Based on the characters from “Hana Zakari,” this work was created around the theme of “people who keep falling in love” in order to express a chaotic school romantic comedy. The visual depicts the characters going about their school lives while falling from the sky. It portrays characters who are so head-over-heels in love that everything turns into complete chaos, yet they keep moving forward and continue falling downward.

Music video for Manami Kakudo’s “Mado kara Mieru.” This video was created with the idea that music and image in a music video should not merge into a single entity, but rather continue to exist in a multilayered relationship. In film, the role of a theme song is to make the film itself more complex. Yamagata sought to translate Kakudo’s sincere and straightforward approach to music and performance into a visual work with the strength to be appreciated from multiple, more complex perspectives.

An animated short film created with drawings. It portrays the harsh theme of a daughter killing her father through loosely designed characters. What do “death,” “the unconscious,” and “nature” bring into a girl’s world, or what do they bring to light? Created with a focus on representation and performance, this is a wordless, immersive world of solitude. A story born from animation, suspended between dream and reality.

Opening animation for INTO ANIMATION 8, a film festival held by the Japan Animation Association (JAA) at the National Art Center, Tokyo, in the summer of 2023.