60 seconds. One subway ride. Your entire existence questioned.
When Naoko presses "play" on her CD player, she finds herself face-to-face with a mysterious entity inside of a subway train and reminisces on the meaning of friendships, nature and death.
Direction
D'Elboux compresses a lifetime into one minute.
Production
Mixed media that shouldn't work but absolutely does.
Director
Letícia D' Elboux
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Sony Cybershot and CD player place this in a specific late-2000s nostalgia pocket, when physical media held emotional weight that streaming erased.
D'Elboux uses the subway's forced proximity—strangers pressed together yet isolated—to mirror how we carry lost friendships: physically absent, emotionally adjacent.
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