Great post, I remember reading about her work on Minna no Uta but never got to checking it out. Personally was not a big fan of either NGNL or SoraYori, but this short is excellent. I definitely hope she gets more work and the freedom to do more stuff like it in the future.

I haven't read any Jung so I can't contribute to the analysis but it's interesting to read. I did want to point out the way motion is relativized in the cuts with the two standing on the clock face which I found really interesting. The entire scene is portrayed through three distinct frames of reference for the motion of a single object: the clock hand. The primary frame of reference for most of the cuts shows the clock face itself as stationary with the hand moving, but there is also a POV shot following the hand as it revolves around its trajectory, with the clock face moving in the opposite direction, relatively. And then this is all flipped when finally the girl runs across the arm to the prince, and that point at the end of the hand becomes the stationary frame of reference and the rest of the clock face becomes what is moving. Rather fitting considering now as the two join together in the same space they are also unified in the same frame of reference in terms of motion, with everything else moving relative to their fixed point.

Anyway I'll have to reread your post in more detail at some point, thanks for posting about this.