Frog Seed

Direction & Animation : Dino Sato
Music : A.M.P. (Takaaki Amamoto / Makoto Miyata)
"Re.gion" / Meditation Drive 2 (c) 2003 Agravic Records
NTSC / Stereo / 5'00"00 NDF 2008

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Summary

A frog living in deep forest was brought up city by a stoke. The frog was run over, then the city was covered with jungle. 30 years ago, frogs often strolled the streets in center of Tokyo. In rainy day, I saw the dead frog spilled stuffing out mouth and gut. A beautiful fresh pink was spilled on the black asphalt. This animation is based on my memories.

Official selection

2008 Dec.  “Les Nuits Magiques 2008” (Bégles,France)
2009 May AniFest09 (Třeboň,Czech Republic)
2009 Mar. ANIMABASAURI5-ANIMABASQUE (Bilbao,Spain) - Karratu Section
2009 Oct. Sapporo International Short Film Festival 2009 - One Title Section National Program (Sapporo, Japan)

Screening (Film Festival)
2008 Aug. International Animation Festival HIROSHIMA 2008 - Japanese Animation Today
2008 Oct. Biennial of Animation Bratislava festival 2008 (Bratislava,Slovak)
2009 Mar. 6th International Animation Festival of Tehran (Tehran, Iran) - Music Films
2009 Jul. Fest Anča / World Animation 3 (Bratislava,Slovak)
2009 Aug. Ecrans de Harima 2009 （ひめじ国際短編映画祭 (Himeji/Japan)-Art Animation Program

Screening (Museum)
2008 Nov. Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (Helsinki,Finland)- Japanese animations
2009 Dec. Japanese Currents (Northwest Film Center-Portland Art Museum,U.S.A.) - Sapporo Shorts Fest / Anime Shorts

Broadcast
2008 Dec. "Digital Stadium" / NHK (Japan)