Veteran animators to be featured in “Ten Hole Animation”
July 11, 2009 by J!-ENT
Daily Yomiuri reported:
Toshikatsu Wada says, since it is rare for an animator like himself to create a short animated work solely for independent viewing, the upcoming exhibition The Ten Hole Animation will be a valuable showcase for 10 animators, mostly artists of long experience, who will create new short animated works under one theme and show them as a united production.
“Each of us made an animated film 1-1/2 to four minutes long, and I compiled them into a 30-minute film. In The Ten Hole Stories, one episode is linked to another as they are all based on the theme of holes,” said Wada, one of the 10 animators who make up the group called G9+1. The Ten Hole Stories, to be shown from July 20 at Art Space Kimura in Kyobashi, Tokyo, has no dialogue, but is accompanied by music created by veteran composer Ken Shima. “Since he composed 10 different pieces to reflect the world of each animator, viewers also can enjoy the changing music,” Wada said.
G9+1 is a collaboration started in 2005 by Haru Fukushima, Taku Furukawa, Norio Hikone, Azuru Isshiki, Keizo Kira, Hiroshi Nishimura, Fumio Oi, Tatsuo Shimamura, Shinichi Suzuki and Wada. Since three of them are in their 70s and six are in their 60s (plus Wada, who is in 40s), they call themselves “the group of the oldest animators.”
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