A filmmaker travels to Japan to show a film and during the trip,

a correspondence with a Scottish man about a murder and a chance

encounter with a Jizo shrine to the unborn leads to the memory of a teenage abortion and a consideration of choices in life.

An experiment in intertextuality drawing on Robert Bresson’s film

A Gentlewoman featuring a 17 year old Dominique Sanda

The Embryo Hunts in Secret dir. Koji Wakamatsu

And Chris Markers iteration that

First person film tends to be a sign of humility:

This film was made with the time required outside of production restrictions

With a SonyPD100 DVcamera and Final Cut Pro 7

PREMIERE
EL GRITO DE LOS SIN VOZ, FESTIVAL (THE CRY OF THE VOICELESS) 2022

The Prinicipal image of Kannon Bodhisattva

The 1000  standing images of Thousand armed Kannon

Sanjūsangen-dō a Buddhist temple of the Tendai sect in the Higashiyama district of Kyoto, 

A GENTLEWOMAN is based on the short story A Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoyevski