With a few simple, hand-drawn lines in his trademark charcoal and pastel, acclaimed animator Naoyuki Tsuji creates a distinctive universe that is at once tender and horrible. Included are all the elements of a fractured fairy tale for adults: clouds come alive in the sky; an escape becomes a terrifying journey; characters transform into animals; a man with a deranged face terrorizes his family and devours his children. What first appears to be childlike crudeness in his animation is actually subtle, strange, and even uncanny. Tsuji s films captivate us because they are vague recollections of beguiling childhood dreams and memories the wonder of the puppet show, the mystery of clouds, or the attraction of monsters.
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Author: Guest This collection was a real revelation. Absolutely brilliant animation from a young master. His films are like little tone poems that reverberate with life and haunt the viewer long after they have ended.
Very mysterious, dreamlike, simple, yet elegant. Tsuji's technique( black lines drawn on paper in charcoal or pastel erased and re-drawn etc .)is strikingly original and totally effective. These films have a moody quality to them that is at once eerie and filled with child-like wonder.
The music is very abstract and compliments the animation beautifully.
Experimental, humanistic, never pretentious, Tsuji is truly unique in world animation. I believe this collection will stun people and should serve to make Tsuji more well known here in the west.