Muybridge's Strings (Japanese: マイブリッジの糸; Maiburijji no ito) is a Canadian-Japanese animated short film, directed by Kōji Yamamura and released in 2011.[1] A meditation on the passage of time, the film contrasts the story of Eadweard Muybridge, the British photographer who was a key innovator in the concept of photographically recording motion, with the story of a contemporary mother in Tokyo who realizes that her daughter is growing up and slipping away from her.[2]
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Japanese | マイブリッジの糸 |
Directed by | Kōji Yamamura |
Written by | Kōji Yamamura |
Produced by | Keisuke Tsuchihashi Michael Fukushima Shuzo John Shiota |
Edited by | Kōji Yamamura |
Music by | Normand Roger Pierre Yves Drapeau Denis Chartrand |
Animation by | Kōji Yamamura |
Production companies | National Film Board of Canada NHK |
Distributed by | Polygon Pictures |
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Running time | 13 minutes |
Countries | Canada Japan |
The film won the Excellence Prize at the 2011 Japan Media Arts Festival,[3] and a special prize at the 2012 Hiroshima International Animation Festival.[4] It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012.[5]
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