« Tabaimo is a contemporary artist who makes installations using computer-generated animation. Her animated works are derived from her drawings. Since her 1999 graduation piece, Japanese Kitchen, caught the attention of the art world, she has become an internationally well-known artist and has continued creating installations. At the age of 26 she assumed the post as professor at University of Art and Design, Kyoto and she took part in the Sao Paulo Biennale and the Yokohama Triennale. Such achievements at a young age have resulted in turning her into a legend.
Oimo provides a profile of Tabaimo. Previous works, recent activities and interviews with her as well as discussions of her installations. »
Catégorie : Hand Drawn Animation
Camouflage
« Most people’s mums are mad. Mine’s got schizophrenia »
Dans un subtil mélange de séquences filmées et animées, Jonathan Hodgson illustre le témoignage singulier d’enfants élevés par un parent schizophrène.
Muybridge’s Strings
« Can time be made to stand still? Can it be reversed? Koji Yamamura’s Muybridge’s
Strings is a meditation on this theme, contrasting the worlds of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge—who in 1878 successfully photographed consecutive phases in the movement of a galloping horse—and a mother who, watching her daughter grow up, realizes she is slipping away from her. Moving between California and Tokyo, between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first, the film focuses on some of the highpoints in Muybridge’s troubled life and intercuts them with the mother’s surrealistic daydreams—a poetic clash that explores the irrepressible human desire to seize life’s fleeting moments, to freeze the instants of happiness. Enriched by Koji Yamamura’s refined artistry and Normand Roger’s soundtrack, Muybridge’s
Strings observes the ties that cease to bind, fixes its gaze on the course of life, and presents a moment in time suspended on the crystalline notes of a canon by J.S. Bach. »
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy ? An animated conversation with Noam Chomsky
Conversations avec le linguiste et philosophe américain Noam Chomsky, sur sa vision du monde et de l’homme dans une série d’interviews avec Michel Gondry.
Yellow Fever
In this film, filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii focuses on African women’s self-image, through memories and interviews; using mixed media to describe this almost schizophrenic self-visualization that she and many others have grown up with.