Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Mirai Mizue

The place to start out: Surprise (2014). Mizue likes to problem himself and resists roaming down the identical roads too usually. With Surprise, he made a one-second movie (24 photographs) every day for one 12 months. On the finish, he transforms the 8760 photographs into an eight-minute summary… await it… marvel.

What to observe subsequent: Jam (2008). Merely put: a hypnotic colorgasm of harmonic chaos, or is that chaotic concord? Greatest to simply sit again and take it in and resolve for your self.

Different key works:  Misplaced Utopia (2007), Trendy (2011), Chaotic Order (2011)

Influences:  “Summary work by Joan Miró, Paul Klee, Tarō Okamoto, and so forth. Nineteen Eighties fantasy films resembling The Neverending Story,  Labyrinth, and Return to Oz. Particular results work resembling Ultraman and Godzilla (particularly works by Ishirō Honda).”

Says: “I’m actually curious about myself: Of what am I made? My physique consists of 60-trillion cells however I’m all the time questioning which cells are allotted to be my thoughts, soul, or emotions? I really feel certain that there are different issues in myself apart from cells. Some invisible parts. Not seen parts like cells, however invisible parts that make us create one thing like society, tradition, songs, drawings, or one thing like that.”

At the moment engaged on:  “I’m presently creating my first feature-length animation venture, a sci-fi work based mostly on Journey to the West. As a part of that, I not too long ago accomplished a 21-minute brief animation, Eternity.”