THE JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL IS A COMPREHENSIVE FESTIVAL OF MEDIA ARTS (= MEDIA GEIJUTSU )THAT HONORS OUTSTANDING WORKS IN THE FOUR DIVISIONS OF ART, ENTERTAINMENT, ANIMATION, ANDMANGA, AS WELL AS PROVIDING A PLATFORM FOR APPRECIATION OF THE WORKS THAT HAVE WON AWARDS.

THE JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL AT WATERPIECES 2013
Friday 15– Saturday 17 August 2013 Floating Art Gallery NOASS Admission: FREE
JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL CURATED PROGRAM“Seeking the Form of Anima”
In the world of animation, many methods have been used to incorporate Anima (meaning life or soul in Latin), which serves as the root
for this word, into video. The range of possible expressions has been
expanded through the creation of these new narratives.

recorder ©okamotonoriaki

I'm home ©okamotonoriaki

ORGANIZER: NOASS
CO-ORGANIZER: The Agency for Cultural Affairs
PLANNING DIRECTOR: YAMAMINE Junya (Curator, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography)"Seeking the Form of Anima" will be presented by six young Japanese artists who are pursuing unique forms of expression. The video
expression of these artists active in fields such as art, animation,and entertainment are expressed through various styles including
exhibition, screenings, and live performances. While introducing thecharacteristics of the highly-varied Japan Media Arts Festival, theseartists will present to the world the energy of Japan's young generation that will carry video expression into the future.

SCREENING + LIVE PROGRAM
Friday 16 August from 21:00 Floating Art Gallery NOASSPARTICIPATING ARTISTSLIVE PERFORMANCE

okamotonoriaki, OKAMOTO Masanori, KATO Ryu, SHIGETA Yusuke,
HANZAKI Toshiaki, YOKOTA Masashi
okamotonoriaki (Music) + YOKOTA Masashi (VJ)

EXHIBITION

Thursday 15–Sunday 1 September Floating Art Gallery NOASSEXHIBITED WORKPixel Forest | SHIGETA Yusuke 16th Japan Media Arts Festival Art Division Jury Selection Video installation

JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2013 VIDEO PROGRAM
Saturday 17 August from 21:00 Open air Screen in front of the Floating Art Gallery NOASSRELATED SCREENING

KATO Ryu

Received his MFA at the Department of Design at Tokyo University of the Arts. Kato currently works as a video artist, creating mainly
hand-drawn animation. His work focuses on the dynamism and contingency that emerges from the process of hand-drawing eachframe. Recently, Kato has been expanding the range of his activities, exhibiting his work at museums, holding open studio sessions
and also working as a graphic designer.

Around2007 Japan

3 min. 12 sec.

The Nighthawk Star

The Nighthawk Star ©NHK

2013 Japan

10 min. 12 sec.

LIVE PERFORMANCE

okamotonoriaki (Music)+YOKOTA Masashi (VJ)

from live event of okamotonoriaki

EXHIBITION

Date: Thursday 15– Sunday 1, September
EXHIBITED WORK

Venue: Floating Art Gallery NOASS

Pixel Forest | SHIGETA YusukeJapan

16th Japan Media Arts Festival Art Division Jury Selection Video installation

One good example of the search for “Anima”, the video installation work “Pixel Forest”, will be presented.
This is an animated video installation piece that uses pixel images to express the world of children's stories,
fairy tales, and folk tales. Because there is no screen, viewers use a small book with blank pages as thescreen to move the story along themselves while following the video.

©shigetayusuke Photo by Keizo Kioku

RELATED SCREENING

JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2013 VIDEO PROGRAM
Date: Saturday 17 August from 21:00

Venue: Open air Screen in front of the Floating Art Gallery NOASSAs a related event of "Seeking the Form of Anima", A 90 minute program consisting of 13 award-winning works and jury selections from the Japan Media Arts Festival
2013 will be screened officially.

NAGANO Ryo “HAJIMEYOU” | ARAI Fuyu

JapanEntertainment Division New Face Award 6 min. 43 sec. Music video©CHAPTERLevitation without wires or synthetic tricks. Made for NAGANO Ryo’s single HAJIMEYOU (Let’s Begin), the DIY spirit of this music video embodies the song’s message. A web-only version which takes us behind the scenes has come to seem inseparable from the finished work.

