DVD also includes a third film, the abstract animation IT’S ON EVERYTHING, the title track from Kosemura’s earlier album, made originally as a fan video to share with Twitter friends. Kosemura was so impressed, he immediately invited Cavalli to create ’scenes of songs’ for the new album. The result is two visually stunning, very different but very experimental films, both shot on location in Japan.

XIAO GE ER may be the first music video shot entirely on a (non-video) iPhone 3G, using the QuadCamera app, on a train journey taken by Cavalli and Kosemura from Tokyo to the coast at Kamakura. Hundreds of short, eight frame clips were edited in Final Cut Pro and post processed in AfterEffects to create an impressionistic, semi-abstract journey through urban Japan.
XIAO GE ER on YouTube.

LIGHT features an ethereal, sprite-like performance from Ayaka Suga, who danced among the unsuspecting crowds through the busy streets of night-time Shibuya and Ginza districts of Tokyo. Cavalli took on lensing duties, as well as directing and producing, while editing and sfx was done by regular Cavalli collaborators, Simon Bryant and Rob Rae.
LIGHT on YouTube.

LIGHT from Mario Cavalli on Vimeo.

Music: LIGHT by Akira Kosemura

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Producer / Director: Mario Cavalli

Dancer: Ayaka Suga
Trampoline Artist: Moeko Takamori
Trampoline Artist: Chika Uchiyama

Camera: Mario Cavalli
Camera Assistant: Yuto Tamura
Assistand Director / Interpreter: Julien Saint Gerome
Editor: Simon Bryant
VFX Editor: Rob Rae

Shot on a JVC Everio GZ HD7
Edited in FinalCut Pro
Post Production Adobe AfterEffects

Music: Akira Kosemura, Schole Inc. 2009

A Colony Production

XIAO GE ER from Mario Cavalli on Vimeo.

Music: Akira Kosemura
Video: Mario Cavalli

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Impressions of a train journey taken from Tokyo to Kamakura via Enoshima and on to Machida City.

Shot entirely on a (non video) iPhone 3G, using the QuadCamera app, edited in FCP and AE. The techniques used are developed from those devised for the unfinished film, TGV, shot in rural France. A work-in-progress test loop, below.

TGV test loop from Mario Cavalli on Vimeo.

Shot from the TGV from Avignon to Paris in April 2009
using an iPhone 3G, then fiddled about with in Final Cut Pro and Adobe AfterEffects.

Music loop is borrowed from Pompidou by the Portico Quartet

Join us on Friday 4th December for an evening of screenings and performances celebrating experimental animation of all sorts, curated by Ranko Andjelic.

Screenings will run throughout the Design Museum as well as the outside of the building and will feature recent and brand new work of some of the top UK based animators and artists.

Filipe Alcada
Dave Anderson
Ranko Andjelic
Nick Brooks
Sebastian Bruekner
Mario Cavalli
Sarah Cox
Max Hattler
Jasmin Jodry
Man vs Magnet
We Like Nice Things
Susi Wilkinson

Sculpture will delight us with their very special audiovisual performance,

JBT will fill the air with his powerful music to which Noriko Okaku will be playing her live visual set,

Melissa and Dom from We Like Nice Things will be providing a musical backdrop with their DJ set,

Laura Weston will run a direct animation workshop on 16mm film.

The Museum’s winter warmer wonderland returns with glittering glamour at the start of the festive period.

Be ahead of the game and make your handmade Christmas cards, buy your presents from the Design Museum Shop and wrap them with a twist….

…..and there’s even talk of a very special confession booth inhabited by a rude Santa.

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First up, on the 10th October, at the Edgar Allan Poe - 200th Anniversary, at the Cultural Centre A Moagem – Fundão, Portugal.

Then, at Alcine, 39th Alcalá de Henares Film Festival in Madrid, Spain 6th - 14th November.

Shortly afterwards, it will be shown at IVAC :: Instituto Valenciano de Cinematografía in Valencia, from 18th - 27th November.

Akira’s music already appears on Mario’s LOOP ON EVERYTHING reworking of LONG BUILD LOOP. This is the first time the two will collaborating from the start.

Each will be presenting examples of their own work in the relevant fields, as well as a joint multi-platform project created by Mario Cavalli which is currently in development.