■“Star Sign -mission-” / Introduction The actor project “Star Sign Project” was launched at the talent agency “PLEIADES PRODUCTION.” What seemed like a glamorous start full of dreams and hope turned out to be a rundown dormitory. After a month of living together while confronting the gap between dreams and reality, producer Kinboshi gives them a new mission. TEAM01, made up of seasoned members with acting experience. TEAM02, made up of members with completely different backgrounds and upbringings. —Don’t miss the new journey and how this mission unfolds!

[STORY] The sense of self as a subject is constituted as part of a system through desire, and even if one tries to deeply deconstruct and examine it, there was only an empty self left there. I attempted to create an animation that would be assembled from disparate materials—animations of different natures, such as 3DCG and drawing—so that they would come together as a single work of video.

Graduation work, 2020, Division of Animation, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts Three motifs, each in its own way. They are so different from one another that they even give rise to self-doubt. But once the melody begins, the musical motif can’t hold itself back and starts to dance, and the other motifs follow suit... Could it be that “I” am also a motif?