The Art of Anime: Stanford's The Art of Anime festival coming soon - stay tuned!

Mar. 5th, The Girl Who Leapt through Time (2006), Dir: Mamoru Hosoda Stanford University, Cubberley Auditorium

2009-03-02T11:46:00.000-08:00

The Girl Who Leapt through Time (2006) Dir: Mamoru Hosoda

17-year-old Makoto Konno discovers one day that she has the powers to leap through time and immediately starts using her abilities to improve her grades and avoid undesirable situations. She soon realizes though that playing with the past can have many unintended consequences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Leapt_Through_Time
(Wikipedia)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808506/
(IMDB)
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6733
(Anime News Network)
http://www.kadokawapicturesusa.com/available/2007/08/the_girl_who_leapt_through_tim.php
(Kadokawa Pictures USA Website with Trailer)

Feb. 19th The Place promised in Our Early Years (2004) Dir: Makoto Shinkai Stanford University, Cubberley Auditorium

2009-02-13T22:46:00.000-08:00

Feb, 12th Evangelion 1.0: You are (not) alone (2007) Dir: Hideaki Anno 7pm Cubberley Auditorium

2009-02-07T00:59:00.000-08:00

Evangelion 1.0: You are (not) alone (2007)
Director: Hideaki Anno

The first of the four new theatrical versions of the famous TV series ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ which deals with the growth of a boy learning what it means to become himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelion_1.0
(Wikipedia)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923811/
(IMDB)
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8420
(Anime News Network)

Feb. 5th, Millennium Actress (2001), Dir: Satoshi Kon 7pm Cubberley Auditorium, Lausen Mall

2009-02-05T10:01:00.000-08:00

Millennium Actress (2001) Dir: Satoshi Kon
The life and love story of the famous actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, star of films of various genres and eras, who tracks down the long-lost lover of her youth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Actress
(Wikipedia)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291350/
(IMDB)
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=374
(Anime News Network)
http://dan42.com/millennium.actress/
(Unofficial Fansite)

Jan. 22 Paprika (2006), Dir: Satoshi Kon 7pm, Cubberley Auditorium, Stanford University

2009-01-18T08:32:00.000-08:00

The adventures of Chiba Atsuko, a young female therapist who finds a stolen device that enables her to look into one’s dreams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_(2006_film)
(Wikipedia)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851578/
(IMDB)
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6142
(Anime News Network)
http://www.sonyclassics.com/paprika/
(Official Website Version 1)
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/paprika/index.html
(Official Website Version 2)

Jan. 15th, 2009 Art Animation Shorts, 7pm Cubberley Auditorium, Stanford University

2009-01-10T17:13:00.000-08:00

Tabaimo, Japanese Bathhouse-Gents, 2000, video installation

Welcome to Stanford's The Art of Anime series. Our opening event, on Tursday, Jan. 15th, 7pm at the Cubberley Auditorium on Stanford Campus is comprised of a collection of Anime shorts by the most famous and most influential contemporary young Anime artists including: Tabaimo, Koji Yamamura, Tomoko Konoike, Akino Kondo, and Shinkai Makoto.

Tabaimo: http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/tabaimo/
(James Cohan Gallery Website)
http://int.kateigaho.com/oct03/anime-tabaimo.html
(Article about Tabaimo on KIE)
Yamamura Koji:
http://www.yamamura-animation.jp/index.html
(Yamamura Animation Official Website)
http://int.kateigaho.com/oct03/anime-koji-yamamura.html
(Article about Yamamura on KIE)
Konoike Tomoko:
http://mizuma-art.co.jp/artist/0100/index_e.php
(Mizuma Art Gallery)
Kondoh Akino:
http://www.kiteretsu.jp/akinobox/
(Kondoh Akino’s Website
-Japanese)
Makoto Shinkai:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Shinkai
(Wikipedia)
http://daike.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
(Unofficial Fansite)

The Art of Anime: Stanford's Anime festival coming soon - stay tuned!

2008-10-24T01:10:00.000-07:00

Satoshi Kon, Millennium Actress (2002), one of the titles on Stanford's The Art of Anime festival

Japanese animation (anime) has become one of the most popular genres of contemporary cinema around the world. With its success and devoted followers for over seven decades in Japan, anime has grown to collect great audiences in the US and Europe. Many of the films now distributed internationally, were originally TV series produced and screened on Japanese TV, later serialised or re-arranged into film format for projection in movie-theatres. The genre contains hundreds of titles which are suitable for children, teen-agers and adults, with sub-genres covering drama, comedy, sci-fi, romance, rom-com, fantasy etc. Some of the films tackle major contemporary social and cultural issues, raising awareness to different specific problems, while others delve into the past, float to extraterrestrial territories, or aim to mainly intertain.

Animation is a unique form of art, since it marries hand-painted images with hi-tech computerised sequences, to become a painted series of millions of frames (12-24 frames per second), that manifest a unique quality of combined talents of painting, storytelling, music and digital skills. Apart from the great and famous studios, there have always been anime artists who acted on alternative channels with alternative stories and techniques. Their work is rarely shown or distributed through the commercial channels, and it will be one of the focal points of the series to be screened at Stanford.

The series of films that will be screening at Stanford, aims at a more careful and detailed understanding of this genre, its place within Japanese culture, and its role in shaping concepts, idea and behaviours, as well as aesthetic qualities. The group anime films on show at Stanford, consider the topic of cultural representation across time, showing film that have strong visual quality and a complex story of human relationship, time leaps, and social matters.
This series is designed to outreach a wider public, by introducing different aspects of Japanese culture and art, and their display in anime.

To make a more accurate and topic centres choice, I have decided to take film that look into the question of how do anime film represent foreign cultures and sub-cultures in Japan.