Director
Lu Pan Yu Araki
Genres
Documentary, Experimental
Country
Hong Kong (SAR of China) / Japan / South Korea
Language
Mandarin with English subtitles
Release Date
2021
⏲️ 63min

Playing-back the home archives!

Our Take

Tremendously engaging, yet personal and moving.

Lu Pan and Yu Araki share home video footage of their ’90s childhoods in all their funny, celebratory, awkward and banal glory. Edited together remotely during the pandemic, the two artists discuss early home video technology, the social status of this footage in different contexts (both migrated as children), and also how these images were made and circulated.

They talk about the excitement and discomfort they felt when filming for the first time, and as children how they self-performed in front of the camera. Breaking the narrative in parts, their comments turn into lines of exploration about themes like memory, family recordings and agency. Playful, nostalgic, yet always insightful, Lu Pan and Yu Araki’s conversation stitches the footages together and creates a contemplative flow.