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#EU-JP_Animation_Residency

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• So... yeah. I’m ready, I think.
• Okay... can I begin?
• please let me begin my pitch.
• I'm really excited to be presenting my project here in Annecy.
• I'm super excited

Hi, and Bonjour,
🔴 I’m Baku Hashimoto, from tokyo, Japan.

I'm 🔴 an experimental filmmaker,
🔴 a generative artist,
🔴 and recently started researching Human-Computer Interaction,
🔴 And… today I’m here as an independent animation artist, taking on hand-drawing as a new challenge.

🔴List I’ve spent years making stop-motion animations and music videos.
🔴EYE In most of my projects, I start by developing tools,
🔴Depthcope such as software or shooting rigs.
🔴Milling So I’m kind of sitting in the middle— 🔴Ben-diagrambetween new media art and manual, frame-by-frame animation.

Alright, Alright, let me dive into my project.

🔴 It all started with a simple question:

“How can we expand the temporality of animation?”

🔴Zoetrope At the very beginning, animation was circular.

🔴Baby salmon And yes, the baby salmon
there’s no deep reason. I just like them. That’s it.
🔴Cinematograph But after the invention of cinema, timelines became strictly linear.
(DON'T PRESS!!!)

So I asked myself—what happens if we break that linearity

🔴 like this?
🔴 And then, what if we assigned little animations to each of those branches?
I tried that. Then I duplicated the animations using a kind of symmetry,
🔴 and turned the whole thing into something like a finite state machine.

🔴 Here's a test animation I made. 🔴 🔴Test Animation

🔴44 frames I'd like to mention that it only uses 44 hand-drawn frames.

🔴 But through spatial repetition and temporal non-linearity, this hypnotic, complex motion emerges.
And I found that surprisingly exciting.

🔴 This method kind of frees animation from fixed durations or conventional notions of framing.

It could even be interactive

🔴 or spatial—like an installation. There are lots of possibilities.

🔴 Still, I respect the short film format—even its linearity. So I also explored how to shape this method into a short film.

🔴 Here’s a super quick version:

🔴 In the void, something emerges. It divides, mutates, metamorphozes into everything including baby salmons, and dances in patterns.
Over time, these entities connect, condense, and reach a kind of equilibrium.
And from that state, a new kind of life is born.

🔴 I’m drawing from ideas like the Cyclic Universe Theory or
🔴 Computational Universe—which I find super inspiring.

🔴 So yeah, this project isn’t just about making a short animation.
It’s a kind of worldmaking. I want to create a space where motion itself has its own logic.

🔴 I’m looking for collaborators, and also support for funding or distribution.

If any of this sounds interesting, feel free to talk to me after this. Thanks for listening.
Or maybe I should say—merci boku.

Hi, and Bonjour,

🔴 I’m Baku Hashimoto, from Japan.

I'm
🔴 an experimental filmmaker,
🔴 a generative artist,
🔴 and recently started researching Human-Computer Interaction,
🔴 And...today I’m here pretending to be an independent animation artist. Though I’m not good at hand-drawing at all.
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842dcfd2f94947d4d4f235b.mp3

🔴List I'’ve spent years making stop-motion animations and music videos.
🔴EYE In most of my projects, I start by building tools,
🔴Depthcope such as software or shooting rigs.
🔴Milling So I’m kind of sitting in the middle—
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842dd3a835c22fb2c010240.mp3

🔴Ben-diagrambetween new media art and manual, frame-by-frame animation.
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842dd635e9a51505a9e207a.mp3

🔴 Alright, let me dive into my project.
It all started with a simple question:

“How can we expand the temporality of animation?”

https://scrapbox.io/files/6842dd761ca74ae4e6d44ff3.mp3

🔴Zoetrope At the very beginning, animation was circular.
🔴Baby salmon And yes, the baby salmon
there’s no deep reason.
I just like them.
That’s it.
🔴Cinematograph But after the invention of cinema, timelines became strictly linear.
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842dd9ee48e7818daaf2326.mp3

(DON'T PRESS!!!)
So I asked myself—what happens if we break that linearity
🔴 like this?
🔴 And then, what if we assigned little animations to each of those branches?
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842ddb067f2534bde51c269.mp3

🔴 I tried that.
Then I duplicated the animations using a kind of symmetry,
and turned the whole thing into something like a finite state machine.
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842ddce69e3caaa5f1f7ef6.mp3

🔴 Here's a test animation I made.

🔴 🔴Test Animation

🔴44 frames It only uses 44 hand-drawn frames.

🔴 But through simple repetition and temporal non-linearity,
this hypnotic, complex motion emerges.
And I found that surprisingly exciting.
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842dde0d67be5c03d5de863.mp3

🔴 This method kind of frees animation from fixed durations or conventional notions of framing.
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842dc8a10da96b4e689695b.mp3

It could even be interactive
🔴 or spatial—like an installation. There are lots of possibilities.

https://scrapbox.io/files/6842dca78146ade85b7ff470.mp3

🔴 Still, this is an animation festival—so I did think about how to turn it into a short film.
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842dcc32c8438c2fede16e7.mp3

🔴 Here’s a super quick version:

🔴 In the void, something appears. It divides, mutates, dances in patterns.
Over time, these entities connect, condense, and reach a kind of equilibrium.
And from that state, a new kind of life is born.
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842ddf82838a620a908c74f.mp3

🔴 I’m drawing from ideas like the Cyclic Universe Theory or
🔴 Computational Universe—which I find super inspiring.
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842de0abd7edcf8b9735d9a.mp3

🔴 So yeah, this project isn’t just about making a short animation.
It’s a kind of worldmaking.
I want to create a space where motion itself has its own logic.
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842de2fa24f8c6770a72a43.mp3

🔴 I’m looking for collaborators, and also support for funding or distribution.
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842de45fe6baf01d038cb08.mp3

If any of this sounds interesting,
feel free to talk to me after this.
Thanks for listening.
Or maybe I should say—merci boku.
https://scrapbox.io/files/6842de545de7b9f61af232ff.mp3

• That wraps up my presentation.
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