Hirotoshi Iwasaki

Born in Japan in 1981. Hirotoshi Iwasaki is video artist using experimental animation, graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with Doctor’s degree in Fine Arts 2019. His films have been included in internationally renowned festivals, it has been screened in more than 20 countries and more than 30 film festivals. He received Grand Prix non-narrative short at Holland Animation Film Festival 2015 and Grand Prize in Tokyo’s Image Forum Festival 2010. His research theme is about Rotoscoping that is animation technique that animators trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame. Originally, Rotoscoping used to produce realistic action by animators. However, he comparing Rotoscoping with 20th century avant-garde art movement, and he focuses on the differences between realistic movement and drawing, and is dealing with the theme of polysemy of reality.