Keita Kurosaka
Historia
Keita Kurosaka is active as an animator and as Professor in the Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Tokyo’s Musashino Art University. Across his career, Kurosaka has explored various methods of animation including drawing, photography, and sculpture and has also produced video clips, installation pieces, and comics. Kurosaka’s films have screened widely at international festivals including Rotterdam, Berlin, Annecy, and Hiroshima.
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A girl reflects on her memories of her grandfather.
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The “living wall” reshapes itself into various forms like a large fallen tree to a dying monster. This metamorphosis evokes a fascinating sense of freedom though imagination, assisted by the detailed yet unrestrained paint strokes and faint vocal echos
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The “living wall” reshapes itself into various forms like a large fallen tree to a dying monster. This metamorphosis evokes a fascinating sense of freedom though imagination, assisted by the detailed yet unrestrained paint strokes and faint vocal echos
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Agua, agua.
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Video with the theme of "war" by DIR EN GRAY's song of the same name. Live-action video work including animation.
Animation
Video with the theme of "war" by DIR EN GRAY's song of the same name. Live-action video work including animation.
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Abstract lines drawn with pencils start to move with their own will.
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One might think that beautiful pictures, a compelling story, and brilliant movement are the three essential elements of a good animated film. The word "anima" from which animation is derived, as we all know, means "to breathe life into". And "life" means "limited time" and that there could be an approach that does not include any of the aforementioned "three elements". The result of several years of exploring new methods was an "animated film" that eschews the so-called "animated" structure. This film aims to visualize "shifting consciousness" through a method of filming in which approximately 5,000 pencil drawings are constantly overlapped"
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Man often yearns of a past more innocent and pure. This film disregards that sentimentality and depicts a constant, permanent transformation of the landscape of mountains and rivers. A beautiful and intense image poem made from thousands of pencil drawings.
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An experimental film created from 3 years worth of abstract pencil drawings with the goal of being a catalyst for unveiling a new mental landscape in viewers.
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Astonishing, mysterious, eccentric, adorable, melancholic, sensual and delightful - the Volume 2 of the weird and fascinating world of Japanese independent animation which has been flourishing and stronger than ever.
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Once again animator Keita Kurosaka was enlisted to create a hand drawn music video, that in many regards is much less shocking and grotesque than the previous collaboration, the infamous "Agitated Screams of Maggots".
Animation
Más de una década de trabajo y cerca de treinta mil dibujos necesitó el animador japonés Keita Kurosaka para darle forma a Midori-ko, un deslumbrante, hiperclimático “cuento de hadas paranoico”, como ha sido llamado. La historia comienza dibujada con crayones, con la pequeña Midori soñando con un colorido mundo de vegetales. En vez de eso, adonde viaja ya de adolescente es a un futuro posapocalíptico, surrealista y grotesco como una pesadilla de Jan Svankmajer, y que sufre una grave escasez de alimentos. Ni el hambre ni los estrafalarios vecinos/mutantes del edificio en que vive logran debilitar la convicción vegana de Midori. Mientras tanto, en un laboratorio, cinco científicos consiguen desarrollar “la comida de los sueños”, una que es al mismo tiempo carne y verdura. (FILMAFFINITY)
Writer
Más de una década de trabajo y cerca de treinta mil dibujos necesitó el animador japonés Keita Kurosaka para darle forma a Midori-ko, un deslumbrante, hiperclimático “cuento de hadas paranoico”, como ha sido llamado. La historia comienza dibujada con crayones, con la pequeña Midori soñando con un colorido mundo de vegetales. En vez de eso, adonde viaja ya de adolescente es a un futuro posapocalíptico, surrealista y grotesco como una pesadilla de Jan Svankmajer, y que sufre una grave escasez de alimentos. Ni el hambre ni los estrafalarios vecinos/mutantes del edificio en que vive logran debilitar la convicción vegana de Midori. Mientras tanto, en un laboratorio, cinco científicos consiguen desarrollar “la comida de los sueños”, una que es al mismo tiempo carne y verdura. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
Más de una década de trabajo y cerca de treinta mil dibujos necesitó el animador japonés Keita Kurosaka para darle forma a Midori-ko, un deslumbrante, hiperclimático “cuento de hadas paranoico”, como ha sido llamado. La historia comienza dibujada con crayones, con la pequeña Midori soñando con un colorido mundo de vegetales. En vez de eso, adonde viaja ya de adolescente es a un futuro posapocalíptico, surrealista y grotesco como una pesadilla de Jan Svankmajer, y que sufre una grave escasez de alimentos. Ni el hambre ni los estrafalarios vecinos/mutantes del edificio en que vive logran debilitar la convicción vegana de Midori. Mientras tanto, en un laboratorio, cinco científicos consiguen desarrollar “la comida de los sueños”, una que es al mismo tiempo carne y verdura. (FILMAFFINITY)
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"Agitated Screams of Maggots" was directed by Keita Kurosaka and released in 2006 with the single, "Agitated Screams of Maggots", made by Japanese rock band, DIR EN GREY. ASOM has a traditional drawing design with erotic and grotesque aspects. The video had also received some attention from it's art style and was shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2007.
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Abstract horror short about a girl's face.
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A work produced with the theme of the number "4" as an event for the 4th Into Animation, an independent screening by the Japan Animation Association.
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Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).
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One morning, Papa transforms into a giant insect in the futon, emerges instantly in front of the astonished family, breaks through the window and flies into the sky. Short animation by Keita Kurosaka for MTV Japan.
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Countless dwarves appeared from the omelet that the skinhead man tried to eat. They infiltrate the man's brain and finally explode his head. Short animation by Keita Kurosaka for MTV Japan.
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A man who has a complex about women meets his ideal woman through many twists and turns, but what is her true identity?
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A man who had diarrhea after eating an expired potato salad wanders into a strange personal space.
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Haruko, a girl with psychic powers who can communicate with inorganic matter, wakes up one morning to the call of someone, and as she is invited, she arrives at an abandoned apartment building from the 30s of the Showa era, where countless "mononoke" have lived.
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The story begins with a parody of a familiar folklore about a rabbit and an earthworm chasing after each other, but the warm atmosphere changes completely to a succession of surreal images, and the story dismantles.
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In a certain fishing village, a memorial service is held to burn abandoned boats, and old fishing boats that have finished their duty have a dream on the verge of death. Deep-sea fish galloping through the alleys, fishermen pulling long ropes, ghosts of screaming girls...
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A solemn painting by 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt suddenly roars, transforming and deconstructing.
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Fragments of images emerge from the empty space, and before you know it, a heavy wall surface is built. If you break through it, a flood of light will overflow.
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In front of a train station in the suburbs, a man chopping dried fish, chicken bones, and logs. When the man strikes with his machete, the entire scene begins to rotate. As if it had been put through a juicer, it was broken down into small pieces and eventually put into the glass the girl was holding.
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A flash of light splits the darkness, revealing a mysterious image. The images are rapidly replaced with sharp noise that combines wave-like repetitiveness and explosiveness, and the flicker effect that it brings makes the viewer away from reality.
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A donut-shaped image floating in the center of the screen begins to move like a living creature. The colors and patterns are constantly changing, gradually gaining strength, and eventually leading to an explosive radial movement.
