Chiho
Aoshima’s City Glow is a meditation on the perils of climate change, with
the forces of good and evil vying for control of the land. Using the
phantasmagoric imagery and bright colors of Japanese anime, the
seven-minute narrative opens in a garden filled with exotic foliage and
creatures. Slowly a modern city made up of living skyscrapers grows from this
serene and fertile paradise. As night falls, the city becomes a haunted
wasteland; ultimately, however, demonic ghosts are banished by winged spirits,
and nature flowers once again.