Shunsaku Hayashi is a filmmaker and visual artist. In his work, he merges painting, animation, and experimental film into a multi-layered, poetic form of expression. His films are composed of hand-painted frames, carefully sequenced into animated compositions. Shunsaku Hayashi employs cinematic techniques such as editing, rhythm, and temporal manipulation not just to depict motion, but to make it physically perceptible.
The filmmaker thinks in images that unfold over time. His paintings often feel like captured moments that already suggest movement. In animation, these still images gain momentum, dissolving the boundaries between stillness and motion, painting and film. When Shunsaku Hayashi’s moving images are presented alongside his paintings, a dynamic dialogue emerges between two-dimensional and four-dimensional space. This interplay invites focused, sensory engagement from the viewer.
A central theme in Shunsaku Hayashi’s work is the “in-between”—a state where opposites coexist: movement and stillness, narrative and abstraction, presence and absence. By combining traditional painting techniques with digital processes, the artist creates a distinctive cinematic language that resists fixed categorization—open, reflective, and radically contemporary.