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INSPIRATION

The existential crisis has accompanied me like a shadow throughout my not-so-long life, and for as long as I can remember I have been at a loss when confronted with the established facts of life — “death,” “freedom,” “loneliness,” and, most frighteningly, “meaninglessness.”
Self-salvation is nothing more than reading. Sartre said that human existence precedes essence, so we have to find meaning on our own; Camus said that life is destined to be meaningless, so we just have to face everything with contempt and enjoy the moment.
Yet I still can’t decide how I want to live, nor can I know the meaning of my life. I am still the peasant waiting for Godot under the withered tree in Beckett’s book, looking repeatedly and never coming to fruition. But I wanted to show this nihilistic comedy in a light-hearted way, and so a stop-motion animation was born.