This film doesn't explain itself. It drowns you in 33 minutes of surreal tableaus, each more impossible than the last, and demands you piece together what dying world this is and why these characters keep dancing through it. The animation moves like nothing else on screen, every frame deliberate and strange. Music doesn't accompany the images here, it is the logic holding everything together. Rewatch it and the whole structure clicks into place in a completely different way, which means the first watch was never the real film at all.

Humanity's final hours tick away. With 33 minutes and 33 seconds left before the world ends, the people who remain on a dying Earth play Mood Hall, a strange and magical game. A mysterious middle-aged gentleman and a beautiful woman keep appearing and vanishing. Giants and little people turn up, along with deserts, a party, dancing and the floor of a swimming pool, while day and night repeat. The film tells its story without words, through images and sound alone, as a dense maze of experimental sketches that sit halfway between science fiction and mystery. An early version was shown in 2016 as an installation at a Kawai+Okamura retrospective, and the 2019 film returned in 2022 with a new soundtrack as Mood Hall side B.