Studio KOMOREBI (Moving Images)

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. [Nam June Paik]

Studio KOMOREBI is creating films and moving images exchanging human actors with self-made small-scale puppets from clay researching motion, movement, the human sense of vision, and visual memory. Technically this work is a form of puppet animation or stop motion animation, but there exist stark stylistic differences to conventional puppet animation (for example there is typically no linear storyline, comical or cute character design, or smooth image transition), and the inspiration for this work stems from avant-garde film and real life.
Projection and presentation format of the work to the audience are an essential part of the work, most of the films are not meant to be viewed on laptop of cell phone, please see detailed specification with each work.

“I create these films to explore and express reality as I experience it, dealing with topics I consider meaningful, not to fit into a specific category of medium. Ultimately I am creating the kind of films that I myself would find interesting to watch. For these reasons I refer to this work as ‘films’ or ‘moving images’ “.

https://vimeo.com/studiokomorebi

Ophelia (2021)

“Ophelia” is an interdisciplinary work inspired by the painting “Ophelia” by Sir John Everett Millais

DEESCEENseventhreefourseven (2021)

DEESCEENseventhreefourseven; to view click HERE (*password protected) Josiane Keller “DEESCEENseventhreefourseven”

Electric Bird /Edie screen test 2 – excerpt_001 – GIF (2019/21)

Electric Bird / Edie screen test 2 – excerpt_001 – GIF (2019/21)

Arupsu no Shojo 2 – multimedia installation (2021)

Arupsu no Shojo 2 (“girl from the alps”) is a multimedia installation (video, sound, sculpture) researching the fe

Electric Bird (2019) – linear film format

linear film format; experimental animation after to H.C. Andersen’s “The Nightingale” follows a young woman

Edie looking around – test clip 1 (2019)

Edie looking around – test clip 1 to view click HERE (*password protected) Studio KOMOREBI “Edie looking around

Edie pc1 (2019)

Edie pc; sound: Iztanbul Modern “pointless” to watch click HERE (*password protected) Studio KOMOREBI “Edie

pointless 1 / for cell phone or small screen (2019)

Edie W.’s digital poem “pointless” cut-up technique for cell phone or small screen; sound: Iztanbul Modern;

Electric Bird / Edie by the pool 23 – dark glitch7 (2019)

Electric Bird (Edie by the pool 23 – dark glitch7), cut-up technique digital poem for loop installation; to view click H

Edie photos and soundfiles (2019)

Edie photos and soundfiles (various), testing images, glitches and their sound files; Edie 1 (2019) listen to it: HERE Edie 1g

Edie screen test 2 /excerpt_001 (2019)

“Edie screen test 2” to view click HERE (*password protected) Josiane Keller “Edie screen test 2” GIF

Edie dancing clip 1 (2019)

“Edie dancing – clip 1” (2019); to view click HERE (*password protected) Studio KOMOREBI “Edie dancing

Edie with TV snow B (2019)

Edie with TV snow B ; to view click: HERE (password protected) Studio KOMOREBI “Edie with TV snow B” GIF (2019) &#

Edie in the flat 3 – with TV snow (2019)

“Edie in the flat 3 – with TV snow”; to view click HERE (*password protected) Josiane Keller “Edie in

DEESCEENzerozerofivenine (2021)

DEESCEENzerozerofivenine; to view click HERE (*password protected) Josiane Keller “DEESCEENzerozerofivenine” GIF (

panther running at night 3 – glitched (2019)

panther running at night 3 – glitched; to view click HERE Josiane Keller “panther running at night 3 – glitc

“Night Ancestor: Hallways of the Always” – “In Bardo” music video (2019)

Music: Tyler J. Ladd “Night Ancestor: Hallways of the Always” / “In Bardo”; Album Release Show • July 25th 2

