Kangaeru Renshuu (Imagination Practice)

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Thinking and Drawing: Nihon no Shinseiki Art Animation, Thinking and Drawing: Japanese Art Animation of the New Millennium

Japanese: 考える練習

More titles

Information

Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: 2003

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: None found, add some

Source: Original

Genre: Avant Garde

Theme: Visual Arts

Duration: 4 min.

Rating: G - All Ages

Statistics

Score: 4.07¹ (scored by 441 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #13571²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #14657

Members: 838

Favorites: 0

Available At

Official Site

Resources

AniDB

4.07

Ranked #13571Popularity #14657Members 838

Movie

Add to My List

Episodes: /1

Edit

Synopsis

The description of Suwami Nogami's minimalistic line drawing piece, Imagination Practice, calls it an unending "thought loop". It depicts an artist sitting in front of a window with a self-portrait, like a miniature mirror image, on the desk in front of him. The window frame and the blue sky filled with moving clouds are in colour, but the figure of the artist is not coloured in. The soundtrack sounds like a skipping record that is punctuated by humourous springing noises (a la Bugs Bunny) as the image 'bounces' in an unending loop from the establishing shot into the "drawing." A philosophical piece, Imagination Practice considers the circular dialogue between an artist and his work.

(Source: Midnight Eye)

Edit

Background

Released in 2005 on DVD, Thinking and Drawing features a wide selection of animation styles from line drawing to CGI manipulated photographs. The subject matter ranges from feminist allegory to ghostly tales. Although each film has a short running time of between 5 and 17 minutes, the depth of meaning in each is truly astonishing. The films have shown together and separately at festivals in Europe, North America, and Australia.

(Source: AniDB)

Edit