kuru kuru

When I ask myself how I want to be, even something as simple as saying “I want to be kind” already carries a sense of social expectation. Thinking instead, at a more fundamental level, about how I truly wish to exist—thinking with my body rather than with words—I sense a warm, pink light emerging from around my abdomen. I want to dance while radiating that light, and I want everyone to gather, each person flickering with their own diverse light, and spin together in dance.
I turned that sensation into a song, danced it, filmed it, and then traced the dance once more with paint, as if dancing again. The abstraction of the way I wish to exist wraps life in a warm sense of joy.

(58 participants in “ShiShi Yamazaki’s Drawing Workshop” were invited to freely contribute, each in their own style, to the illustration as it developed.)

Director

Shishi Yamazaki

Time

00:02:30

Country

Japan

Genre

Animation

Year

2025