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“The TV Show” animated short is one of those super condensed, frantically paced, ultra action-packed, hall-of-mirrors-ish, infinite-loopy, style-mashing, color-clashy, genre-fusing, worlds colliding, fractal braingasm-inducing kinda sorta thingies that most folks will probably need to watch multiple times in a serene, zen-like state before they begin to absorb everything that’s going on.

Kousuke Sugimoto is a 26-year-old filmmaker who self-taught himself animation about five years ago. Sugimoto’s previous work include the computer graphics from Nightmare’s “REM” music video, 10 seconds of animation for the SMAP x SMAP variety television program, the 37-second “Dōga Sentai Anime Soldier” opening animation for the M-on TV! music program, the animation in Tsushimamire’s “Hyper Sweet Power” music video, and the animation in ketchup mania’s “Please Marry Me” music video.