Eri Makihara will be joined by Hannah Wallis in a Q&A following this programme. The Q&A will be delivered with Japanese Sign Language, British Sign Language, English Live Captions and spoken English. The Sign Language interpreters are Christy Dodds, Chisato Minamimura, Dee Savage and Aki Takizawa.
This programme was made possible thanks to support from the British Council.
Essays
Dream of My Mother
A documentary following a deaf mother and daughter who live together in a municipal housing complex. Dream of My Mother explores processes of communication and the sometimes-painstaking nuances of making oneself understood as a disabled person in everyday life. Originally filmed in 2014 and re-edited in 2023.
The Tanaka Family
Makihara’s delicate drama explores the complexities of family life, centred around the everyday routines of Tanaka Mai – a young woman sharing care responsibilities for her sister’s husband in their Tokyo apartment. Austere, painterly images and a near silent soundtrack combine to form a powerful, de-centering work that challenges the dominance of conventional cinematic forms and representations of disability.
