[KineJapan] Kuri Yoji

[Miryam Sas]

Hi Aaron,
That is sad news. Thanks for letting us know and enjoy remembering his
squishy sproingy spaces and detached body parts.
For people who want to include early 1960s experimental animation in your
classes, his works are easy  to stream on Youtube--such as 1964 "Aos
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3pAHkkn81E>" with Yoko Ono's voice. They
lead to some interesting conversations.
Best,
Miryam





On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 6:38 AM Aaron Gerow via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> It was announced in the news that Kuri Yoji, the great Japanese animator,
> passed away on November 24 at age 96. Starting out as an illustrator and
> manga artist, he began doing animation at the end of the fifties and was a
> member of the Animation Association of Three with Yanagihara Ryohei and
> Manabe Hiroshi, who helped lay the path for experimental, art animation. He
> became known worldwide for his black humor animated shorts and for a while
> was arguably the most famous Japanese animator globally. He was active well
> into his nineties and I fondly remember his playful posts on Facebook. RIP.
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*Miryam Sas*
Bernie H. Williams Chair in Comparative Literature
Chair, Department of Film & Media
Professor  of Comparative Literature, Film & Media, and Japanese Arts
University of California, Berkeley

*Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art
<https://www.dukeupress.edu/feeling-media> *(Duke University Press, 2022).
Intro here <https://tinyurl.com/feelingmediaintro>.
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