Mika Seike

Starting Over

You always stumble before reach. The glass in your hand gets chipped every time. Then everything should start again from the start. There are, however, things you can discover only through repetition. The answer resides in yourself.

Black Cat

It consists of only woman who keeps caressing a resisting cat.

Time to Think

A short rotoscope film by Mika Seike.

Deep in Reflection

An Escher-like metaphor for introspection: a woman and her reflection in a forest pool, plus moths.

Face to Face

An abstract short film by Mika Seike depicting the tense conversation between a man and a woman.

Tokyo Loop

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.

Fishing Vine

Mika Seike’s contribution to the animated short film anthology Tokyo Loop.

Thinking and Drawing: Japanese Art Animation of the New Millennium

The walls of video rental shops in Japan are lined with hundreds upon hundreds of animation DVDs, but experimental and art animation on DVD are rare. To remedy this situation, Image Forum put together this showcase of the work of contemporary avant-garde animators trained in Kyoto and Tokyo.

Dialogue Between Two

The dialogue in question takes place between a woman, who appears to be submerged in water, and a man who sits by a tree on sandy soil. The messages the couple sends back and forth to one another take the form of metaphor: a seed, a fish, a thorn, and so on.

A Place Where There Are Moths

A Place Where There Are Moths depicts the conflict between drab concrete block apartment living and the natural environment in Japanese cities. The forces of nature are represented by the motif of a tree whose leaves metamorphose into orange moths and take over a middle-aged woman's apartment, pushing her room higher and higher within the building.