Synopsis

Our common pain, although experienced individually and uniquely, is what connects us. It is the ambiguity and variety of our existence that allows us to imagine an infinity of variables, some of these alternatives may be malignant, and some benign.

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.