ISHIBASHI Eiko “imitation of life” | TAKCOMJapanEntertainment Division Jury Selection 4 min. 15 sec. Music video© SPACE SHOWER NETWORKS INC./ felicity / ISHIBASI
Eiko / TAKAFUMIi Tsuchiya

A music video that imitates life, made for an album that singer-songwriter ISHIBASHI Eiko made with the Mou Shinda Hitotachi (Already DeadPeople) band, produced by Jim O’ROURKE. The tension-filled music and pointillist animated landscape unfold dynamically in complete harmony.

salyu × salyu “hanashitaianatato” | TSUJIKAWA Koichiro

Japan

Entertainment Division Jury Selection 3 min. 37 sec. Music video©OORONG-SHA CO.,LTD.,2012

This one is a music video for a song from the salyu × salyu project by salyu and Cornelius. The objective was to take a structure consisting ofcuts of countless performance shots and music edited from multilayered vocals, and convert it directly into video imagery.

SCREENING + LIVE PROGRAM
Date: Friday 16, August from 21:00

Venue: Floating Art Gallery NOASSThis program, which focuses on the relationship between the daily evolving forms of expression and techniques within this process, presents various means ofexpression, including hand drawn animation, cut paper animation, rotoscope, pixel images, and photo time-lapse. While incorporating the Anima of the six artists
exploring unique video worlds, the program will introduce the joy of video expression including the interaction among the individual works.
Furthermore, following the screening, two of the participating artists will provide a live performance as musicians, with okamotonoriaki conducting a recital andMasashi Yokota performing as VJ.

okamotonoriaki

Born in Osaka in 1983. Lives in Tokyo. Graduate of Tama Art University. Okamoto creates short animation films and music basedon his own memory, emotions and images in his head. His work has received high acclaim at events such as the Japan Media Arts
Festival. Okamoto presents new work through various forms of media such as audio sources (CDs and DVDs), collaborations andperformances. http://okamotonoriaki.com/

recorder2011 Japan

14th Japan Media Arts Festival Entertainment Division Jury Selection 6 min. 12 sec.
recorder ©okamotonoriaki

I’m home2013 Japan

4 min. 3 sec.

YOKOTA Masashi

Born in Saitama in 1983. Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 2008. Yokota has presented video work and sculptures employing a unique method of piling vast amounts of photos from documentary footage to create 3 dimensional “forms”. His major works
include “ikuemi” (2007), “kiokuzenkei” (2008), and “Chichi-to-watashi” (2008), co-created with Chie Morimoto.

ikuemi2008 Japan

4 min. 48 sec.

kioku zenkei ©2008 Masashi Yokota

SHIGETA Yusuke

kioku zenkei

2008 Japan

12th Japan Media Arts Festival Art Division Jury Selection 5 min. 38 sec.

Born in 1981. Lives in Kanagawa, Japan. Completed his MFA at the Graduate School of Film and New Media at the Tokyo Universityof the Arts after working at a video production company. Working with mainly computer graphics, Shigeta’s work focuses on how weengage with digitally produced moving images. His work is also inspired by various themes surrounding moving image culture, suchas issues related to new media and the implicit grammar of moving images that conventional film and animation have failed to cover.
He also holds workshops for children to explore the educational aspect of moving images.

Narrative Kinetics

2008 Japan

4 min. 35 sec.
Narrative Kinetics ©shigetayusuke

OKAMOTO Masanori

Born in Tokyo in 1985. Graduated from the Department of Visual Communication Design at Musashino Art University in 2008.
Received an MFA at the Department of Animation at Tokyo University of the Arts. Okamoto currently works as a freelance animation
artist. His past works include “Grandma”, “panku-naoshi”, “‘Ho-Ho’ This message is boiling hot.” and “BONNIE”.

'Ho-Ho' This message is boiling hot.

2011 Japan

2 min. 18 sec.

'Ho-Ho' This message is boiling hot. ©2011 Masanori
OKAMOTO / Sony Digital Entertainment Services Inc.

BONNIE2011 Japan

15th Japan Media Arts Festival Animationo Division Jury Selection 2 min. 28 sec.

I am alone walking on the straight road.

2012 Japan

16th Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Division Jury Selection 5 min. 53 sec.

HANZAKI Toshiaki

An animation director born in 1981. Received his MFA at Tokyo University of the Arts. “Birds” (2005) and “Birthday” (2007), works
which Hanzaki created during his student years, received numerous awards. He later began creating music videos and short animation
films for TV programs. His best known work include music videos for J-pop band, Mr. Children’s “Hana-no-nioi” (the smell of flowers) and“Jyo-to-ku” (cliché) and an animated version of author, Miyazawa Kenji’s “Jyu-riki-no-kongo-seki” (the diamond of ten powers).

