Trip!-Trap!

Trip!-Trap!

2005 · 5 min · ★ 2.0 · Animation, Music

In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded with light. An expression of a chaotic world. This experimental graduation film is a mixture of different animation techniques

Directed by Mirai Mizue

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