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Experimental fiction which shunned conventional storytelling at the time it was created. These stories often invoke unsettled feelings because they reject traditional ways in which we prefer to view (or escape from) the world. Narrative is avant garde works is often of higher importance than the content.
Deconstructions often fall into this genre. Note that simply being darker, edgier, or cynical doesn't mean the work is avant garde.
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A story about author and his neighbor in a hot summer. (Source: Vimeo)
A very short animation drawn on tracing paper with a brush pen and coloured pencil. "This work was inspired by an impressive dream. In the dream, I took a dictionary that printed flip-books in the corner from a book shelf, and when I returned it, the book had disappeared." [Yuko Asano] (Source: KRAUT FILM)
Music video for the song Mad Popcorn World! by Korone Inugami.
Music video for the song Ratpark by PEOPLE 1, featuring Kei Sugawara.
A short animation drawn on washi paper and cel with a marker and animex. Some kanji (they are used in the Japanese poem "Iroha Uta") metamorphose into various creatures. (Source: KRAUT FILM)
Music video animated by AC-Bu for the song Saishin Sekai Xin Xin Xiang Yin by the band The Chef Cooks Me.
I have lost my interest in any kind of social activities after my nose leave me. Am I enjoying loneliness as I thought, or the ugliness of the people around me makes me feel being alone is actually not bad at all? (Source: Vimeo)
Man often yearns of a past more innocent and pure. This film disregards that sentimentality and depicts a constant, permanent transformation of the landscape of mountains and rivers. A beautiful and intense image poem made from thousands of pencil drawings.
Experimental graphic animation from the 1930s by Beni Mori, who was active in the Osaka Baby Kinema Club when it was founded in 1924.
Graduate Work 2021 by Minori Matsuoka, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. Yui has become estranged from her boyfriend, who doesn't even wish her happy birthday. Her friend Aya introduces a fortune teller said to be the real deal. What does destiny hold for them? This is a romantic comedy made during self-quarantine. (Source: Geidai Animation)
An abstract short film by Takuto Katayama.
Station IDs featuring the Popee The Performer characters that aired as bumpers between programs on the Japanese Kids Station satellite station sometime during the early 2000s. Released on the Popee the Performer Vol.1 DVD.
Friends and families engage in joyful activities to brighten their bleak Winter's day.
Sitting at a low table, a man stares at the pot in front of him. His body, affected by the bubbles that finally emerge, drowns in a hallucination of being chased by a one-armed girl. (Source: Image Forum Festival)
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A strange and wonderful story about a special connection between father and son. (Source: IMDb)
A woman looks into her mind. Chasing her ideals on a tightrope. Every imperfect piece of her mind completes herself. (Source: IMDb)
All living things are born and die. Water flows and never returns back. The money you have might be gone away. However, you might become friends with someone who was your enemy. Everything keep changing and never be the same. Even these ideas could be changed, just in a moment. (Source: Vimeo)
A group of children dances to music, being observed by their teacher. A girl tries to interfere.
In the pitch darkness a man cannot see anything. Only light source is a light lit with a match by someone else. The light is lit and put out. This repeats sometime and eventually the man makes up his mind. (Source: Geidai Animation)
This is a world where demons live, where the night continues all the time. Children are studying at school to threaten humans every day. A story of a small day in such a world. (Source: Official YouTube Channel)
People, animals, flowers, streets, now and the past, all are equally flowing and Bonnnou (Kleshas) will never disappear. (Source: YouTube)
Music video for the song Shinkansen (Tab Eater Remix) by Denki Groove.
Graduate Work 2021 by Miho Takahashi, Tama Art University.
An animated trailer by Hirotoshi Iwasaki for the book "JERV" by Norwegian writer Ida Fjeldbraaten.
I was heading to junior high school one day when my maternal instincts suddenly kicked in. After being held hostage to those urges for a decade, I started to wonder if this feeling was really about motherliness. Virgin birth, genes, pregnancy… I journey through 10 years in search of the maternal. (Source: Geidai Animation)
Music video for the song ACA by Maruosa.
