Yamamura Animation, Inc.

Selected list:

2025

Picture book lecture
Chigasaki Sumire Kindergarten, 2025.06.11 »Site

EU-JP residency in the margin of Osaka EXPO 2025
Advisor & Lecture "Animation with Traditional Culture", Kyoto, 2025.04.27-28 »Site

French artist Granville and picture books, lecture by Koji Yamamura
2025.04.27 (Sun) 14:00-16:30, International Library of Children's Literature, Arch Building 1st floor, Training Room 1
Capacity: Approximately 100 people (pre-registration required, first come first served) »Site
Co-hosted by the National Diet Library, International Library of Children's Literature, and the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media

Lecture: "Granville, the 19th Century French Artist of Fantasy"
Discussion: "Yamamura Koji's Creations and Granville" and Q&A
Interviewer: Ryoko Yamauchi (PhD candidate, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo)

12th Showreel: Effat International Student Film Festival
Saudi Arabia, 2025.04.13-16
Master Class: "Japanese Animation Not Only Anime" »Site

Lecture "Animation and Picture Book Creation"
2025.03.08, Chiba, Shironosato 2nd Nursery School

After Talk after screening of “Hyperboreans"
2025.03.31, Image Forum, Shibuya
»Note: [Transcription report] Talk event featuring Koji Yamamura, author of "Hyperboreans" (Zazie Films 2025.03.11)

Aichi University of the Arts
"Animation in Academia"
2025.01.11 13:00-15:00, Aichi University of the Arts, Art Museum, 1st basement floor seminar room
Lecturers: Koji Yamamura (Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School), Akiko Sano (Associate Professor, Doshisha University), Akira Arimochi (Professor, Aichi University of the Arts) »Site

2024

Talking Heads on Animation hosted by tampen.jp
Part 9: “Looking Back at Animation in 2024”
by Koji Yamamura, Nobuaki Doi, and Daihiro Tanaka
Koji Yamamura × Nobuaki Doi × Daihiro Tanaka
2024.12.15(Sun) 15:00-17:00
Venue: INS Studio »Site

Tokyo University of the Arts Open Lecture
Introduction to Contemporary Animation ~A Diagram of Modern Short Animations~ 2024
39th Lecture Taiwan Dreamy and Fantastic
2024.12.08 (Sun), Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media, Bashamichi Campus, Large Audiovisual Room
Film screening: "Gold Fish", "Ghost of the Dark Path", "Piggy 1/2"
Lecturers: Fish Wang, Yamamura Koji »Site

A collection of shorts by director Yamamura Koji, "Extremely Short"
2nd Cannes Directors' Fortnight in Tokio 2024 »Site
Human Trust Shibuya, 2024.12.14
Talk event: Yamamura Koji x Jullian Reji (Directors' Fortnight Artistic Director)

11th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2024
Feature Film Competition "GLASS HOUSE" (directed by Boris Labé)
Talk: Rethinking the grammar of animation from the perspective of "method"
Yamamura Koji (interviewer: Tanaka Hirotaka)
2024.11.04, Theater 2 » Site

24th Beijing Film Academy Animation Academy Awards
Final Jury and Special Lecture "Giving shape to invisible light" The Animation World of Koji Yamamura
China, 2024.11.01 »Site

Special talk to celebrate the publication of "My Inner Ear Quartet" by Ogawa Yoko and Yamamura Koji
When a "story" is born
Maruzen Junkudo Bookstore, 2024.10.17
Speakers: Ogawa Yokox Yamamura Koji »Site

1st Visiting Professor Special Lecture
"From the Scenes of Animation Production"
2024.10.17, Aichi University of the Arts, Japan

2nd Sofu Online Lecture
Yamamura Koji x Ishimaru Kenji
2024.10.16, Japan

Yanai Initiative Commemorative Screening & Talk Event－”Extremely Short”
July 25th Shōgekijō Dorama-kan Theater
Talk: Koji Yamamura. Hideo Furukawa and Sunao Isaji »Site

