Movies by Keita Kurosaka
Metamorphous: Mountains and Streams
Man often yearns of a past more innocent and pure. This film disregards that sentimentality and depicts a constant, permanent transformation of the landscape of mountains and rivers. A beautiful and intense image poem made from thousands of pencil drawings.
M・Y・F・A・C・E
Abstract horror short about a girl's face.
Flying Daddy
One morning, Papa transforms into a giant insect in the futon, emerges instantly in front of the astonished family, breaks through the window and flies into the sky. Short animation by Keita Kurosaka for MTV Japan.
MATIERICA
One might think that beautiful pictures, a compelling story, and brilliant movement are the three essential elements of a good animated film. The word "anima" from which animation is derived, as we all know, means "to breathe life into". And "life" means "limited time" and that there could be an approach that does not include any of the aforementioned "three elements". The result of several years of exploring new methods was an "animated film" that eschews the so-called "animated" structure. This film aims to visualize "shifting consciousne...
Rinkaku
Once again animator Keita Kurosaka was enlisted to create a hand drawn music video, that in many regards is much less shocking and grotesque than the previous collaboration, the infamous "Agitated Screams of Maggots".
Sea Roar
In a certain fishing village, a memorial service is held to burn abandoned boats, and old fishing boats that have finished their duty have a dream on the verge of death. Deep-sea fish galloping through the alleys, fishermen pulling long ropes, ghosts of screaming girls...
Wealth of Vision
An experimental film created from 3 years worth of abstract pencil drawings with the goal of being a catalyst for unveiling a new mental landscape in viewers.
Mochibei
A work produced with the theme of the number "4" as an event for the 4th Into Animation, an independent screening by the Japan Animation Association.
Haruko's Adventure
Haruko, a girl with psychic powers who can communicate with inorganic matter, wakes up one morning to the call of someone, and as she is invited, she arrives at an abandoned apartment building from the 30s of the Showa era, where countless "mononoke" have lived.