Intersections

Recently, we had the chance to visit family in Tokyo and Kanagawa, Japan. Years have passed since living there, so naturally memories revisited us. It was more of the everyday movements: the trains, local grocery markets, homemade tofu and seemingly ubiquitous interactions with others. Without a deliberate intention to film, only traveling with a cell phone and notepad, a dangerous thought emerged: What about visiting the infamous Shibuya intersection? From there the camera in the cell phone took control, initially we traveled to Shibuya to take stills, but then footage. In particular thoughts of intersections were an impetus with related associations to themes of “intersectionality” - briefly speaking, in how we hold various identities depending upon contextual, environmental and other variables. But then we might ask, where do these identities or intersections of our lives lead us to next?