RAM Association+ Tokyo University of the Arts OPEN LECTURE #20
Animation in the 1930s: Expression, Technique and Madness at the Dawn of Animation
Yamamura Koji, Matsuura Noboru
2024.06.16, RAM + Tokyo University of the Arts, at Kohon-ya honkbooks

Cannes Film Festival Yamamura Koji x Kuno Haruko talk event
Moderator: Yatabe Yoshihiko
Japan Pavilion, France, 2024.05.19

VR animation design ~Through the grand prize winning work “My inner Ear Quartet”~
Ogawa Yoko (novelist) *Online appearance x Yamamura Koji (animation artist/picture book author) x Ishimaru Kenji (Kodansha VR Lab Co., Ltd. president and Producer), Moderator: Matsukuma Hiroyuki(Associate Professor, Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University)
2024.03.15 , Fukuoka City Art Museum 2nd floor gallery »Site

Animation Artist Yamamura Koji: 46 Years of Trajectories
Interviewer: Fujitsu Ryota (Animation Critic)
2024.02.29, Asahi Culture Center Shinjuku »Site

2023

Archipel Caravan: Yamamura Koji Master class
2023.12.17 »Institut français du Japon
»Site / »Buy a ticket

Fujieda City Lecture What lies between paper: Picture books and animation creation
2023.12.03
Bivi Fujieda 3rd floor Fujieda City Station South Library Meeting Room
After the lecture Book sales and autograph session (at Esaki Shoten on the 2nd floor of the same building) »Flyer PDF

Lecture "Animation Nation": 2nd West Lake International Animation Festival
2023.10.27-30, China Art Academy

Children's Movie Plus Let's make an animation
Workshop lecturer: Yamamura Koji
2023.10.22, Theater Image Forum 3F

Lecture Animation Nature:
2nd West Lake International Animation Festival (IAF)
2023.10.27-30 »Site

Pre-event of the 2nd Hiroshima International Peace Culture Festival
Screening of Hiroshima Animation Season 2022 Award Winning Films &
Regina Pessoa Special Screening with Mini-Lecture
Talk Guests: Miyazaki Shizuka, Yamamura Koji, Regina Pessoa
2023.09.24, Yokogawa Cinema

Introduction to Contemporary Animation
Lecture 38: Animation of Engraving Techniques - From Stone to Pixels
Lecturer: Regina Pessoa, Yamamura Koji
2023.09.17

International Animation Film Festival Nikozi Koji Yamamura Master Class, 2023.09.01-07, Georgia, »Site

2023 Summer Remodeling Study "Playing with Words", 2023.08.27, Tokyo Big Site "»Site

NFAJ program No.46 Koji Yamamura Retrospective Lecture "My 80s", National Film Archive of Japan, 2023.08.12 / 08.19 / 08.25 »Site

Lecture "Masters of Cinema", Mc: Sumii Makoto, 2023.06.03, Waseda University

Lecture: Tokyo University of the Arts+RAM "Dreams and Animation" -Subject of Consciousness, 2023.05.21, »honkbooks

Kodomo Eiga Plus Let's make animation!
2023.05.28, Theater Image Forum, Lecturer: Yamamura Koji

Dozens of Norths" and 3 Shorts, »Shimotakaido Cinema, Talk: Yamamura Koji x Yano Honami, 2023.05.13

Kōji Yamamura: Giving Shape to Invisible Light, Anifilm International Festival Animated Film, Varšava Cinema, Czech Republic, Liberec, 2023.05.05 »Site

"Dozens of Norths" and 3 Shorts, Kyoto, »Demachiza, Yamamura Koji, 2023.04.15

Hanasaku Korean Animation 2023+Asia, 2023.04.23 14:35~ Talk »Site

"Dozens of Norths" and 3 Shorts, »Yokohama Cinemarine, Talk: Yamamura Koji , 2023.04.23

"Dozens of Norths" and 3 Shorts, »Dai 7 Geijutsu Gekijo, Talk: Yamamura Koji, 2023.04.15

"Dozens of Norths" and 3 Shorts, Tabata, »CINEMA Chupki TABATA, Talk: Yamamura Koji Koji + Yano Honami, 2023.03.25

Experimental Animation Visiting Artist Series (EAVA) at CalArts, US, 2023.04.13

The Road to “Dozens of Norths”, Giving Shape to Invisible Light, »22nd MONSTRA - Lisbon Animation Festival, Portugal, 2023.03.16

1st »Niigata Internațional Animation Fim Festival
Case Study: International Co-Production on the Animated Feature Films "Dozens of Norths" and "Inu-Oh”
2023.03.18, Kaishi Professional University 11F
Emmanuel-Alain Raynal (MIYU), Fumie Takeuchi (Asmik-Ace), Taro Maki (GENCO), Video Appearance=Koji Yamamura, Moderator: Kenzo Horikoshi

"Dozens of Norths" and 3 Shorts

at »Shin-Bungei-Za in Ikebukuro, Tokyo
1/27 Fri YukinYoko x Yano Honami x Yamamura Koji
1/28 Sta Peter Barakan x Yamamura Koji
1/29 Sun Cyujo Shohei x Yamamura Koji
»Site

“Giving Shape to Invisible Light”
For Experimental Animation and 3D Computer Animation students at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada, 22023.01.20

2022

Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media Open Lecture
Introduction to Contemporary Animation
37th Lecture: The Pärn School? Artists Studying in Estonia
Lecturer: Arimochi Akira, Yamamura Koji
2022.11.12, Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media Bashamichi campus
Films: "Plug & Play" by Michael Frei, Switzerland, “Polka Dot Boy" directed by Nihei Sarina, Japan, “Deforming after Transforming" by Fukumi Nakazawa, Japan, “Regular" directed by Nata Metlukh, USA/Ukraine, “Cucumber" directed by Leonid Shmelkov, Russia »Site

Lecture and reference screening 'Animal allegories in Starevich and Chauveau's 'Fox Tales'
2022.10.29, ToyFilm Museum, Kyoto, capacity 25 people, »Site

Director in FocusKoji YAMAMURA: 8th Taichung International Animation Festival
Taiwan, 2022.09.25 »Site

“Dozens of Norths” talk at the Japan Media Arts Festival 25th Exhibition
2022.09.17, Ikebukuro HUMAX Cinemas »Site

Lecture at Qingjiang University of Culture and Industry, 2022.09.06

Water in Animation: Fluidity and Discontinuity Screening and Lecture by Koji Yamamura
Symposium "Toward a Film Festival that Everyone Can Participate in: Considering Harassment Prevention", Luce Grosjean, Miyazaki Shizuka, Yamamura Koji, MC: Yano Honami
The Unnamable Dance, Guest : Min Tanaka, Isshin Inudo, Koji Yamamura
Special Talk: Min Tanaka and Koji Yamamura, Animation and Hiroshima: Tomotaka Kubo, MC: Koji Yamamura
TV Animation: The Heike Story" Guest: Naoko Yamada, Reiko Yoshida, Tomotaka Kubo, MC: Koji Yamamura
Animation and Hiroshima: Tomotaka Kubo, MC: Koji Yamamura
1st Hiroshima Animation Seson 2022
2022.08.17-21 »Site

Animation Salon 2
Cast: Fujii Naoko, Shizuka Miyazaki, Koji Yamamura, Nobuaki Doi
2022.07.30, Hiroshima T-SITE SQUARE GALLERY + Online

2021

Online Lecture: Koji Yamamura: In The Studio Where Japan's Leading Animation is Born, 2021.10.15
Online Lecture: "Co-production with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB/ONF)" at the 2021 National Conference of the Society of Quebec Studies, Japan, 2021.10.09

Uniting the Subconscious with Reality.
Let's Talk About Animation Nature with Koji Yamamura
RCA 2021 Grad Show, 2021.07.01

Expanded Animation Special website: Online Events: MIFA Partners Conference Panel: The Changing Face of Animation Festivals, Agency for Cultural Affairs, 2021.06.14

12th AFCC 2021 FESTIVAL Title: Between Illustration and Animation: Straddling Both Art Forms, Singapore, 2021.05.29

