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米正万也

1965年兵庫県生まれ。アニメーション作家。

嵯峨美術短期大学（現：嵯峨芸術大学）でデザインと映像を学び、卒業後、中学校美術科教諭として6年間勤務。そののち京都市立芸術大学、同大学院で日本画、造形構想を専攻、交換留学先のイギリス Royal College of Art で「言葉がわからなくても、わかりあえる」をテーマに、13カ国の言語にシンクロする抽象アニメーション「introspection」を制作。帰国後、言葉と音楽にシンクロする「believe in it」で、1998年に文化庁メディア芸術祭優秀賞受賞。2002〜2003年に文化庁在外研修員としてバルト三国のエストニアに滞在、８人のエストニア製本作家の協力を得て制作した「Üks Uks」が2005年オーストリア Tricky Women 国際女性アニメーション映画祭のトレイラーに採用。作品は、国際映画祭、デュッセルドルフ・クンストハレ現代美術館（ドイツ）、エストニア・デザイン博物館等で展示・上映。子供から大人まで対象の様々なワークショップを各地で行っている。手描きの動画をウィーンの風景の中で撮影した「 Wiener Wuast」の後、その手法を用いたワークショップを台湾、ノルウェー、クロアチア、イスラエル、ポーランドで開催、今後も続けて行く予定。京都精華大学芸術学部非常勤講師。

フィルモグラフィ: introspection (1998), believe in it (1998), learn to love (1999), countdown (2002), Üks Uks (2003), Wiener Wuast (2006)

Maya Yonesho

Born in Hyogo, Japan 1965, an animation director.

She has studied Visual Design and Animation at Kyoto Saga University of Arts. After working as an art teacher at a junior high school for 6 years, she returned to college to study Japanese painting and conceptual & media art at Kyoto City University of Arts and also worked for a children's TV program as a clay animator. She made her first “abstract animated short film synchronized with 13 international languages under the theme “ we can understand each other without understanding each language” when has studied at Royal College of Art, UK as an exchange student. After receiving her MA of fine art (1998), she began making independent films include “believe in it” which has won the Excellence prize of Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan in 1998. She has stayed in Eesti Joonisfilm Studio,Estonia from 2002 to 2003 under Japanese Government Study Program for Promising Artists and Art Fellowships and has made “Üks Uks” with 8 Estonian bookbinding artists. She made a trailer of Tricky Women International Female Animation Festival in 2005. Her films has been shown at numerous international festivals and museums include Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany and

Design museum in Estonia. She is also conducting various animation workshops.

“Wiener Wuast” was shot in Vienna with real view, with drawing in her hand. She has done workshop in the same way in Taiwan, Norway, Croatia, Israel and Poland, It will be continued as her life work. She has been a lecturer of Kyoto Seika University from 2000.

Filmography: introspection (1998), believe in it (1998), learn to love(1999), countdown(2002), Üks Uks (2003), Winer Wuast (2006)