BURNOUT

An art film/documentary. Influenced by the writings of philosopher Byung-Chul Han, responds to a culture in which the self becomes a relentless project-optimized, surveilled, and exhausted.
We are told to be our most authentic, efficient selves, yet in that pursuit we burn out, becoming more disconnected from others and from our inner lives. Rather than directly diagnosing the crisis of achievement society, the work turns toward its remedy: slowness, softness, presence.
Inspired by the aesthetics of Yashikei, a genre of healing and atmospheric stillness, the film invites a sensory experience of calm. It offers a space where nothing needs to be achieved, where time stretches, and where just being is enough.
In this refusal to perform, the work suggests a quiet, radical form of freedom.