©️ 2011 National Film Board of Canada / NHK / Polygon Pictures
Firebird Award: Hong Kong International Film Festival
Muybridge's Strings
| Original title: Muybridge no Ito | French title: Les Codes de Muybridge | Simplified Chinese title: 麦布里奇的线 || Short animation | 2011 | Canada, Japan | 12'39" | 35mm, HD, DCP | 16:9, Vista(1:1.85) | Dolby Digital 5.1ch, Stereo | No dialogue | Sketches | Drawings | Production Scene | Stills | Text |
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Trailer | Making: Tokyo/Montrael | DVD, Download sale @ NFB |
Techniques: Drawing and painting on paper
Director, Script, Edit, Design, Animation: YAMAMURA Koji
Animation assistant: YAMAMURA Sanae
Original music & Sound design: Normand ROGER, Pierre Yves DRAPEAU, Denis CHARTRAND
Musician: Denis CHARTRAND, Pierre-Yves MARTEL, Terri HRON
Arrangements: Normand ROGER
Foley: Lise WEDLOCK
Technical coordinator: Julie LAPERRIÈRE
On-line: Denis PILON
Re-recording: Shelley CRAIG
Recording: Luc LÉGER, Geoffrey MITCHAELL
Marketing manager: Christine NOÉL
Administration: Gisèle Guilbault, Rosalina Di SARIO
Executive producers: David VERRALL, SAITO Kenji, SHIOTA John Shuzo
Producers: Michael FUKUSHIMA, TSUCHIHASHI Keisuke, SHIOTA John Shiota
Production: National Film Board of Canada, NHK and Polygon Pictures
©️ 2011 National Film Board of Canada / NHK / Polygon Pictures
Can time be made to stand still? Can it be reversed? Koji Yamamura's Muybridge's Strings is a meditation on this theme, contrasting the worlds of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge -- who in 1878 successfully photographed consecu- tive phases in the movement of a galloping horse -- and a mother who, watching her daughter grow up, realizes she is slipping away from her. Moving between California and Tokyo, between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first, the film focuses on some of the high points in Muybridge's troubled life and intercuts them with the mother's surrealistic daydreams -- a poetic clash that explores the irrepressible human desire to seize life's fleeting moments, to freeze the instants of happiness. Enriched by Koji Yamamura's refined artistry and Normand Roger's soundtrack, Muybridge's Strings observes the ties that cease to bind, fixes its gaze on the course of life, and presents a moment in time suspended on the crystalline notes of a canon by J.S. Bach.
Awards (10)
★Firebird Award: 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival, China, April 2012
★The Great (Under)estimated Award: 18th International Film Festival "Etiuda & Anima" , Poland, November
★SILVER MIKELDI FOR ANIMATION: 53rd International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain, November
★Excellence Prize (Animation Division): 15th Japan Media Arts Festival, Japan, March 2012
★Special Prize: 14th Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan, August 23 - 26 2012
★NFB Best Canadian Film or Video Award: 15th Toronto Reel Asian International film festival (Toronto, November / Richmond Hill, November
★Special Prize of the Jury (Grande Prémio do Júri): 35th CINANIMA Internantional Animated Film Festival (Espinho, Portugal, November, 2011
★Prize RTP2: Onda Curta: 35th CINANIMA Internantional Animated Film Festival, Espinho, Portugal, November, 2011
★Jury’s Special Mentioning II: 14th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Animated Dreams, Estonia, November
★Honorary Mention: 54th Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany, October, 2011
★Firebird Award: 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival, China, April 2012
★The Great (Under)estimated Award: 18th International Film Festival "Etiuda & Anima" , Poland, November
