Muybridge's Strings

Muybridge's Strings (Japanese: マイブリッジの糸; Maiburijji no ito) is a Canadian-Japanese animated short film, directed by Kōji Yamamura and released in 2011.^[1] A meditation on the passage of time, the film contrasts the story of Eadweard Muybridge, the British photographer who was a key innovator in the concept of photographically recording motion, with the story of a contemporary mother in Tokyo who realizes that her daughter is growing up and slipping away from her.^[2]

Muybridge's Strings
Japanese	マイブリッジの糸
Directed by	Kōji Yamamura
Written by	Kōji Yamamura
Produced by	Keisuke Tsuchihashi Michael Fukushima Shuzo John Shiota
Edited by	Kōji Yamamura
Music by	Normand Roger Pierre Yves Drapeau Denis Chartrand
Animation by	Kōji Yamamura
Production companies	National Film Board of Canada NHK
Distributed by	Polygon Pictures
Release date	September 17, 2011 (2011-09-17)
Running time	13 minutes
Countries	Canada Japan

The film won the Excellence Prize at the 2011 Japan Media Arts Festival,^[3] and a special prize at the 2012 Hiroshima International Animation Festival.^[4] It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012.^[5]