continuum Exhibition Catalogue
ONLINE CATALOGUE
continuum: Independent animation from Japan and Australia
continuum: Independent animation from Japan and Australia is a group exhibition that celebrates the vibrant and subtly subversive works of contemporary independent animation from filmmakers across Australia and Japan. Connected by the concept of continuum as expressed through separate yet coalescing moments, these films tell us much about ourselves, often challenging long-held narratives surrounding our relationship to nature, history and each other.
Published on the occasion of the continuum: Independent animation from Japan and Australia exhibition held at The Japan Foundation, Sydney from February 18 to July 2, 2022.
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Published by The Japan Foundation, Sydney
Published on July 2, 2022
E-book ISBN: 978-0-6451243-6-1
Contents
01. Foreword
03. Curatorial statement
Deborah Szapiro
06. Curatorial statement
Honami Yano
09. Exhibition images
25. Reflections in a hall of mirrors: Australian independent animation
Deborah Szapiro
31. Embodying the tactile and the tangible in animation
Simon von Wolkenstein
39. Animism in animation
Honami Yano
43. Myaku-myaku to (脈々と); Or continuity in animation
Kōji Yamamura
49. Light and shadows in House Rattler
Shinobu Soejima
55. List of works
60. Biographies
66. Acknowledgements
Editors
Yurika Sugie
Susan Bui
Contributing Authors
Deborah Szapiro
Honami Yano
Simon von Wolkenstein
Kōji Yamamura
Shinobu Soejima
Translation
Darryl Jingwen Wee
Copyediting
Nina Serova
Design
Daryl Prondoso
Header image: Kōji Yamamura, film still from Polar Bear Bears Boredom, 2021. ©︎Yamamura Animation
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