岡本美津子

I'm the only one who can't live without an oxygen tank in the underwater world. No matter how suffocated I feel, I preserve peace and harmony by pr...

28 de jun. de 2021

Mimi is fed up with her pathetic self. One day she walks along looking at the ground like usual when she notices a suspicious flyer.

29 de mai. de 2018

A mother goat rescues her kids from the belly of a wolf, but where is her eldest son Toruku?

09 de mar. de 2018

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.

08 de mar. de 2021

In the moments before death, one of the Battling Gods recalls his defeat in a magnificent fight. That battle transcended meta worlds, time and para...

02 de mar. de 2018

Story of Qs. Three Qs and more make QQQ. QQQ spin and roll. And QQQ transform themselves, spinning. QQQ transform, spinning, rolling, swinging,...

17 de mar. de 2012

One day a girl notices a distortion in her surrounding environment, which prompts her to start searching for her own connection with the world. But...

10 de fev. de 2019

One day a boy encounters a street vendor who sells chicks.Even the boy knows these birds will die very soon. To his eyes, the man is selling none o...

10 de fev. de 2019

There's a pet caterpillar named Larva in my class. I don't like bugs but Larva is sweet and we become friends. But one day, I am faced with a horri...

02 de mar. de 2018

The angel of wind exhales, sending fluffy dandelion seeds into a slow dance. Wind and light guide the downy seeds into the magical world of botany.

02 de mar. de 2018

Two brothers are drawing pictures in art class, but they see completely different things. The younger one is confused by the behavior of his brothe...

10 de fev. de 2019

Fluffy turtles, fluffy monkeys, fluffy lizards. Discover the world populated by these mysteriously charming imaginary creatures. They have adorably...

02 de mar. de 2018

One day, while the main character is dozing off, he is abandoned by the owner of the shadow that he lives in. This creature who has lost his home w...

10 de fev. de 2019

Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her mo...

10 de fev. de 2019

That moment of refreshing sensation when drinking a soda in the hot summer.

08 de mar. de 2021

I tried to symbolize the emotion of loneliness with the motif of the poet, Taneda Santoka, who has broken the haiku form. Cutout method depicts su...

17 de mar. de 2012

Everyone has a sense of justice. The protagonist thinks her ideas are right and voices her opinions through protests for social justice. One day th...

08 de mar. de 2021

Deep down in the forest there lived flower fairies in flower gardens, waking up with the sunrise, eating sweets, and chatting with each other. One...

01 de jan. de 2013

I was heading to junior high school one day when my maternal instincts suddenly kicked in. After being held hostage to those urges for a decade, I ...

08 de jun. de 2022

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...

08 de mar. de 2021

There are three "Motifs". The complete differences between them make themselves self-doubt. The melody begins, and the music motif could not resist...

09 de fev. de 2020

Tobacco has. . . fascinated people for centuries and does not allow them to stop smoking even when they want to. Even though you want to finish...

17 de mar. de 2012

A woman traces her memories through a pearl ring, and comes upon her mother gazing at the same ring. But her memories soon lose their outline and b...

03 de mar. de 2018

The catfish can't get back to the sea. A big catfish is stuck on a riverbank, where he lives quietly with a little catfish in a boat packed with me...

29 de mai. de 2014

A mix of life tales in modern Japan where fate is predicted by your name and a fingerplay song. Are the members of this society playing into the ha...

09 de fev. de 2020

Aoko is confident about the documents she creates at work, but doesn't get any positive feedback. Then, she witnesses her colleague secretly changi...

17 de mar. de 2017

Two sisters stay at home alone. They spend their time in their own worlds, at times in synch with each other and other times disconnected.

02 de mar. de 2018

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 t...

08 de mar. de 2021

Signs such as circles, points, and lines get together to make the shape of a ‘bear’. ‘The bear’ starts to walk to find the concrete places and com...

