Meiro Koizumi – My Voice Would Reach You
This is a clip from the FACT Vimeo channel. Exhibited at FACT during the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, the piece by Koizumi brings us into numerous conversations taken by an actor making calls to his dead mother which in reality, were reveal themselves as calls to Japanese call centres. The inevitable confusion that these scripted conversations brings is at first humorous but as the film moves towards a closing trajectory, each call is terminated by the bemused operators leaving the main character struggles to comprehend this. The result is immensely moving.
The location of the main character on a Tokyo street stationary amongst the bustle of everyday life focuses on the closeness of family relationships against the isolation of the city and the faceless impersonality of faceless call centres.
My Voice Would Reach You
