blink doesn't go after your attention, it goes after your nervous system. The whole film is one sensation, that first swallow of soda after the summer heat has flattened you, held long enough that you actually feel it again. It's a first-year work out of Tokyo University of the Arts' animation program, 2021, and it moves like someone still young enough to believe a single moment deserves an entire movie. There's no conflict to resolve and no one to root for, just the craft problem of making carbonation legible on screen, solved with a calm that most feature directors never earn. You'll finish it faster than you'd finish the actual drink, then sit there wanting one. Exactly the kind of small thing that gets buried under everything louder.

A short student film about the refreshing rush of drinking a soda on a hot summer day, when the fizz and chill cut through the heat for a moment. It was made in 2021 as a first-year project in the animation department of the Graduate School of Film and New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts. It is a brief slice-of-life piece built around that single sensation.