[KineJapan] question abstract animation and meaning/narrative

Mon Apr 16 03:54:06 EDT 2018

The only book-length work on Japanese experimental/independent/art animation that I am aware of is Chris Robinson's Japanese Animation: Time Out of Mind (2010), which is less a scholarly study than a personal and poetic meditation on the works of Wada, Mirai and their precursors. It's not big on facts and theories, but the writing style fits the subject pretty well, I think.

Jasper

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Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival<http://www.day-for-night.org/aperture/> is a new UK-wide film festival co-founded by Sonali Joshi and Jasper Sharp and launching Spring/Summer 2018 devoted to the boldest and most striking movies from Azerbaijan to Vanuatu and everything in between.

The Creeping Garden<http://www.creepinggarden.com/> - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.
Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films<https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>.
The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing<http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
"A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>.
"An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>.
"Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>.

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Sent: 12 April 2018 18:31:41
To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [KineJapan] question abstract animation and meaning/narrative

Hi Verina!

I have a chapter in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema that deals a bit with abstract Japanese animation. I haven’t heard a release date yet but I expect it will be out sometime later this year.

Outside of a small amount of online coverage (including Jasper’s interview and some of Cathy Munroe Hotes’ blog), there isn’t a lot out there in English I know of. For thinking about abstract animation more broadly I’ve found it helpful to look at work on people like Oskar Fischinger and Len Lye, and visual music in general. When teaching abstract animation in class I usually assign Vivian Sobchack’s essay on “The Line and the Animorph.” There is also some crossover with the more abstract end of experimental film and digital media art.

Best,
Paul

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Paul Roquet
Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

On April 12, 2018 at 12:13:42 PM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan (kinejapan at lists.osu.edu<mailto:kinejapan at lists.osu.edu>) wrote:

Dear Jasper,

Super! many thanks. Any more potential references or links definitely
appreciated.

All my best,
Verina

Quoting Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan
<kinejapan at lists.osu.edu<mailto:kinejapan at lists.osu.edu>>:

> I'm not so sure this will help, as he doesn't directly address the
> subject, but here's an interview I did with Mirai Mizue for the BFI
> website about 3-4 years back which serves as a good primer for his
> work.
>
>
> http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/interviews/free-anime-mizue-mirai-wizard-blobs-blocks
>
>
> all the best,
>
>
> Jasper
>
>
>
> [cid:d5d25fe8-8ee3-4fb2-a6ac-5165acd6a282]
>
>
> Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film
> Festival<http://www.day-for-night.org/aperture/> is a new UK-wide
> film festival co-founded by Sonali Joshi and Jasper Sharp and
> launching Spring/Summer 2018 devoted to the boldest and most
> striking movies from Azerbaijan to Vanuatu and everything in between.
>
>
> The Creeping Garden<http://www.creepinggarden.com/> - A Real-Life
> Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work
> With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.
> Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow
> Films<https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>.
> The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial
> Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia
> Publishing<http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
> "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself",
> Nicolas Rapold, The New York
> Times<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>.
> "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood
> Reporter<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>.
> "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The
> Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>.
>
> ________________________________
> From: KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces at lists.osu.edu<mailto:kinejapan-bounces at lists.osu.edu>> on behalf of
> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan
> <kinejapan at lists.osu.edu<mailto:kinejapan at lists.osu.edu>>
> Sent: 11 April 2018 18:53:35
> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum
> Subject: [KineJapan] question abstract animation and meaning/narrative
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am writing with a bibliographic question, hope some of you may be
> able to help/recommend.
>
> Can anyone recommend any essential - interesting (past and present)
> writing on meaning and narrative in Abstract Animation/abstract
> moving image; especially in and from within the East Asian context,
> but also beyond.
> Translated into English,due to lack of Asian language on my side.
>
> Most grateful for any reference or at least hint. Perhaps some of
> your own writing ...
>
>
> thank you and looking forward to hearing from you guys,
>
> Verina
>
>
> Dr Verina Gfader
> artist and researcher
> Animate Assembly<http://art.gold.ac.uk/animate/>
> Cloud Chamber<http://www.antipyrine.dk/product/verina-gfader-cloud-chamber>

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