Sorao Sakimura
12’
Kyushu University, School of Design
Japan 2022
I sink into myself and pick up a stone with suffering. At a certain moment, that stone starts developing its ego and becomes something different from myself. Then he picks me up and takes me to a place I never imagined.
I have spent a dizzying two years living alone, studying at University in the Corona Disaster, and suffering from a relapse of depression. This is a work about a scene I saw while continuing to create in the midst of it all.
Born in Miyazaki, Japan in 2001. I have loved creating since childhood and spent my elementary and junior high school years enjoying creating various kinds of things.
In 2018, when I was in my first year of high school, I created a short animation ‘The Corridors’ by groping my way through the world. This was the beginning of my fascination with visual expression, which allows me to express in reality what was only in my mind.
In 2019, during my second year of high school, I created a short animation work, ‘The Sound of Cicadas, Touch the Wind’. This work, which depicted my own life-sized conflicts and impulses through a combination of hand-drawn drawings, 3DCG, and live action, won the Grand Prix at the Wired Creative Hack Award 2020, Youth Gold at the 22nd DigiCon6 Japan, and was nominated for the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2020 U-25 Project.
Since then, I have accelerated my activities as a filmmaker and an animation artist, participating as an animator.
Currently, I am enrolled in the Media Design Course, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, where I am studying various forms of expression, not limited to animation.