Down Escalation

Down Escalation

Animated Film
Japan
2018
8 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Shunsaku Hayashi
Director
Shunsaku Hayashi
Music
Makoto Itabashi
Cinematographer
Shunsaku Hayashi
Editor
Shunsaku Hayashi
Animation
Shunsaku Hayashi
Script
Shunsaku Hayashi
Sound
Makoto Itabashi
Shunsaku Hayashi dissects a cocooning process. Using painting and animation as scalpels and accompanied by composer Makoto Itabashi he creates fine cuts of a transformation into largely abstract images and sound as well as layers of time. Seen under the filmic microscope, we observe with wonder a radical reorganisation of physical and emotional structures. A nervous flickering and blinking in the silence and distant closeness while shell and shape are dissolving.

André Eckardt