★SILVER MIKELDI FOR ANIMATION: 53rd International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain, November
★Excellence Prize (Animation Division): 15th Japan Media Arts Festival, Japan, March 2012
★Special Prize: 14th Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan, August 23 - 26 2012
★NFB Best Canadian Film or Video Award: 15th Toronto Reel Asian International film festival (Toronto, November / Richmond Hill, November
★Special Prize of the Jury (Grande Prémio do Júri): 35th CINANIMA Internantional Animated Film Festival (Espinho, Portugal, November, 2011
★Prize RTP2: Onda Curta: 35th CINANIMA Internantional Animated Film Festival, Espinho, Portugal, November, 2011
★Jury’s Special Mentioning II: 14th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Animated Dreams, Estonia, November
★Honorary Mention: 54th Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany, October, 2011
Offcial Selection (50)
35th Montreal World Film Festival (Canada, August 18 - 28 2011) Short Films in competition
Ottawa international Animation Festival (Canada, September 21 - 25 2011) in competition
anima 2012 (Belgium, February 17 -26 2012) International Competition - Short films
32th Genie Awards (Canada, March 08 2012) Nominee: Best Animated Short
11th International festival of animated films AniFest 2012 (Teplice&Duchcov, Czech Republic, 26 April – 1 May 2012) 5-15 min Short Film competition
65th Yorkton Film Festival (Canada, May 24 to 27 2012) Golden Sheaf Awards Nomiatee
Melbourne International Animation Festival(Australia, June 17 - 24 2012) International Competition
Animator 2012 5th International Animation Festival (Poznan, Poland, July 13 to 19 2012) Competition
7th Sapporo International Short Film Festival (Sapporo, Japan September 12 -17 2012) International Competition
Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival (UK, Bristol, September 18 - 23 2012) In Competition
14. Internationales Trickfilm-Wochenende Wiesbaden(Germany, October 18 - 21 2012) International Competition "Best of International Animation
Animpact Max 2012 (Korea, November .28 -December ) Ani InpactOfficial screening:
Cannes Film Market, Not Short on Talent (France May 2011, World Premier)
38th Telluride Film festival(Colorado, USA, September 2 - 5 2011) Filmmakers of Tomorrow : Calling Cards
Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada, September 25 - October 14 2011) Canadian Images: Fire
55th London Film Festival (UK, October 12-27, 2011) Short Cuts & Animation » International Animation Panorama Programme 2
24th Tokyo International Film Festival (Japan, October 28, 2011) No Animation, No Future
San Francisco International Animation Festival (USA, November 11 - 14 2011) Top Drawers
Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival (Canada, November 2 -6 2011)
25th International Francophone Film Festival in Acadie (Canada, November 17 - 26 2011) SÉANCE 15 SÉANCE ANIMATION
ANILOGUE International Animation Festival (Budapest - Vienna, Novmber 23 - December 1 2011) World Panorama
8th International Animated Film Festival (Slovenia, December 12 -18 2011) Pierre Yves Drapeau: Film Sound & Music
Taketoyo Animation Film Festival (Japan, December 18 2011) ANIMATION NOW
27th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (USA, January 26 to February 5 2012) Animation Shorts 2
8th Japan Film Festival (Korea, Soeul Juanuary 26~30 2012, Busan February 2 ~ 6 2012) Koji Yamamura and Young animations
Victoria Film Festival (Canada, February 3 to 12 2012,) SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATIONS ALIVE! (Odeon Theatre 12:15pm Feb 11)
FUTURE MEDIA FESTIVAL 2012 (Taiwan, January 01 to 19 February 2012) Canadian Digital Animation Works
