"Hello, Dad."
Film, 29 Mins, 2026, Amsterdam, NL

Hello, Dad. is a media experiment on "the inaccessible," built upon 56 long-distance phone calls between my father and me across the Eurasian continent. Over five months, the act of calling degenerated from communication into physical resistance —pulling between the serene rural South of France and the fragmented, tense utterances on the other end of the line.

When kinship functions as an established social structure, how can a new sensory connection generate through the rifts of voice and silence?

In this relational gambling, the moving image becomes an intervention rather than an objective record. Restructuring these private dialogues posed a profound ethical dilemma: how to expose the vulnerability of the other while maintaining a gaze of equality and dignity? Ultimately, the work shifts from static practice into a methodology of time and relation—suggesting that a relationship is not merely expressed, but continuously generated through friction.

The presentation at Lab 111 expanded the film into a shared sensory ritual. Upon entry, an olfactory installation by mmm… money pie was applied to the audience's wrists, anchoring the work within the body. Post-screening, a poetry recital transformed language into an alternative narrative pathway, while custom drinks wrapped in the poetic texts were distributed. Turning comprehension from spectatorship into somatic ingestion, the project was fully absorbed into the audience.

Supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Younglab by Lab 111.