Why I am here now (なぜ私は今ここにいる)

YUAN Shuohan / 15min / 2020 / Streaming available from Mar 1-13, 2021

Set to playful visual experiments on imagery of the mundane and the everyday, Why I Am Here Now narrates a highly personal exploration of the self by director Yuan Shuohan. As she strides over cultural, geographic, and temporal bridges, namely from Japan and to her home in China, Yuan creates a visually unsettling yet increasingly intimate atmosphere through a candid, sincere exploration into her private world that both compares and contrasts the border crossing of her parents and range of experiences that has affected her own psyche.

2021.02