UPDATE (16/10): Due to reasons beyond our control, the first day of the workshop has been canceled. We will keep you updated on any further changes.

We invite you to an Animation Workshop with Koji Yamamura during the 32nd edition of the Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival. The theme of the workshop is "Representing Sound - Workshops Animation Circus and Polyrhythm Description". The workshop is a three-day event, and space is limited, so registration is required.

Two short workshops will be held over two days. One is "Polyrhythm" and the other is "My Title". Both workshops are based on the relationship between sound and animated images. 

In "Polyrhythm", you will create three characters and calibrate the screen to match three rhythmic sounds. The difference in rhythm will create an animation with a narrative quality.

"My Title" is a workshop where participants create an animated story using a short randomly selected song title and five sound effects.

Both animation techniques are free, and they ask how ideas and stories can be created under limited conditions. 

Additional information
Participants are requested to bring their own devices (laptop, iPad, etc.) and apps that they use for animation and film and audio editing.

ANIMATION WORKSHOPS WITH KOJI YAMAMURA

WHERE: Academy of Fine Arts - Animation Studio, ul. Karmelicka 16, 31-133 Kraków
WHEN:
- Part 1: 16 October 2025 (Thursday), 9 AM - 2 PM - CANCELED
- Part 2: 17 October 2025 (Friday), 9 AM - 2 PM
LED BY: Kōji Yamamura

FREE ADMISSION

The number of participants is limited

Registration for workshops: jadwiga.wasacz@etiudaandanima.pl

Kōji Yamamura

Born in 1964 in Japan. Japanese Director, Producer, Animator and Illustrator. He is visiting professor of Tokyo Zokei University, China Academy of Art and Aichi University of the Arts, a professor of Tokyo University of the Arts since 2008.

A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short Mt. Head (2002) had 6 Grand Prizes and selected 100 Films for a Century of Animation. He has won Grand Prize at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Ottawa and Hiroshima, for Mt. Head, Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor (2007), and his first feature film Dozens of Norths (2021), and has received more than 155 awards for his directorial work, including other awards such as the Grand Prix in Zagreb, Stuttgart or Krakow. "Extremely Short" (2024) is officially selected for Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes.