Synopsis

Thousands of them are packed in a bag. The hand dragging the bag has never been seen from their angle. The tracks in the sand are easily erased by waves. Touching the surface of the sea, they grow a new skin.

Shunsaku Hayashi

Shunsaku Hayashi (Osaka, 1992) is a painter and filmmaker. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, under a fellowship granted by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan from 2012 to 2015. In 2017, interstitial won the Grand Jury Prize for Animated Short at the 23rd Slamdance Film Festival, and Railment received the Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film at the 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Leaking Life (2019) was selected at the 69th Berlinale. In 2020, Hayashi served as an award presenter for the Student Academy Awards. His short film Our Pain (2023) received the High Risk Award at the Fantoche festival and the Jury Special Award at Animafest Zagreb.