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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

2006, 18 min 23 sec

### 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.

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