This film is about feelings and memories, though it tells no specific story. There are no dialogues, no dramatic conflicts, and only 3 or 4 scenes with two characters - a young girl and an older woman - who never interact.
Within these few simple, fragmentary, and repeating scenes, I use many metaphors, such as the zither music, door openings, and walking down the hallway. Multiple film languages are interwoven through changes in color tones and seemingly ordinary transitions. I utilize parallel montage and cross cutting to indicate different points in space and time. Also, any subsection of the film can be a complete film itself.
All these techniques are to simulate distant memories people have. While many details in our memories become sparse and indistinct over time, the fragments that we still remember can touch us deeply every time we look back to them. We also tend to find new interpretations of the same memory as we get older.
In this film, I build a collection of fragmented memories. The older woman reflects back to her younger days, and reconstructs those memories from a new perspective that she didn’t have at the time. As the viewer relates what’s in this film to their own distant memories, they unleash their imagination.
