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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, 3d cgi, puppetry, live action and animation, digital compositing, isolation, awkwardness, dance, mixed-media animation, filmmaker, music video director

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**From Nose to Mouth** a film by Joji Koyama

[Joji Koyama](https://www.jojikoyama.com)

2006, 18 min 23 sec

[watch this film ›](https://animateprojectsarchive.org/films/by_date/2005_06/from_nose)

![From Nose to Mouth, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/fromnosetomouth01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

### animate! synopsis

A solitary figure emerges out of seclusion to learn an ice-skating dance sequence. Set in a disorientating arena of shifting boundaries, structures and languages, the lessons are not going well…

Mixed media including 3D CGI, live action, compositing and puppetry.

### one sentence synopsis

A solitary figure emerges out of seclusion to learn an ice-skating dance sequence.

### short synopsis

A solitary figure emerges out of seclusion to learn an ice-skating dance sequence. Set in a disorientating arena of shifting boundaries, structures and languages, the lessons are not going well…

### long synopsis

A solitary figure emerges out of seclusion to learn an ice-skating dance sequence. Set in a disorientating arena of shifting boundaries, structures and languages, the lessons are not going well… **From Nose to Mouth** portrays the unsuccessful efforts of a character trying to make sense of the demands and tasks of a strangely disjointed and fragmented world. Lost in the gaps and ‘in-betweens’, the film is a kind of homage to awkwardness and inexactitude.

### key credits

**director**
Joji Koyama

### Joji Koyama

#### short biography

Joji was born in Tokyo, Japan and studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London. In 2000 he was nominated for a Becks Futures Student Video Prize. He has since directed an award-winning short film [Watermelon Love](http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/M/mesh/year_four/320_watermelon.html) (Nexus for C4, 2004), widely screened at international festivals. Joji is also known by the alias Woof Wan-Bau when directing music videos, including FourTet [My Angel Rocks Back & Forth](http://www.oncotton.co.uk/woof/work.php), winner of Public Choice Best Music Video at the 2004 British Animation Awards.

June 2005

#### artist’s website

[Joji Koyama](http://www.jojikoyama.com/)

### a film by Joji Koyama

### direction

**director**
Joji Koyama

© Joji Koyama 2006

[![From Nose to Mouth, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/fromnosetomouth01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/fromnosetomouth01.jpg)

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[![From Nose to Mouth, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/fromnosetomouth02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/fromnosetomouth02.jpg)

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[![From Nose to Mouth, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/fromnosetomouth03.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/fromnosetomouth03.jpg)

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### technical

#### process summary

Mixed media including 3D CGI, live action, compositing and puppetry.

### master copy format

**format**
DigiBeta

**colour or black & white**
colour

### distributor

LUX
[info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk)
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/)

**From Nose to Mouth** film, stills and other materials © Joji Koyama 2006