四角い車輪の再発明

On various forms expanded in all directions and a dance by a man in tights.

あらら

Naoko had a fight with her brother over a trivial thing and pushed him away. She knew she was childish but she ran away from home.

Spoon

A boy’s spoon falls on the floor when he is having breakfast. The moment he is trying to pick it up, the boy is thrown into a different world. There he begins the adventure to take his spoon back

Return to Dust

A skeleton is tied with red threads and stuck by clay. How much control do we have in our own actions? And what does hinder these actions?

ああ／良い

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.

The Fall

A depressed and isolated mind is similar to the sense of floating in the water. Underwater as a man’s mindscape and the real occurrences at the beach are portrayed

ぜんぶわかってる

A man wanted to escape. He wanted to stay unaware but he found them all.

My Dear

At the waterside surrounded by factories and waste lives a white frog. It loves a goldfish who also lives in the neighbourhood. Recently the goldfish appears to be in poor health, which worries the frog.

Кораблик

ヘレン・ケラー物語 愛と光の天使

Based on the story of Helen Keller who at a very young age was left deaf and blinded by an illness. But she fought through the obstacles, trying to live a normal life as possible. She became on of the first disabled rights-pioneers.

O nome dele é Tiago

Сад хризантем

On the motives of Chinese legends. For adults.

The Closet

A young girl takes it into her head that her mother is taken by her newly born sister. Out of jealousy she hides her baby sister in darkness.

魚のいうことを聞く

I want to leave home,” a pet fish told a boy one day. The boy reluctantly takes the fish out to the sea to ‘keep his promise,’ as it says. Their recollections on the way became slightly discrepant.

なんでもない

I get up in the morning, prepare myself, wait for a bus, then the train, go to school, and return home. Days go by even while I wonder about, cry, or sleep.

私の額縁

Suffering from her delusion, K tries to depict her disorder in her paintings. In her dream, she finds a frame, which makes her believe that drawing is her destiny.

Ishikeri

All of a sudden, a boy starts to play hopscotch. Kicking stone[s] is. . . simply play, but it doesn’t work as simply as it seems. He struggles by the rule he made himself.

かみさまのはらわた

A spring night, I walked past a ‘god’. I wonder if it was a cat or a man. Or was it a wind I felt in a slumber? They were certainly there, celebrating the cycle of lives in small ways.

連

The theme is ‘one continues to live, leaving his trace.’ It is an abstract animation in which movement is done by repetition of pencil drawings and erasure on a piece of paper.

春成つむぎ

This animation shows how the liquid in a glass erupts, spreads, mixes, and overflows.