Under A Shooting Contrail

NAKAYAMA RikaRika Nakayama is a Japanese experimental and stop-motion animator currently based in Los Angeles. She received her BFA in Illustration and Film/Animation/Video from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2021 and currently pursues an MFA in Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts. She loves to work with physical materials and her animated works often feature subtle phenomena fromin the everyday world, sensory experiences, and technical experimentations centered on materiality and texture.