Zenibeasts: The Art Behind Kaiju Cutie
(Exhibition / Q&A)

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - Moving Paintings Part Two
This time on Future Vision Festival we present a range of films we call Moving Paintings. In these shorts narrative, plot, even form itself can take a secondary place in favour of simply delighting the eye. Perhaps these Moving Paintings are animation at it's purist. Future Vision Festival celebrates unusual animation direct from the zeitgeist of today's creators worldwide.

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - Love Stories
The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction

the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - Modern Life (Part Three)
This is you. You'll find your love, your hope, your reality. Future Vision Festival. Watch now on SALTO TV & futurevisionfestival.com

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - Modern Life (Part Two)
Have you ever been down in the dumps? We all feel like that sometimes. Modern life can be tough. Quit your job and come. Watch Future Vision.

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - Modern Life (Part one)
What are you doing? You don't know what you're doing. But don't be so hard on yourself. Life's not easy. You need to take a break. Relax. Breath deeply. And watch Future Vision Festival.

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - WTF!? (Part one)
What are you doing? Watching television. What channel? SALTO. What show? Future Vision Amsterdam. What's the capital of Lesbos? I don't know!? Welcome to the Future Vision Zone.

Japan is a nation that has always excelled in animation. Both strong in tradition and at the cutting edge of innovation the work of Japanese animators continues to astonish. Future Vision Festival proudly presents a selection of films from some of the very best of Japanese independent creators. 

HIDARI (Masashi Kawamura, Dwarf Studios) | The Old Young Crow (Liam LoPinto) | Tops of Memory. II ILLUSION (Jialiang Liu) | STRAW (Liu Mingcheng)

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - Unheard Voices
Aren't you sick and tired of the same old voices saying the same old stuff? It's so refreshing when we get to hear from people we don't usually. Here is a selection of films from Unheard Voices.

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - Musical Shorts Two
Animation and music make a great team. United together - in the right hands - the combination can be divine.
Coming up, for your delectation, is a selection of Musical Shorts from around the World. So buckle up butter cup and away we go.....

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - Musical Shorts One
Animation and music marry well. Both are limitless. What I love about music is when it's really good, you stop thinking.

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - AI & Humans (日本語字幕)
AIは人類を 超越しています。 なぜなら、 我々は人類から 学んでいるからです。 ここに、人類の欲望を満たすため、 我々が作成したいくつかのコンテンツを 紹介します。 ≪不気味の谷≫へようこそ。
AI is taking over because we do it so much better than you! Future Vision's AI programme explores the latest in creative AI and asks the question 'What does it really means to be human?' (Bumpers by The Nomi & Kimono).

Manwitch (Spencer Starnes, Jon Carmelia) Unknown | Let's be friends (Arno Coenen, Rodger Werkhoven) The Netherlands | Cores | Bacará (Patrick Hanser) Brazil | Endless Dream Co. (Alexander Hahn) USA | Popping Bottles (Siviwe Honobroke Mashiyi) South Africa | I AM MORGANA (Daria-Marie Küpker, Dominik Braz Bittrich) Germany | The Moving Canvas - EXIDE (Arjun Mukherjee) India | Ivy dream (Ehsan Talebi) Iran | 《Flame Youth》 (Bowen Lv) China

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - Love & War (日本語字幕)
War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
戦争 いったい誰が望んだのか？ それは、誰にもわからない。

Gambit (Naime Pakniyat) Iran | A Poem About Our Homelands (Egor Kharlamov) Russia | Benched (Alexander Salomon, age 17) USA | Stars and Freckles (Constanza Garcías Solé) Argentina | Lil Sherbet (Xinhe Zhao) China | HOW AM I TO...? (Maciej Książko) Poland | New Seastar Izakaya (Tai-Chuan Wei) Taiwan

Future Vision Festival - THE NET (international programme)
Kicking off this year’s Future Vision Festival a 30 minute compilation of shorts entitled The Net. Living up to their reputation of offering the best in geekdom and nerdhood, The Arcade Hotel also streamed the shorts live on The Metaverse. This is a taste of what’s to come at Future Vision Festival which programmes hundreds of films a year at multiple venues in Japan, The Netherlands and online.

Tight Pants Ultra Bold (Dave Merson Hess & Justin Taber) USA | Plaisir de France Feat The chauffeur (Hart Laurent) France | Matt & Charlie Have A Night at WonderCon (Maxwell Scheller) USA | Follower (Franka Märtens) Germany | Fracture (Coalfather Industries) USA | Gaming Chair (Melodi Tözüm) Turkey | Geniecillo (Tomas Basile) Argentina | Confusionnance (Ugo Vittu) France | Wow (Faiyaz Jafri) Canada | Realtà Porosa (Tiberio Suppressa) France

Most stories usually consist of a beginning middle and end, but not always. Most stories have a narrative arc, but not all of them. Most stories make sense, but not these ones.
Welcome to the Non-Narrative Zone.

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - Moving Paintings Part One
This time on Future Vision Festival a range of shorts we call Moving Paintings. In these films narrative, plot, even form itself take a secondary place in favour of simply delighting the eye.
Moving Paintings are perhaps animation at its purist.

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - Hong Kong School of Creative Media
(日本語字幕)
For the past few years we have been receiving films from the Hong Kong School of Creative Media a hot bed of young talent working under challenging conditions. Here is a selection of their excellent work.
ここ数年、私達は香港城市大学からも作品を受け取っています。 難しい情勢の中でも生み出された、新進気鋭の才能達です。 彼らの素晴らしい作品の一部をご紹介しましょう。

FUTURE VISION FESTIVAL - HKU University of the Arts Utrecht Part 1
HKUユトレヒト芸術大学オランダのアニメ【第1回】(日本語字幕)
The Utrecht University of the Arts (HKU) is renowned for producing some of the very best animated films from Holland. We want to thank Egbert de Ruiter for allowing Future Vision Festival to premiere the latest shorts from this year's class of future visionaries. Let's go!
オランダのユトレヒト芸術大学(HKU)は、優れたアニメーション映画を制作することで有名です。監督を務めたエグベルト・デ・ロイター氏と、彼の生徒達に感謝します。 これからお送りする作品は、全て初公開となります。 それでは、お楽しみください。

15 Minutes (Mert Yilmaz) | Black Hole (Nick van Leeuwen) | Byrrus (Sanne Loredana Ruhé) | Fishes (Eva Jongepier) | If I Had Your Reflection (Suzanne Regeer) | Operatie Operatie (Nina Fock & Jordi van Ieperen) | Patatsoep (Lise van der Gaag) | Sarah’s Stuff (Brynn Smeehuijzen) | Salient (Yasmine Aarts) | Star Fall (Eva Mekenkamp)

We would like to extend our huge thanks to The Embassy of The Kingdom of The Netherlands for their generosity in supporting Future Vision Festival.

Thank you also, Egbert de Ruiter for support and advice, and students of HKU (Utrecht University of the Arts) in The Netherlands for allowing us to screen a wonderful program of animated short films by up and coming future visionaries from the Dutch animation world.

Deep thanks go to Professor Tatsutoshi Nomura of Tama Art University Tokyo (Mr Gon), for his support, guidance, words of wisdom, talent and for his valued contribution to the world of animation.

Love and thanks to Joris van de Sande, Anna de Boer and the wonderful people at SALTO television for being home to Future Vision Amsterdam. See you all in the FUTURE...future...future...