Endless Experimentation: Independent Animation Master Yamamura Kōji

From August 5, 2017, nine Yamamura Kōji short films will be showing at Euro Space, Shibuya, Tokyo.

Yamamura explains the appeal of stimulating viewers’ imaginations.

Brushes at Yamamura’s studio in Setagaya, Tokyo.

Yamamura draws directly on paper with different kinds of ink.

Working on the four-part film Mizu no yume (Water Dream). The first part is included in his summer 2017 selection.

Pictures for Water Dream show the evolution of aquatic life-forms.

In Yamamura’s studio basement is Au Praxinoscope, a specialist store and gallery. It takes its name from an animation toy patented in 1877.

Erik Satie appears with his trademark bowler hat, glasses, and walking stick in Sati no “Parādo” (Satie’s Parade).

Early life in the first section of Mizu no yume (Water Dream).

Kaibutsugaku shō (Notes on Monstropedia) imagines a book about European monsters in the Middle Ages. A picture book was published in July.