WE DON’T TALK LIKE WE USED TO

“Shot between Hong Kong, Japan, and the US, this short is Joshua Gen Solondz’s most ambitious work to date, a portrait of the home and the world that is dense, textured, creepy, anxious, noisy, silly, and confounding, but always tender.”-TIFF “We Don’t Talk Like We Used To” continues Joshua Gen Solondz’s loose series of addled diary films with a film that is part travelogue, part affective almanac, and part cinematic noise show. With stops in Hong Kong, New Hampshire, Japan, and Brooklyn, the film alloys obscured faces, oozing on-screen text, throbbing abstractions, solarized superimpositions, and the occasional dad joke into a vertiginous mosaic of encounters and eruptions that also reflects somberly on issues of aging and exile, love and artmaking, lust and wanderlust.”-Leo Goldsmith

Film Maker
Solondz, Joshua Gen
Year
2023
Country
U.S.A, Japan, Hong Kong
Length
36
Language
English, Japanese
Category
Abstraction, Absurdity, Activism + Protest, Animals, art & artists, Asian, Childhood, comedy, Diaspora, Essay, Families, Flicker + Strobe, Identity, Immigration, Jewish, LGBTQ, Love + Hate, Memory, Performance, Race + Ethnicity, sexuality, Sound Art + Music, Time + Space, Travel
Genre
docufiction, experimental, hand-processed, short