The mundane life you're living right now, the commute, the small talk, the hours dissolving into nothing, becomes the entire premise. You upload it, someone else uploads theirs, and the film asks: what separates a life worth sharing from one we just endure in silence. It's a student work that thinks like a feature, quiet and precise about the emptiness we've all felt but never named. The animation strips away style to let the observation breathe. Nobody talks about this one. That needs to stop.
A life that might belong to anyone is lived one day at a time and then posted online. Story after story gets added, mostly as a way of filling the hours. This short film is a first-year work from 2024, made in the animation department of the Graduate School of Film and New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts.