An excavational inquiry through photographs, touch, and looking at times and places far from here and now, animating and conjuring a link between past and present.

Periodic ruminations, reflections on photography, memory, aging, the woods and the homeland.

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a woman washes her hair in the kitchen sink while telling her friend about a memory of sitting in a bathtub and watching her aunt get ready to go out.  
a narrative fragment,  
a very short story, 
a performance and exercise in the prosaic as mythologized through memory. 
concision and the infinite that is always entwined with remembering and forgetting. 
this film is in a camp with work i make about dialog and conversation as literary forms.  
 
the pressing of pubic hair against nylon 
the pressing of fingers on fruit 
the pressing of an image of  
womanhood 
sexuality 
pleasure 
on the young psyche of the character in the film.  
the pressing of light on photosensitive chemicals.  
minerals i’ve exposed.  
 
light struck is a phrase i like to think about. the bearable violence. 

The experimental short film red bean captures the energy of imagery in motion through fragments of everyday life in Beijing. The observational perspective—shaped by the filmmaker's personal experiences and complex relationship with their hometown—retains a sense of alienation, reminiscent of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Chung Kuo, Cina (1972).