includes some commissioned advertisement projects.
Viral Ad for Campaign of So-net (internet provider managed by Sony) 's optical fiber (FTTH) Service.
Place : TOKYO / JAPAN
This video is made out of 16362 (light painted) still photos. 73 hours were needed for the shooting and 77 "light painters" participated.
[AWARD] SILVER in the Cyber Lotus at the ADFEST / YouTube Video Awards Japan 2008
Full version of the movie and the workshop method are Collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Place : KANAZAWA / JAPAN
Place : MIYAKO / JAPAN
Miyako in Iwate Prefecture is one of the areas that suffered great damage by the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.
The project started, "I want to regain brightness to the hearts of many people with light art". The project photographed PiKAPiKA while staying in a temporary housing in Miyako city, Iwate Prefecture.
There were 294 people citizens who participated. The project team finished it as a 3 minute 11 second movie using 1591 photos from among the photos taken.
Light Painting workshop for 5 days in Bandung, Indonesia from 9th to 14th April 2008.
The participants were students, children, angkot (mini bus) drivers, musicians and various people.
The video of Workshop and Live performance of Light Paintings at AnimaMundi in Brazil.
The AnimaMundi is biggest animation film festival in Brazil.
Place : University of Southern California, USA
"Created by Japanese artists Kazue Monno and Takeshi Nagata, known collectively as TOCHKA, PiKA PiKA is an exciting new art form that uses light to create fun and playful animations!" -- USC's Visions and Voices
for MONSTRA FESTIVAL 2011
At Sao Jorge theater in Lisbon.
Nippon Connection - Japanese Film Festival in Frankfurt, German