Visual Effects
Mizuki Kiyama
Place of birth
Osaka, Japan
Known for
Visual Effects
Credits
3 titles
Born in 1992, Osaka. During a film festival, she was inspired by short animations made by directors who were in her generation. She then started making her own films.
Known for
8.5Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her mother with dazzling sensuous wonder. Evoking childish fascination at daily rituals, this quotidian act amidst feminine intimacy becomes a space of otherworldly fantasy.
Bath House of Whales
2019
NRThe borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.
On the way home
2018
NRA girl who recently moved to a new town visits the neighbourhood's summer festival with her grandmother. Excited by the lively crowds and unfamiliar food stalls, suddenly she's lost sight of her grandmother.
Kawachi Ondo
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Behind the camera
8.5Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her mother with dazzling sensuous wonder. Evoking childish fascination at daily rituals, this quotidian act amidst feminine intimacy becomes a space of otherworldly fantasy.
Bath House of Whales
2019
NRThe borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.
On the way home
2018
NRA girl who recently moved to a new town visits the neighbourhood's summer festival with her grandmother. Excited by the lively crowds and unfamiliar food stalls, suddenly she's lost sight of her grandmother.
Kawachi Ondo
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