Hands are part of our body, but they might be too close to think. As the pandemic forced us to change our way of living and think about ourselves, it seems we have become paying more attention to our hands and the act of touching. This poetic, personal film meditates on hands, human senses, physicality, and bodiliness.
Rima Yamazaki is an independent filmmaker who makes observational and creative documentary films as a one-person crew. Her body of work consists of unusually patient and perceptive portraits of artists, buildings, and places. Her current focus is on the relationship between cityscapes and history. Yamazaki’s films have been shown at film festivals and venues around the world, including Cinéma du réel International Documentary Film Festival (Paris, France), Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the International Festival of Films on Art (Montreal, Canada), and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, Canada), among others.