Kei Oyama

Birth : 1978-01-01, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

History

In 2005, Shinsatsushitsu (Consultation Room), his graduation project at Tokyo Zokei University, won the Gold Prize for the Campus Genius Award, as well as Best Picture for BACA-JA. Oyama has been formally invited to international film festivals such as the Directors' Fortnight of the Cannes International Film Festival. In 2008 he made HAND SOAP for Aichi Arts Center which won him many awards including the Grand Prix for the Holland Animation Film Festival and the Special Prize for the International Animation Festival Hiroshima. In the live motion movies Watashi wa neko sutoka (I'm a cat stalker, 2008) and Gegege no nyobo (Gegege's wife, 2010) Oyama was in charge of making the animation clips. He is now a member of CALF, which he founded with his partners, making Hokago (After School) while producing, distributing, and selling animation works.

Movies

L'Animation Indépendante Japonaise - Volume 3

Director

A new wave is building within the Japanese independent animation scene. In Vol.3, discover the most promising stars of the next generation, with a particular focus on powerful female talents, who will dazzle you with their exhilaratingly original perspectives!

The Mechanism of Spring

Production Manager

Everybody is excited to see the arrival of spring. This film tries to depict the excitement spring brings.

L'Animation Indépendante Japonaise - Volume 1

Director

Adventures in Beauty Wonderland

Key Animation

I’m a Cat Stalker

Animation

Haru works at a part-time job for a bookstore. Her dream is to become an illustrator and she also loves cats. One day, after a cat named Chibutomu disappears from the bookstore Haru canvasses the neighbourhood in search of Chibutomu.

Hand Soap

Writer

A quiet and disquieting story about a boy who reaches puberty and his family.

Hand Soap

Director

A quiet and disquieting story about a boy who reaches puberty and his family.

Tokyo Loop

Director

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.

Thinking and Drawing: Japanese Art Animation of the New Millennium

Director

The walls of video rental shops in Japan are lined with hundreds upon hundreds of animation DVDs, but experimental and art animation on DVD are rare. To remedy this situation, Image Forum put together this showcase of the work of contemporary avant-garde animators trained in Kyoto and Tokyo.

Consultation Room

Director

In Kei Oyama's grim Consultation Room, a medical diagnosis triggers a wave of traumatic fantasies, portrayed in greyish pencil drawings that waver as if left out for too long in the rain.

The Thaw

Director

A young boy becomes interested in the bodies of living things and starts to develop phobias after seeing a dog's corpse. Before long all manner of things begin to appear grotesque to him.

Nami

Director

A woman is masturbating when a swarm of fish bursts out from all over her house to disturb her.