If you are curious to gain an Indo-Japanese perspective on the world of animation, head to Godrej India Culture Lab’s latest Friday Funda session. The joint presentation, titled Method in the Madness, will feature speakers from Saigo No Shudan, a Japanese artist collective that creates videos using hand-painted animation and stop motion, and Professor Sekhar Mukherjee, head of the animation department of National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad.

An animation still from Saigo No Shudan

The session will include case studies, clips and stills of the works of animation artists in India and Japan and explore how they relate to each other. Speaking about the event that is being organised in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, Professor Mukherjee says, “I will talk about the importance of organising and promoting an artistic animation festival from India. The talk will also focus on the Chitrakatha International Student Animation Festival, which I direct from NID and is held every two years.”