Masumi Takino

참여 작품

Bird in the Peninsula
Sound Engineer
The boys are rehearsing a dance for their traditional initiation ceremony into adulthood; their teacher instructs them. A girl observes the scene but is not allowed to join in. When one of the boys chases after a strange bird, she follows him without knowing why. One day, the boy will no longer be able to see the bird either.
A Bite of Bone
Sound Designer
A little girl reflects on her last summer with her father at his funeral.
Polar Bear Bears Boredom
Sound Designer
A polar bear who is very bored with various marine animals in the deep blue sea. It continues an ancient tradition of "Caricatures of Frolicking animals" in scroll painting-style; this time, "Frolicking Sea Animals," in animation form, with a play on Japanese and English language word-plays: "Hokyoku-Guma Suggoku Hima. / Polar bear bears boredom", "Kawauso Kawaisou./Other otter, poor otter," etc.
Brother
(voice)
When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance totally mystified me so I started to sneak into his room to look for his secrets.
MUNCH MUNCH
Music
How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.
Dear Viruses
Sound Designer
This work is a missive to the life form we call viruses in the hope that we can coexist. The relationship between humans and viruses is poetically expressed from a different perspective.
AMANE DIARY
Sound Designer
This work is based on 15 years of entries in the diary that I’ve kept since age eight. Through creating this work I was searching for freedom from my preconceptions about animation and myself.
Brother
Sound Designer
When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance totally mystified me so I started to sneak into his room to look for his secrets.
Coping Mechanism
Sound Designer
No doubt negative enery is going to accumulate in my body today, tomorrow and the day after. When that happens, I'll have my own way of release.
In My Room
Sound Designer
This installation work is inspired by dreams experienced during a fever. The two-minute looping animation visualizes incoherent nightmares seen intermittently when having a hallucinatory fever.
POP JUNKIE
Sound Designer
TV shows, manga, music, movies, plays, pop stars and cartoon characters. I watch videos on my phone with the TV blaring and music in the background. I’m swimming in media... Is this the other side of the screen?! Awesome!
Kids
Sound
An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all equal? Who is steering the crowd? What if it is heading in the wrong direction? Where does the individual end and the group begin? What is done by choice, and what under duress?
Alpaca Alien: PACALIEN
Sound Designer
A series of original Pacalien shorts which aired during commercial breaks on Toonami.
The Story of a Motorbike
Sound Designer
A motorbike yearns to return to its good old days. One day it takes a courageous leap to its own future.
아이 엠 어 히어로
Sound Effects Editor
일본 전역을 뒤덮은 정체불명의 바이러스 ‘ZQN’ 도심 곳곳은 사람을 물어뜯는 감염자들로 인해 대혼란이 이어지고, 우연히 살아남은 ‘히데오’와 몸의 반만 감염된 ‘히로미’는 감염자들을 피해 가까스로 생존자들의 안식처에 다다르게 된다. 하지만, 그 곳에서 예상치 못한 거대한 위협을 만나게 되는데…
Reinventing the Square Wheel
Sound Designer
On various forms expanded in all directions and a dance by a man in tights.
A Place to Name
Sound Designer
This place is where my grand parents, my parents, and I once lived. Even though I lose my memories and feelings of it, it does exist there and keeps to be in existence.
Scutes on my mind
Sound Designer
The scutes glisten in the corner of her mind and she starts to dig her memories up. What was like the museum director she encountered when she was lost?
Zdravstvuite!
Sound Designer
On a summer day an strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to a town. The familiar town looked totally fresh from a different point of view. The man should be there at the beach tomorrow.
See ya, Mr. Banno!
Sound Designer
One day out of the blue Prof. Banno of came to school with his hair shaven. Students made fun of his bald head. Prof. Banno flew in a hot air balloon the next day. Nobody knows anything about what happened to him after that
Flower Bud
Sound Designer
The uncertainty, struggles, and joy of the moment upon becoming an adult. Between lullabies and songs I hum to myself. Between a man and myself. That subtle flickering in a single instant, forgotten once it is over. Never forget that moment...
Watakushiritori
Sound Designer
One day is presented by shiritori, a word game of last and first. A chain of images in one line evolves the story of this game.
A Wind Egg
Sound Effects
The film is about a family, that runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs. The mother loves somebody else. In the family fixture, each member stays there with bias or secrets.
The Man Who Ate an Apple
Sound Designer
An apple comes out of a man’s mouth. The man’s life goes backward, as video player is reversed. Many kinds of food accelerated to come out of his mouth and the man becomes younger and younger. Time goes back without end.
Tomato confit
Sound Designer
There once lived two brothers in a town. The elder lived alone. The younger lived with his parents. They did not get along well. . . They called each other occasionally. The elder one was impatient and emotional and did nothing but work. . . One day the elder brother’s face turned into a tomato. . .
The Great Rabbit
Sound Designer
Once we called the noble, profound and mysterious existence The Great. We have moved with the time, our thought and consciousness has changed. And yet what makes us still keep calling it The Great?
Fleeting Dream
Sound Designer
A girl is informed by her doctor that she is pregnant. Surprised by the unexpected announcement, falls into an anguish. The fleeting dream is a despairing dream.