The program show the diverse and unknown sides of Mirai Mizue, who has been recognized at film festivals around the world for his entertaining and unique abstract and non-narrative animation films. With the mixture of the original shorts, music videos, TV videos, and even a pilot version of a feature film currently in development, the program will be a dazzling metamorphosis frenzy.

Screening

• “AND AND”
  (2011, 6min50sec)
  Music: Toru Matsumoto
• “WONDER”
  (2014, 8min)
  Music: PASCALS
• “POKER”
  (2014, 3min38sec)
  Music: Shugo Tokumaru
  Co-director: Yukie Nakauchi
• “RETRO FUTURE”
  (2015, 6min55sec)
  Music: Matsuo Ohno
• “AGE OF OBSCURE”
  (2016, 3min46sec)
  Music: Twoth
  Co-director: Onohana
• “DREAMLAND”
  (2018, 5min)
  Music: SCARLATTI GOES ELECTRO
• Feature Film “Mirai Mizue’s Journey to the West”
  pilot version
  (2019, 2min11sec)
  Music: Shugo Tokumaru
• “THE DAWN OF APE”
  (2019, 4min15sec)
  Music: Twoth
• “Kanashimi No Kodomotachi”
  (2020, 3min11sec)
  Music: Maison book girl
• “BAKEYO”
  (2020, 3min21sec)
  Music: domico
• “Harumatsu waltz”
  (2021, 1min59sec)
  Music: Kiyomaru Togo
• “Let’s Love” Only for Onsite
  (2021, 3min20sec)
  Music: CHAI
• “A VIVA NON NON”
  (2021, 3min33sec)
  Music: Tempalay
  Director: OSRIN（PERIMETRON）
  Animation: Hoji Tsuchiya, Mirai Mizue

DIRECTOR

Mirai Mizue

Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1981, MIZUE Mirai is an animation director who creates non-narrative pieces with cellular and geometric motifs. Known for his unique, eye-catching abstract animations, Mizue is involved in a wide variety of projects that include independent animation and music videos. Nominated at all four of the world’s top animated film festivals (Annecy, Ottowa, Hiroshima, and Zagreb), his most famous work, MODERN No. 2 enjoyed its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and won the Original Music Prize at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The world premiere of MIZUE’s Wonder took place at the Berlin International Film Festival and went on to win the CANAL + Creative Aid prize at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. He is currently working on his first full-length animation, tentatively titled Mirai Mizue’s Journey to the West.