By: Lina Machida / Bass: Tiroru
Lina Machida
The Room for Street Speech (2025)
3-channel video installation
- Film
- Installation
3’55
“The Room for Street Speech” is a three-channel video installation by Lina Machida. Drawing on her own experience of loneliness rooted in a stutter, Machida conveys both the frustration of being unable to communicate and the raw impulse to keep trying - in a hand-drawn animation.
Fragments of Machida’s inner landscape appear and vanish one after another in a progression that is anything but smooth. The halting, uneven imagery, accompanied by inept speech and discordant sound, stirs unease while unfolding like a rite of passage from the depths of the self toward the outer world.
Lina Machida graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2023. Following the loss of a family member due to ALS (Amyotrophe Lateralsklerose), Machida has developed an interest in the “frustrated body.” Working primarily with moving image as a media, Machida produces installations and films.
Last year, she created the opening film for the Festival of Animation Berlin along with the presentation of “Clearly Blurry” (2024) in the exhibition format, and “The Room for Street Speech” for the exhibition, Hitori(bocchi) that was shown at the underground air-raid shelter of The Terminal Kyoto.
Team
Dates
M40
Credits
Part of “Being Alone - Artistic Perspectives from Central and East Asia and Beyond“, a project within “Solitude: Loneliness & Freedom,” an initiative of the Goethe-Institutes in East and Central Asia in cooperation with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Curatorial contribution by Sumi Hayashi.
