oiL - [Shuei Nishizawa] - [2010]

Shuei Nishizawa on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/24ZA0

『再生』をテーマにした自主制作アニメーション。全て手描きで、主に『鉛筆と水彩絵の­具』で描きました。また、楽曲は友人と制作いたしました。ぜひ感想等お聞かせ下さい。
The theme of this animation is "rebirth/regeneration". It is all hand-painted. It mainly drew with a pencil and watercolors. The musical piece made with the friends.


Animazione autoprodotta sul tema della "rinascita/rigenerazione". Le scene sono tutte dipinte a mano e disegnate principalmente ad "acquerello e matita" . Inoltre, il motivo musicale è stato creato da Shuei Nishizawa insieme con degli amici. 

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The Animation Creative League is a group of cartoonists, film makers and other like-minded creative folks who are interested in building a community to support independent animation in the Los Angeles area.

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The Animation Creative League Clubhouse

The Creative League currently meets once a month for networking, informal discussion, screenings, friendly critique of work in progress, and guest speakers. The topics of the meetings will cover the full spectrum of creativity- music, art, cartooning, dance, filmmaking, animation, comedy and drama. The goal is to inspire and empower independent animation creators. Because of space limitations in our screening room, as well as to facilitate open discussion, attendance at the meetings is strictly limited to just 12 people. As the group grows, we will add additional Saturday meetings during the month to accomodate more people.

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RiRi - [Miyuki Hosotani] - (A independent short stop-motion animation film) JAPAN [2007]

A independent short stop-motion animation film with cut-out puppets with English subtitles. Riri is a little girl and she wanna seek "a genuine HAPPINESS" out, however she doesn't prefer working hard. Can she find it out? Incidentally, what is HAPPINESS? Do you have the exact answer...?? (c) 2007 Miyuki Hosotani *JAPAN

Love - Ai (by: Yōji Kuri) - [1963]

Yōji Kuri (久里洋二 Kuri Yōji, born April 9, 1928) is a Japanese cartoonist and independent filmmaker. One of if not the most important figures in the history of Japanese independent animation, he was the unofficial leader and most prolific of the "Animation Association of Three" (アニメーション三人の会 Animēshon Sannin no Kai) collective who kick-started the renaissance of modern-styled, independently-made, adult-aimed animation in early 1960s Japan. He is known internationally for the very black comedy of his films, with the typically naïve style of his cartooning often belying the surreal, obscene and disturbing situations they depict (though he has worked in a variety of styles and mediums, including pixilation); this made them a favourite among the fervently counter-cultural audiences, which included such filmmakers as René Laloux, of the first few years of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and in a 1967 publication he was considered to be "the most significant" and "the only Japanese animator whose work is known in the West" (which is to disregard the Tōei Animation features and Astro Boy series that were first seen in the West around the same time that Kuri's first several films were and mentioned in passing in the same publication, though these were not known as works of an individual and characteristic filmmaker and often had their Japanese origin played down). He is also known in Japan for his comics, a collection of which earned him the 1958Bungeishunjū Manga Award. Though now retired from filmmaking he continues to illustrate and to teach animation at Laputa Art Animation School (アート・アニメーションのちいさな学校 Āto Animēshon no Chiisana Gakkō).

Kuri made over 40 short films between 1960 and 1981; some of the best known are:

• Fantasia of Stamps (切手の幻想 Kitte no Gensō) (1960)
• Clap Vocalism (人間動物園 Ningen Dōbutsuen, literally "Human Zoo") (1962)
• Here and There (あっちこっち Atchi Kotchi) (1962)
• Locus (軌跡 Kiseki) (1963)
• Love (愛 Ai) (1963)
• The Button (1963)
• The Chair (椅子 Isu) (1964)
• Man, Woman and Dog (男と女と犬 Otoko to Onna to Inu) (1963)
• Aos (アオス^?) (1964)
• The Man Next Door (隣の野郎 Tonari no Yarō^?) (1965)
• Samurai (さむらい) (1965)
• The Window (窓 Mado) (1965)
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