The Line Magic by Red & Blue

Direction & Animation Dino Sato
Original Illustration U.G. Sato
Music Makoto Miyata
NTSC/Stereo/3'30"00 NDF 2006

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Summary
In 1996, Illustrator U.G.Sato published the picture book “The line magic by red and blue”.
2 concurrent lines, a red and a blue one, start a journey on a plain white background and proceed to draw the shape of various plants and animals along the way.

Awards
2006 Oct. “Jury recommended work “ 2007 Japan Media Arts Festival (Tokyo,Japan)
2007 Mar. “diploma for wit and light perception “in a category Abstract Experimental films. BIMINI2007(Riga,Latvia)

Official selection

2006 Oct. “19th Bourg-en-Bresse 2006 ” (Bourg-en-Bresse,France)
2007 May Anifest 2007(Trebon,Czech)
2007 Jun 1st KRATKOFIL07(Banjaluka,Bosnia and Herzegovina )
2007 Sep. Animadrid07 (Madrid, Spain)

2007 Aug. 10th Zimbabwe International Film Festival

2007 Nov. 5th Toronto Japanese Short Film Festival (Tronto, Canada)
2008 Apr. 17th International Young Filmmakers Festival GRANADA(Granada, Spain)

Screening (Film Festival)

2007 Mar. Tokyo International Anime Fair 2007
2007 May Vol.1 The Film Festival of International Animation in Kanagawa
2007 Apr. Nippon Connection 2007 (Frankfurt am Main,Germany)
2007 Apr. Barcelona Asian Film Festival (Barcelona ,Spain)
2007 May SICAF2007 (Seoul,Korea) - Best Japanese Short Animation：Japan Media Arts Festival2007

2007 Jul. JAPAN CUTS;Festival of New Japanese Film (New York ,U.S.A.)
2007 Sep. ARS ELECTRONICA (Japanese Animation Program)
2007 Sep. ElectroFringe (Japan Media Arts Festival Visual Works ) (New Castle / Australia)
2007 Oct. MADTOK (Madrid, Spain)
2007 Oct. 3rd Colchester’s International Short Film Festival (Colchester / U.K.)
2007 Nov. CINANIMA (Espinho,Portugal)
2009 Feb. Tout petits cinéma (Forum des images) (Paris,France)
2009 Jun. Children make their cinema (Romainville,France)

Screening (Museum)

2007 Apr. Japanese Film Days / Cinemathique Leipzig e.V. (Leipzig ,Germany)
2007 Jul. Filmhaus Nurnberg (Nurnberg ,Germany)
2008 Jan. SALA PARPALLE (Valencia ,Spain)
2008 The Andalusian Center Of Contemporary Arts (Seville,SPAIN) - Nocturama Proggram
2009 Mar.- Jun. Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo(MEIAC) (Badajoz,Spain)
2009 Nov. Les Après-midi des enfants ( Forum des images) (Paris,France)

Screening
2009 Feb. Canton Palace Theatre (Canton, Ohio, U.S.A.) - Japanese Film Festival
2009 Feb. Stark County District Library (Ohio, U.S.A.) - Sandy Valley Independent Short Film Series

Broadcasting
2008 Aug. "Cartoon Midnight" / CARTOON NETWORK(Cable TV) (Japan)
2008 TELEVISION ESPAÑOLA, S.A. (Spain)
2009-2011 "Trickbox" / Schweizer Fernsehen (Switzerland)