15 de mar. de 2014

On days I don't want to leave the house, I enjoy watching TV and videos on my smartphone. I'm supposed to be at home but the screen keeps taking me...

10 de fev. de 2019

Here, everyone is an outlander. But something's not right. Everyone else has a place to sit at the table, a home to return to at will. Not him. Lon...

19 de fev. de 2019

Right there in that little gap between fantasy and reality, me and you, movies and videos, concrete and abstract, is that nice cozy space.

09 de fev. de 2020

"You're right. There was a bug–I killed it." Late at night, only one voice wafts around the room. What lies on the other end of the telephone line ...

10 de fev. de 2019

In a land where there are no enemies or allies is a lone soldier. He spends his days sculpting wood with his bayonet. And then one day, out of the ...

10 de fev. de 2019

Shiroinu writes down the day’s events before he goes to sleep. One day, he opens a drawer buried in the snow and finds old diary entries. He realiz...

02 de mar. de 2018

Why do you want acceptance? If it's not going to happen, then forget about what it was you wanted acknowledged and just have some soup, like always.

25 de mai. de 2019

Some by walking, some by car or trains, or in the relay of vehicles, foxes get together for an annual assembly.

01 de jan. de 2013

Bloopers in sports are different from the blunders we make in everyday life but they tend to share similar physical movements. The title comes from...

02 de mar. de 2018

Brothers eating dinner, a girl watering the plants, a boy awakening in the night… The daily scenery from the house where they all lived at one poin...

02 de jun. de 2018

We have limited control over our bodies, and we can't change ourselves at will. While I yearn for complete freedom, I also want to make peace with ...

09 de fev. de 2019

The little girl has a complex because she doesn’t look like her mom, and the mom wants her daughter to look more ladylike. Their faces don’t look a...

09 de fev. de 2020

The mouse finds a prism and it reveals to him a magnificent rainbow like he's never seen before. He tries to show his friends but for some reason i...

08 de mar. de 2021

It's summer vacation and all the kids in the neighborhood have left to visit relatives. But there in the relentless glare of the sun, is a boy look...

10 de fev. de 2019

Naoko had a fight with her brother over a trivial thing and pushed him away. She knew she was childish but she ran away from home.

15 de mar. de 2014

There is a strange museum somewhere in the world. The museum is called HARAPEKO MUSEUM, or Hungry Museum. There are many kinds of colourful foods...

17 de mar. de 2012

I conveyed my love and gratitude to a certain deceased physician amidst the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, while a personal shopper expressed the same ...

08 de mar. de 2021

Everyone crosses the Red Bridge and yet no one likes him. One day, he falls into the deep valley.

16 de fev. de 2018

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.

01 de jan. de 2013

Lion Nanny rides the train and embarks on a life journey while interacting with those around her.

22 de ago. de 2018

This installation work is inspired by dreams experienced during a fever. The two-minute looping animation visualizes incoherent nightmares seen int...

08 de mar. de 2021

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 ...

08 de mar. de 2021

For her, dance is life. And life is dance. Every tingle in her heart gets her swinging to the beat.

02 de mar. de 2018

Kaibun are palidromes in which words sound the same when read backwards and forwards. Sometimes the meaning changes, and sometimes not. I brought t...

05 de nov. de 2021

Communication is complicated. He tries to talk to her, but she seems unreachable. It’s unimaginable: she’s right on the other side of the table. Wh...

10 de fev. de 2019

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 ...

08 de mar. de 2021

Okinawa is ominous right before the arrival of a typhoon. At first, Anri is excited by the unusual turn of events, but gradually she becomes fearfu...

29 de mai. de 2018

This house rattling spirit has lived in this old house for generations. But the old woman who lives there as the final resident can no longer hear...

10 de fev. de 2019

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 ...

07 de mar. de 2015

One doesn't know where to go but has to move forward. He has to go to his goal.Always transforming himself, his heart and mind drift and run toward...

