“Under a cherry tree, there’s always a corpse...” After a literary opening featuring this quote from Motojiro Kajii and the image of a giant, bifurcated tree, TEXTISM suddenly changes key and a work full of wry humour emerges.

TEXTISM, jp, 2003, 11:00

This is the fourth project of Goshima Kazuhiro’s monochrome and high-contrast CG animation series ‘Fade into White’.

FADE INTO WHITE #4, jp, 2003, 20:00

The setting is an empty tatami-mat room like the kind found in Japanese inns. The room appears as a video image in real-time, but the image is interrupted by strobelike flashes that reveal photographs of the same site in an earlier time.

ONE MOMENT – MAY 15, 2002, jp, 2003, 4:00

A CG animation infested by unusual characters. A story of a man and a woman who came to ’Jopon’ as migrant workers.

SUZIE NO NAME (SUZU NO NA WA), jp, 2005, 17:00

An animated piece which uses architectural draught. It continuously shows parts which compose a building, the still construction is in motion. The title means ‘to open up’ in the Ainu language.

PIRASAREYAN, jp, 2005, 3:00

Screenshots are used as materials for animation. OS folders, notepad, and other applications like Photoshop are being used in multiple new ways.

DESKTOP, jp, 2005, 7:00

Dreams of flying – the flying figures of characters like Doraemon, Super Mario and Peter Pan are brought together on the screen. This is the final story of Peter Pan
and Wendy (or Nobita and Shizuka).

LAST BOY LAST GIRL, jp, 2006, 13:00