Yoshinao Satoh, PAPERS
posted April 9, 2025 #
This Yoshinao Satoh short film, PAPERS, is mesmerizing to say the very least. Created in 1991, the nearly 3 minute animation was created from an unbelievable amount of newspaper clippings. Just wrapping your brain around the practical aspect of creating this is enough to make it explode but Satoh amplifies the entire piece but threading together a variety of concepts. Seeing the portraits rotating 360 degrees is... phenomenal.
There's also a shorter, somewhat more frantic, 1 minute version that served as a commercial for Mainichi Shimbun; a Japanese newspaper. I prefer the longer version but both are spellbinding.
There's also a shorter, somewhat more frantic, 1 minute version that served as a commercial for Mainichi Shimbun; a Japanese newspaper. I prefer the longer version but both are spellbinding.