The disconnect between what you say and what someone hears isn't a metaphor here, it's the entire visual language, printed words shifting against digital layers against torn paper scraps, each frame proving the gap is real. Communication collapses in real time on screen, not through dialogue but through the physical act of watching meaning come apart. A 1st year film student made this instead of a showcase piece, and it shows: no padding, no explanation, just the precise horror of being fundamentally misunderstood by the person standing right next to you.

A conversation should be simple, yet what one person says is never quite what the other hears. The meaning slips a little further with each exchange, the way a printer gradually drifts out of alignment. This short experimental film renders that breakdown in communication through a mix of print, digital processing and collage. It was made in 2019 as a first-year project in the animation department of the Graduate School of Film and New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts. It suits viewers drawn to psychological, experimental animation that lets its visual form carry the idea.