Pocket cinema: Kudan by Taku Kimura
Short animated film Kudan by Taku Kimura won in 2008 the Excellence Prize at the acclaimed Japan Media Arts Festival, among many festivals… The film was screened within the cinema programme of Device_art 3.009.
Synopsis:
As oppose to the mythological creature Minotaur, a monsters of western culture, a Japanese monster Kudan has a human head and the body of cow. Kudan is born from female cow. It speaks human language, predicts significant incidents such as war or disaster and dies in three days. This story is about a man who is accidentally transformed into a Kudan. One day the man, who doesn’t communicate with his son well, receives a box by mail and he finds a strange helmet in the box.
He is transformed into a Kudan when he wears it. Although his body stays in this world, his head is in another world, coming out from the cow’s body. The helmet is a door to another world…
Bio:
Taku Kimura was born in 1963, Tokyo. After graduating from the College of Art, Nihon University, he entered Toyo Links Corporation (current Links DigiWorks Inc.). Since then, having been involved in production of CG images for CM, film, and games, he also creates art works independently. He is a part-time instructor of the Department of Design, College of Art, Nihon University. (bio taken from: plaza.bunka.go.jp)
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