Iizuna Fair （Crash）

Sumito Sakakibara was born in 1980 in Tokachi, Hokkaido. In 1996, he went to England alone. After working as an overseas student at the Agency for Cultural Affairs, he completed his doctoral program in animation at the RCA (Royal College of Art) in 2004. After returning to Japan, I made my production base in Nagano Prefecture.

It is known for its animated video works such as “Floating Tower,” which won the Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize, “É IN MOTION No. 2,” which received rave reviews at the DOMANI exhibition (2015), and “Solitarium,” which was presented at the 30th anniversary exhibition “Spectrum,” and screened at museums, art festivals, etc., and invited screenings at many overseas film festivals, and won many Grand Prix. Also, “Iizuna Fair-,” which was created in 2021, was announced as the first exhibition after the Nagano Prefectural Museum of Art renovation in 2021, and is still being screened as a permanent exhibition. He is an animation artist who has received numerous awards and invitations for this film at animation festivals around the world, and his talent is attracting worldwide attention.

This work is a one-scene painting from “Iinawa Fair,” a short scroll-style animated work. The car rolling over on the yellow road is a scene that the artist actually saw in the mountains of Nagano. The contrast between the man holding his head and the building with the colorful background emitting smoke from the chimney is impressive.