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With ‘Origen. La semilla de los tiempos’, the Accademia del Piacere, the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía and the Teatro de la Maestranza take audiences on a musical dance journey somewhere between tradition and the avant-garde. Baroque music enters into dialogue with flamenco, travelling through the history of Andalusia in a story that gives pride of place to emotion, memory and scenic beauty.

"I want a cute girl as a childhood friend." ―It was a casual remark made by Akito while having lunch with his usual friend group of four. However, he didn't know that the person sitting right in front of him, Natsumi, was actually his childhood friend who had moved away when they were small! Since then, Natsumi has been trying to express her feelings to Akito, but because they had always been friends, it hasn't been easy for her to convey them... (Source: Hifumi Shobo, translated)

"I want a cute girl as a childhood friend." ―It was a casual remark made by Akito while having lunch with his usual friend group of four. However, he didn't know that the person sitting right in front of him, Natsumi, was actually his childhood friend who had moved away when they were small! Since then, Natsumi has been trying to express her feelings to Akito, but because they had always been friends, it hasn't been easy for her to convey them... (Source: Hifumi Shobo, translated)

Constantin de Arambourg, the knight of the garden, is an overly serious knight who guards the king's kitchen garden. One day, he met a beautiful woman chasing a rabbit in the garden. When she caught the rabbit with her bare hands, she said: "I'll turn you into a meat pie, rabbit!" When she said this with a smile, his heart was struck like lighting—and he fell in love! (Source: Hobby Japan, translated)

Our World tells the story of life under lockdown. It is a film which takes you from the deserted streets to the homes of those battling the virus. How do you survive when daily life gets shut down?

A supernatural sniper goes on the run from the FBI.

Phantasy Star Online Series 15th Anniversary Concert: Sympathy 2015 Live Memorial is a three-part concert celebrating fifteen years of the Phantasy Star Online sub-series. Performed by the Sympathy Special Orchestra and featuring Annette Marie Cotrill, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Satomi Sato, Halko Momoi, Atsuko Enomoto, Ichitaro Ai, DF GIRLS, Marika Kouno, Riko Kohara and Yurika Takagi.

A tale about two friends embarking on a mysterious journey guided by a wizard.

The first in a series of videos investigating the use of digital effects on appropriated imagery, "Painting" Sites compiles pictures arbitrarily yielded by an Internet search for the word "Painting," and peppers the resulting series of images with digital graffiti, courtesy of editing software. When Price began the piece, in 2000, automated image-search tools did not yet exist online; instead, the artist used text-based searches, taking arbitrary screenshots of each and every page that was returned and then cropping out all but the image, an approach that occasionally yielded visual hallmarks like improperly loaded data or the appearance of the cursor.

A Parade for three managers and four performers. (Source: Yamamura Animation)

"Pay" Day is a student silent film exploring the troubles of the working class.

"This piece, made as a continuous loop, literally traces the process of a stream of consciousness, such that the process itself becomes the subject. It delineates the way in which one thought leads to the next by associations made through language, sound, image, and action. Going from pet to petting to sex, psychedelia, floating, flying, laughing, crying, etc. It's a free-associative, run-on sentence that circles around to end at the beginning." -AP

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

The anime depicts the "smart city" envisioned by Kyocera, where everyone can comfortably and safely live with the use of advanced technology, and it also depicts the worries of job seekers. The anime's title and theme reflect both the vexing issue of how to describe Kyocera's extensive business in just one word, and the mood of job seekers vexed by the interview question, "If you had to describe yourself in one word, what would it be?"

The viewer enters the Internet along with the producer, who uses a pseudonym in order to interview people who engage in a highly problematic and taboo practice: Nazi-fetish-based sadomasochism. Video images created directly on the computer and stories from the artist's memory ask such questions as: How does history affect the body? How are cultural memories transmitted? And, when historical events become part of a culture's discourse, how does the meaning of the original event shift?

A filmmaker struggles to create a script.

From "Pokemon shirts" made by freely combining Pokemon patterns, "Pokemon shirt sizing", a body measurement service using a smartphone, is now available! A concept movie is now available to help you understand more about the service! A certain trainer tries to measure Pikachu in order to give him a shirt, but it seems like he's having a hard time. At the end of the video, the secret of the "Pokemon shirt" logo is revealed? Please pay attention to Pikachu's cute behavior. (Source: Pokemon official YouTube channel; translated)