I made this video at the “Embodying the Video Essay” workshop at Bowdoin College in July, 2023. The exercise, designed by Dayna McLeod, had a list of parameters to help practitioners think about the embodied materiality of our media texts. In this case, I focused on the town of Onomichi itself. Details about the exercise can be found at https://waysofdoing.com/resources/embodied-media-encounters/