A five-minute program aired on NHK E-Tele, both in the morning and at night. As its name suggests, “0655” airs from 6:55 a.m., and “2355” airs from 11:55 p.m., five days a week, Monday through Friday. Planned with the goal of “creating the rhythm of the Japanese people,” the program was developed primarily by Masahiko Sato, Professor Mitsuko Okamoto of the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School, and NHK. Euphrates is responsible for the overall direction of the program and the production of video for many of its segments.

This was produced as a music video for “qov,” a track from musician VOQ’s second album, VEILS, released by PROGRESSIVES FOrM in November 2018. Although it is a music video, it is also a “painting of time” that repeatedly depicts similar images, and is intended as a visual expression as a painter, with the aim of exploring the nonlocality of where images exist. This work was created by revising UNDER A HIMALAYAN CEDAR (2012), a drawing animation originally made for live screening at YUKAWATANA (Shouei-cho, Tottori City), run by independent curator Azumi Akai, and adding to it as a work exhibited in Animals & Silhouette, an exhibition held at Earth & Salt (Hiroo, Shibuya-ku) and curated by designer Yumiko Yokoyama, together with an early version of VOQ’s song “qov.”

Chara “Butterfly Knot” MV

This was created as the music video for “conadona,” a track from musician VOQ’s first album, YONA, released by PROGRESSIVES FOrM in April 2018. Although it is a music video, it is also a “painting of time” that repeatedly depicts similar images, with the intention of using video as a pictorial form to explore the nonlocality of where images reside. The flying and falling books were drawn as symbols of the countless books in this world and of the knowledge each person has acquired, imagined in terms of what unknown relationships might exist between their presences. This work is also the drawing-animation piece ANOTHER VIEW, created for the exhibition “Tobi Selection Group Exhibition Open Call: The First ‘Unknown Gaze’” (2012) at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, which was planned with artists Yuga Akasaka and Daisuke Nagaoka.

The vocaloid opera THE END is a stage work in which Hatsune Miku asks questions about “life and death,” composed of computer-controlled electronic sound and multi-screen stereoscopic imagery, with no human singers or orchestra appearing. It was created as a collaborative work by some of Japan’s leading contemporary artists at the forefront of their fields, including musician/artist Keiichiro Shibuya, architect Shohei Shigematsu, visual artist YKBX, and sound artist evala. Since its premiere, it has accumulated an impressive performance history, including the 2012 Yamaguchi/YCAM performance, the 2013 Tokyo/Orchard Hall performance, performances at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the 2015 Amsterdam Opera & Ballet performance, the 2016 Kampnagel performance in Hamburg, the Musikhuset performance in Aarhus, Denmark, the 2017 paliashvili performance in Tbilisi, Georgia, and the Oz Asia Festival performance in Adelaide, Australia. It has also been widely covered by the media and has received high acclaim for its innovativeness, concept, and more.

Columbos｜2012｜9 min. 15 sec. A "semi-mystery told through a fractured narrative" that unfolds in a television drama soundstage built around an anamorphic spatial composition. Original model figures are composited with 3DCG backgrounds and sets. Based on stop-motion animation techniques, the work uses After Effects to create the texture of slow-motion footage shot with a high-speed camera. Grand Prix for Best Animated Short in the International Short Film Competition at the 53rd Krakow Film Festival (Poland/2013), Honorary Mention in the Computer Animation/Film/VFX category at Ars Electronica Festival 2014 (Austria/2014).

TAKUMA｜Reel ｜ Film/CM Director

This was created as the music video for “flowerlang,” a track from musician VOQ’s first album, YONA, released in April 2018 by PROGRESSIVES FOrM. While it is a music video, it is also a “painting of time” in which similar images are drawn repeatedly, with the intention of exploring the nonlocality of where images reside, and of expressing video as a form of painting. This work is also the drawing animation piece Tales of Flower (2012), created together with an early version of VOQ’s “flowerlang” for the exhibition “Moving Images Festival MOVING 2012: MOVING Exhibition” at the Kyoto Art Center.

Mika Nakashima “Dear” MV

This was produced as the music video for “yona,” the title track from musician VOQ’s first album, *YONA*, released by PROGRESSIVES FOrM in April 2018. Although it is a music video, it is also a “painting of time” that repeatedly depicts similar images, and it is intended as a visual expression by a painter, seeking to observe the nonlocality of where images reside. For the jacket of the album *YONA*, I drew 52 birdlike ghost figures with pencil and pastel, and to animate them, I drew the in-between footage connecting each drawing with pencil. In that process, I drew while monitoring the images on video and looking at the mirrored picture, rather than at the paper itself. It is also a drawing animation work titled *52 Specters*. It is also a continuation of *SA YONA RA* (2012), a drawing animation work created together with an early version of VOQ’s song “yona,” as a bonus for the special edition binding of *Sayonara, SAYO NARA* (2012), a book-like object produced with Hideyuki Saitow, art director of the publisher/gallery Shoshi Saikoro (Koenji).