Award-winning Works

Animation Division

Flow
©SAKAKIBARA Sumito
Grand Prize

Flow

Short Animation

Artist : SAKAKIBARA Sumito

(Japan)

Profile

SAKAKIBARA Sumito

SAKAKIBARA Sumito

Born in 1980, Tokachi, Hokkaido native, DOSANKO Kineto Manga Artist. Following having Kamiya's Correspondence selected as recommended work in 2004 for the 8th Japan Media Arts Festival, won the Grand Prize with Flow this year. In 2006, he is planning to create a new piece of work in France.

Comment

I created Flow based on the song HANA by KINA Shokichi. Taking this award as a step, I will take the lead in Kineto Manga Revolution.

Reason for Award

An open space which seems to be a part of a small village is projected directly into the work like a picture scroll, in this planar composition. In this place, pea-sized people are chasing cats, riding on a bike, holding a wedding, and crossing a bridge with the help of a stick. And now, never knowing when the camera will zoom in on these people, the scene never shifts from the original composition and people continue chasing cats endlessly, go on riding bikes, holding weddings repeatedly, and crossing the bridge with a help of a stick over and over. The viewers will find various things in the relativity of those people and their endless activities going on as if in a loop. If modern animation is a medium which is capable of making anything into form in whatever way using developing technology, this work is exceptional in slipping the simple concept of repetition into the work.