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Updated: Jul 17
What if home is something we recognize long before we can explain it?
Coming together from different cultures, languages, and lived experiences, we expected our ideas of home to diverge. Instead, the same quiet patterns kept resurfacing, revealing familiarity not as something shared through place, but through the way we experience belonging.
Our film grows from this discovery, weaving together moments from six lives until they begin to echo one another. As images dissolve and voices overlap, distant geographies no longer feel distant; they reveal a common rhythm that had been present all along. In making these invisible patterns visible, the film invites viewers to pause and recognize the ordinary moments that quietly shape their own understanding of home.
“Perhaps home has never needed explanation, only recognition”
TEAM 6
Cuc Ca Thi (RMIT Vietnam)
Huynh Phuc Thinh (RMIT Vietnam)
Khyatispriha Hazarika (BITS Design School Mumbai)
Manasvi Dhannawat (BITS Design School Mumbai)
Thanh Van (RMIT Vietnam)
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