Nipponconection Film Festival 2012 (Germany, May 2 -6 2012) Spaces in Between: Indie Animated Shorts from Japan
19th Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart (Germany, May 08 -13 2012) Panorama
Animafest Zagreb 2012 (Croatia, May 29 - June 3 2012) Grand Panorama
Jerusalem International Film Festival (Israel, July 5 - 14 2012) Animation for All
Anima Mundi (Brazil, Rio de Janeiro 13 - 22 July 2012, Sao Paulo 25 -29 July 2012,) PANORAMA - NON COMPETITIVE
16th Seuol International Cartoon & Animation Festival (Korea, July 18 - 22 2012) Non-Competition SICAF Choice
Sakhalin Film Festival (Uzjno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island, Russia, 24-29 of August 2012) animation program
8th World Festival of Animated Film in Varna (Bulgaria, September 10-15) Retrospective program
SHORTPIECE! Sendai Short Film Festival 2012 (Shendai, Japan, September 15 -17) Animations related Japan with Canada
London International Animation Festival (UK, October 26 - November 04 2012) Retrospective program
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (Tiwan, November 8 - 22 2012,) Film Cult(URE):Animation Collection Gone Crazy
Japan Media Arts Festival Kobe (Kobe, November 17 - 25 2012)
Japan Media Arts Festival@HYPER JAPAN 2012 Christmas (UK, November 23- 25 2012)
Japan Media Arts Festival@Animahenasyon (Philippines, November 26 - 29 2012)
Japan Media Arts Festival@Toulouse Game Show (France, December 1-2 2012)
Japan Media Arts Festival@J-FEST (Moscow, December 1-2 2012)
35th International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand (France, February 1-9 2013)
27th Shanghai International Film Festival, China, 2025.06
35th Montreal World Film Festival (Canada, August 18 - 28 2011) Short Films in competition
Ottawa international Animation Festival (Canada, September 21 - 25 2011) in competition
anima 2012 (Belgium, February 17 -26 2012) International Competition - Short films
32th Genie Awards (Canada, March 08 2012) Nominee: Best Animated Short
11th International festival of animated films AniFest 2012 (Teplice&Duchcov, Czech Republic, 26 April – 1 May 2012) 5-15 min Short Film competition
65th Yorkton Film Festival (Canada, May 24 to 27 2012) Golden Sheaf Awards Nomiatee
Melbourne International Animation Festival(Australia, June 17 - 24 2012) International Competition
Animator 2012 5th International Animation Festival (Poznan, Poland, July 13 to 19 2012) Competition
7th Sapporo International Short Film Festival (Sapporo, Japan September 12 -17 2012) International Competition
Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival (UK, Bristol, September 18 - 23 2012) In Competition
14. Internationales Trickfilm-Wochenende Wiesbaden(Germany, October 18 - 21 2012) International Competition "Best of International Animation
Animpact Max 2012 (Korea, November .28 -December ) Ani InpactOfficial screening:
Cannes Film Market, Not Short on Talent (France May 2011, World Premier)
38th Telluride Film festival(Colorado, USA, September 2 - 5 2011) Filmmakers of Tomorrow : Calling Cards
Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada, September 25 - October 14 2011) Canadian Images: Fire
55th London Film Festival (UK, October 12-27, 2011) Short Cuts & Animation » International Animation Panorama Programme 2
24th Tokyo International Film Festival (Japan, October 28, 2011) No Animation, No Future
San Francisco International Animation Festival (USA, November 11 - 14 2011) Top Drawers
Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival (Canada, November 2 -6 2011)
25th International Francophone Film Festival in Acadie (Canada, November 17 - 26 2011) SÉANCE 15 SÉANCE ANIMATION
