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