My grandmother passed away Christmas 2022. The following summer my family and I spent six weeks in Japan cleaning her house. I created a documentary of our trip. My Japanese family must've thought I was crazy, with my super 8mm camera and microphone. I was very inspired by sound, and recorded the noises of our time there, preschoolers singing next door, cicadas, crows, and nightingales, and people talking. With help from my audio engineering teacher, I went through hours of audio and identified what I wanted to use. I found a song by Lamp, a Japanese band whose music fit the feeling I was looking for, rearranged the song, and recorded my friends as they played it. Visually, I was inspired by collage, layering the film with found photos, papers, and drawings to give context. I also layered words, inspired by the calligraphy in old samurai films. I chose my mother’s words “勿体無いの家になちったね,” this house is filled with objects that we kept because they have life left to live or purpose to fulfill, however now we have to clean. The main audience for this film is myself and my family.