MUSICMusic video featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. It predominately used claymation and superimposed the real singer in a grasshopper costume onto the scenes.
MUSICMusic video for Kenshi Yonezu's song Shajou no Yumekui Shoujo animated by Minakata Laboratory. The song was also released on his 2nd album titled "OFFICIAL ORANGE".
MUSICMusic video for Kenshi Yonezu's song Wonderland to Hitsuji no Uta animated by Minakata Laboratory. The song was also released on his 2nd album titled "OFFICIAL ORANGE".
ONAThe shorts follow a cedar tree named Cedric, who falls in love with a human woman. In order to remain with her, he hopes that she will use him to build her home.
MOVIEEpisode 1: "When the Buckwheat Flowers Bloom" Heo Saeng-won is an ageing market vendor. He has been a peddler all his life. After a long day at the marketplace in Bongpyeong village, he follows his fellow peddler Jo Seon-dal into an inn where he meets a young itinerant vendor, Dong-i. As the three accompany each other under the moonlight along the buckwheat flowers, Heo Saeng-won realizes he has a special bond with Dong-i. Episode 2: "Spring Spring" I toil on the field day and night as a servant for a man who has promised to give his daughter's hand to me in return for my labor. The man, however, keeps putting off the wedding, saying that his daughter is not growing fast enough. One day, out of fury, I call the man to the ultimate match. Episode 3 "A Lucky Day" Kim, who earns his living by driving a rickshaw, gets out on the street again, even after hearing from his wife that she is seriously ill. Kim then gets to drive an unusually large number of customers that day, and begins to suspect something hideous may lie ahead of his sudden good fortune. At the end of the long and hard day, Kim returns home, with an inexplicable sense of fear weighing down on his heart. (Source: IndieStory)
MOVIEI stuck landscape photographs on the faces of a cube and shot them frame-by-frame. It looks like the box is forever revolving, but in truth it only revolves 90 degrees. The trick to this sensation is fundamentally the same as the one used in SPACY. I was aiming at disturbing our awareness of space in the movement from the three-dimensional to a plane and back again. (Source: Takashi Ito)
ONAA promotional video produced by the Shizuoka Muslim Association for their campaign to fund and build a mosque in Shizuoka prefecture. (Source: Anime News Network)