This animated documentary is derived from footage shot at the site of the Sanrizuka struggle opposing the construction of Narita Airport. In addition to scenes evidently shot before and after the Nihon Genyasai Festival in Sanrizuka, it features time-lapse sequences showing abandoned houses and construction equipment leveling requisitioned land. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)
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. (Source: NEW DEER)
My mother loves me. She always worries about me. "Are you alright?" Even if she dies. (Source: YouTube)
Music video for the song Nareai Serve by ZUTOMAYO.
Music video for the song Bagoooon!!!!! by Satapanpi, featuring Hatsune Miku.
Music video for the song You're so lonely now, so you need me back by your side again by Yerin Baek.
"Forest and Trees" is an installation of moving images and sounds employing 12 digital photo frames. The animation and its sound effects playing through the internal speakers of each frame gradually come together to form music. The work's title suggests the artist's interest in having the work received in a way that shifts recognition back and forth between the whole. (Source: Official Site)
Music video for the song Aishang Zhi Di by ALIS HOWS (TzChien).
This animation was based on a scene I dreamt, where white smoke was rising from a bed. I was influenced by one of Zhuangzi’s thought, The butterfly dream, and visualized the contrast between dream and reality. While I was creating this piece, I was never aware of whom the man sleeping in the movie was, but somehow, he ended up looking just like my grandfather. (Source: Official Website)
Each note from the instruments is represented by a geometric shape in the animation; while these shapes move in sync with the song, they also form the parts that create the subway itself. (Source: Vimeo)
Animated video for LeaF's song Mopemope, directed by Optie.
An experimental film created from 3 years worth of abstract pencil drawings with the goal of being a catalyst for unveiling a new mental landscape in viewers.
Music video for song Mangetsu no Fortune by Yumi Matsutoya.
When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me. A charming animation rhyme that weaves together the many days of observing, recording, and experimenting. (Source: Official website)
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A man was born. He met a woman whom he fell in love with and kissed. They separated, but two people change shape and are reborn over time. A kiss is eternal. A journey of new life born from a kiss. (Source: YouTube)
Music video for the song Run Aways by m-flo loves chelmico.
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Music video for the song Your Thorn from cokiyu's 2nd album "Your Thorn".
Bio-Sensor is a 1984 Japanese computer-animated surreal short film produced by Takashi Fukumoto at Toyo Links and Hitoshi Nishimura at Osaka University. It's notable for its early use of primitive motion capture, using profile and head-on films of a tiger walking. (Source: Wikipedia)
This work was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and made possible by support from the 2016 Champion and Patron Members of Reel Asian. Chinese Zodiac is 60-years cycle by 10 heavenly elements and 12 earthly animals, 20th anniversary is just one third. In this movie appearing and changing into 20 elements from 1997 that was started the festival to 2016. Music is played by Dan Bau that Vietnamese electronic stringed instrument. (Source: yamamura-animation.jp)
The "living wall" reshapes itself into various forms like a large fallen tree to a dying monster. This metamorphosis evokes a fascinating sense of freedom though imagination, assisted by the detailed yet unrestrained paint strokes and faint vocal echos. (Source: Letterboxd)
Music video for the song lucy far by Serph from his album "nirva".
A visceral depiction of the circle of life. Made by The Village of Marchen's Worku Team and directed by Masahide Kobayashi and Keita Funamoto.
Animated clip for Yakushimaru Etsuko's song Watashi wa Jinrui.
Music video for the song With My Umbrella from cokiyu's 2nd album "Your Thorn".
An experimental short by Takahiro Shibata.
PV for Showa Women's University Department of Enviromental Science and Design.
A short film by Atsushi Wada for the Kitaro Expo, which celebrated the 100 year anniversary of Shigeru Mizuki's birth.
Graduation work of Sawako Kageyama at Tama Art University.
