Muybridge no Ito

In nineteenth-century California, photographer Eadweard Muybridge seeks to capture movement in successive images. In contemporary Tokyo, a mother watches her daughter grow and senses childhood slipping beyond her reach. Although separated by time and place, both lives reflect a desire to hold on to moments that cannot last.

Episodes from Muybridge's troubled life intertwine with the mother's imagined scenes and memories. Motion becomes a way of thinking about attachment, separation, and the passing of time. Between the urge to record experience and the wish to preserve happiness, the two worlds reveal different forms of resistance to life's constant change.