As a father is separated from his wife and child for two months, photographs, videos and voicemails become the fabric of their relationship in Miiku Sakanishi's delicate debut.
By Guy Lodge
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Alpha Violet We all used to send postcards to show loved ones our location when we traveled away from home; some of us still do, though it’s a practice tinged with nostalgia. It’s more immediate, after all, just to send a photo, though somehow both more and less personal: What you lose in tactile, handwritten effort, you gain in the person’s actual perspective, the comfort of seeing what they’re seeing. As it follows a devoted father reluctantly separated from his family for two months, Miiku Sakanishi‘s deeply affecting debut feature “Memorizu” marvels at the forms of digital connection that are now woven into our closest relationships, finding the poetic intimacy in very ordinary communications.
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