Uniting the Subconscious with Reality. Let's Talk About Animation Nature with Koji Yamamura

Koji Yamamura looks back at his last 20 years works and introduces his new first feature film and new short too. Animation is the power to give shape to the world in all its fluidity. Koji will talk with us through his own philosophy of creation and share his thinking process followed by aQ&A session.

Koji Yamamura
Born in 1964. During the 1990s, He was making films for children, Pacusi, Bavel's Book and so on. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short, Mt. Head (2002) had 6 grand prizes and selected 100 Films for a Century of Animation. Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor(2007) had six grand prizes, and his films were awarded more than 100 prizes. He has been selected as the second place at 25 top short animated films directors over the last 25 years in 2021.He is also active as a picture book author for "Viva Vegetables (Oyaoya Oyasai)", "Parade" and so on.
He was awarded the Kawakita Prize and Education Award for Fine Arts in Japan and received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2019.
A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a sub-chairman of the Japan Animation Association and a member of the board of directors of ASIFA.