Shinobu Soejima

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Shinobu Soejima is an artist and a stop motion animation director. Her short films and video of stop-motion animation actively incorporate organic matter, including themes of “the impermanency of things” and conflicting ideas such as life and death, or light and shadow. Through research on Asian folklore and ethnic culture, she experiments with a narrative film expression that incorporates images shared by people of all races and ages.

She won several awards at domestic and international film festivals, including the 68th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Special Mention by Ecumenical Jury, the 22nd Japan Media Art Festival -Jury’s prize, Fantasia International Film Festival, and officially screened at the Hiroshima Animation Festival 2018.