Kogonada

he sense of quiet in Kogonada’s films is a heavy one: there is peace, but also a hushed sense of regret and grief, a contemplation of things lost you just have to sit with as time goes on. In 2017’s , that shines through in a conversation between an architecture scholar and a librarian about ambition and, we are welcomed into a family mourning the loss of Yang (Justin H. Min) – an android sibling, child, companion – holding onto the ambition to understand the love he gave to only child Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja) and what he leaves behind.