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I Was a Simple Man
2021
Synopsis
As a family in Hawai’i faces the imminent death of their eldest, the ghosts of the past haunt the countryside.
Editorial
Blurring boundaries between past and present, memory and truth, Christopher Makoto Yogi’s hypnotic film is a life-affirming reckoning with death’s inevitability. Full of luscious images and sounds, moving to the gentle rhythm of a dream, I Was a Simple Man is attuned to the beauty of existence.