I Look Into the Mirror and Repeat to Myself

Growing up, a difficult home life was all the filmmaker and her sisters knew. Now as adults and with their parents on the cusp of separation, the filmmaker explores the meanings of their given names, allowing her sisters to tell their stories in their own words and make sense of the love, pain and anger they still carry.  

'Growing up with volatile, violent, and distant parents, I've only known of life in extremes. I remember my four sisters and I were constantly yearning for our parent's time, attention, validation, and flawed love. This was to no avail, but my sisters and I ended up forming an irrevocably tight bond that only we could understand. Years later, now as adults, we are all trying to adjust to and cope with the impending dissolution of our family as we know it. Many things have changed, but this understanding between us remains. With our lives on the cusp of an uneasy metamorphosis, through I Look into the Mirror and Repeat to Myself, I hope to make sense of the heartbreak, love, pain, and anger we sisters still carry with us. In the film, I question the meaning of our given names, my place among my sisters, and allow my sisters to tell their stories in their own words.' - Giselle LIN