Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat

Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat

2009
7min

Yamashiro Chikako channels the stories of survivors of the Battle of Okinawa through lip-synch and superimposition. With her body as an archive, she stages the link between the donors and inheritors of trauma and, ultimately, the impossibility of transferring memory across generational lines.

Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat

Storyline

Yamashiro Chikako channels the stories of survivors of the Battle of Okinawa through lip-synch and superimposition. With her body as an archive, she stages the link between the donors and inheritors of trauma and, ultimately, the impossibility of transferring memory across generational lines.
    Released
    January 2009
    Runtime
    7min
    Director
    Status
    Released
    Language
    Japanese
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