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By Joshua SOLONDZ

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Experimental - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2019
Wavelengths
Toronto - TIFF 2019
Wavelengths Official Selection
New York Film Festival 2019
Official Selection
Onion City Film Festival 2019
Official Selection
Locarno 2019
Official Selection
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    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Experimental
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 8 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Joshua SOLONDZ
    • Synopsis
    • Sometimes it’s not until the project is finished that I begin to know what the project is about.

      I’d been sifting through this footage: travel movies, home movies, fragments from projects that never became more than that. It was the summer of 2018 that I began assembling these parts, working intuitively, letting the process guide me and I began to realize that I’d made a Rorschach test for myself, a formalist self-portrait of my Belgian-Japanese-American-Jew heritage and a personal emotional journey following my mother’s passing, my father’s remarriage, and Emma having my child.

      January 2019 while shooting in Hong Kong, I finished the video. It felt more like it finished itself amidst my conversations with Julian Ross, Tiffany Sia and Andrew Vaterlaus-Staby. Thoughts about T saying she’d come home to watch home die. Thinking about how a friend of my mother’s told me that I’d never feel at home in Japan or the United States, how that was sad but also true and reassuring.



      A few other notes:

      I’ve kept a dream journal since I was 12 and have lately been recording them as audio memos. I’m also something of a sleep talker so I chose to include the audio in the beginning to set the tone for my intuitive unconscious logic that follows.

      There’s one shot that isn’t mine but sent from a friend while she was working in Baghdad, a go-cart track in the green zone.

      There’s another shot of the Syrian/Israeli border in the Golan Heights. It’s a very popular place for tourists to have their picture taken. I was not happy to be there.

      There’s some super 8mm footage from the 2nd to last trip I took with my parents, with my mother.

      The footage from Japan is from before and after my mother’s death.
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