A girl wakes up alone in a world she built for herself, and you realize six minutes in that she's been doing this forever. The animation moves like a music video because it is one, and every frame costs something she can't get back. By the time Porter Robinson's score understands what's happening, you already do, and it breaks you in a way designed to last longer than the runtime.
Seventeen-year-old Rin lives inside a futuristic simulator, alone in a vast and beautiful solitude. Every day she wakes in virtual reality with hazy memories and no word from any other person. She is not bored, because she carries a tablet that can create any world she can imagine. Day after day she builds one utopia after another to keep her loneliness at bay, hoping that one day she will uncover the truth about her own existence. The piece is a short science fiction music video.
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