Chikako Yamashiro treats the human body’s inarticulate expressions—its utterances and pulses—as windows into repressed traumas, hidden histories, and other unseen dimensions of time. This screening programme brings together three films from different stages of Yamashiro’s career. They illuminate analogous experiences across different historical and geographical contexts, from a Japanese veteran’s recollections of the battle of Saipan in Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat (2009), to the excavation of half-buried colonial histories shared between Okinawa and Jeju Island in Mud Man (2016), to an elderly Okinawan man’s inherited imaginations of Belau in Flowers of Belau (2023).

This programme will be followed by a conversation with Yamashiro moderated by Alan Yeung, M+ Associate Curator, Ink Art. The conversation will be held in Japanese and English, with simultaneous interpretation in English.