A piece of seaweed develops a desire after being briefly touched by a man on the shore, and begins to evolve into a human. It journeys onto land, passing through a series of game-like trials, believing its goal is to fall in love with him. At a mountaintop café, it finally meets the man again, only to realize he feels nothing—and that he is the final boss it must face.
This is my BFA thesis project.
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The idea behind this film began with my curiosity about the concept of “evolution.” In biology, upright walking was once considered the dividing line between humans and other primates, yet its origins remain unclear. Perhaps a moment that seems monumental was actually triggered by something very small. Maybe a body first stood upright simply to chase a butterfly.
This is the lens through which I want to think about love. Love is not pre-formed, nor does it fully belong to the self. It is more like a process of growth, mutation, or even evolution: in response to another person’s existence, we try to grow parts of ourselves that were not there before, shaping something that does not yet exist.
And yet, what the other person longs for is often “a dream in the distance” — an image that can never be fully realized. We can never become the exact shape of another person’s dream, but in trying to get close, the effort itself becomes a form of love. In this sense, love is a force of evolution that continues to grow at the edge of the impossible.
This is the core of my project: when a person evolves because of love, what they long for is not a final result, but the ongoing act of transformation and becoming.