ANILOGUE International Animation Festival (Budapest - Vienna, Novmber 23 - December 1 2011) World Panorama
8th International Animated Film Festival (Slovenia, December 12 -18 2011) Pierre Yves Drapeau: Film Sound & Music
Taketoyo Animation Film Festival (Japan, December 18 2011) ANIMATION NOW
27th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (USA, January 26 to February 5 2012) Animation Shorts 2
8th Japan Film Festival (Korea, Soeul Juanuary 26~30 2012, Busan February 2 ~ 6 2012) Koji Yamamura and Young animations
Victoria Film Festival (Canada, February 3 to 12 2012,) SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATIONS ALIVE! (Odeon Theatre 12:15pm Feb 11)
FUTURE MEDIA FESTIVAL 2012 (Taiwan, January 01 to 19 February 2012) Canadian Digital Animation Works
Nipponconection Film Festival 2012 (Germany, May 2 -6 2012) Spaces in Between: Indie Animated Shorts from Japan
19th Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart (Germany, May 08 -13 2012) Panorama
Animafest Zagreb 2012 (Croatia, May 29 - June 3 2012) Grand Panorama
Jerusalem International Film Festival (Israel, July 5 - 14 2012) Animation for All
Anima Mundi (Brazil, Rio de Janeiro 13 - 22 July 2012, Sao Paulo 25 -29 July 2012,) PANORAMA - NON COMPETITIVE
16th Seuol International Cartoon & Animation Festival (Korea, July 18 - 22 2012) Non-Competition SICAF Choice
Sakhalin Film Festival (Uzjno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island, Russia, 24-29 of August 2012) animation program
8th World Festival of Animated Film in Varna (Bulgaria, September 10-15) Retrospective program
SHORTPIECE! Sendai Short Film Festival 2012 (Shendai, Japan, September 15 -17) Animations related Japan with Canada
London International Animation Festival (UK, October 26 - November 04 2012) Retrospective program
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (Tiwan, November 8 - 22 2012,) Film Cult(URE):Animation Collection Gone Crazy
Japan Media Arts Festival Kobe (Kobe, November 17 - 25 2012)
Japan Media Arts Festival@HYPER JAPAN 2012 Christmas (UK, November 23- 25 2012)
Japan Media Arts Festival@Animahenasyon (Philippines, November 26 - 29 2012)
Japan Media Arts Festival@Toulouse Game Show (France, December 1-2 2012)
Japan Media Arts Festival@J-FEST (Moscow, December 1-2 2012)
35th International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand (France, February 1-9 2013)
27th Shanghai International Film Festival, China, 2025.06
Screenings (20)
Tokyo Metoropolitan Museumof Photography (Japan, September 17 -October 7 2011, Asia Premier)
Palo Alto International Film Festival (USA, Palo Alto Children's Theater, September 30 2011, 12:30pm)
Geidai Arts in Tokyo Marunouchi (Japan, October 29 2011, 18:30pm) Animation and Music on Stage, presented by Tokyo University of the Arts
Shibuya UPLINK (Japan, Nomenber 19- Decmber 2 2011)
Nagoya cinéma thèque (Japan, January 2 - 13 2012, Official Site)
ASIFA-SF Presents Independent Animators (USA, Exploratorium’s McBean Theatre, January 13 2012)
Forza Sogawa (Japan, Toyama, January 14~20 2012)
cinma thque Takasaki (Japan, Gunma, February 4 to 10 2012)
Cine-mondo (Japan, Kanazawa, February 11 to 24 2012)
Theater Kino (Japan, Sapporo, February 18 to 24 2012)
Umeda Garden Cinema (Japan, Osaka, February 25 - March 09 2012)
Nihon no uta Film Festival Koji Yammaura special (Japan, Tokyo, Shinjuku, K's cinema, March 12 201, Official Site, Nihon no uta Caravan)
Kobe Art Villege Center (Japan, Hyogo, March 03 - 16 2012)
Kyoto Minami-Kaikan (Japan, Kyoto, March 24 - April 06 2012)
Theater Ciema (Japan, Saga, April 14 - 20 2012)
Jack & Betty (Japan, Yokohama, June 16 2012)
Association for Studies of Culture and Representation, University of Tokyo(Japan, Tokyo, July 07 2012)
