Miyazaki made a 60-second fever dream about fish eating fish. That's it. That's the tweet.
A small white fish enters the frame and is eaten by a larger one, then the latter is in turn eaten by an even larger fish... At the end, only a huge white fish remains which seems to shrink in size. swimming towards the bottom of the screen. He leaves the frame and the cycle resumes.
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Miyazaki's economy of storytelling in 60 seconds flat.
Director
Hayao Miyazaki
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Created for a 2001 Japan Short Shorts Film Festival exhibit, made with Studio Ghibli's B-team in spare time.
The shrinking final fish suggests the cycle consumes itself — a rare Miyazaki work without hope, made during his most exhausted period between masterpieces.
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