Direct Animation is pure form pretending not to be: geometric shapes sliding into narrative, movement that exists for its own sake before it serves the story. Furukawa builds something that only works as animation, not adapted from live-action, not illustrating dialogue, existing in the space between abstract and concrete. Watch it twice. The first time you're seeing what moves. The second time you understand why it had to move that way.

Taku Furukawa's experimental short is a work of direct animation that takes its inspiration from McLaren. There is no story to follow. Instead, a restless world of multicolored shapes and patterns keeps changing, jittering like excited atoms or fast-moving molecules. The motion keeps time with a soft mix of traditional oriental instruments and synthesizers, making it a piece of pure abstract animation set to music.