SKIP CITY Sai-No-Kuni Visual Plaza (Saitama, 2012.06.2 - 07.22) Muybridge's Strings: Yamamura Animation & NF
Hatchoza (Hiroshima, August 25 -31, 2012)
Fukuoka independence film festival2012 (Fukuoka Asia art museum, Septmeber 8 2012)
News
asahi.com [2011.02.03]
Anime! Anime! [2011.05.26]
MSN Sankei News [2011.06.06]
Yomiuri Shimbun (Evening Edition) [2011.06.17]
Tokyo Shimbun [2011.06.29]
asahi.com (Asahi Shimbun) [2011.07.04]
Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Evening Edition) [2011.09.03] Web (Interview):
Master Interview: Animation Meister Vol. 7 – Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Plaza
NFB.ca Blog – Michael Fukushima [2010.11.08]
Coco☆Montreal – Short Animation Film Director: Koji Yamamura [2011.01.20]
Cat's Forehead – Koji Yamamura Interview [2011.09]
DOMMUNE TALK LIVE: "Koji Yamamura Special – Discussing His Latest Work, 'Muybridge's Strings'" [2011.09.15]
Film Collection
National Film Archive
Tokyo Metoropolitan Museumof Photography (Japan, September 17 -October 7 2011, Asia Premier)
Palo Alto International Film Festival (USA, Palo Alto Children's Theater, September 30 2011, 12:30pm)
Geidai Arts in Tokyo Marunouchi (Japan, October 29 2011, 18:30pm) Animation and Music on Stage, presented by Tokyo University of the Arts
Shibuya UPLINK (Japan, Nomenber 19- Decmber 2 2011)
Nagoya cinéma thèque (Japan, January 2 - 13 2012, Official Site)
ASIFA-SF Presents Independent Animators (USA, Exploratorium’s McBean Theatre, January 13 2012)
Forza Sogawa (Japan, Toyama, January 14~20 2012)
cinma thque Takasaki (Japan, Gunma, February 4 to 10 2012)
Cine-mondo (Japan, Kanazawa, February 11 to 24 2012)
Theater Kino (Japan, Sapporo, February 18 to 24 2012)
Umeda Garden Cinema (Japan, Osaka, February 25 - March 09 2012)
Nihon no uta Film Festival Koji Yammaura special (Japan, Tokyo, Shinjuku, K's cinema, March 12 201, Official Site, Nihon no uta Caravan)
Kobe Art Villege Center (Japan, Hyogo, March 03 - 16 2012)
Kyoto Minami-Kaikan (Japan, Kyoto, March 24 - April 06 2012)
Theater Ciema (Japan, Saga, April 14 - 20 2012)
Jack & Betty (Japan, Yokohama, June 16 2012)
Association for Studies of Culture and Representation, University of Tokyo(Japan, Tokyo, July 07 2012)
SKIP CITY Sai-No-Kuni Visual Plaza (Saitama, 2012.06.2 - 07.22) Muybridge's Strings: Yamamura Animation & NF
Hatchoza (Hiroshima, August 25 -31, 2012)
Fukuoka independence film festival2012 (Fukuoka Asia art museum, Septmeber 8 2012)
News
asahi.com [2011.02.03]
Anime! Anime! [2011.05.26]
MSN Sankei News [2011.06.06]
Yomiuri Shimbun (Evening Edition) [2011.06.17]
Tokyo Shimbun [2011.06.29]
asahi.com (Asahi Shimbun) [2011.07.04]
Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Evening Edition) [2011.09.03] Web (Interview):
Master Interview: Animation Meister Vol. 7 – Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Plaza
NFB.ca Blog – Michael Fukushima [2010.11.08]
Coco☆Montreal – Short Animation Film Director: Koji Yamamura [2011.01.20]
Cat's Forehead – Koji Yamamura Interview [2011.09]
DOMMUNE TALK LIVE: "Koji Yamamura Special – Discussing His Latest Work, 'Muybridge's Strings'" [2011.09.15]
Film Collection
National Film Archive
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Tokyo/Montreal - Making process of "Muybridge's Strings"
Tokyo/Montreal - Making process of "Muybridge's Strings"| Documentary | 2011 | Japan | 14'55" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | Japanese, English subtitles |
|Direction, Camera, Edit: Yamamura Koji, Sanae
Produce: Yamamura Animation
In Tokyo at Yamamura Animation, drawing and animation process of "Muybridge's Strings", in Montreal at NFB, depicting the sound produced. The documentary of making "Muybridge's Strings".
