Hikari / 2017 One Screen Emerging Director Video Winner
881 views · Published 18 October 2017 · 1:51 · Indexed 22 October 2026
Channel: The One Club for Creativity · 2017 · Nonprofits & Activism
The film is a visual epitaph we made for a young woman named Hikari-san who we unfortunately never got to meet. Her words, however inspired us to make this film in memory of her. Hikari was a vlogger who read poems online in Japanese ASMR in an effort to help others who shared her struggles with depression and anxiety. She lost her battle with her own internal struggle February 2016 and committed suicide. On her channel she would read in a quiet whisper voice, called ASMR which stands for 'Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response' which creates a calming sensation in listeners, it is also often used in helping those battle depression or anxiety. Her name written in kanji means 'Light'
