a lyricism that resounds at the core of your mind. (Source: Toei-Anim.co.jp)

The riveting harmonies of music may conjure images in one's mind to accompany the noises they hear. In the case of Erik Satie's composition "Trois morceaux en forme de poire," perhaps some indiscriminate geometry would be suitable. Experimental animator Masaki Okuda attempts to study the relationship between sight and sound in an abstract grayscale artwork. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

A futon, a traditional Japanese mattress, as seen by Yoriko Mizushiri, becomes the vehicle of dream fantasies combining the most pleasant sensations such as the morning coffee, the warmth of bedding and a soft rice carpet under one’s feet. Lazy stretching serves as a start of sensuous, sleepy gymnastics. With a fluid movement, the passive body will turn once again from the left to the right of the mattress to dive into the fantasies of even deeper unconsciousness a little while later. (Source: Krakow Film Festival)

In a frenzy of dancing and dining, guests excitedly count down to the start of the ArtPath 2011 exhibition. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

A special follow up version of Mizue Mirai's Timbre A-Z.

Bonus short included on the "Atsushi Wada Works 2002-2010" DVD.

A horror take on the classic tale of Snow White.

The description of Suwami Nogami's minimalistic line drawing piece, Imagination Practice, calls it an unending "thought loop". It depicts an artist sitting in front of a window with a self-portrait, like a miniature mirror image, on the desk in front of him. The window frame and the blue sky filled with moving clouds are in colour, but the figure of the artist is not coloured in. The soundtrack sounds like a skipping record that is punctuated by humourous springing noises (a la Bugs Bunny) as the image 'bounces' in an unending loop from the establishing shot into the "drawing." A philosophical piece, Imagination Practice considers the circular dialogue between an artist and his work. (Source: Midnight Eye)

When the mind says aah, the body says hee. I dance around the confusion and the consensus, and my whole life is getting composed of these dances.

A series of still images of a highrise building made into an animation resulting in what one might call an experimental art film.

Furukawa Taku film.

The dialogue in question takes place between a woman, who appears to be submerged in water, and a man who sits by a tree on sandy soil. The messages the couple sends back and forth to one another take the form of metaphor: a seed, a fish, a thorn, and so on. (Source: Midnight Eye)

Music video for the song Persona by Omaru Polka.