Jizo and Miroku
2026
1channel video, 4K, stereo sound
10' 22”
Video Installation On Hackney Gallery( Apocalypse and After?), London, UK, 2026
Jizo and Miroku draws on Buddhist mythology from Japan and Korea to juxtapose two figures who imagine time after the 'end' in fundamentally different ways. Jizo is a being who remains with those still suffering after death; Miroku is a being who evokes the possibility of a new beginning after the world's end. The film moves through travel footage, ritual fragments, Buddhist imagery, and the material traces of personal and collective grief — setting these mythological temporalities against images drawn from personal and historical reality. Rather than representing mourning directly, it exposes the dissonance between ancient stories of salvation and the unresolved conditions of the present. Suspended between the dead who cannot be fully reached and a future that may never arrive, the film asks how another beginning might still be imagined.