See the World from a Child's Perspective in Nervous Translation

by Andrew Wright
An 8-year-old girl in Manila keeps herself occupied at home while her busy family becomes increasingly fragmented in Nervous Translation. This empathic tone poem enters the headspace of its central character within the first few frames and never zooms back out, successfully replicating how a tricky math problem or the fixing of a well-worn cassette tape can briefly encompass the entire universe. Not for all metabolisms, certainly—the narrative could maybe use just a bit mo