{"id":27468,"date":"2024-10-23T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=27468"},"modified":"2024-10-23T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:23:18","slug":"short-films-by-hideki-inaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/10\/23\/short-films-by-hideki-inaba\/","title":{"rendered":"Short films by Hideki Inaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HfrcAuF2QDo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/inaba1.jpg\" alt=\"inaba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Berg.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of <a href=\"http:\/\/scotto.org\/listing.php?id=1092\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotto Moore&#8217;s recent newsletters<\/a> pointed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AlTOhl-fBHI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Flow<\/em><\/a> , a short video by Japanese animator Hideki Inaba whose collection of similar works may be seen at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@hidekiinaba4022\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>. Inaba&#8217;s specialty is bewilderingly complex scenes of kaleidoscopic metamorphosis. His older films like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HfrcAuF2QDo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Berg<\/em><\/a> are populated by clusters of fungal forms or simple organisms that look like refugees from some of Haeckel&#8217;s zoological studies, writhing or dancing together in a manner and style that wouldn&#8217;t be out of place in an old Disney cartoon. His more recent works tend towards greater abstraction with a sharper edge, although the most recent one, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DXDUfwWseYM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Time Tides<\/em><\/a>, takes an unexpected change of direction at its very end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z9nPvTL25Eo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/inaba4.jpg\" alt=\"inaba4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Tape, a music video for Canigou.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AlTOhl-fBHI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/inaba2.jpg\" alt=\"inaba2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Flow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DXDUfwWseYM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/inaba3.jpg\" alt=\"inaba3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Time Tides.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/11\/14\/the-teamlab-experience\/\">The teamLab experience<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berg. One of Scotto Moore&#8217;s recent newsletters pointed to Flow , a short video by Japanese animator Hideki Inaba whose collection of similar works may be seen at YouTube. Inaba&#8217;s specialty is bewilderingly complex scenes of kaleidoscopic metamorphosis. His older films like Berg are populated by clusters of fungal forms or simple organisms that look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/10\/23\/short-films-by-hideki-inaba\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Short films by Hideki Inaba&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,7,17],"tags":[7814,13209],"class_list":["post-27468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-film","category-psychedelia","tag-hideki-inaba","tag-scotto-moore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-792","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}