Here’s a situation that I like to work with: the repetition of still and moving images creates a humorous effect that sets the viewer laughing. I think the optimum medium for expressing such situations is the interactive movie, so last year I was involved mostly in web-based productions. The web provides an audience for even obscure artists, so it’s an ideal medium for me to work with. Lately, I am interested in careers in typography and motion graphics. It is an intriguing proposition for web animation that one word includes some elements, and these are related to each other, I think. I want to make a motion graphic of the relation between a word and the elements included in the word.
Another work is that I’ve been producing collaborative works with Akiko Suso, an illustrator, from last autumn. She faxes me whatever illustrations she’s been working on, and I add the action to create a movie from them.
It’s a little different from animation, so I call these collages of still images ‘motion illustrations’,”Faxes From SUSO-san” http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~makura/suso/fax.html
I’m also working on collaborations with other people in various fields. I find it very stimulating to see how far I can absorb other people’s thinking and ideas, and still come back to myself.
People say that, with the introduction of broadband, it’ll be possible to send videos to other people using the web. That may well be, but I also believe that the use of the web will give rise to new types of videos, and I continue structuring my production activities toward that end.
