Short Animation Flow

Material: USB with original box with illustration

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.

“Ukirou -Flow-” was produced in 2005 and won the Grand Prix at the 9th Media Arts Festival. This animation depicts a bird's-eye view of a girl being born in one town, becoming a girl, becoming a woman, falling in love, getting married, becoming a mother, and becoming a grandmother. The film is about 10 minutes long, but it's a short animation that makes you feel somewhat nostalgic and healed. It will be handed over with USB in a case containing an original illustration by the artist. (You cannot choose a pattern)

What is looped through in Sakakibara's work is the inner world of humans and their actions, which is difficult to capture at first glance. It is not directly depicted, and it gradually comes to light as it is repeated in slight differences and situations being talked about. There are many places to see, such as the woman who became a grandmother almost being run over by her young self riding a bicycle.