Solitarium

Immersive animation by Japanese director presents a world inside the mind of a person facing struggles, reflecting the inner complexities of their thoughts. The animation explores the artist’s personal history, dreams, and visions, creating a chain of events that repeat with no clear beginning or end. The images show events that are all related in some form or another and show chain of reactions with no obvious beginning or the end as one loop branches out to create new multiple repetitions. Solitarium won the Japan Grand Prix at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival (2016).

Sumito Sakakibara
Sumito Sakakibara Animation Artist/ Film maker/ Installation Artist/ Comic Artist born in Hokkaido Japan in 1980, he left Japan at the age of 15 to study in the U.K. After graduating from the Royal College of Art with MA in Animation in 2004, he’s been proceeding and expanding his creative methods and mediums and has been deepning his craft through using various medias as projection of his inner visions. His works received numerous awards world wide, including “FLOW” a grand prize winner at the Japan media art festival, and his latest video installation work, “Iizuna Fair” a grand prize at Ottawa International Animation Festival is currently on display at the Nagano Museum of Art as their permanent collection. He currently lives & works in the foothill of Mt. Iizuna in Nagano, Japan.