"Clear Skies in May"
Director Tetsuo Suzuka, Feb, 2009

This is a movie showing 2d animation. At first you find yourself looking at a magazine. As the pages unfold, you are entered into a world of moving 2d animation. Once inside the pages, you are shown hand drawn birds that take flight and the Japanese countryside in May. This gives you the sense that you have entered the magazine and are now in Kyoto Japan.

This was a video that Tetsuo Suzuka wanted to use to pay tribute to calligraphy, haiku, kabuki dress, and traditional ink painting. The influences for this project came from their 10 years in Kyoto. I couldn't find anything else about this director on the web. However, I did find the YouTube video posted and this pointed me to the "idN Magazine" which is an international magazine for creative people all over the world.

What caught my attention in this short was the Japanese ink painting of the woman initially. I really liked the whole introduction where the movie opened from a magazine and even played on the pages. Almost as if the magazine was brought to life.