KURAYOSHI, 2010, 24 min, color
In this work, Tomomichi Nakamura, an Okayama native painter and animator, departs from his signature animation style as seen in his previous works such as “Ant” and “My Town,” and explores a new path using the “real” images.
Synopsis
Nakamura stayed in Kurayoshi, a typical unspectacular provincial city of Japan, for a week, and assembled all kinds of images that the town people brought to him in an former elementary school class room. The exhibit of the images itself became an open exhibit for the town people as well as part of this film. In a fast motion sequence, the classroom gradually fills up with numerous images.
It is a record of “action” that aimed to extract fragment-like things from a typical Japanese local city.
Tomomichi Nakamura Bio
Born in 1972. A painter and animation creator.
Started animation in 2005.
His first animation work, “My Town” was awarded at Image Forum Festival in 2007 and showed at Vancouver International Film Festival, Calgary International Film Festival, and many other film festivals. In 2008, his “Ants” was shown at 55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain, and other festivals and museums internationally. Recently his exhibits are found locally as well. He’s working on his new animation film, “An angle-like.”