Tokyo Anima 2011

Renewal by Shiho Hirayama

Tokyo Anima 2011’s site went live this week with some great previews of the work to be featured this year. On March 26th and 27th there will be three programs running featuring new short animated works from 30 artists. On March 26th in the evening there will be a symposium with Atsushi Wada, Osamu Sakai, Hoji Tsuchiya, and Mirai Mizue. If you are a filmmaker, check out TOCHKA's website to find out about a project they are putting together for the victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

Here’s this year’s line-up. Click on the links to read more about the films / the animators:

R Program

The Mechanism of Spring (Atsushi Wada)

Between Showers (Hirotoshi Iwasaki )

around (Ryu Kato)

Gathering (Akiko Omi)

Water Closet (Sonoko Yamada)

This message is boiling hot (Masanori Okamoto)

The Tender March (Wataru Uekusa)

Mr. Sakurai at a ticket counter (Donghun Kim)

Getting Dressed (Aico Kitamura)

Scripta Volant (Ryo Orikasa)

G Program

TATAMP (Mirai Mizue)

Beluga (Shin Hashimoto)

Woman Who Stole Fingers (Saori Shiroki)

SANKAKU (Manami Wakai)

From the Dolphin (Ariyoshi Tatsuhiro)

PALM (Satoshi Murai)

Bring me Up (Miki Tanaka)

The Hand (Yusuke Horiguchi)

Uncapturable Ideas (Masayuki Okuda)

hito gata (Osamu Sakai)

B Program

Angel: The Place Where We Were (Naoyuki Tsuji)

Tochka Steps (Tochka)

alter (Toshikazu Tamura)

Sound of Life / Renewal (Shiho Hirayama)

UFO (Suwami Nogami)

Black Longskirt (Hoji Tsuchiya)

Floating Polyphony (Keita Onishi)

Confeito (Yusuke Sakamoto)

Googurl Googurl (Yoshiko Misumi)