North American Premiere
Dedicated to her cat Kurumi and her daughter Hana, Muraoka’s video letters to herself capture the poetry of everyday life.
Content Considerations: Mentions self harm/suicidal ideation
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Yuri Muraoka, Yuri Suzuki
Japan
2026
In Japanese with English subtitles
This short is featured in:
Short Forum 4: Immanence: A Life
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Credits & Director
Producer
Nonoho Suzuki
Screenwriter
Yuri Muraoka, Yuri Suzuki
Cinematography
Yuri Muraoka, Nonoho Suzuki
Editor
Yuri Muraoka, Nonoho Suzuki
Yuri Muraoka
Yuri Muraoka was born in Tokyo in 1981 and graduated from the 26th class of the Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image. She creates moving images and photographic works of self-portraiture, all of which are self-created and self-performed, including Schizophrenia (2016), Transparent, the world is. (2019), and others. Her film Transparent, I am. (2020) won the Grand Prix at the 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Muraoka is a mother of two daughters and has been writing poetry since 2018.
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