Director Statement

This film was created while I was confronting and processing traumatic experiences from my childhood. Through fragmented imagery and shifting memories, it explores themes of nostalgia, confusion, and the disorientation that comes with revisiting moments long buried beneath time and self-protection.

The symbols woven throughout the film reflect this unstable relationship between memory and truth. The owl wind chime represents the way my family perceived me as a child: innocent, gentle, and fragile. The recurring shift between the real flower and the artificial pink flower symbolizes the distortion of memory; the ways I reconstructed the past, convincing myself of versions of events that felt easier to hold onto. As the film progresses, I begin questioning not only what happened, but my own ability to remember clearly.

By the end of the film, the major visual glitches disappear alongside the emergence of the white flower, which represents the uncovering of truth and the acceptance of what truly took place. The film ultimately becomes an exploration of memory’s fragility, and the painful but necessary process of seeing the past with clarity.