This is a teaser movie for a fully CG animated work independently created using Blender. It recorded 1.15 million views on Twitter. With “nostalgia for a future that does not exist” as its visual concept, it depicts the journey of a girl on a certain mission, set in “Tokyo,” which is endlessly rebuilt by AI after the decline of humanity. The first episode is scheduled for release this winter.

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~Yellow little bear "GUCHON" receives an invitation from the veteran overseas label "CHIWAX." He hops on a plane and joins the party as a DJ on a beach where pistachios are running around...~ This music video began production to commemorate the release of the first analog record from an overseas label by "GUCHON," the owner of Japan’s long-established internet label "Sabakan Records"... but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, record production was delayed again and again, and the animation MV was created over a span of three years in a situation where no one knew whether the record would ever actually be released. The world was in a complete mess, but the world of the work is all about love and peace, and various members of domestic internet labels, as well as overseas labelmates, are turned into characters and appear in the piece. The creative team brought together members who have close ties with "Koya," known as "the sage," and the final film was completed while preserving each person’s distinct drawing style and animation style.

As a 22AW UNIQLO Masterpiece social asset, 12 CGI movies were produced. Based on the three themes of Pure Nature, Colors, and Extremely Soft, the timeless core products of Masterpiece were expressed through texture, richness, touch, and material imagery.

This is the four-day process of a wildfire approaching a small village at the end of the Edo period. In an era shrouded by the invisible anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic, and swept up by rumors and information in which truth and falsehood are hard to distinguish, this work portrays the people of a small community in a bygone age who were forced to protect themselves and faced a crisis together. The personified flames were created by filming a performer’s pantomime of fire in live action, then using rotoscoping to redraw it from live action into animation.

“33 minutes and 33 seconds needed before the world ends” A dying Earth. A strange game played by the survivors: “Mood Hall.” A mysterious middle-aged gentleman and a beautiful woman, appearing and disappearing. Little people. Giants. A party. A desert. The bottom of a pool. Dance. Day and night, repeated again and again. Experimental, artistic, adventurous, half sci-fi, half mystery: a densely layered labyrinthine world made of sketches. A masterpiece of film that strips away words and leads you into a world of seeing and hearing alone! ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ In 2016, “Mood Hall” was presented as the latest installation in Kawaiokamura’s retrospective exhibition. It was Kawaiokamura’s first new work in nine years, with sound direction for the entire solo show handled by Mariko Harada. In 2019, “Mood Hall” was completed as a film work, and in 2020 it was released theatrically at Demachiza, a cinema in Kyoto. The music, of course, was by Mariko Harada. It brought the richly layered 33-minute-and-33-second world of image and sound to the screens and speakers of the movie theater. In 2022, the music for “Mood Hall” was completely rewritten by Kazumichi Komatsu. It was made neither as an installation nor for a cinema, but as a composition intended for streaming. Reading the visuals like a score, he struck the sound against the images so powerfully that they changed, and linked each segment through a distinctive sense of floating weightlessness. Reconstructed through Komatsu’s bold interpretation, “Mood Hall” was named “Mood Hall side B.”

JACKSON kaki creates works about virtual reality, the metaverse, and art. In this exhibition, the artist presents a performance using VRChat in order to examine corpses in the age of virtual reality, and exhibits the recorded footage as the artwork. The metaverse has become such a common term that many people can readily imagine it. JACKSON kaki critically observes the business-oriented and tool-oriented metaverse, which is treated as a kind of utopia, and explores expression by connecting it to the body, space, society, and culture in physical space. This work focuses on the phenomenon of the “corpse.” In the metaverse, it is possible to express the body through avatars; unlike social media, which is built through the exchange of text, images, and video, it enables more immersive experiences and the formation of human relationships that differ from those in reality. The artist began this work by questioning how corpses are perceived and handled by humans in spaces where avatars are used. In many currently available metaverses, the “depiction” or “programming” of corpses has not been prepared. JACKSON kaki interprets this state as a culture in which awareness of and understanding of corpses has not been formed, or has in some sense regressed, and undertook this work as an artistic examination and practice of expression. As a means to this end, the artist creates a “story” that references ancient civilizations shaped by mythology and gods, and connects them to the contemporary metaverse. Based on that story, a “ritual” for handling corpses is constructed, and this ritual is performed and recorded. Through the body in performance within metaverse space and the “handling” of corpses, this work asks how we perceive and recognize corpses in the age of virtual reality.

Co-Planner : Classic 6 This is a Web version. The original video is 12 minutes long. In this film, the designer's love of industrial music comes through. The clashing and banging comes from instruments played by friends of the brand. The catch? They only had one go. Nakamura follows Yanagawa's troupe through the dark hallways of a concrete underground space as they come to a make-shift stage, which one member later clambers across. Footage is tinged an inky blue, reminiscent of the background setting for the look book. With instruments provided and a time limit of just three hours, the results are pretty fantastic and pretty damn cathartic. So, what are you waiting for? Turn your volume up and let it all out.

Produced a music video for “Generic Riot!!,” a song from the smartphone game app Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine.