Remembrance

2022, Single channel video, 4 min 46 sec

Remembrance, 2022, video still

A young man sits in a car, talking on the phone. An aspiring actor who moved from the countryside to Tokyo, he is catching up with his grandmother back home after a long silence.

They exchange life updates, and he expresses concern for her health. The camera lingers on the man's profile as he chats happily in a heartwarming exchange. However, in the final moments of the video, just before he hangs up, it is revealed that the entire conversation was a monologue. He had simply wanted to talk to his grandmother, who had already passed away.

The role is performed by an actor with a personal connection to this narrative: when his own grandmother passed away in the countryside, he was actually in a car in Tokyo, unable to be at her deathbed.