Kubota explains during the video that she took the footage of her father two years earlier in Japan when she visited him after he had first been diagnosed with cancer.
The video emphasizes that television compliments memory and that TV monitors are sites of memory and of emotionality, a theme that is suggested in Shigeko Kubota's video eulogies to Nam June Paik in the 1980s and 1990s, Korean Grave, and Winter in Miami.
Also, Kubota's Duchampiana series eulogizes Marcel Duchamp, while exploring the presence of the artist in recorded images of him.
[1] Ann-Sargent Wooster argues that My Father explores the ironic duality of the image of a person appearing on a TV screen after they have died– in a sense, bringing the dead to life.
[3] As Andrew Parker describes the term, "performativity has enable a powerful appreciation of the ways that identities are constructed iteratively through complex citational processes.