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Chirico

This film is inspired by the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978), the Italian artist renowned for his metaphysical paintings. Tanaami has said that de Chirico’s paintings seemed to him like frozen instants within sequences of images, and he felt the urge to make them move through animation. The film starts with a scene from de Chirico’s Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914) in which a girl pushes a hoop. We then see de Chirico’s self-portrait merge with a faceless mannequin, and a surrealistic world based on de Chirico’s style unfolds. Through the creative synergy of Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara, static images from de Chirico’s paintings are woven into a vibrant animated narrative.