The Heart is Beating emerged from an ongoing dialogue between the artist and a psychiatrist friend. Initially discussing the death of a person with schizophrenia, the conversation gradually shifted toward a long-buried personal memory: the friend’s sister, who may also have had schizophrenia, died several years ago by drowning in a river. The artist invited him to write a letter and an imagined medical chart in response to this unresolved experience.

The work begins with the words his sister once spoke: “My heart is beating.” This simple sentence becomes the emotional anchor of the film. Rather than adopting a conventionally tragic framing of mental illness and loss, the work seeks to resist linear or singular emotional readings. As the friend writes, “I finally realized that I don’t have to make a sad, crying face when I’m sad, or a happy face when I’m happy.” Drawing from the dual perspective of a doctor and a grieving brother, the film navigates the tensions between professional knowledge and emotional proximity. In doing so, it proposes art as a space of gentle interruption—a way to accompany what cannot be explained or resolved.