Bleaching memories

Video, Abstract informal, Symbol / Letter, Portrait, Short film, 5:42
4:3 Short film email poetry monologue letter personal loss human atrocity

Title: Bleaching Memories

Notes on artwork:
The video is a lyrical collision between the traumatic accounts of the personal memories and the collective memories.

The voice over narrates an email that I have received from a friend, who has used the electronic means to perform ‘Shradha’, in Hindu custom, it is the ritual performed for one’s dead parents. (Therefore 'real') In contrast the overlapping images render the aftermath of the nuclear explosion on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which is a part of the collective memories that is gradually fading away with time. This phenomenon is conveyed as the montages of bleached images are progressively taken over by the static noise of the TV screen.

At the end the flickering cluster of the static noise leaves the audience with hypnotic plane to surrender to the inevitable.
Added 12 years ago
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Masami Teraoka
12 years ago
Masami Teraoka Artist
If I'm not mistaken, I saw the two suns. One was coming out from the east, the other coming out from the west. The two suns looked exactly like the same size. The sun coming out from the west was like the sun shape not like the mushroom cloud shape at all. How could it be possible, I had thought. So I had asked my sister (ten years old then) standing with me, "Look why do we have the two suns coming out of east and west?" The sky was totally clear blue summer sky. The day had turned out to be the day the atomic bomb was dropped. I can easily associate with those images that your documentary video had presented. The Bleaching Memories is a powerful statement. All the best! Aloha, Masami

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