Kunio Katou films time the way most directors film action, each frame holds stillness like it's precious. These seven shorts don't build toward anything. They ARE the thing: a kid eating breakfast alone, snow accumulating on a window, the weight of doing nothing on a Sunday. You have to come to them quiet and leave quieter.

Kunio Katou directs seven short films, gathered into one collection and shown together at art exhibitions around Japan. The pieces are titled Kyuujitsu (Holidays), Yuki (Snow), Potage, Aitsu (Them), Asa (Morning), Hirune (Nap) and Curtain Call. Presented as a single movie made up of these separate shorts, the anthology falls within the slice of life genre.