In this moving and original reflection on aging, mortality, and transformation, Rea Tajiri partners with her mother, Rose Tajiri Noda, to create a film about the final sixteen years of Rose’s life as a person living with dementia. Together, they nurture their connection through listening, art, and music. Rose performs songs from her youth, providing the soundtrack for time travel, as we witness her evolution across nine decades of living. Delicately weaving between past and present, parenting and being parented, the film reflects on the unreliability of memory and the desire to reinvent one's own life when memories fail us.
Credits
Director
Rea Tajiri
Production
Rea Tajiri for Ghost Pictures
Co-production
Sian Evans for Farthest Films
Involved TV Channel
Center for Asian American Media, ITVS (Corporation for Public Broadcasting), PBS
Contact
World Sales
Rea Tajiri for Ghost Pictures
Festival Handling
Rea Tajiri for Ghost Pictures
More information
Available versions
84:00, DCP, color / black and white
Spoken languages
English
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IDFA history
2022
International Premiere
International Competition
International Competition
2022