Cells and Glass

After discussions with researchers at CiRA, I wrote a script and produced a video piece, set in the future and based on the actual science described above. The protagonist is a glass artisan who has undergone a transplant of an organ generated in an animal’s body. While hospitalized for the transplant, he is asked by his friend A to “make a glass vessel out of window glass from [A’s] old house.” After a successful transplant, various things go through the protagonist’s mind while he is making the glass piece. The process of melting down window glass to make a vessel echoes the formation of iPS cells. The imagery revolves around windows and reflections in glass. The production process involved filming a window frame myself, then inserting copyright-free footage taken from the Internet to represent reflections in the window glass. By synthesizing footage shot by different camerapersons, I deal with the fluidity and ambiguity of life, cells, consciousness, and time. Reference material https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nZY9DRdeDCFPByt_oO6D8OC8jGDcciMv/view?usp=sharing

Year

2020

Director

HAYASHI Yuki

Duration

8 min

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese