A boy, a girl, a bird with a swan’s neck nestling in hands, a gently wooded peninsula of longing: Atsushi Wada’s almost speechless animation, mapped out in uniform and unicoloured chains of motifs and events, follows the dream and shame logic of a sexual awakening. There’s a sadness about the rounded and infantile figures, perhaps that of a first “little death”.
Sylvia Görke
Credits
Director
Atsushi Wada
Editor
Atsushi Wada
Producer
Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Nobuaki Doi