“There is no tomorrow,” says Apollo to Rocky. “今度は今度。今は今,” says Hirayama to his niece. Different cultures, or different ways of seeing? What is it that is really being forced imposed on us?

Between the logics we internalize without question, and the endless conflicts of competing capitals devouring one another, is there really a tomorrow? Or just the promise of becoming a better version of ourselves? And if there is, what does it promise?

In her video-essay, Hazal Naz Kılınç searches for this question—and perhaps finds something, though we find ourselves drifting along the way. Do we really need a tomorrow at all? Are we living today, or are we constantly postponing it?

endnote: This text marks the ending of Invisible Load screenings in apartkat. What began as a series of fragments, gathered under a shared tension between image, authority, and everyday life, comes to a temporary close here. Across its iterations, Invisible Load has moved through different forms, each time asking how images circulate, accumulate, and insist; often without resolution.

We will return in October with apart’s 4th annual Short Film, Video and Photography Symposium.

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