Birthday11th Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Division Jury Selection 1 min. 32 sec.
Birthday ©Toshiaki Hanzaki

2007 Japan

Haisuinonasa “Dynamics of the Subway” | ONISHI Keita

JapanEntertainment Division New Face Award 4 min. 22 sec. Music video
Made for the song Dynamics of the Subway in Hasuinonasa’s first album, Body of the Animal (Zankyo Records), the animated geometricalforms correspond to the movement and texture of each musical sound and literally give shape to both the subway and the composition.

©ONISHI Keita

Bye Buy | Neil BRYANTUKArt Division Excellence Award 2 min. 42 sec. Video work
Bye Buy mixes archive footage from the post-war age of consumerism with present-day symbols. Familiar but anachronistic, this is a play on outmoded representations of the consumer ethos. The over-large eyes are for desire; the bar codes, hidden knowledge. We consume and are consumed.

©Neil BRYANTOn Pause | Mikhail ZHELEZNIKOVRussia

Art Division Excellence Award 5 min. 43 sec. Video work

©Mikhail Zheleznikov, 2012

The artist was going home unwillingly when he met a man who’d been at Moscow Airport for a week. The man kept on buying plane tickets but
couldn’t bring himself to fly. There was something poetic and irrational about him. But what’s so rational about doing things you don’t want?

Open play, Forgetting eye | ALIMOJapan

Art Division Jury Selection 8 min. 39 sec. Video work

©ALIMO/Tokyo University of the Arts

Employing the “exquisite corpse”of surrealism, this work is a playful linking of forgotten images. Drawing day after day, it’s natural sometimes to forget what we drew just a few days before. A sliding black support connects pictures at random to produce new images.

I’m also a bear. | GODA Tsuneo

JapanAnimation Division Jury Selection 5 min. 00 sec. Animated short film

©NHK/dwarf ©dwarf

Makuma-kun examines an encyclopedia of the animals. There is a different animal on each page, and then he comes to the bears. “Hey, I’ma bear, too,” he thinks, and is sad. This coming-of-age story features a character who first appeared in UTADA Hikaru’s song, “I’ m a Bear.”Futon | MIZUSHIRI Yoriko

JapanAnimation Division New Face Award 6 min. 02 sec. Animated short film
In bed at night, our thoughts turn the past and future and sexual desire, and all merges together as a warm feeling. The body seeks sensation.
This animation owes its soft texture to drawings traced from paper. Futon (Quilt) examines how movement and the senses are linked.

©MIZUSHIRI Yoriko

Recruit Rhapsody | YOSHIDA Maho

JapanAnimation Division Jury Selection 7 min. 27 sec. Animated short film

©Maho Yoshida / Tokyo University of the ArtsA short animation about job hunting. A very ordinary college student finds that her friends have recently begun to behave strangely. It turns
out they are in the throes of job-hunting fever. She never quite gets it but is sucked into the vortex of Japanese-style recruitment even so.

The Great Rabbit | WADA Atsushi

JapanAnimation Division Excellence Award 7 min. 12 sec. Animated short film

© Sacrebleu Productions - CaRTe bLaNChe - Atsushi

Co-produced by French firms Sacrebleu Productions and CaRTebLaNChe, this animation features a gang of children, humanoid rabbit,
bespectacled child, marten, bird and hungry rabbit god – and a ball. Using thin lines and subdued colors, it’s all about disobedience really.

Wada – 2012

Sunset Flower Blooming | HU Yuanyuan

ChinaAnimation Division Jury Selection 10 min. 19 sec. Animated short film
An old woman rests in her garden in sixties China. It’s sunset and the evening primroses have started to come out. The flowers remind her ofher own youthful dreams and beauty. The animation uses Chinese cutouts to accentuate the soft texture of the paper and brilliant colors.

©HU Yuanyuan

COMBUSTIBLE | OTOMO Katsuhiro

JapanAnimation Division Grand Prize 12 min. 43 sec. Animated short film

© SHORT PEACE COMMITTEE

Owaka, a merchant’s daughter in 18th century Edo (Tokyo), loves Matsukichi. The boy is disowned, though, by his family because he wants
be a fireman, and Owaka’s family is looking for a suitable boy. Distraught, Owaka reacts by burning down the town. The two lovers meet in themiddle of the blaze.

17TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Thursday, July 11– Thursday, September 12, 2013EXHIBITION OF AWARD-WINNING WORKS OF
THE 17TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

Wednesday, February 5– Sunday, February 16, 2014*closed on Wednesday, February 12

venue: National Art Center, Tokyo

Enquiries: NHK International Inc. Section of Participation in Overseas Media Arts Festivals | mail jmaf-info@nhkint.or.jp

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