my double myself

The film is divided into 2 parts. The first, reminisces of a man who goes in for an operations and there remembers his family and the death of this his father. Part 2 chronicles the breakdown of a young married woman overtaken by anxiety.

A man and a woman, husband and wife, their parents, and their children are closely and intimately observed as these two films unfold, doubling each other and the marriage they look at, revealing a deep interdependence and fragility in love. While commencing an operation a father and husband reflects on his children and his fathers decay as he moves closer to death. While on vacation a young mother traveling with her extended family is overtaken by anxiety. Together the two stores fold into each other doubling and intertwining revealing the tenativeness of life and love.

'A rare insight into the intimacy of a New York family. How they live, how they love.'
Iki Nakagawa, filmmaker