Animation Lab - Encuentros 2021
Online lecture, Colombia, 2021.04.14

One Book Talks: Talking with Creators, Classic and Contemporary of This Country, Vol. 7, Koji Yamamura x Robert Campbell, 2021.02.06, YouTube Live

2020

Embassy of Japan in Italy FY2020 Overseas Establishment Cultural Program Webinar "Japan and Animation Art", Lecturer: Ms. Roberta Novieri (Associate Professor, University of Venice Cafoscari), Koji Yamamura, 2020.10.30

Hosted by FENAKI+Beijing Fashion Institute+Hou Nani Film Academy
Online animation public lecture Fenaki Meets Koji Yamamura, 4 sessions x 2 frames = 8 frames, 2020.09.12, 09.19, 09.26, 10.04

9th Experts' Meeting" The Way of Creation, Royal Abbey of Fontevraud, France, 2020.10.02, online lecture

2019

Master Class, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France, 2019.11.21

Lecture, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Japan, 2019.11.05

The 9th Guandu International Animation Film Festival, " Site, Taipei, Taiwan, Workshop: 2019.10.29, Lecture: 2019.11.01

TRANSFORMING THE INTANGIBLE INTO THE REAL - PRESENTATION BY: KOJI YAMAMURA "10th Anivar International Animation Film Festival, Beya, Kosovo, 2019.07.21

"Transforming the Intangible into the Real", Lighthouse International Charity Film Festival Lighthouse International Charity Film Festival " site, Beijing, China, 2019.03.30-04.05

2018

Master Class, Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts, Russia
IN FOCUS: KOJI YAMAMURA: CREATING AND TEACHING " 16th Pacific Rim International Film Festival "Pacific Meridian", Vladivostok, Russia, 2018.09.21-27

Koji Yamamura Lecture on Koji Yamamura - My True Self in Selected Works " website, Taipei, Fuchu 15 New Taipei City Video History Museum, 2018.08.19

Digital Journey of Japanese Books: Koji Yamamura meets Keisai, Tachikawa, National Institute of Japanese Literature, 2018.06.16

Masterclass Koji Yamamura and French Musicians - Music and animation, 17th Lisbon International Animation Film Festival Monstra, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018.03.14
Teach-in, Escola Superior de teatro e Cinema, Largo da Academia das Belas Artes, ETIC, Portugal, 2018.03.13
Koji Yamamura Picture Book Original Drawing Exhibition: Where the Soul is Born, Koji Yamamura Talk Event, Site, Okaya, Nagano, Ilf Children's Picture Gallery, 2018.02.24

2017

Lecture at the High School of Arts of the Rhine (HEAR), Alsace, France, 2017.11.29

Koji Yamamura 5-day lecture and workshop at the Centre Européen d'Etudes Japonaises d'Alsace - CEEJA, Alsace, France, 2017.11.27-12.01

16th Cyprus Countryside Animation Fest, Talk: Koji Yamamura x Chris Robinson " Republic of Cyprus, Nicosia, 2017.06.28

2016

5th China Independent Animation Film Forum (第五届中国独立动画电影论坛) Talk " Site, Beijing, China, 798 art center, 2016.10.13-16

Opening Symposium of the Exhibition "From Painting to Animation" (从绘画到动画) " Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum (苏州金鸡湖美术馆), Suzhou, China, 2016.09.24

10th Animanimation International Animation Film Festival " Koji Yamamura Master Class, Cacak, Serbia, 2016.09.07-09.11

31st International Congress of Psychology (ICP2016) Title: How to Create Movement in Animation " Site, Pacifico Yokohama Conference Center Main Hall, 2016.07.24

The 12th China International Manga and Anime Festival, International Animation Education Forum (第十二届中国国际动漫节国际动漫教育高峰论坛暨), Panel Discussion: "匠心独运-东方语境下的动画精神" Lecture: "Animation and Time ( Workshop: "Sound and Animation" Hangzhou, China, Xiangshan Campus of China Academy of Art, 2016.04.29-04.30

