NEWS
OPENING days changes
Dear all, Thank you so much as alway. From April 2025 , the weekly opening days of Au Praxinoscope Gallery & Store will be changing.
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(Old) Friday & Saturday 12:00-18:00
(New!) Saturday 12:00-18:00
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Please be careful when visiting our store.
Thank you
"Catch a Cloud"
LIVE Au Praxinoscope vol.13
A live performance by two performers Ichi Matsu / Yuri Yamamura , in a studio of Au Praxinoscope.Saturday, August 9, 2025
"Daydream Continues"
LIVE Au Praxinoscope vol.12
A live performance by two jugging performers Tatsuru Someya / Yuri Yamamura , in a studio of Au Praxinoscope.Sunday, July 6, 2025
Exhibition of Original Drawings "Karo & Piyobpt"
Friday, February 2, 2024 - Saturday, May 4, 2024
and extra date ! May 5, 6, 10, 11
"Karo & Piyobpt" was produced by Yamamura Animation on 1992. After 31 years, a web comic with the same title was distributed from January 2024. To commemorate the 31st aniversary and the new series, the exhibition of original drawings of "Karo & Piyobpt".
A Bite of Bone
Au Praxinoscope Production and Distribution
Directed by Yano Honami
Voice: Tano Ayamo
Sound Design: Takino Masumi
Awards: Grand Prize for Short Animation: 45th Ottawa International Animation Festival
Best of TAIS Showcase award: 15th TAIS Animation Showcase 2021
Gold Award (Animation Category): 27th ifva Awards, Chine, etc.
In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
Au Praxinoscope Production and Distribution
Directed by Yuki Yoko
Music: honninman
Award: Jury's Personal Pick: 1st Hiroshima Animation Season
Eri (provisional title)
In making process
Directed by Yano Honami
Besed on
Asakura Kasumi's "Hokani Daregairu (Who else is there?)" (Gentosha, 2008)
ABOUT US
Au Praxinoscope
Store and gallery opened in 2013 as a place to introduce short animation from around the world. The store carries animation-related books, DVDs, visual toys, and merchandise selected from the perspective of the owner, Yamamura Koji (animation artist and picture book author). As a studio, it also produces and distributes original animations, and in the gallery space, in addition to exhibiting original artwork, it hosts live performances.
Motion Observation Devices
The store name "Au" is the French preposition à + definite article for place, and "Praxinoscope" is the name of a visual toy. In Greek, it means "motion observer. It was invented by French inventor Emile Reynaud in 1879, in the pre-movie history, and was enjoyed in European households as a device that made pictures appear to move.
The original Praxinoscope, manufactured in the 1800s, is on permanent display in the gallery.
Émile & Dr. Reynaud
Answers to simple questions about animation, such as "why?" "What?" Cartoon (Japanese only)
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