2008 · animation · space · anime
Genius Party Beyond
Directed by Koji Morimoto, Kazuto Nakazawa, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Mahiro Maeda, Shinya Ohira1h 21m2008
Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for the second time to an exclusive reunion of a talents with a group film, full of freedom and ingenuity, that goes from Mahiro Maeda's classic anime, to Kazuto Nakazawa's intricate urban sketches, Shinya Ohira's bedlam of color and Tatsuyuki Tanaka's animated cyberpunk. And as if that wasn't enough, Koji Morimoto, the studio big boss, is charge of putting the icing on the cake with fantafabulous piece of abstract poetry that would make a VJ die of ecstasy. The party of the year.
Our read: Genius Party Beyond (2008) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal animation · space · anime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured animation / space, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- surreal
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“You want wildly experimental Studio 4°C anime shorts full of visual invention and surreal turns.”
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