Synopsis:
The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.
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Surreal, slightly experimental and excellently animated film Nothing You Need to See takes place in a subway train carriage. A young passenger has got problems with his face. It is rotating on his head as a mask and constantly showing its other side. The author suffices with gentle pencil strokes and three colours to create a very original work within three minutes of running time.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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This animation thematizes a dream that you can’t wake up from. Mubi (夢寐) means dreams you have whilst you are asleep in Japanese. Shakuya mubi (夙夜夢寐) is a four character idiom. It means dreams you have even if you are awake. A young man endures conflict, rapture and anguish. And he will find out why he cannot leave his dream.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Heartbroken, I bought two cans of beer and a bottle of wine and drank it walking home. A tipsy journey reconstructed using the Japanese traditional storytelling method ‘rakugo’ and pop culture.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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I was playing basketball until I entered college. During a basketball game, when I stole an opponent’s ball and attacked in haste, I felt my body started moving as fast as an army brain. I still get this feeling sometimes, even now that I no longer play basketball.
- Experimental
- Abstract
- Non-narrative
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One day a boy encounters a street vendor who sells chicks. Even the boy knows these birds will die very soon. To his eyes, the man is selling none other than death itself.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Reminiscing about the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Rabbit’s Blood is a story about a society of two rival groups; sinister cloaked men and neutralist rabbits who have human-looking bodies that live underground.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Black (黒) tells a story about a pair of astronauts trapped on an orbital space station because of a nuclear war that erupted unexpectedly on Earth. They lost contact with Earth and all attempts to communicate with their base or anybody else have failed.
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Numbers stations were prominently used during the Cold War. A boy was tuning the radio in the snow mountain and happened to tune the shortwave of codes.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The bird in its cage dreams about clouds. This unique film made by the japanese director Hajime Kimura is composed of 2400 images created one by one with Photoshop only using the penbrush tool that gives a blurry hand-painted aesthetic.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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hree Qs and more make QQQ. QQQ spin and roll. And QQQ transform themselves, spinning. QQQ transform, spinning, rolling, swinging, turning and traveling.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The blue evolves. The blue rises toward the upper world. The blue becomes green and then yellow, which makes things unstable. So red circle appears to bring into balance between blue and yellow. These three colors unite into one, which rises until the summit, over the boundary line, and becomes a white circle to a full stop. And then it returns to the first state.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative