A kitten makes a stop motion film frame by frame, and the movie becomes about the small catastrophes that derail any real creative work. You watch her problem-solve around a fly, a broken camera angle, a moment of frustration. The film itself is stop motion, so you're watching someone make art using the exact same technique the film uses to exist, a perfect loop of creation watching creation happen.
On a sunny day, a female kitten named Koma decides she wants to make a stop motion film. She sketches storyboards, crafts stuffed toy characters, and draws the background art herself. Then the real work begins: she shoots her movie one frame at a time with her little 8mm camera, checking every frame with care. Her progress is cut short when a pesky fly disrupts the shoot and leads to an accident, putting the completion of her project in doubt. A gentle slice of life movie about the patience of handmade filmmaking.
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