Music of the Visual World: Japanese Indie Animated Shorts

  • Sunday, June 3, 18:15 Naxoshalle Kino
  • Moving Colors
  • by TAKU TEAM, Japan 2016, Quicktime, 5:04 min
  • Cosmic!
  • by Hiroco ICHINOSE, Japan 2009, Quicktime, 3:20 min
  • How Low Sympathy
  • by Decovocal / Music by scenarioart, Japan 2014, Quicktime, 3:20 min
  • Slowly Rising
  • by Hideki INABA / Music by BEATSOFREEN, Japan 2015, Quicktime 3:30 min
  • On & On
  • by Akihiko TANIGUCHI / Music by Cumhur Jay, Japan 2016, Quicktime, 5:30 min
  • The State of Things
  • by Ryo ORIKASA / Music by Tamaki Roy, Japan 2017, Quicktime, 3:52 min
  • Polly
  • by Sarina NIHEI / Music by Whitney, Japan 2016, Quicktime, 3:33 min
  • Mad Love
  • by Ryoji YAMADA / Music by Keita SANO, Japan 2017, Quicktime, 3:16 min
  • La Madrague “Country of Westering Sun”
  • by Yuki HAYASHI / Music by youcan, Japan 2017, Quicktime, 5:00 min
  • The Synesthesia Ghost
  • by Atsushi MAKINO / Music by Sasanomaly, Japan 2015, Quicktime, 3:20 min
  • I’ve Got to Take the Laundry In
  • by Naoya SANUKI / Music by Siamese Cats, Japan 2016, Quicktime, 4:28 min
  • Enjoy Music Club
  • by Whoppers (Naoya SANUKI and Zuck), Japan 2017, Quicktime, 3:38 min
  • Spring Time - Old Man
  • by Hoji TSUCHIYA / Music by Uri NAKAYAMA, Japan 2017, Quicktime, 4:25 min
  • A Long Dream
  • by Hoji TSUCHIYA, Japan 2016, Quicktime, 2:40 min
  • Oldman Youngman
  • Ryoya KAGA, Japan 2016, Quicktime, 10:53 min
  • lilac (bombs Jun Togawa)
  • by ONIONSKIN / Music by Vampillia, Japan 2015, Quicktime 4:13 min
  • Nandaka Mou
  • by ONIONSKIN / Music by Kidori Kidori, Japan 2016, Quicktime, 3:30 min
  • TO & KYO
  • by Tsuneo GODA, Japan 2017, 4:05 min
  • In the presence of the curator Dr. Catherine Munroe Hotes and the director Yuki HAYASHI

Starting with the “record talkies” in the 1930s, when silent animation shorts were paired with songs on record, animation and music have been a natural artistic pairing. This selection of recent works by independent Japanese animators, curated by Dr. Catherine Munroe Hotes, ranges from works where music is featured thematically to commissioned music videos.

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