Tryptokos
Direction / Animation
Music video
2015
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Tryptokos is an experimental collaboration work, in which Japanese animation artist Kaoru Furuko has interpreted and visualised the music of Swedish music producer Nimway into an animated video by combining several different animation techniques. An audiovisual trip through the mechanisms of an unexplored organic world.
Materials:
Custom-made kaleidoscope, brown sugar, lentils, clay, Slovak bobbin lace, drawing on washi paper, leafs and flower collected from Slovakia,
color ink, oil, water, Indian glitter, transparent paper, acrylic, cotton, crayon, oil on canvas, plastic bag from Slovak local grocery store, liquid dish soap
Technique:
Stop motion, drawing animation, painting on glass, cut-out animation, animated with oil on canvas, animation in kaleidoscope
Credits:
Direction & Animation: Kaoru Furuko
Music: Nimway
Special thanks to: Miriam Ivanoff, Šimon Mészáros, Tomáš Tikoo Bachura, Zuzana Kotíková, Igor Kupec
Supported by: EU Japan Fest and K.A.I.R Kosice Artist in Residence
Production at: Kosice, Slovakia
2022 ASVOFF 14 Fashion/Culture Film Festival (Paris, France)
2018 Animation Volda Festival (Volda, Norway)
2018 12th IFEMA International Female Film Festival Malmö (Malmö, Sweden)
2017 Odense International Film Festival (Odense, Denmark)
2017 Viborg Animation Festival (Viborg, Denmark)
2017 Re Anima Film Festival (Bergen, Norway)
2017 Anim!Arte ( Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brazil)
2017 Void International Animation Film Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2016 Bogotá Music Video Festival 2016(Bogota, Colombia)
2016 Locomoción Experimental Animation Festival 2016 (Mexico city, Mexico)
2016 6th StopTrik International Film Festival (Maribou, Slovenia, 27-30.Oct.) (Łódź,Poland, 11-12. Nov. )
2016 BANJALUKA 2016 International Animated Film Festival (Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2016 European Animated Film Festival BALKANIMA 2016 (Novi Beograd, Serbia)
2016 33rd Tehran International Short Film Festival (Tehran, Iran)
2016 Music Festival O Sol da Caparica (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016 Fest Anča International Animation Festival (Zilina, Slovakia)
2016 London Shows International Film Festival (London, England)
2016 MONSTRA Lisbon Animated Film Festival (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016 Rundgång, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (Sweden)
2015 “Tryptokos” solo, November, Šopa gallery, Košice (Slovakia)
2015 Bielanoc 2015, October, Kino Usmev, Košice (Slovakia)