Music video for the song Tate by Yoeko Kurahashi.
Music video for the song Tokyo OP by Quruli.
Short animation by Tomoyasu Murata.
This hand-drawn animation thematizes what we are looking at in everyday life. Created using pencils, pastels, and oil paints, the drawn pictures were then shot with a digital camera and spliced together as video. Set on a fantasy train representing a kind of mental landscape, a young man shuts himself off from the outside world by reversing his face so he does not see anything, while another man silently stuffs garbage into the face. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)
A commissioned special for the 75th anniversary of the Dentsu Advertising Awards.
Film about the ''Sick building syndrome'', it won multiple awards including the 2015 Urban Nomad Film Festival's Best Animation award. It is a city without memories, but a growing maze with construction sites, skyscrapers, advertising billboards that keeps taking over or being taken over their domains. Citizens wander around and eventually get lost in vain, and the Mô-sîn-á is the only one to lead their way. (Source: Creator's Vimeo account)
The waves of the sea gently ebb and flow, while the mountains silently observe the passing of time. The short life of a bee and the long transformation of continents, both are merely illusions. The flow of time shines eternally in each fleeting moment. Perhaps there are neither beginnings nor ends, nor haste nor delay, not even existence or cessation, in its true essence. (Source: Vimeo)
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Music video for the song Rose by Chilli Beans., featuring Vaundy.
Things looking like cells, one drop next to the other. The cell next to me is you. When a star is born, everybody sings a song altogether. Drops looking like cells, one next to the other. The sound of a star as it gets born. The sound of a star as it disappears. (Source: YouTube)
A music video for the song Power (R3HAB Remix) by EXO.
Graduate Work 2022 by Nichika Sakai, Musashino Art University, Imaging Arts and Sciences.
Music video for the song Sweet Venom by ENHYPEN, featuring Bella Poarch.
Music video for ONEW X Punch's single Way.
Short movie by Tomoyasu Murata.
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Music video for the song Titanium 2 Step by Battles, featuring Sal Principato.
Music video for the song Zanmai by Libro.
The fragments of information scatter amongst computer and Internet, and constitute the world of Red and Blue. When they meet, their faces look red, but are their moods also a little blue? (Source: Vimeo)
A love poem from the 1935 German film soundtrack has become a synonym for the funeral procession "Sisomi" in Taiwan, creating an interesting and absurd contrast between the two. The dance movements are interwoven with the stories of dead animals and death that belong to the city, telling their own life stories. (Source: Goldenhorse, translated)
Music video for the song Talala by rent.
Music video for the song Years by Alesso X CHEN.
Music video for the song Heaven and Hell by DUSTCELL.
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Music video for the song Another day, another place by Mellowhead.
Music video for the song Mind Replacer by Toto Hoshimiya and TEMPLIME, featuring SOZEN OTSUBO.
Somewhere between calligraphy, embryology and words from beyond the grave, a convulsive poem wraps itself around the Japanese syllable ‘da’ — a breath that could just as well be the first as the last. (Source: Directors' Fortnight)
Music video for the song Gin Kkum by SE SO NEON.
Music video for the song Kokkili by Gaeko feat. RM
This story is about Yonpey, a boy who's always bursting with energy. Today, we'd like to present "Yonpey Goes on an Errand!" (Source: Vimeo)
Imoha. His situation is not so good. He must dash, otherwise he will be late. Besides, he skipped his breakfast and he is hungry. He runs anyway. (Source: seungwookjang.com)
Music video for the song To Be Me by Ken Kamikita.
Music video for the song Hamidasumo! (Heaven & Hell Remix) by You'll Melt More!
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Music video for the song Twilight (#1 Abstract na Ringo-tachi) by Denki Groove and Scha Dara Parr.
Music video for the song Nabiya by PEEJAY feat. ZION.T. A private detective is eager to seek out a mysterious cat in the city late at night.
Music video for IMLAY's song Too Good feat. CHENLE of NCT.