| | > Colors and shapes swing along with the music in this slice of visual poetry. Everything comes together in an audiovisual flow, yet every element seems to have its own current. The most well known work from Onohana is both lingering and elusive, chaotic and calming, imperceptible and cathartic. It’s an immersive animated short that, through abstraction, reminded me what it means to be transported by something, even for a brief moment. It felt like a visual representation of what I experience during specific moments in life: walking on a deserted beach early in the morning, moving through a silent forest after a storm, swimming the waves of an agitated sea, lying in bed after the best night out. Childhood nostalgia mixed with the future’s breeze and the fleetingness of the present. For an instant, there’s no time, no space — such a good place to die.
| | > Colors and shapes swing along with the music in this slice of visual poetry. Everything comes together in an audiovisual flow, yet every element seems to have its own current. The most well known work from Onohana is both lingering and elusive, chaotic and calming, imperceptible and cathartic. It’s an immersive animated short that, through abstraction, reminded me what it means to be transported by something, even for a brief moment. It felt like a visual representation of what I experience during specific moments in life: walking on a deserted beach early in the morning, moving through a silent forest after a storm, swimming the waves of an agitated sea, lying in bed after the best night out. Childhood nostalgia mixed with the future’s breeze and the fleetingness of the present. For an instant, there’s no time, no space — such a good place to die.
