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Sync Pic

This work is based on the theme of "cinematic time on film." Suddenly, I noticed the musical scale of the curtain hanging on the window in my room. The film was shot with a modified 16mm camera. The footage even made it onto the soundtrack. On film, the picture and sound are the same and it's perfectly synchronized. However, due to the structure of the projector, the sound reproduction part is separated from the image,. The picture and sound on the screen are out of sync. However, if you organize the preceding sounds into a phrase, the misalignment on the screen appears to be perfectly synchronized.

Sync Pic

NR 2001
Oshokuji no Jikan 2

The virtual dinner series from Japan's K-Network aims to offer lonely guys lessons in dinner date etiquette in the privacy of their homes... or Mom's basement, as the case may be. Features a variety of everyday-type attractive women enjoying a meal and making small talk at the camera, er, at the viewer. The view is face-to-face, as if you were really sharing a tabletop with the sweet young thing. Fortunately you won't have to pick up the check later, but unfortunately she won't be inviting you up for coffee even more later. You win some, you lose some.

Oshokuji no Jikan 2

NR 2008
Ladybirds' Requiem

— The story begins with a girl mistakenly killing two ladybirds. From this incident, the girl's guilt overwhelms her, creating the hallucination of a button of her blouse turning into ladybirds. She begins to feel that her selves have multiplied and exist elsewhere. In an attempt to assuage the continuous wave of guilt and fear, she keeps sewing hundreds of buttons to the inside of her skirt. — I remember, as a child, reading a children’s book. There was a page that could not stop looking at again and again, though it frightened me and gave me nightmares. I have this vision. A ladybird fell from my hand to the ground, where it was immediately crushed by a car. The yellow liquid oozing from its limbs tasted so bitter. “Ladybird’s Requiem” is based on the transformation of these childhood nightmare into beautiful and nostalgic memories as an adult. —

Ladybirds' Requiem

NR 2006
Furano: Life in Hokkaido's Frozen Forest

Where temperatures fall so low that even the trees can freeze and explode, the flora and fauna of a certain forest in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido have evolved clever and curious ways to survive the cold. Squirrels rely not just on memory but also on an enhanced sense of smell to locate their stashes of nuts under the snow. A particular species of woodpecker carves a deep, roomy hole in a dense white pine for a nest, feasting on the ants it somehow knows are inside. And a coniferous tree native only to this region has devised an ingenious way of self-defense. The question is not how cold is cold, but how to exist in spite of it all.

Furano: Life in Hokkaido's Frozen Forest

NR 2003
One record on December

The documentary about the noise, bustle, and a lonely man on the street shot impulsively. The documentary about the noise, bustle, and a lonely man on the street shot impulsively. Tamaki Shinkan explores 16mm film material. One Record on December seems to contain a virus that affects the image. Disorientating image consists of fragmentary 16mm shots of large numbers of walking people, printed in reverse. Visible spots and stripes add to the unrest. Slowly, cracks and tears appear, until eventually the emulsion completely flakes off. What remains is blank film, and silence. -International Film Festival Rotterdam-

One record on December

NR 2007
Asking the Repentistas – Peneira & Sonhador – to remix my octopus works

Asking the Repentistas to Remix My Octopus Works (2006) is a two‑channel video work by Japanese artist Shimabuku. In this experimental piece, Shimabuku enlists Brazilian street singers, or Repentistas, to reinterpret and perform narratives inspired by his earlier “octopus” projects. Through a dialogue between visual documentation of his encounters with octopuses and the spontaneous, improvised oral storytelling of the Repentistas, the work explores cross-cultural collaboration, narrative translation, and the poetic intersections between human and non-human life. The result is a playful, immersive meditation on memory, mythology, and the act of storytelling itself.

Asking the Repentistas – Peneira & Sonhador – to remix my octopus works

NR 2006