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Numinous tracings of beautiful light on the sea, augmented by the artifice of video.
A studio contains only the camera in a corner of the room. The filmmaker is absent. While rotating, the camera alternates between close-ups and wide angle shots of the studio.
“This work was commissioned by the Kuma Museum of Art (Ehime Prefecture). It revolves around scenery in Ehime Prefecture and Matsuyama-born film director Itami Mansaku. It begins in Shinonome, the setting of a short story by poet Nakamura Kusatao which is thought to be a depiction of his friendship with Mansaku, and follows Mansaku as he return to Matsuyama from Kyoto where he has become a film director and visits Omogo and Ishizuchi.” (from the catalog of Image Forum Festival 2010)
The focus shifts very slowly from the room’s interior to the outside. During this long and steady journey of the gaze, the sounds and sceneries of the indoor and outdoor settings blend into each other, until it becomes difficult to discern which is which.
no001 fete no002 sky no003 sky no004 morning no005 wind no006 rain no007 dolphin no008 dolphin no009 solar eclipse no010 fog no011 water, glass no012 fog no013 carps no014 garden no015 ruin no016 fish no017 fog no018 fog no019 ball no020 snow no021 window no022 new year's day
When we are in the dark, we can see only the sign of the space. The moment the light comes into the room, we can see another space. This space is the incorporated like smoke construction that is composed of the dark, light and time.
This work is one film of the omnibus ‘Seeing’. About ‘Seeing’: “Filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of experimental film in Japan and an advocate of Neo-Documentarism since the 1960s, conceived and structured this omnibus film, directed by six experimental filmmakers. Based on the theme of ‘seeing’, proposed by Matsumoto, the six directors approach the subject from varying individual perspective and develop their own unique images. The film addresses fundamental questions: What does it mean to ‘see’ things, and What does it mean to ‘make films’?” (from the official catalog of Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2009)
A letter no one can read, a character whose face cannot be seen, a room without dimensions…remnants of a narrative that have lost their way, tenuously connected with each other by the flashes between the shots.
A film by Shiho Kano