Hanabi (2019)
Short-film on identity
Julio Mora (director) and Javier Ormeno (performer)
Video-Performance (6 min.)
2019
Centro Cultural España and San Borja, Lima, Peru
The performance leans on Japanese rhythm and aesthetics, to reflect on how Japanese descendants’ identity was lost as families changed their surnames and forgot their heritage. This was to avoid incarceration and dispossession, when Peru declared war to Japan during WWII.
Japanese dance fan, traditional outfit, mask, tray, tea scop, pieces of cloth, silk handkerchief. and other objects collected around the world.
Screened at: El Placer de los Ojos (TV Peru -November 2020); AlEste/A l’Est 2020 Experimental Film Selection; Lima OutFest Film Festival 2019. This movie is part of the permanent selection for Peruvian Nikkei Film Festival.
One arrives to find the soul broken
Something stole the voice
Scared the fragments away. ..
the quest for stories
For identity
Alien objects to
Weave a new poetry.
This film is the outcome of a video performance workshop at the XVI Outfest Perú. It explores the idea of checking what is in the closet. Here there is a survey of identity through the examination of objects collected around the world. All objects point towards Japan. The Japanese-Peruvian culture was shattered during WWII in Peru when many families suffered imprisonment in camps and their properties impounded by the state. Others changed their surnames forgetting their history and culture.
