Anxious Body
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Sensitive, fluid, physical, erotic, meditative, melancholy, and feminine, the films, installations, music videos, and designs by Yoriko Mizushiri offer new perspectives on separate body parts, based on infinitely talented control of the line and movement, a choice of light, “corporeal colours” like pink and purple, and without superfluous emotionality in the face and eyes. Her hand-drawn animation offer haptic suggestions, delve into fragments of daily life, tiny gestures and moments, and immerse deep into the abysses of the unconscious. The serene rhythm of Mizushiri’s works leaves the door open for the viewers to let themselves go to intimate interpretation.
Our body feels something and becomes anxious,
and because it is anxious, it wants to feel something.
When we pull cellophane tape with our fingers and cut it,
what will our body feel from that?
Textures, shapes, the touches that are felt.
All kinds of associations are brought up and mixed together without boundaries.
And our body feels uneasy again, delicately and sensuously.
(Synopsis)
Sensitive, fluid, physical, erotic, meditative, melancholy, and feminine, the films, installations, music videos, and designs by Yoriko Mizushiri offer new perspectives on separate body parts, based on infinitely talented control of the line and movement, a choice of light, “corporeal colours” like pink and purple, and without superfluous emotionality in the face and eyes. Her hand-drawn animation offer haptic suggestions, delve into fragments of daily life, tiny gestures and moments, and immerse deep into the abysses of the unconscious. The serene rhythm of Mizushiri’s works leaves the door open for the viewers to let themselves go to intimate interpretation.
Our body feels something and becomes anxious,
and because it is anxious, it wants to feel something.
When we pull cellophane tape with our fingers and cut it,
what will our body feel from that?
Textures, shapes, the touches that are felt.
All kinds of associations are brought up and mixed together without boundaries.
And our body feels uneasy again, delicately and sensuously.
(Synopsis)
Director, storyboard, animation, editor: Yoriko Mizushiri
Miyu Productions: Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron
New Deer: Nobuaki Doi
Commissioned by: Towada Art Center, Curators: Kodama Kanazawa, Meruro Washida
Sound: Yuka C. Honda
Title design: Yosuke Nakanishi (Studio PT.), Hiroko Terawaki
5.1 Sound remix: Seigen Ono
With support from: Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée
Yoriko Mizushiri (JP) (b. in 1984), is a freelance film director who graduated from the Joshibi University of Art and Design in Japan, where she created Shiri Play (2005), Kappo (2006), and Lena Lena (2009). Then she worked on her trilogy that focuses on the sense of touch: Futon (2012), Snow Hut (2013), and Veil (2014). These films have been nominated and garnered awards at animation festivals like Berlinale Annecy and Zagreb.
Yoriko Mizushiri (JP) (b. in 1984), is a freelance film director who graduated from the Joshibi University of Art and Design in Japan, where she created Shiri Play (2005), Kappo (2006), and Lena Lena (2009). Then she worked on her trilogy that focuses on the sense of touch: Futon (2012), Snow Hut (2013), and Veil (2014). These films have been nominated and garnered awards at animation festivals like Berlinale Annecy and Zagreb.