In the work "why I am here now" created in 2020, I interviewed myself as a foreign student in Japan, my parents, and people who had similar experiences to ours, and compared the memories of the three using records left by my parents in the past, old photos and videos. He also compared individual memories to collective memories, juxtaposed the two historical backgrounds of China and Japan, and expressed his own thoughts and brain images through video. He made his own sounds and created a collage of video frames so that the past and the present existed on the same axis.

The work begins with a text written by the filmmaker himself, and from these words, the viewer is led to imagine the screen and search for images, and then further images are collaged into the collage of edited images. Compared to my own life through interviews with my parents, I strongly felt the changes in my life over time. From my own sense of loneliness to new encounters, I fi lmed three people close to my parents' generation as a documentary, picking up keywords and memorials that appeared in their own life stories, and combining them with scenes from my own personal world to confront questions about the future: "Why am I here in Japan today? I faced the questions of "Why am I in Japan today? 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Japanese Cinema from Multiple Perspectives

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Why I Am Here Now narrates a highly personal exploration of the self by director Yuan Shuohan. As she strides over cultural, geographic, and temporal bridges, namely from Japan and to her home in China, Yuan creates a visually unsettling yet increasingly intimate atmosphere through a candid, sincere exploration into her private world that both compares and contrasts the border crossing of her parents and range of experiences that has affected her own psyche.