Cinema & Originals · 2025
Yokohama, 1866. An origami maker is hired to pose as a samurai for Felice Beato's colonial portraits. Between lens and subject, a moment of mutual recognition quietly disrupts the established order.
In Felice Beato's photography studio in Yokohama, a Japanese man is dressed as a samurai for the colonial camera. As the machinery of exotic representation runs its course, something shifts: a quiet moment of recognition between photographer and subject disrupts the established order.
A wordless animated meditation on the colonial gaze, identity, and the small acts of resistance that preserve selfhood when history attempts its rewriting.
