Shun Ikezoe

On April 7, 2020, the first state of emergency was declared in Japan. People disappeared from the streets and movie theaters and museums closed their doors. Whatever happens in the world around us, the existence of you and I remain unchanged. As long as we can recognize each other correctly, we should be able to maintain our sanity to some extent. It doesn't matter if someone is still asleep in the hospital, or if the neighbor's cat has gone to heaven. Memories live on vividly in our memories. Sometimes they can evolve into exaggerated images, but what is important to me will continue to evolve inside of me. It's the same even if they don't exist in this world. I think it's almost like a prayer. Surrendering myself to the world of images―what this world needs is imagination! Including all the love we have for our neighbors, strangers, and partners.

On April 7, 2020, the first state of emergency was declared in Japan. People disappeared from the streets and movie theaters and museums closed their doors. Whatever happens in the world around us, the existence of you and I remain unchanged. As long as we can recognize each other correctly, we should be able to maintain our sanity to some extent. It doesn't matter if someone is still asleep in the hospital, or if the neighbor's cat has gone to heaven. Memories live on vividly in our memories. Sometimes they can evolve into exaggerated images, but what is important to me will continue to evolve inside of me. It's the same even if they don't exist in this world. I think it's almost like a prayer. Surrendering myself to the world of images―what this world needs is imagination! Including all the love we have for our neighbors, strangers, and partners.

On April 7, 2020, the first state of emergency was declared in Japan. People disappeared from the streets and movie theaters and museums closed their doors. Whatever happens in the world around us, the existence of you and I remain unchanged. As long as we can recognize each other correctly, we should be able to maintain our sanity to some extent. It doesn't matter if someone is still asleep in the hospital, or if the neighbor's cat has gone to heaven. Memories live on vividly in our memories. Sometimes they can evolve into exaggerated images, but what is important to me will continue to evolve inside of me. It's the same even if they don't exist in this world. I think it's almost like a prayer. Surrendering myself to the world of images―what this world needs is imagination! Including all the love we have for our neighbors, strangers, and partners.

Vemos a una mujer acostada. Despierta de un sueño de un festival que visitó en su juventud para encontrarse en una escena que le resulta familiar. Recordando su primer amor, su matrimonio, dando a luz y conociendo al amor de su vida, pierde el hilo por un momento. ¿El lugar en el que lo reencuentra de nuevo fue un sueño o fue el Cielo? ¿Fue su primer amor o el amor de su vida? Ésta es una historia sobre el amor, y sobre una mujer.

Vemos a una mujer acostada. Despierta de un sueño de un festival que visitó en su juventud para encontrarse en una escena que le resulta familiar. Recordando su primer amor, su matrimonio, dando a luz y conociendo al amor de su vida, pierde el hilo por un momento. ¿El lugar en el que lo reencuentra de nuevo fue un sueño o fue el Cielo? ¿Fue su primer amor o el amor de su vida? Ésta es una historia sobre el amor, y sobre una mujer.

Vemos a una mujer acostada. Despierta de un sueño de un festival que visitó en su juventud para encontrarse en una escena que le resulta familiar. Recordando su primer amor, su matrimonio, dando a luz y conociendo al amor de su vida, pierde el hilo por un momento. ¿El lugar en el que lo reencuentra de nuevo fue un sueño o fue el Cielo? ¿Fue su primer amor o el amor de su vida? Ésta es una historia sobre el amor, y sobre una mujer.

Vemos a una mujer acostada. Despierta de un sueño de un festival que visitó en su juventud para encontrarse en una escena que le resulta familiar. Recordando su primer amor, su matrimonio, dando a luz y conociendo al amor de su vida, pierde el hilo por un momento. ¿El lugar en el que lo reencuentra de nuevo fue un sueño o fue el Cielo? ¿Fue su primer amor o el amor de su vida? Ésta es una historia sobre el amor, y sobre una mujer.

Vemos a una mujer acostada. Despierta de un sueño de un festival que visitó en su juventud para encontrarse en una escena que le resulta familiar. Recordando su primer amor, su matrimonio, dando a luz y conociendo al amor de su vida, pierde el hilo por un momento. ¿El lugar en el que lo reencuentra de nuevo fue un sueño o fue el Cielo? ¿Fue su primer amor o el amor de su vida? Ésta es una historia sobre el amor, y sobre una mujer.

Oscillation is an experimental short directed by Shun Ikezoe. It is part of FILMS FROM NOWHERE programme which took place in 2020.

DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA is a six minute experimental short directed by Shun Ikezoe. It is part of FILMS FROM NOWHERE programme which took place in 2020.

An experimental short by Shun Ikezoe.

The tired man standing on the platform is 27-year-old Ayumu Ueno. Facing an unwelcome trip to his childhood home, he goes to light a cigarette. What he finds in his pocket, however, is a jujuba fruit. The shiny red skin brings back vague memories of his second mother, Rèn Shìróng. Born in the Sichuan province of China, jujuba fruits were her favorite snack. At the time, he didn’t want to call her “Mom,” so at his father’s suggestion, she became “Sis.” As he thinks back on Sis, past and present meet, drawing us into a world neither dream nor reality. –"People can never really understand each other. Thinking back, I feel this way because of my former mother-in-law. That time, when Kansai dialect and Sichuan Chinese flew back and forth around me and I called my mother Sis, is recreated on expired 8 millimeter film. The expiration date of the film used is the same year that she walked out on us."