Jouhatsu Letters

A cinematic correspondence between two filmmakers in Taipei and Tokyo, begun during the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing until 2024. Exchanging images and sounds, the film unfolds through animation, collage, cyanotype and 8mm experiments, quoting one another’s materials. The result shimmers with the joy of deeply personal cinema.

Johan Chang & Masa Kudo: ‘This film brings together eight video letters we exchanged between 2021 and the spring of 2024. Each letter forms a self-contained world. The images carry the accumulated weight and stains of life and work — traces that seep in and cannot be erased. Through the signals left behind, we imagine each other’s daily lives and respond in a pure language of images. Travelling alongside the pandemic, this film unfolds like a circle, quietly ongoing.’