IAD 2024 in Kyoto – 17:40〜19:00: Part One: Screening of Lecturers’ Works

Yoriko Mizushiri

“Anxious Body”

5:47, 2021

Living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines. When these different things encounter, a new direction is born. Desiring it as the sense of touch, things keep chasing it forever. Animation of tactility you only can let yourself go with the streaming of the images.

“Shiri Play”

4:39, 2005

This is the first animated work in which the buttocks and fingers move playfully.

“Futon”

6:03, 2012

Wrapped in the futon... Memories are coming up to the mind, the future is imagined,senses are recaptured, physical feelings as a woman are deeply ingrained... Everything melts pleasantly all together. In the futon, the body wonders seeking for these sense...

“Veil”

5:26, 2014

Kyogen Stage/Eye Examination Room/Sushi Bar Counter - There are two people who face each other in each space.　Each pair keeps a few distance between their partners and find some fearful, tender, and comfortable feelings that fascinate them.　The feelings are put into practice immediately, and they start groping each feelings.

“Animafest Zagreb 2020 Official Festival Trailer”

00:35, 2020

Official festival trailer for Animafest Zagreb, with the theme of Love.

Kotoko Nakamura

“Be nice, girls”

6:18, 2010

During their mother’s absence, two little sisters had a fight. Being in a bad mood, it began to rain…

“MIX”

6:40, 2018

A “lie” hidden within a happy-looking family.
For what, for whom is this secret kept?
What is important to you in this “mix” of a world?
Fact or fiction? Right or wrong?

Mika Seike

“A Place Where There Are Moths”

5:24, 2001

Story of a woman who multiplies moths.

“Starting Over”

8:22, 2016

You fall down every time before reaching your goal. At each fall, the glass you held in your hand breaks, then everything starts again from the beginning. But there are things one can only discover through repetition. The answer lies within yourself.

Nobar Yeganehbakhtiary

“Yin-Yang”

4:45, 2023

The “Yin Yang” is an Iranian folktale inspired by the Chinese concept of Yin-Yang, in which two characters, White (Yang) and Black (Yin), embark on a journey together. During their trip, they arrive at a desert. White, who has run out of water, asks his friend Black for some. However, Black refuses to share, and tension begins to rise between them.