I Fall in Love With You Through a Robot

Set in the year 2060, it follows a love story as Tokyo's third Olympics draws near. Takeru Oosawa, who works for the AI Robot Technology Research Lab, is chosen as a member of the national secret project using humanoid robots. With the help of childhood friend and co-worker Youichirou Amano and his sister Saki, Takeru tries his best to reach his objectives. However, the situation changes when Saki's office receives a warning note for terrorism.

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Automatic Writing

Charcoal animation, taken from from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003).

2003-01-01 | en

Ghost in the Shell

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

1995-11-18 | ja

Vexille

2067: Isolation: Japan seals herself off from the eyes of the world in the face of unilateral international policy setting strict limits on the use of robotic technology. The island nation exists only behind a veil of seclusion. No soul shall enter. No soul shall leave. 2077: Revelation: The veil is breached. Japan is infiltrated by agents of the organization S.W.O.R.D., a fighting force operating outside of the protection of the United States and her allies. Their mission: Determine if the Japanese are developing banned robotic bio-technology, forbidden due to its threat to humankind. In the battle between machine and man, humanity stands to suffer most.

2007-08-18 | ja

Photodiary '87

I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was making the film, I wanted to depict these feelings and events with tricky techniques. I used various methods to shoot photographs of a relative's wedding, the landscape I see from window of my house, commemorative travel photographs and the like frame-by-frame.

1987-07-26 | ja

Bowl, Garden, Theatre, Marble Game

An animated short consisting of 4 segments: bowl, garden, theatre, marble game. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Harvard Film Archive in 2015.

1970-01-01 | en

Master Eder and his Pumuckl

The adventures of an old-fashioned master cabinet maker in Munich and the tiny red-haired goblin Pumuckl, who becomes visible to him when he gets stuck to the pot of glue in his workshop. The tiny creature is visible to nobody else and full of mischief, and hilarity ensues as objects are seen moving around and the elderly craftsman seems to be talking to thin air.

1982-04-02 | de

Museum of Atemporal Art

An experimental, AI-driven film which deconstructs art history, recombining artistic movements and eras into an evolving mash-up. The piece serves as an accelerated synopsis of the history of the visual arts, weaving together recognizable imagery into new, emergent forms.

2023-08-13 | en

The Pagemaster

Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he is mystically transported into the unknown world of books, and he has to try and get home again.

1994-11-23 | en

La Maison en Petits Cubes

La Maison en Petits Cubes tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters.

2008-06-10 | ja

Super (8) Skate

Skating is cool. Super 8 films too. Fuck-shit! That was dope! // "Super (8) Skate" is a Stop-Motion short, shot on Super 8 film to express the love of skating and filmmaking.

2020-01-27 | de

The Second Renaissance Part I

Tells the early history of how conflict began between the humans and machines. Part 1 of 2.

2003-02-04 | en

The Second Renaissance Part II

The battle for Earth turns against the humans, despite their infamous desperate act of blackening the skies.

2003-05-05 | en

The Extinct Suite

An animated film made from approximately 1700 laser printed photo(collage)s, manipulated by hand.

2017-06-20 | en

Banner of Youth

A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film stock. An attempt at showing the complexity of the world in a capsule, the film reflects the new policy of the openness to the West during the Thaw of the late 1950s in Poland.

1957-01-01 | pl

Dear Ike: Lost Letters to a Teen Idol

In this animated documentary, Los Angeles filmmaker Dion Labriola recounts his all-consuming childhood quest to contact his teen idol, Ike Eisenmann - and the magical turn of events that led him toward his goal (some 40 years later).

2021-08-13 | en

En Algún Lugar

2014-08-20 | es

So Dear to My Heart

The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny. Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcome the obstinate objections of his loving, yet strict, grandmother Granny. Jeremiah's confidant, Uncle Hiram, is the boy's steady ally.

1948-11-29 | en

The Dog & the Boy

Experimental short from Netflix Anime Creators' Base, AI character development company rinna, and WIT STUDIO. The short utilizes AI assistance in the background art workflow.

2023-01-31 | ja

After All

After All is said and done. A man clears out his childhood home, remembering past conversations.

2017-06-17 | en