A director turns the camera on himself and decides the joke is that there's nothing to see. What unfolds in seven minutes is an animator's brutal self-assessment disguised as a punchline: Kinoshita draws himself as fundamentally unremarkable, aggressively ordinary, a man whose greatest quality is the ability to do competent work and nothing else. The animation itself mirrors this, clean, functional, almost deliberately unambitious, which makes the whole thing funnier and sadder than any showcase piece could ever be. Most self-portraits in animation try to prove something. This one proves that the best joke an artist can make about themselves is the truth.

Renzou Kinoshita made this short comedic special when leading figures in international animation were challenged to produce animated self-portraits. His answer is a single brief film in which the animator turns the assignment into a humorous portrait of himself, which should interest anyone curious about how an established animator chose to present himself on screen.