副島忍 Shinobu Soejima

Shinobu Soejima produces video works, stopmotion animation films, photographs and sculptures. She defines animation as “the power to bring back from death to life”, and try to create a vision of a possible spiritual dimension.

In various rituals, puppets have the function of crossing the border between death and life, between the mundane and the otherworldly. By combining this characteristic of animation with the inherent spiritual properties of puppets, she plays with life and non-life.

Shinobu Soejima won several awards at domestic and international fi lm festivals, including the 68th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Special Mention by Ecumenical Jury, the 22nd Japan Media Art Festival -Juryʼs prize, Fantasia International Film Festival, and Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi-Kimura Erikoʼs prize in 2018. She is currently a PhD candidate of Tokyo University of the Arts Film and New Media, and working as a tutor of Media Art Course at Tama Art University.

www.shinobusoejima.com/