Paving

It is an animation work using the material that Yoshinao Satoh repeats replication.

I put together a work with the theme of "traffic crossing". Convert the video footage into still images frame by frame, and use non-linear editing again. I'm back to video. The shooting location is mainly in Yokohama City, The train was taken from Kamoi to Nakayama on the Yokohama Line. The plane was taken while panning a passenger plane flying on the same route from Haneda. The material is created by overlapping layers in Photoshop.

I tried to “move” various “non-moving things” that I see in my daily life.

Abstract animation assembled from newspapers.

Abstract animation by Yoshinao Satoh. This is an English version of the film "Papers".

This is a work I created in 1991 as an attempt to become a "master" on "Yuji Miyake's Shrimp-Bending Master Heaven." Unfortunately, the show ended before I could take on the challenge. It was a fun year that taught me the obvious truth: the meaning of a work lies not in leaving it as it is, but in showing it to an audience. I'm grateful to all the staff and performers.

The sensation of forward movement is taken for granted. Lateral motion, however, is a more recent phenomenon. Due to the inventions of the mechanical age, our perception of speed has grown faster. Now with visual information taken over by increasingly powerful computers, a strange spectacle arises. (Image Forum)

Is it possible to create a work using a single giant chimney as a video material? Consider variations in angles and movements, experiment as much as you can think of, and use 8mm film I tried baking it. The title is named from the chimney color of "red" and "white".

While out for a walk, I came across a peaked roof and decided to try moving it like an umbrella. Using the roof as the starting point, I decided on the theme of the work as "buildings," and combined elements other than the roof to create a single work. The title expresses the smallness of Japanese houses, the smallness of the country, and the high population density. 2004 Hiroshima International Animation Festival, nominated for the competition / Recommended work by the Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Division Judging Committee

I made an animation work with the theme of "book". The first half uses a "paperback book" and the second half uses a "mail order" free book. 1996, 8mm work.

This is the first animation I made for a university class when I was around 21 years old. I cut up pieces of black paper and pasted them one by one on a white wall, then filmed them. I traced a photo book by Eadweard Muybridge to create the material. It was made on 8mm film. The background music uses some of the soundtrack from the film "Ragtime." I created it with the sole focus of matching the music to the movement of the pictures and the scene changes. It is a memorable work for me.

I made an animation using Mac OS functions. All materials are created from screenshots. It was announced in 2004 under the title "desktop". After that, with the OS upload, in 2016 with the same method This is a work I made.

A car tire that rotates in the opposite direction to the direction of travel, this work is an edited version of the material (screenshots) taken from the window of the train, extracting this mysterious feeling. The same thing flows at a certain speed and progresses in the opposite direction to the direction of travel, or a video that was born by chance.

This video is an animation work using photos. I tried to move things that did not move by themselves. The car in motion was animated using a video printer from video footage. variation of movement. The title is based on Reich's album title. 1998 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival Special Jury Award

I videotaped materials collected during fieldwork on the theme of stripes, printed them out on a video printer, and then animated them. This is why the images are grainy. I wasn't satisfied with the final result, so I kept it unreleased until now. In uploading it to YouTube, I selected and re-edited only the cuts that I deemed watchable. I cut out all the unnecessary parts, so the length of the work is quite short. The background music is Japanese festival music.

A "clock" was one of the imagery materials for the video. The rotating hour and minute hands, ticking away time. I wondered what it would be like to freeze the moving hands and rotate the dial... While creating this piece, I wondered how much time I had left. How many more pieces I could create. How would the scenery change if I stopped something moving? Perhaps this could be a guideline for my next piece. The work's subtitle, "漕続-SOUZOKU-" is a word coined by the artist, meaning "slowly but steadily moving forward".