--- title: Annecy Mifa 2025 Pitch date: 2025-06-06T11:00:45.000Z updated: 2026-01-08T14:50:54.580Z tags: - memo - EU-JP_Animation_Residency url: https://baku89.com/Annecy_Mifa_2025_Pitch --- # Annecy Mifa 2025 Pitch [#EU-JP\_Animation\_Residency](EU-JP_Animation_Residency) #### Useful fillers - 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-diagram`between 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.\ 🔴`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—\ 🔴`Ben-diagram`between new media art and manual, frame-by-frame animation.\ 🔴 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` 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.\ 🔴 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, this is an animation festival—so I did think about how to turn it into a short film.\ 🔴 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.\ 🔴 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.\ - That wraps up my presentation. - if ant