Maya Yonesho

Directing

Maya Yonesho

Hyogo, Japan

Born in 1965 in Hyogo, Japan. Maya Yonesho was born in 1965 Hyogo, Japan. After working as an art teacher at a junior high school for several years, she returned to college to study Japanese painting and conceptual & media art at Kyoto City University of Arts and also worked for a children's TV program as a clay animator. After receiving her MA of fine art (1998), she began making independent films and conducting various animation workshops. She has been a lecturer at several Art Universities since 2000.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Winter Days poster
6.0

An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names in animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).

Winter Days

2003

Wiener Wuast poster
7.0

A series of hand-drawn short animations are photographed in the hand of the artist as she travels to various locations in Vienna.

Wiener Wuast

2006

Üks Uks poster
NR

Doors in our life. Each has a melody, like a music box. They have stories, like a book. They will be opened one by one.

Üks Uks

2003

Üks Uks poster
NR

Doors in our life. Each has a melody, like a music box. They have stories, like a book. They will be opened one by one.

Üks Uks

2003

Linz Delight poster
NR

Welcome to Linz!

Linz Delight

2019

Don't You Wish You Were Here? poster
NR

The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able to show emotions as a person in animation. The main circle (character) is slightly pinker than the other grey circles (people) and she thought she was very special. But she is very grey in a colourful world. She will find out that grey is not just a boring colour.

Don't You Wish You Were Here?

1997

Believe in It poster
NR

Our dreams will come true if we believe in them. This original film is basically about how easily we can fly, as told by a young girl in an Osaka dialect.

Believe in It

1998