Atsushi Wada

We try to enrich ourselves through prayer, faith and devotion to someone or something ‘other’. Similarly, we believe in the existence of ‘anomalies’, such as unknowable and uncontrollable monsters. But can such beliefs advance us?

A huge pig lies by a house. The family of the house go about their everyday life, pretending to ignore the pig’s existence.

A boy is doing his exercises with his dog.

Once we called the noble, profound and mysterious existence The Great. We have moved with the time, our thought and consciousness has changed. And yet what makes us still keep calling it The Great?

Bonus short included on the "Atsushi Wada Works 2002-2010" DVD.

The boys are rehearsing a dance for their traditional initiation ceremony into adulthood; their teacher instructs them. A girl observes the scene but is not allowed to join in. When one of the boys chases after a strange bird, she follows him without knowing why. One day, the boy will no longer be able to see the bird either.

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.

The activities of cats, kobito, carp, and an uncle dressed as a woman on a swamp.