JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI RELIEF FUND RAISER

Nippon Re-Read II (67 min)

Tomonari Nishikawa, Shibuya-Tokyo, 2010, 10 min, 16mm

Tomonari Nishikawa, Tokyo-Ebisu, 2010, 5 min, 16mm

Eriko Sonoda, Kagi, 2005, 6.5 min, 8mm

Toshio Matsumoto, For the Damaged Right Eye, 1969, 12 min, 16mm

Shiho Kano, Shinonome Omogo Ishizuchi, 2008, 15 min, DV

Shinkan Tamaki, One Record on December, 2007, 6.5 min, 16mm

Daisuke Nose, Time for Radio Exercise, 2003, 11.5 min, video

The works in Program II offer a poetic investigation into the fragmentary experience of the quotidian by eschewing narrative and rendering cultural images and references to unveil the uncanny within the familiar.

Tomonari Nishikawa’s in-camera manipulation of bustling metro hubs in Shibuya-Tokyo and Tokyo-Ebisu (2010), as well as Kano’s pensive meditations on quintessential Japanese subjects form a counterpoint to Toshio Matsumoto’s split-screen filmic hallucination of the late-60s underground, For the Damaged Right Eye (1969), which was made in conjunction with his seminal feature Funeral Parade of Roses (1969).