07 de mar. de 2015

Yasu is a cat over 20 years old. He's still alive and kicking in the house he was left behind.

09 de fev. de 2020

A girl made of unmelted snow has fallen in love with the dragon who brings spring. A story of changing seasons and thawing hearts.

10 de fev. de 2019

An ensemble play with men full of distorted energy.

07 de mar. de 2015

The protagonist hates the Japanese hiragana letter "hee." Just the sight of it bothers her. But one day, she finds herself in a parallel world wher...

10 de fev. de 2019

Far away from her hometown, the little fox studies in a foreign country. The monotonous days and bare relationships make her increasingly homesick....

08 de mar. de 2021

A visitor shows up in the middle of the night at the countryside house that Miyako shares with her father. Miyako goes to wake up her father, but t...

05 de nov. de 2018

Reminiscing the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us.

29 de mai. de 2018

A speeding car leaps onto the highway of Time and hurtles forward -- its velocity is limitless.

16 de fev. de 2018

How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.

09 de fev. de 2019

Summer is coming to an end. A little girl on the beach remembers the days spent giggling and dancing with her friend. The goodbyes and memories int...

10 de fev. de 2019

Provided the world ends tomorrow, what would we want in the last day of grace? A beam of light embraces a woman and a man then, the world gently cl...

05 de mar. de 2016

A dog we like to pet on the way home from school, an eccentric guy, and ringing doorbells as a prank. That's our life in this town.

01 de ago. de 2018

Heartbroken, I bought a bottle of wine and drank it walking home. A tipsy journey reconstructed using the Japanese traditional storytelling method ...

10 de fev. de 2019

The film is a journal of a woman who travels in time, in peoples and in mind.

05 de mar. de 2016

Dwarfs in red, blue and green colours have been working in each dark cabinet in a factory called television. They have kept working without questi...

01 de jan. de 2013

Deep down the alley the black cat has entered is a town where nonhuman beings live in peace. The cat returns to his home to rest when suddenly he h...

09 de fev. de 2020

A girl heading home from school is met with a bigger version of herself who poses arbitrary challenges with unspeakable consequences. The little gi...

02 de mar. de 2018

Now a grown woman, I sit on the train recollecting my childhood. That morning field baking in the sun. Making one bamboo-leaf boat after the other....

10 de fev. de 2019

Men's muscle, lust for battle, conflict, and the game.

29 de mai. de 2014

School, home, always lonely hero. It was just always seen in a long distance friendship. One day, the luck I think I'll make a "town" own in a vaca...

01 de jan. de 2013

The girl wished to transcend her own body and become a jellyfish. She was drawn to the figure of the jellyfish floating freely in the sea.

10 de fev. de 2019

A tired woman missed her last train home. She has to wander the city all night long, but she discovers that she's not the only soul waiting for the...

02 de mar. de 2018

The film is about the water cycle. Each of the rain drops transform. . . as they follow the cycle of nature, uniting with each other, parting, o...

17 de mar. de 2012

The things are formed in the mind from the casual scenes of daily life. These imaginations accumulate and make an assembly of fantasy.

14 de mar. de 2015

A story of two boys told through a dragonfly specimen. Is the story told from the boy’s side? Or is this a dragonfly’s dream?

09 de dez. de 2015

The Yotsuya Alphabet story tells of a girl caught in a surreal world with the use of Japanese characters. The story is about the girl who lives in...

01 de jan. de 2010

This is the first letter addressed to you. A voyage to trace the vague images of memories.

05 de mar. de 2016

Visualization of the phenomenon one has when one seeks some inspiration. A female protagonist. . . goes on an imaginary trip to generate some i...

17 de mar. de 2012

There is a stone pillar that continues long and long. Climbers are climbing it. Each climber keeps climbing the stone pillar spending time. They ar...

01 de jan. de 2010

The blue evolves. The blue rises toward the upper world. The blue becomes green and then yellow, which makes things unstable. So red circle appe...

01 de jan. de 2010