Netherlands International Animation Festival, Utrecht, 2016.03.16-20

2015

New Chitose Animation Film Festival 2015 Lecture "Children, Dreams, Animation: Absence of Time"
Tokyo University of the Arts + University of Technology Sydney Joint Exercise, Face to Face Workshop
FAMU (Film academy in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015.11.19

Pilsen art department university, Pilsen, Czech Republic, 2015.11.20

University in Zlin - animation department, Czech Republic, 2015.11.21

Lecture "Moving image and animation" at Tsinghua University School of Art and Design, Beijing, China, 2015.10.30

Koji Yamamura lecture: Identity, world and self-border - through making short animation, 2015.04.25-26

Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2015, Master Class "Congress of Futurology", Ari Forman & Koji Yamamura, TOHO CINEMAS Nihonbashi Screen 4, 2015.03.22

Koji Yamamura Workshop at La Poudrière, France, Balance, 2015.03.16-20

2014

5 days workshop at Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD), Switzerland

International Design Workshop at Asia University, Taiwan

2013

Carrefour de l'Animation at Forum des images, France

2012

Special Lecture in Kanazawa College of Art, Japan

Japanese Independent animator, Koji Yamamura, Chung-Ang University, Korea

2011

Special Lecture in Estnia Art University, Estonia

Lecture for Muybridge's Strings in Korea National University of Arts, Japan

"Norshtein, between object and process" Ashikaga Museum of Art, Japan

5 days lecuture in L'abbaye de Fontevraud, France

Ottawa International Animation Festival Master class, Arts Court – Theatre, Canada

2010

Supervision, lecture and workshop at Exhibition" Karel Zeman" Kariya City Art Museum, Japan

2009

Animations Open Study vol.0 -See the animation on 16mm film, Japan<

Lecture at Concordia University 3/16, Canada, Montreal

Lecture at Rhode Islan#eaSchool of Design (RISD), US

Lecture at Harvard University, US

Lecture at "Adult Animation, welcome to Koji Yamamura's world" Nagakute Cultural Center, Japan

Lecture at Kid's Movie Theater〈2009〉"Yamamura Animation Dai Zukan" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

International Symposium "power of produce, Japan and Canada" Oscar Peterson Theater, Canadian Embassy, Japan

Keynote address "anima" Animation Project 2009 -Flip. Flap, Animation- Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences, Japan

"Nemuri Hime" Talk with Kei Shichiri UPLINK X, Japan

The new standard of animation "Yomu Animation" Publishing Event lecture, Japan

Business for Tokyo university of the Arts and Adachi Ward - Film music Research and creation - "Music of Koji Yamamura", Tokyo university of the Arts, Japan

2008

Conférence-projection de YAMAMURA Kôji "Peintures animées et animations peintes" L'Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo, Japan

"Zbig Rybczynski X Koji Yamamura" Presided by Hideichi Tamegaya Joshiji university Art and Design, Japan

Lecture at 11th koto international Student Film & Video Festival, Japan

2007

Creators forum, Konan Women's University, Department of Creative Media Studies, Japan

Multimedia lecture meeting, Kyoto Seika University, Japan

Lecture, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

2006

Lecture, Manggha Centre, Poland

Open Lecture, Hiroshima City University, Japan

2005

Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design Graduation production exhibition commemoration open lecture, Aichi Arts Center, Japan

2004

Workshop and lecture, The Korean National University of Arts, Korea

Keio University "Digital Art Awards 2004" Keynote address, Japan

2002

Lecture, De Anza College, San Francisco, US

Lecture, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan

Lecture, National Film Board of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

2001

Lecture, National Film Board of Canada, Canada

2000

Lecture, Tama Art University department of Graphic Design, Japan

Lecture, Azabu University, Sagamihara, Japan

Lecture, Doshisha University, Japan

Koji Yamamura animation expression base course, Summer School, ENBU art & planning Seminar, Japan

1998

Your Choice! Workshop National Children's Castle, Japan

1997

Animation Workshop, Seoul International Family Film Festival, Korea