NEWS
“Nai Heya” by Ichimatsu & Yuri Yamamura
LIVE Au Praxinscope vol.9
is a live performance improvisation in between theatre, dance & juggling
September 30, 2023 (Sat)
14:30 Doors open 15:00 Event begins
18:00 Doors open 18:30 Event begins
Roadshow: "Dozens of Norths" and 3 Shorts
The film was fully booked for three days at Shin Bungei-Za in Ikebukuro. The film is being sequentially released in theaters nationwide, including encore screening.
A Bite of Bone
Au Praxinoscope Production and Distribution
Directed by Yano Honami
Voice: Tano Ayamo
Sound Design: Takino Masumi
Awards: Grand Prize for Short Animation: 45th Ottawa International Animation Festival
Best of TAIS Showcase award: 15th TAIS Animation Showcase 2021
Gold Award (Animation Category): 27th ifva Awards, Chine, etc.
In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
Au Praxinoscope Production and Distribution
Directed by Yuki Yoko
Music: honninman
Award: Jury's Personal Pick: 1st Hiroshima Animation Season
Eri (provisional title)
In making process
Directed by Yano Honami
Besed on
Asakura Kasumi's "Hokani Daregairu (Who else is there?)" (Gentosha, 2008)
ABOUT US
Au Praxinoscope
Store and gallery opened in 2013 as a place to introduce short animation from around the world. The store carries animation-related books, DVDs, visual toys, and merchandise selected from the perspective of the owner, Yamamura Koji (animation artist and picture book author). As a studio, it also produces and distributes original animations, and in the gallery space, in addition to exhibiting original artwork, it hosts live performances.
Motion Observation Devices
The store name "Au" is the French preposition à + definite article for place, and "Praxinoscope" is the name of a visual toy. In Greek, it means "motion observer. It was invented by French inventor Emile Reynaud in 1879, in the pre-movie history, and was enjoyed in European households as a device that made pictures appear to move.
The original Praxinoscope, manufactured in the 1800s, is on permanent display in the gallery.
Émile & Dr. Reynaud
Answers to simple questions about animation, such as "why?" "What?" Cartoon (Japanese only)
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