A cat waits under a streetlight. Nothing happens, nothing needs to. The film builds its entire world from that single image, the quality of loneliness that isn't sad, just true. You watch something small and ordinary become large enough to hold your attention completely. This is what student work looks like when the person making it understands that patience is a form of storytelling. It costs nothing to watch. It stays with you anyway.

Gaitou to Neko is a slice-of-life film made by Akitsu Fukuchi as a graduation project at Tama Art University. Its title pairs a streetlight with a cat.