Mika Seike
2021シンキング アンド ドローイング 日本の新世紀アート・アニメーション
Naoyuki Tsuji, Norihiko Iki
The walls of video rental shops in Japan are lined with hundreds upon hundreds of animation DVDs, but experimental and art animation on DVD are rare. To remedy this situation, Image Forum put together this showcase of the work of contemporary avant-garde animators trained in Kyoto and Tokyo.
Thinking and Drawing: Japanese Art Animation of the New Millennium
Nisou no Kuzu
Mika Seike
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.
Dialogue Between Two
Ga no Iru Tokoro
Mika Seike
A Place Where There Are Moths depicts the conflict between drab concrete block apartment living and the natural environment in Japanese cities. The forces of nature are represented by the motif of a tree whose leaves metamorphose into orange moths and take over a middle-aged woman's apartment, pushing her room higher and higher within the building.
A Place Where There Are Moths
