Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive media arts festival for rewarding outstanding works submitted from both at home and abroad. This 60-minute presentation introduces seven works produced using diverse modes of expression and screened in Japan and overseas with the focus on Katsuhiro Otomo’s much-acclaimed Japan Media Arts Festival 2013 Animation Division Grand Prize winner, Combustible, Excellence Award winner, Atsushi Wada’s Great Rabbit and other short Japanese animations recommended by the jury.

Program Director: Hiromitsu Murakami, Associate Professor, The Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation