Direction: Aya Kobayashi
Performers: Aya Kobayashi / Hana Kobayashi-Michie
Film support: Monika Smekot
Mother Tongue explores the communication beyond words, beyond first language.
This is part documentary, part dance film made during the lockdown, it is both nothing special and very special.
The motherhood repeats its rhythms with the noise of the washing machine, trying to find meaning and strength. Newly built organs and older ones side by side, the movement of care, trust, love and challenge develop the knowledge of each other.
Mother tongue was broadcast as part as Tramway TV in 2020.