A Full 360° Rotation (2019)

a contemporary dance video entirely made with stop motion puppets; inspired by the butoh dancer Constance Humphries represente

homage to Giovanni Segantini – The Evil Mothers (2018)

“homage to Giovanni Segantini – The Evil Mothers”, collaboration/live projection with Thomas Renoldner’

ホテル Hotel – Surrogates – Slide Show (2017)

slide-show live event, premiered in Los Angeles AUTOMATA , Mar 2017, other live events : Chicago, USA @ Physical Festival C

valle garita – dance projection I / large scale wall projection (2018)

“valle garita – dance projection I” (created for DJ John Brinker); to view click HERE (password protected) S

MOON2 #7017, projection (2018)

Projection “MOON2”, #7017; to view click: HERE (*password protected) wall projection with sound by John Tyler duri

All Go West #7 Music Festival West Asheville – trailer (2018)

All Go West #7 Music Festival West Asheville – trailer; *soundtrack: RBTS WIN; to view click HERE Studio KOMOREBI “

ホテル Hotel – riding a donkey (2018)

ホテル Hotel – riding a donkey (Alexander); to view click HERE Studio KOMOREBI ホテル Hotel – riding a donke

Edie’s Road Trip (2018)

to view click HERE (*password protected) Studio KOMOREBI “Edie’s road trip” projection at Sly Grog Lounge wi

Grasshopper Road Tour (2017)

wall projection for live dance show; to view click: HERE (*password protected) Studio KOMOREBI “Grasshopper Road Tour

Edie screen test 2 – GIF (2018)

Edie W., early screen test (GIF) Josiane Keller “Edie screen test 2” GIF (2018)

dancer – test clip I (2018)

test clip for projection with live butoh dance; music: Japanese children’s song 童謡, title 1: 明るい鐘の音 (

ホテル-Hotel – Vincent on the junkyard (2017)

Vincent on the junkyard; to view click HERE *music: “Funky Suspense” – https://www.bensound.com/ Josiane Kel

five shorts (2017)

five shorts: the fetus: ultrasound and in the womb /Alexander’s first steps /Molly is taking a shower /little boy sulkin

blonde woman screen test – Chiaki (2017)

screen test of a blonde woman (Chiaki Sato); to view click: HERE Studio KOMOREBI “blonde woman – screen test /Chia

little boy sulking (2017)

a little boy is standing in a room by a wall, being scolded and sulking; to view click: HERE Studio KOMOREBI “little boy

ホテル Hotel – Molly taking a shower (2016/17)

Molly taking a shower; to view click: HERE Studio KOMOREBI “Molly taking a shower” GIF (2016/17) Josiane Keller &

The Fetus: ultrasound and in the womb (2014)

“The Fetus: ultrasound and in the womb”, sequence from “I anyways live until I die” part II and III (2

ホテル-Hotel – Goebbels the dog barking at the Bagdad Cafe (2017)

ホテル-Hotel – Goebbels the dog barking at the Bagdad Cafe; to watch click HERE Studio KOMOREBI ホテル-Hotel ̵

Starfish walking on the beach – screen test (2017)

to view click HERE  Josiane Keller “Starfish walking on the beach – screen test” GIF (2017) Josiane Keller

panther running at night – screen test (2017)

Screen test ‘panther running at night’; to view click HERE Josiane Keller “panther running at night –

ホテル Hotel – Around the 50th Day /Starfish in the Museum – test clip (2017)

ホテル Hotel – Around the 50th Day /Starfish in the Museum – test clip; *song: “Por una Cabeza” by

ホテル Hotel – Alexander’s first steps (2017)

ホテル Hotel – Alexander’s first steps; to watch click HERE Josiane Keller ホテル Hotel – Alexander

「 ホテル Hotel – Surrogates」- double exhibition in Tokyo/Budapest (2016/17)

mini-documentary of Tokyo/Budapest exhibition, Dec/Jan ’16/’17; to watch click HERE Josiane Keller 「 ホテル H