A video work created by placing hand-drawn animation and cut-out animation within a 3DCG space and filming it.

This piece was created with an astronaut who devotes himself to a mysterious street performance as its motif.

butohes’ second EP, “to breathe,” explores the themes of “the body/breath,” “the ground,” and “heading somewhere.” This is the official music video for “eephus,” a track that is both driving and serene, like dazzling light. Its world is depicted through an analog animation technique using thickly applied paint. Light and the horizon, running toward somewhere beyond.

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.