The boy takes the knife his father once gave him. Did what followed make him a “man”?
Japan
Foxing: Kitsuné-tsuki
Shinano is a character designer drifting through a monotonous routine.
Her work is absorbed into a commercially driven system, and on social media, she fails to find a sense of belonging, deepening her loneliness.
One day, Koyami—a fox-masked character born from her old doodles—appears. Soon, other discarded characters emerge, blurring the boundary between Shinano’s creative world and reality.
After wandering through a labyrinth of her own mind, Shinano realizes that Koyami and the others
The Stream XIII
In "The Stream XIII", the 13th in the series, I focused on how the landscape is transformed when the wind as a weather phenomenon streams through the fields and reed fields cultivated by humans.
I used the wind chime to perceive the invisible presence of wind as sound. And also we can perceive the invisible presence of wind as visualized wind ripples in the fields.
Blue and White
Ryusuke, mourning his wife, ceaselessly crafts salt, even during her funeral. Witnessing this, granddaughter Midori probes his motives. Safeguarding the region's unique salt-making legacy is Ryusuke's mission. In conversing with salt, he strives to pass down its ancient flavor. Could Ryusuke's bond with salt link him to his departed wife?
The Stream XII-II
Human beings act on nature in order to keep their lives.
From their activities, several streams are generated and landscapes are transformed.
I focus on the beauty of transformation created through the relation between human activities and nature, and want to express the beauty as a kind of visual ballet.
The Stream XI
In episode 11 of The Stream, I consider why water streams are created. Water flowing through waterways is necessary for the cultivation of crops. Agricultural products are mainly produced for human consumption and are sold and distributed in the marketplace, where crops are cultivated again with the profits are earned. It is the economy and the distribution of goods that create the flow of water, which circulates in society through transportation and information networks.