Graduation work of Lina Machida at Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai), 2023. 

That stray dog that the girl loved so much wanted an apple for a long time. Meanwhile, the carrots try to turn everything into a seedbed. The girl opens the box and leaves with the dog because they know that decay is inevitable. 

This animation captures a moment of overlapping birth and death. 

(Source: Geidai Animation)

Glass and Kumo shared a deep love but it did not last forever. In the lifetime that followed their parting, Glass gradually comes to understand the cycles of union and separation that one encounters in life. 
 
Graduate Work 2025, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

A diary of a woman in her twenties who lives far away from her hometown. Her room is warm, sometimes hot, and unsettling. 
 
Graduate Work 2025, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

Candles are flickering. In the dark, endless dreamscape, where do I find myself? 
 
1st year work 2025, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

Nini and Nene are twin kittens who go on adventures in their balloon ship, just like they are happily doing today. However, their journey takes an unexpected turn when a thunderstorm suddenly appears, striking their balloon and causing it to crash. They land on a large cloud and enter a nearby house to seek help. Inside, they meet a mysterious girl. 
 
Graduate Work 2025, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

I was hiding inside the crate when a light shone through a hole. I peeked out and found all the scenery I'd been longing for. 
 
1st year work 2025, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

My hand has become an apple. So what does that make me? 
 
1st year work 2025, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

My day begins by descending a hill. At the end of the day, I climb it and go home. Down and up I go, feeling what? 
 
Graduate Work 2025, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

A young fox falls in love at first sight with a princess who visits a nearby flower garden. He is consumed by self-loathing because he knows, as a fox, he is too different and unworthy of the princess. 
 
Graduate Work 2025, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

An old Japanese ryokan (inn) stands by the Kuma River. It was severely damaged in the 2020 floods, but the owner weaves it back together to its former glory. 
 
Graduate Work 2025, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

OCTOPOLIS is a civilization created by octopuses. The inhabitants live on donuts and sleep inside chikuwas (fishcake tubes). They perceive themselves as donut holes and feel a deep urge to fill that void and become suckers, the embodiment of wholeness. 
 
Graduate Work 2025, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

Keiko Hasegawa, 34, works at a funeral home in her small hometown. It’s not the best life, but it’s okay. One day, she’s assigned to a strange funeral—can she get through it without trouble? 
 
Graduate Work 2025, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

There's a pond at a park near my home but I call it a swamp. The people and animals that gather there somehow share a swampy vibe, and they are there again today. 
 
1st year work 2025, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. 
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

In the woods is a company where animals work. One worker, the chameleon, is hurt by the ridicule from his colleagues. Can they come to understand each other?
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

It’s winter but my heart and the classroom are hot. Unexpectedly I got my hands on a star fruit, but I never told anyone about the taste.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

Bird poo fell in love with the hill but the hill is taken away high above the clouds. Poo is devastated. But then, a triangular telescope falls from the sky and it’s showing what the hill is seeing.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

A dark dark amusement park. Gradually, the rides begin to move.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

Things are kind of crappy right now. In Japanese, we say “hanakuso (nose snot)” instead of crap, though. Here’s a dose of hope and giggles.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

She wonders when she started thinking that she was only a convenient tool for someone else. The protagonist finds herself rattled because of some minor occurrences in her daily life.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

The hands were born from the universes and pregnant with the universes. The new world with new one will appear, only if something antinomy can be harmonized.
 
1st year work 2021, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

The Daily Life of a spirit that imitate human.
 
1st year work 2021, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

I try to remember what your hand felt like on my back when I was a child. And now I place my hand on yours, bent from pain. Like landscaped gardens are meant to evoke the four seasons and the cyclical wonders of nature, I gaze at you, hoping to find us one more time.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

One cold and damp morning, two weasels were wandering the quiet streets. They get separated at one point but are reunited. Just then, bells and alarms began to ring through the city, and dawn came.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

A man is walking along the beach. Then a demon, the man’s pain, appears and chases him. The pain is unbearable, coursing through his entire body. He somehow manages to get away, but eventually, he returns to the ocean even though he knows that the demon will appear again if he goes there.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)

A story of a family of three consisting of a pig, fish and a tadpole that lives in the stomach of a big fish. Their lives are turned upside down when a fruit floats into their home.
 
Graduate Work 2022, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation.
 
(Source: Geidai Animation)