Scape Escape

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 memories from back home.

This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the passage of time. 8 seconds becomes that much more luxuriant.

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 comes across animals in the forest. We tend to find a story in the relationship between ‘The bear’ and other animals.

When the mind says aah, the body says hee. I dance around the confusion and the consensus, and my whole life is getting composed of these dances.

A hungry beast awakens, hidden in the darkness of the endless ocean. The hunt begins. But it's not entirely clear who is the prey - and who is the hunter.

Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane into an inside and an outside.

Half asleep with my eyes closed, my conscience flies beyond time and space and I transform myself to all the life forms existing. I become the universe and the universe becomes me, until I fall asleep.... It is a song to pray for the existence of heart and soul at an awakening.

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 lost?

Mother secretly threw a letter of her daughter in the snow ocean. The daughter in suspicion, followed her mother and sneak into a boat. She waits for a thaw with unreached feelings

This place is where my grand parents, my parents, and I once lived. Even though I lose my memories and feelings of it, it does exist there and keeps to be in existence.

The Little Ship

A Red Pikmin finds a Ramune bottle and attempts to retrieve the marble inside. After failing and becoming trapped inside the bottle's bottom, it asks passerby Pikmin for help, which – after other failed ideas – decide to create a chain of Pikmin to pull their trapped comrade outside.

In a family with a mother, father, two daughters, and a bulldog, the dog is neglected and taken for granted. It seeks peace under the dining table but is ignored. Eventually, the dog is banished, and a family discussion may be its final humiliation.

2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany the Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond exhibition at the California Museum of Science and Industry and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

Two friends explore a city floating in the air, where their friendship is put to the test.

A short animated film by from 1959.

A short animated film from 1962.

A short puppet animation movie by Kazuhiko Watanabe.

A kappa village is devastated by a large storm during festival preparations. With no fish in the river, the village is weakened. Kawatarou and his girlfriend head the mountains to find anything to bring back.

On a winter's night a bear, a fox and a squirrel seek refuge from the cold. They are drawn by the hearths in the homes of two woodcutters. One man treats them poorly, while the other welcomes them.