Description: A bird wanders through the forest, continuing to search for precious memories. Before long, it gets lost in a mysterious world inside a tree hollow. There, it finds a strangely shaped dead tree. On that tree, the bird begins fishing toward the sky, trying to catch a star where memories sleep. Using its own feathers as bait... The finite body, and the world of memories and imagination, invisible to the eye yet holding infinitely expanding possibilities. Which, after all, is more important? The work is expressed through special stop-motion techniques, including puppetry, flat sand art, and casting paint shadows onto washi paper. Production began independently in 2016. After editing, it was completed in 2025.

A stop-motion piece created as the music video for Shijin × DJ DOLBEE’s “Now Here.” Using a variety of motifs and techniques such as clay, dolls, cut paper, and shadow puppetry, it expresses the ever-changing present.

Description: I received a long letter from Mr. Shijin describing the rich life his family leads deep in the mountains, and I created this piece while imagining that way of life. He said it was made with the image of a “sound baby,” so I didn’t think about it too deeply; instead, I made a video that would leave babies with a sense of wonder, excitement, and a little fear when they watch it, something that stimulates the senses through sight and touch. It was produced using stop-motion and line-drawing animation.